I *love* this new thing where your item has “shipped” but the tracking shows it hasn’t been physically collected from the retailer yet… and that was four days ago.
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Spent about an hour this morning trying to fetch data from an API in JS. It wasn’t working in jsfiddle (or similiar) and I wasn’t get any useful error messages. The code worked, just didn’t like the API. Turns out CQC didn’t plan on anyone using JS – “CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing”.
Today I accidentally added a bunch of neat functionality to our WordPress site. I didn’t plan to. I was making a minor change and it just grew…
Some days you just forget how to comment a line in HTML…
Just double-clicked a .vsd file in Windows Explorer and it fires up Internet Explorer to open the file. I didn’t set the default. Then it starts lecturing me about Edge. I mean…
Fiddling with gists
For my RSS to micropub implementation I needed to generate a decent slug in JS. I found this slugify.js gist by codeguy to which a coder called thierryc made some really nice modifications (but weirdly didn’t publish their own that I could find).
I tested thierry’s code in jsfiddle and found it left a trailing ‘-‘. Using the fiddle I was able to step through the code and see where it went wrong. I just added an extra replace and it worked for me.
I’ve never really found a use for jsfiddle or gists before so this felt good.
Not sure £7.5m is enough to be honest. Quite like to see some criminal charges for this craziness! https://news.sky.com/story/facial-recognition-company-clearview-ai-fined-7-5m-for-illegally-using-images-of-brits-scraped-from-online-12619574
After that, if I never have to deal with any JS again in my life it might be too soon!
Well, I fixed it… but now I have a massive hyper-focus hangover/overwhelm! #ADHD
It would be fair to say I was an Apple “hater” for years. Purveyors of staggeringly over-priced, aesthetically pleasing gadgets with mediocre features. But they have VERY slowly won me over.