Notices by Ross Wintle (ross@fosstodon.org)

@chris Hmm... let me see what I've got:

https://howdns.works/

https://store.wizardzines.com/products/how-dns-works

(Strangely two comic-based approaches)

This is supposedly good: https://www.nslookup.io/learning/

I was SURE there was someone I followed who had made a video course, but I can't find reference to it.

My wife has seen people saying that in Severance S2 it’s Helena that goes to the Severed floor. The don’t activate the chip so it’s her outie that’s there.

I went looking for clues to this and…

She wears a watch?!

Surely that has symbols on it and wouldn’t be allowed??

What are people's thoughts on Kagi search? Is it good? Do you happily pay for it? Are you concerned that some revenue goes to Yandex?

I'm trying it out and wrestling with the moral implications. But that wrestling has also got me thinking about the fact that I happily give money to Google and Apple and is that any better these days? 🤔

Just finished our rewatch of Severance season 1 in preparation for season 2. What extraordinarily good TV. Can’t wait for the new episodes.

@chris Hah. I meant that the character trait sounds like a gift!!

@chris This sounds like a gift!

@davidbisset i’m not quite sure what your question is.

Laravel was very strong on Vue a few years ago. But recently seems to be adopting more React as that is the more popular framework with front-end devs.

Alpine came from the Laravel community so is well used and respected. But not really for building full applications. More for JavaScript sprinkles.

@seth Thanks. I wouldn’t go that far. But it’s a cool little first attempt at a game.

Gosh, it's slow work. And not quite there yet. But gosh I had fun with my little PICO-8 cookie-clicker game this evening!

https://santa-factory.pico.games/

Turns out, the mechanism I used to get user switching working in Turbo Admin also works for a simple form of plugin install!

This isn't live yet - it needs polish. But it's a good prototype and means it's coming in the not-too-distant future!

I now crown myself the world’s preeminent expert on hacking the “classic” WordPress dashboard using vanilla JavaScript only.

It’s a niche. But one I’m occupying well, I feel!

🤣

People have actually wanted to pay me more for Turbo Admin. If that's you:

- You can buy another license and give it to a friend.
- You can buy me coffee: https://ko-fi.com/magicroundabout
- You can leave a review: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/turbo-admin/hfafpihfemmbjhppilebphmcpepglkfp
- You can send me a testimonial.

All good ways to help! Tx! 🙏

As I've been asked:

No, I don't do a Black Friday discount on Turbo Admin - my
#WordPress Command Palette tool.

It's $35! One time. That's how much it costs. There's no tricks. No scarcity.

It's amazing value. Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Talk Like A Pirate Day. Always!

https://turbo-admin.com/

Not made a sourdough for a while. Was worried about my starter. But…

I think it’ll be OK!! 😎

@simon

Also:

Koko Analytics by @dvk

Query Monitor

User Switching

@andyfragen’s Git Updater

@scribe Non-critical sites are fully auto-updated.

Complex/critical sites might have non-critical plugins on auto update, with more complex stuff tested first.

🖥️ Right. PHP 8.4 is out later in the month. Time to stop procrastinating and get https://caniphp.com/ updated!

Let’s see what’s new!!

🗒️ Also good, from @sarah:

“Developers all love to hate legacy code. It’s ugly, and it’s gritty, and it’s hard to work with. But do you know the one thing it has going for it? Most of the time, whether it’s beautiful or not, it works.

That’s right: legacy code in production is more valuable than the most beautiful, well-tested code sitting in a repository somewhere. It’s producing value today, rather than hope for tomorrow.”

@chris Pah. Those sloppy hosting infrastructure people? Get them to quality control some aerospace/avionics code in assembler and safety-critical Ada; get them to write a static analysis tool for a type-safe language… in a type-safe language. Then… THEN we can have a chat about whether or not my code is “up to par”! 😉

Oh heaven help my. New colleagues. I basically can’t review code without type information. My brain can not do it. And I have so many opinions about how you should write and structure code.

I’m kind and many comments are phrased as questions or marked as optional/style/nitpick. But even so. It’s got to be rough! 😬