Leesa Ward

I build websites/apps, design things for web and print, and sometimes teach.

Opinions posted are my own and do not represent that of my employer or clients.

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

Me when I realise Pest (which I only discovered this week) means "Testing for a language starting with a P", and subsequently realise what that means for Jest (which I've been using for almost 3 years):

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

I spent most of my Saturday night visually improving the output of Xdebug and I regret nothing.

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

Woke up to see a PR I raised in an open source package was merged overnight, that's always a nice way to start a Sunday 😊

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

6F on the plane with the middle seat empty. Confirming that mouse ambidexterity remains one of my most valuable skills and valued equipment features 😆

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

@wordcampsyd Genuinely such a great product, was glad to see them there!

[Arūnas Liuiza @arunaswp]

#wpdrama if it was a tale. 🧵

There used to be a patch of land. Unkempt and gown over, on the outskirts of the town. One day a guy named Patt looked at it and said - I'd like to clean this up and make it into a nice park.

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

Not simply in the code, but in the title attribute! 😩

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

This Halloween we bring you...A TIME MACHINE

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

@murphytrueman WTF is a "Strategy Management technician"? (And why is the T lowercase?)

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

@CoderciseYT @gulpjs I use it more than I really need to out of habit now (CSS variables and nesting weren't things when I started) but I truly love SCSS. Variables, functions, mixins, loops, it's all so good. One of the main reasons I like Styled Components is because it's like SCSS in JS🤣

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

So nice to get stuck into some theme development and see that there's finally a new version of @gulpjs! My procrastination and "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude towards it has been validated! 🤣

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

@CoderciseYT @gulpjs Honestly, diving into a custom theme project where I code HTML, SCSS, PHP, and just a sprinkling of JS is like slipping into a comfy old coat.

(Usually WordPress themes but I feel similarly about Drupal, that coat's just a little scratchier😅)

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

@ekzhang1 "ok but why can’t LLM’s write my frontend code for me to fix the overflow scrolling and alignment on a UI component"

The real question is, can they centre a div?

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

@wordcampsyd @WeAreFineAsFrog @wpengine @WordPress You mean the attendees aren't post-economic? Shocking. 😅

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

@CoderciseYT @levelsio "I suspect it ends with him stepping down and WP continuing its own journey."

We can hope.

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

My overall view of the WordPress spat is "why can't we all get along like we did in middle internet?" but this...is a very bad faith action. Regardless of the legalities and ethics under discussion up until this point, this just isn't the vibe.

[Advanced Custom Fields @wp_acf]

We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org.

A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in the 21 year history of WordPress.

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

The wildest part of this WordPress drama is that anyone thinks "WP Engine" is confusing. I've never had to explain to a client or a student that WPE is a hosting provider. What I have had to explain is how https://t.co/6ugrfQymJY and .com are meaningfully different things.

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

Twice this week I've seen some comment or question online involving "Publisher" where my mind went straight to Microsoft but they actually meant Affinity. Suffice to say, I have never felt older.

[WordCamp Sydney @wordcampsyd]

Another day, another round of speakers! We're excited to welcome @doubleedesign to #WCSyd to share her thoughts on taking a design system approach to developing #WordPress themes.

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

But now if you'll excuse me, I had the idea to try building a new version of my personal site with @vuejs + Markdown, and thanks to ChatGPT went from the idea -> learning that @nuxt_js just *does* that -> a "Hello world" page in ~30 minutes - and now I want to play with that!😁

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

1/2 I've been working on a uni project using Angular and I have to admit, I don't hate it.

For a start, I like the built-in component generator, and discovering that `ng generate` can be used for a bunch of other things too.

[Leesa Ward @doubleedesign]

2/2 I also have to admit, being able to progress quickly by asking ChatGPT "how do I do this specific thing in Angular?" and receive in-IDE suggestions from Copilot has a *lot* to do with it too.