My habit of keeping interesting things open in tabs on my mobile is WAY out of hand. So I’m challenging myself to blog them as I close them down. 10 a day. This is part 3.
I am terrible at keeping up streaks like this. We’ll see how long it lasts.
1. Pepper and Carrot – David Revoy
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/index.html
Just beautiful, free web comics. “A free(libre) and open-source webcomic supported directly by its patrons to change the comic book industry!”
2. Appearing on “…and we have an office Dog” Podcast – Dwi’n Rhys
https://dwinrhys.com/2023/09/18/appearing-on-and-we-have-an-office-dog-podcast/
I follow Rhys as a fellow UK WordPresser. He’s a super nice guy and very experienced. This was a podcast he was on. I don’t think I ever got around to listening to it.
3. An Introvert-Friendly Business Model – Jeffrey Way
https://blog.laracasts.com/posts/an-introvert-friendly-business-model
Jeffrey runs Laracasts. He seems like just such a smart, humble, kind, and gentle person.
This is an excellent article on creating a business that fits your life and personality.
4. Code Simplicity (free eBook)
https://www.codesimplicity.com/book/
This is a free eBook about fundamental laws of software design. 80 pages of PDF. Probably a good read!
5. Turn Any PHP Script into a Native Single-File Binary – Roman Pronskiy
https://pronskiy.com/blog/php-script-as-binary
This is an example of how you can use crazywhalecc/static-php-cli to create a PHP script bundled with a static PHP binary that works as a standalone tool. Ideal for CLI tooling. Probably open because I was working on some PHP-based CLI tooling.
6. 67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn’t Want You to Know – Alan Norbauer
https://alan.norbauer.com/articles/browser-debugging-tricks
This is a big bunch of debugging tricks for devtools in your browser. 67 is a weird (but big!) number.
7. get_debug_type – PHP
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-debug-type.php
A new function in PHP v8.0 that gets the type name of a variable in a way that is suitable for debugging. Like an improved gettype()
I guess I didn’t know this existed! (So many useful little functions in PHP)
8. Ada & Zangemann – A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream – Free Software Foundation Europe
https://fsfe.org/activities/ada-zangemann
It’s an illustrated book about a girl who discovers the power of technology to make change. I’d buy it just based on the title!!
9. Thoughtful Block UI for WordPress – Aurooba Ahmed
https://courses.auroobamakes.com/course/thoughtful-block-ui-for-wordpress/
Aurooba’s excellent and good-value course on creating thoughtful block user interfaces. It’s under an hour of content, but Aurooba is an expert at this stuff and you can learn a lot (yes, I now own this course).
10. Coupling and cohesion in WordPress and beyond – Carl Alexander
https://carlalexander.ca/coupling-cohesion-wordpress/
An interesting and long article about object oriented software architecture with examples in PHP/WordPress. It’s good to see people bringing good practices and knowledge of software architecture to the WordPress space!