Overheard on Magic School Bus: “She’s not just any person. She’s a person with a blog!”

Decided to up my seed starting game this year, so got a shelf with a cover and added LED grow strips. Ready to start seeds in a week or two!

Updated the weather station data forwarding script to fetch and update data every 5 minutes instead of every minute, as I’m starting to hit daily API usage limits from Wunderground now that I added my custom block. It looks like the limit is 1500 requests a day (day resets in UTC time). I’m having trouble finding the limits documented anywhere, but around 1500 I start getting errors back for my requests.

Side note: Don’t use multiple Google Docs for your public API documentation. Makes it very difficult to search across documents.

How to create symlinks on macOS, for things like symlinking WordPress core or plugins that you are working on that need a separate git repo:

First, navigate in your terminal to the folder where you want to symlink to live, then run this:

ln -s ~/Projects/path-to/what-you-want-symlinked

I created a plugin to pull down data from my home weather station and display it in a custom block. The data updates every 10 minutes. I’m also gathering daily summaries behind the scenes for future blocks to come.

Here is the block in action. It is currently “no frills” and needs some styling and a round of code clean up, but I’m happy with the first working version.

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Today I had trouble with Valet not being properly linked to the correct PHP version installed via Homebrew. Here is how I fixed it. I’m sure I’ll need this again, so putting it here.

brew unlink php && brew link php
brew services restart --all
composer global update
valet start

Just stocked back up on Chartreuse. Will need to take it easy on the swizzles given the news from the monks.

Citrus superjuice. Probably a good thing to have on hand for parties!

This will run over every single PHP file on the site and check it for syntax errors using the current version of PHP:

	
find -L /srv/htdocs -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -P 4 php -l

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h/t Jeremy Felt

Snow day!

First major snow of the year!

This is great news! This is something that I sorely missed in the template editor. Nice to have that history and be able to roll back changes. Even more important for client sites.

I made it to Moonburger over the weekend, the place in Kingston that only makes burgers with Impossible meat. They aren’t a vegan place, though: The cheese is real dairy.

This isn’t the first time I’ve had an Impossible burger, but it was my first Impossible smashburger. It was good! It won’t fool you if you taste test next to a beef burger (smashburgers made with beef render a lot of fat and you can taste it), but it is a good burger on its own. The toppings definitely help. Heck, their toppings alone put them above a lot of burger places, beef or not. We liked the fries with cheese sauce, too.

I think if we were closer I’d probably get it over a regular burger ~20% of the time.

Sandra Boynton is a big hit in our house, too!

Indie bookstore score today: Full Sandman series, each book signed by Gaiman, at regular retail price.

I’ve only ever checked these out of the library, so I’m stoked to have the full set on my shelf now.

Noticed an AI button in my email app today. Wasn’t expecting that! Not seeing any announcements about it on Airmail’s social or website. Am I opted in to beta features?

I don’t think I’ll use it. I try to use email as little as possible.

20 years later, Less Than Jake’s Anthem album holds up. I remember my older cousins being skeptical when it came out because they liked their earlier albums and were worried it wouldn’t be as good.

Tonight’s tiki drink: Chartreuse Swizzle. Quite good with my homemade falernum. https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/chartreuse-swizzle-recipe/

Ah, thanks for pointing me to the GitHub issue! I weighed in on the conversation, offering an option to reintroduce the Classic functionality without needing to make it a dynamic block by not updating the order in the editor. https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/9701#issuecomment-1441197733