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ross

@ross@fosstodon.org

Curious and creative software developer.
:wordpress: #WordPress
:laravel: #Laravel
:php: #PHP
#EV owner
#Parenting #Cycling #BikeTooting

Apparently I bring "energy and questions".

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Lol. Pop quiz for web dev nerds:

Why might you suddenly start seeing Stripe test card failures today?

ross,
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@castaway The test card number is 4242 4242 4242 4242

ross,
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@castaway And the card only expires if you enter an expiry date in the past.

ross, to wordpress
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Excellent video from @briancoords on dot-com (!) Studio that clarifies what it is and debunks what it is not.

https://youtu.be/QEP3H17BkVI

ross, to random
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Opens work Slack to check for alerts.

Not really any alerts. But oh my, someone let off a Slack bomb and I can see my whole morning draining away before my eyes.

ross, to random
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People with publicly visible tattoos… how do you feel about people asking about them? Is it annoying? Or do you like it … is that the point?

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@briancoords I’ll be keeping an eye out and ready to ask! 😃

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@jessamyn That makes sense. And ugh. Some people. 🙄

It's odd because I've never had, or wanted to have, one. And so I don't know what to compare it to.

Is it like a hat?

I might say "Nice hat". But would I say "Why do you wear that hat?"

It would be different if the hat had a logo or slogan on it. So maybe it's more like that.

And yet, tattoos seem like they would normally have some kind of deeper meaning.

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@chris For sure.

I'm not sure I'd ask about a birthmark because it doesn't have a meaning.

ross,
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@chris Oof, yeah, that would be awkward. 😬

ross,
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@aurooba That's interesting to know.

It's odd because I've never had, or wanted to have, one. And so I don't know what to compare it to.

Is it like a hat?

I might say "Nice hat". But would I say "Why do you wear that hat?"

It would be different if the hat had a logo or slogan on it. So maybe it's more like that?

And yet, tattoos seem like they would normally have some kind of deeper meaning.

ross,
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@aurooba That’s curious to me.

But lots of things are. I suppose it makes sense.

I was going to say that most people I know with tattoos have deep meaning for them. But then I realised that are the people that told me without asking. So it would seem like that.

ross, to random
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Thinking that, at some point, when I have some more time. I'd like to revive my Beyond WP newsletter/blog.

In some ways it makes sense that the WordPress news is all about WordPress. But there's SO much going on elsewhere in tech that's cool and I think more WP developers should developers should be looking outside the WordPress ecosystem and there doesn’t seem to be anything that caters for this.

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I am bringing what I think might be the best crisps I've ever tasted to @ruminate today.

Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts https://www.macstories.net/ruminate/

ross,
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@robb @ruminate Is it Aldi’s Kentucky BBQ ones? I’m gonna make myself ill eating those!!

ross, to random
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Have been playing my little Scrabble-like game with some play testers.

It’s a static, serverless, single-page app. And the absolute beauty of not having to log in is just brilliant.

I can click a game link in any browser on any computer and Just Play.

I want to make more stuff like this.

Backgammon next? That's gotta be super easy to encode.

Game: https://words.pico.games/

Write-up: https://rosswintle.uk/2024/04/static-not-scrabble/

ross,
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@slowe Ah thanks. Yes please! I’m aware of some but feel free to log.

Biggest thing is I know you can play any word even if it’s not a word. There’s no dictionary.

ross,
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@slowe Yeah. You can also game your starting letters.

Better would be to seed the random number generator with a hash of the hash (or something) so that you always get the same!

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@TechpriestBaunach Glad you're enjoying it. Don't get too carried away though, I've not done the end-of-game logic yet! 🫣

And thanks for letting me know. It's so nice to know that others are enjoying things that you have made.

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It's amazing how many products on Amazon have competing reviews like "5 stars; does exactly what I expected it to do" and "1 star; it was completely and utterly broken when it arrived at my house, and they wouldn't issue a replacement"

I ended up stuck in "paradox of choice" hell every time I look at buying something.

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@cgrymala Ah, good to know people have been reading my "How to do an Internet Review" article and following the advice 😉

https://rosswintle.uk/2009/11/how-to-do-an-internet-review/

ross, to random
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Weekend hacking after @topher1kenobe pointed me at “Ottendorf Cyphers”.

I’ve heard about these, though I didn’t remember the name.

It’s a cypher/code where two people have the same book and the code is page/word/letter.

Topher tried to do this with web pages once. I made my own version with bookmarklets.

https://page-cypher.veryuseful.app/

(My original attempt at building something failed because CORS!!!! 😬)

ross,
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@UnrealMcKay Ah yeah. I need to add some errors when the reference page doesn’t contain required characters.

ross, to random
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I have discovered a new physical force.

It is a force of strong attraction.

And it seems to exist only between the toes of young children and solid objects at ground level.

Very curious. Physicists should investigate. There’s a PhD thesis in here somewhere!

ross, to random
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I have to say, co-pilot is pretty dang good at giving me simple algorithms for game rules.

It’s written quite a lot of my static scrabble game for me. Simple loops with variations that, yes, I could write myself. But it already did the boring grunt work.

It wrote a better version of “maybeScoreVerticalWord” than I did!

ross,
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@alifeee Yeah. I've not done much unit testing of JavaScript so that could be fun and interesting.

ross, to random
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Scrabble scoring logic is more complicated than I thought! 😅

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