Mike Street

Someone I know has had their wordpress website hacked but it only manifested itself if you come from a search engine.

Explained to Claude Code (with Playwright MCP) the symptoms and within minutes it had identified the questionable requests and scripts along with an explanation as to what and why.

Shower thoughts that live in my head rent free - Mike Street - Lead Developer and CTO Things I ponder and think about occasionally

"Why do we have round lenses on cameras, but rectangle sensors and photos?"

That and other shower thoughts that I think about quite a lot

www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/shower-...

Did I purposefully add 10 minutes to my workout this morning so I could listen to Taylor Swift's new album in full?

Yes. Yes I did.

#ts12

I've just got a MacBook M4 Pro and am looking for a single cable docking station for my 2 screens.

I have HDMI on one and HDMI/DisplayPort/USB C (with DP Alt) on the other.

Needs to also work with a Windows laptop.

Does anything exist?

Your bike is dope 🔥

No.

Would I be silly buying a MacBook Pro now or should I wait for the M5? Are prices going to jump up?

A venn diagram showing TS12 (Taylor Swift's new album) and jQuery 4.0 - in the cross over it just says "Mike"

2 announcements in the last 12 hours getting me pumped

GitLabForm

I've just set up and configured GitlabForm (gitlabform.github.io/gitlabform) for synchronising settings across all our repositories.

Incredible and an absolute game-changer

#gitlab

A text conversation Me: What film is it? Other person: Clueless Me: Maybe you should find out before you go

Dad joke FTW

So, shamefully, I've been "vibe coding" recently. Not so much at work but more for evening side-projects - being able to set something whirring while washing up is potentially a game-changer.

I've een trying Gemini CLI and Claude Code and both are quite impressive. Any others people are using?

Screenshot of a web app saying "Hello Mike Street, Your account is fine, however the device resolution does not support this function. Please login using an iPad or computer."

😒

A pile of washing up which looks similar to the XKCD comic about dependency https://xkcd.com/2347/

Accidentally made that XKCD comic

If there was one thing I could change about how the internet, it would be that domains names go the other way
(e.g. uk.co.bbc.www)

That way it would make sense when listed alphabetically!

I've got a new computer for work and have been setting up the basic apps.

What struck me was not once did I open the app store. All the apps I installed had a direct download link (some also had App Store ones too).

Is there a general movement to boycott the App store?

Managed to replace the Start/Stop button in my car to fix it and now I feel like I can do anything

I miss the glowing apple that used to be on Apple laptop lids.

With the drop in price of the premium tier, I'm trying to decide if Gitlab premium is worth it.

Is $900 less (for a year) as it stands which is pretty chunky.

Anyone upgraded/running premium? Any unexpected killer features?

#gitlab

Anyone know of a good, reliable portable air con unit suitable for a home office?

#lazyweb

Today's annoyance is cyclists that are slower than you but then refuse to follow the rules of the road like stopping at red lights, so they sail past dodging pedestrians while you're waiting.

I'm doing the London to Brighton bike ride this year and I'm faced with a very first-world problem. Which of my bikes should I use? 🤔

#londontobrighton #cycling #bike

A screenshot of Taylor Swifts website with letter as an image with really small text

We dedicate our lives to making performant and accessible websites.

And then Taylor Swift just has a massive image of text dumped on her homepage. It's important content, too (not just decoration)

www.taylorswift.com

In #11ty, can I get the numbered index of an item in reference to a specific collection.

E.g. if I had blog posts with category listing pages. Looping through the posts I can use the loop index, but it might be on a category page its post 2,6 and 7.

Is that data available?

The only thing that makes the tedious task of implementing Contest Security Policies bearable, is the little smile I have a th bemusement of using the word _nonce_ in a professional context.

For non-UK folks: it's a slang word

Running Playwright in Gitlab CI - Mike Street - Lead Developer and CTO Some learnings and links from my recent expedition into the realm of Universal SSL certificates from Cloudflare

What a banging Friday night:

Boshing out a new blog about running Playwright in Gitlab CI

#playwright #gitlab

www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/running...

I used it to plan the talk I gave recently. Listed all the things I wanted to talk about and asked it to output bullet points. I then built the first draft of my talk from those points

An Airscape clear glass jar with coffee in it. It sites on a black electric hob with aqua "fish scale" tiles behind it

Something aesthetically pleasing about coffee in a jar

Blog - Mike Street - Lead Developer and CTO Blog posts by Mike Street, developer and side-project-aholic from the South of England

My blog can be found here:

www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/

Use Playwright to smoke test your deployments - Mike Street - Lead Developer and CTO How to use Playwright to smoke test your application to ensure your deployment hasn't broken the site

New blog post:

Using Playwright to run your smoke tests

www.mikestreety.co.uk/blog/use-pla...

#playwright #deployments