Scott Mallinson

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.

Any recommendations for low-volume Mastodon or Pleroma hosting? I want to set up an instance for my own use. mastohost seem well-priced…

I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT and it’s fun to see the responses it generates across different domains. It pretty accurately generates HTML code, and can help break down complex, technical topics into more digestible material.

I’ve been working on the self assessment for my annual review, and it feels weird, to say the least, against the backdrop of the recent tech layoffs.

15 years ago today I signed up for a Twitter account. Will it be #MyLastTwitterAnniversary?

The recent changes to Google Maps Timeline in the Android app are buggy. When saving changes to past events it jumps to the most recent event, and scrolling is slow to the point that the UI becomes detached.

A 970 file PR is one of the largest I’ve seen, and still a work in progress! It doesn’t seem like it can be broken down due to the architecture of the plugin and the nature of the breaking changes it needs to address.