Lifestream

Bought myself a new dot grid moleskin to design my website on. I find when I step back from the computer my creativity isn’t bound by constraints and my mind can wonder to interesting places

Just as naming something sets the tone for what a thing can and cannot do in a persons mind. A good content author can really influence a service in a positive way by changing the way a user interacts with your service or interprets what they can do.

Swapped my webmention microservice back to a web hook instead of polling and it feels much nicer. I looked in to Websub but it just seemed like overkill. I will trial this for a while and see how it goes.

Pet #UI peeve When a destructive action like “delete” is placed next to a frequently performed action like “save”.

Please keep destructive actions in a place that show a definitive want to perform. People make mistakes or may have fine motor skills issues.

Keep it accessible

Parent milestone achieved. Sebs first birthday party was a success!

RSS Feeds are now back on the website. I have also added a feed page to list all the available feeds and formats. https://vincentp.me/feeds/

Working on #service-design involving multiple govt sector partners and complex processes. The sweet spot in communicating the service to everyone has been a Milky Way map. https://www.irm.se/en/vintergatan/

Changed default branch from master to main on #github you should to.

Follow this guide by @shanselman to do the same: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/EasilyRenameYourGitDefaultBranchFromMasterToMain.aspx

Also if you deploy to @heroku this guide: https://medium.com/@adriennedomingus/if-you-are-interested-in-updating-the-name-of-the-primary-branch-on-your-repository-from-master-to-daa34d20c430

And to remove the master branche completely: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-delete-a-git-branch-both-locally-and-remotely/

One diagram. One purpose. Or you already lost the argument.