Charging up the SchoolBot
I've been gently nudging SchoolBot development along in my mornings and evenings the last week - here's where it's at.
Category: Techie
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Blooming MailChimp Groups and GDPR fields
Some things on the internet are inexplicably hard. e.g. Bloom + MailChimp + Groups + GDPR fields ?♂️
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On balance of creativity and passivity with kids and screentime
This is from a great episode of the ChangeLog podcast that interviews Tim Bell, the founder and creator of CS Unplugged: a collection of free teaching material that teaches computer science through engaging games and puzzles. I struggle with how much screentime our kids have. Perhaps this quote will inspire is to do more creative things […]
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More struggling with JS: how the PHP -> JS interface is broken and why this is painful
Yesterday I was struggling with getting Vue components to do non-AJAXy things and wondering why on earth this was so difficult.
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GIVE ME MY STATIC ANALYSIS!
In which I lament my own utter incompetence, but also switch back from VS Code to PHPStorm in a flash and cry quietly over programming languages.
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Laravel: Further forays into Test Driven Development (TDD)
I'm using Test Driven Development (TDD) for the first (and second) time on a couple of side projects. Here are some further reflections on the process and issues I've come across.
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What AM I doing? (Answer: I’m building analytics!)
I'm going on the journey of building a simple, private, self-hosted, cookie-free analytics tool that I'm calling Kownter. I may fail. But it will be fun and interesting! Come along!
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I need to add social sharing buttons to a website…
Here's a thread designed to help non-web people understand how something that seems trivial on a website can lead to so many micro-decisions needing to be made.
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Laravel: Simple cookie auth for your simple APIs
Laravel uses token auth by default, here's how to switch it out for simple cookie-based auth for quick and easy API tinkering for logged-in users.
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(Developer) Tools talk
Last night I gave a talk at the Cheltenham WordPress Meetup on the amazing toolkit called "(Developer) Tools" in your web browser. The group is very mixed in terms of technical ability so this was a great topic, and I put "Developer" in brackets because there's something in Developer Tools for all website creators, regardless of […]