Robots opening doors? Calm down people, we’re a long way from Skynet happening.
I could really do with a col-md-1.5 class about now. #webdevwoes
So, even with the night shift on, iPads aren’t good for night time reading. Already thought this would be the case. Just as well I prefer to read my Kindle at night.
Great to see the snow didn’t put Drew off from his golf yesterday.
Snow! What snow?
Would you download an app that wasn’t on the App Store and didn’t have any developer credentials (name, company etc) against it?
Feels good to be starting another Rails project. I’m hoping this one runs for a while, but I really need to spend more time on throwaway Rails projects and learning more about things like ActionCable and Turbolinks.
Write daily
Nicholas Bate with a run down on being happy. Writing daily is just one simple part of it.
Write daily about what is working so that you observe, notice and appreciate it.
— Basics 7: How to Be Happy by Nicholas Bate
RSS discovery
A common observation around the slow uptake of RSS readers is that RSS is still something that people don’t understand.
RSS readers often rely on the user to add the feeds that they want, but unless users know where to look then users may be turned off by an RSS reader. A blank page with no suggested or recommended feeds in it isn’t going to demonstrate what an RSS reader can do.
I’ve noticed that podcasting apps like Overcast and Pocketcasts include discovery sections that show you podcasts that you can subscribe too. They provide recommended and categories sections that people can click and find out more information about that podcast. If they like it they can subscribe.
Perhaps it’s not only about adding subscribe buttons to our sites but also making RSS readers more user friendly by adding RSS discovery so that people can find the content they want.
_If my memory serves me right, Feedly does include such a discovery feature, so thumbs up to them! _
Despite a few attempts this week and last week at using VS Code, I keep coming back to Sublime Text. I think if I had a severe problem with using ST then I would make the switch, but as it stands, it just works.
If it ain’t broke, why fix it?