Doing some office chair research what are folks saying?

Blog post incoming… When web hosts sell out and turn to 💩 Happens every ten years or so 🤷🏼‍♂️

If you’re into #WordPress, whether you’re a developer, designer, site owner, or just curious, come along to the WordPress Round Table meetup. It’s open conversation, not presentations. A chance to share, learn, and chat! meetu.ps/e/Pdq4M/ggh6...

Received my first AI website critique for a new build today. That can be filed in the bin 🗑️

Laravel at scale is completely different beast 😅 Especially when picking up a legacy build with little idea how it pulls together… Making progress ⏳

Bitbucket.. You need to upgrade. $3.30 a month. Thanks for upgrading $16.60 a month. How’s that worked out 😅

I’m on a bit of a mission to get folks offline and meeting in real life again. WordPress chats, real conversations, good speakers, and maybe a pint after, all happening at the next #Cheltenham #WordPress #Meetup. Come for the code, stay for the community. Free to join. www.meetup.com/cheltenham-w...

Spent a good couple of hours trying to build a site with 2025 and full site editor. Got fed up and pulled a rough hybrid site together in an hour. FSE really does over complicate things so so hard to work with. Sure I could work with it. Just really feels like something that I won’t enjoy 🤷🏼‍♂️

Installed Laravel Herd and as expected it’s not as easy as the docs makes out 😂 Absolute tosh that it installs Imagick and it works out of the box 📦

Working on a cool little Laravel app which will mean the death of a legacy classic asp system that harks back to my college days. Amazing how far tech has progressed in (say quietly 20+ years). ps. How am I 40 this year? 🤯

Anyone ever got this working with local storage? I call bullshit on this chunk of documentation. laravel-livewire.com/docs/2.x/fil...

Been working my way through this laracasts.com/series/react.... Really great series but I’m still sticking with Vue 😅 Helps with custom block stuff though 💪

Only taken me 40 years to work out that DJ Premier is behind every 10/10 hip hop beat 🤯 open.spotify.com/playlist/40d...

WordPress driving me insane today. Do we add this to my theme.json or to the css. Why can’t making websites get easier with time 😅🥲

Really enjoying pulling together custom blocks. Feel like its a nice solution for those elements/components that are specific to a site that you want rigid styles but flexibility to edit. Actually not that complicated? Toggle styles/visibility of stuff and away you go 🤷🏼‍♂️

Built my first custom block this afternoon 👌 Need to learn react then 😆 Who thought { test && showthis } was nice syntax I want vue 🥲

Made some more progress on this yesterday. Getting closer to launch. So hard with your own stuff. Really aiming for it be as easy to use as possible with minimal amount of options/choices 🙏

When you give client a text box instead of two… things like this happen. Might call myself the WordPress doctor. Taking shit themes and knocking them into shape 👨‍⚕️

Anyone know where I can get breakfast on the way to the office 😆🐎

One thing that annoys me with my front end stuff is that I’ve never truly nailed vertical spacing between elements always ends up a mess. Should I just use utility classes and be done with it or is there a better way 🤪

Overheard today. I’m not sure why I’m using Canva your stuff is so much better I should be using you guys for more stuff 🤦🏻‍♂️

Got sign off on the rebuild of a legacy asp system today. Really can’t wait to get started! Proper busy at the minute Really enjoying myself after a tough few months 👌

Making progress on this. Only thing I can’t quite nail is the outline on complex images. Hopefully share more stuff now I’ve got OBS sorted for screen recording 🙏

Started work on another WordPress rebuild today. Say its again keep things simple…. Like using a require to include two lines of code absolutely unnecessary abstraction. How do people work like this 🤣🌊

Going back to my talk in January. Keep it simple. Themify definitely does not tick this box. When you try and be everything to everyman. You can’t be simple. Not the way websites should work imo. End of rant.

Latest thing that winds me up is “I’ve” made this with ai… Well you haven’t have you 🤣

Another day of getting frustrated with my ability to grasp maths and logic. Why did I decide to do this job again? 🤣

Cracked outlining and offsetting fonts finally. Wanted to do this for ages. Apologies for the lazy screen grab 🤣 Just need to build out the UI now ❤️

Great talks at last night WordPress meetup. Thanks @bell.bz and @elliottrichmond.co.uk. Nice mix of development and soft skills 🙏

Has anyone successfully figured out or done anything similar to offset path in Illustrator but with php/javascript? 🤨

As developers, we sometimes have to accept complexity. However, as @richard-bell.bsky.social pointed out, it’s a gentle reminder for us not to lose sight of the principles of KISS. My simple isn’t necessarily your simple. Great talk - thanks, Rich! #WordPress #Meetup

Finally got round to penning my 2024 wrap up; KissPress was launched, a drag racing road trip round Scandinavia with a bit of award winning web development thrown into the mix too! www.richard-bell.co.uk/posts/2024/ 📖

This mornings fun. Try and deploy my year in review. For some reason Netlify doesn’t want to play. Everything I hate about modern development 😢

Anyone recommend a reliable contact for custom embroidery? Yet to find someone that is responsive and that I can source garments for them to embroider 🤷🏼‍♂️

It always baffles me how complicated folks make WordPress themes. Currently at an hour trying to figure out how offers are being pulled in. FML

1st sale on Etsy. Or 1st and last if you listen to my inner chimp 🤣🐒

I can’t deal with today 🤣 Client… go live we’ve tested this. Email two minutes after deployment. How does this work 😅

Why are the days just disappearing? Last thing I knew it was 8am. Doesn’t help I spent all morning chasing an issue that shouldn’t have been an issue 🤦🏻‍♂️

Built a thing for the office. Just need to sort the printer shelf out. Work bence/standing desk 🤭💪

Trying my hardest but failing most of the time is one of my key skills. Should give up really 🤨

More kiss cut practise today 👀 www.instagram.com/reel/DC4TgrK...

Didn’t even need to ask for my Insulin at the Pharmacy this morning. Regular customer now 😂🩼

A bit of classic asp debugging. I really should offer a legacy support service. Basically digging around code that other folks don’t want to touch and support have zero clue about.

Working on syncing up some data to WordPress. Custom post type/mapping to meta data. For some reason company only supply data as a csv upload x3 times a day. Love stuff like this 🙃

Is anyone using metadata with stripe? It seems like it’s not saving them/they aren’t viewable in the dashboard? Feel like I’m missing something stupid 🤷🏼‍♂️

Wrote my first kids short story this morning. I’m excited by it. Bet to fail than not try at all. Illustrations next 👀

Tina Turner is incredible 👌🕺🏻

Latest range of “products” for the side gig 👌 Not bad considering I only gave birth to them last Saturday. Illustrated, designed, tweaked the website in less than a week. kisspress.co.uk

Finally getting this thing dialled in 👀💪 Kiss cut stickers go on then 😉

Why is the file search on mac so terrible? Looking for a file from 2011/12 do you think I can find it 🔎🔦