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  • Saw GladIIator last night. Have thoughts. More about the animals than anything.

  • With an ever-growing Read Later list, I figured it’s about time to do something about it. So I’ve dusted off my website, given it a fresh lick of paint, and I’ll start blogging to impart some of what I’ve learnt from my reading list.

  • That feeling you get when your favourite restaurant removes your favourite dish from the menu.

  • Well, we did it. We migrated all 112 plugins to the new framework version and addressed the breaking changes and inter-dependencies in the process. Dare I say, we may have even improved some of the code. Though it may be too ambitious to say at this time until regression testing has completed.

  • https://scottmallinson.com/blog/2023/02/02/1040383/ by scottmallinson Some wins, some losses today. Managed to get a bunch of plugins migrated at work. Huzzah! Dishwasher broke. Boo! Dishwasher not broken! A couple of calls to customer services and we managed to fix it. Also, rounded out Friday with approximately 75% of plugins migrated.

  • https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922 by Twitter Dev (Twitter) Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵 Starting February 9, this account will no longer post notes from my website. Subscribe to my feed at https://scottmallinson.com.

  • Some wins, some losses today. Managed to get a bunch of plugins migrated at work. Huzzah! Dishwasher broke. Boo!

  • The fun of self-hosting web apps. Following a step-by-step installation guide verbatim until you realise one dependency is newer/no longer available/renamed/no longer consumes other dependencies, and you hit a wall, hard.

  • Exhausted after a two and a half days planning the next 8-10 weeks of work, with some of it exciting and challenging. But for now, the weekend!

  • I’ve been having a play around and with Chrome DevTools Recorder, Testing Library Recorder and ChatGPT you can create Jest tests and Gherkin feature files. Not perfect results but handy for getting started with UI integration and automation testing.