Sander van Dragt's Notes

• Sander March 28, 2019 at 12:10 pm

  Sublime Text is the best scratchpad editor: with it restoring unsaved tabs across sessions.

• On doing good work

  Sander March 24, 2019 at 12:46 pm

  Aka why I keep having bad customer experiences.

  Assuming the idea of a business (and us when we represent it) is to stay in business then it should aim to make the customer (a fellow person) happy as happy people are loyal.

  This means the person needs to understand what the other person wants from the transaction to be happy. It also means both parties must understand the details of the transaction to know how this makes them happy. The product must be understood to ensure maximum happiness. And finally if the product or service offered is not making the customer happy then it’s the responsibility of a good business to help the customer find happiness another way.

  Doing good business is about understanding people, and having empathy.

  This is also why why car dealerships keep disappointing me. Stop pushing product. Start making people happy.

• Rutger Bregman: Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash | TED Talk

  Sander March 24, 2019 at 11:55 am

  Rutger Bregman: Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash | TED Talk

• Sander March 14, 2019 at 3:33 pm

  #protip When writing a script that invokes git stash, make sure the script is committed before running it, if it's in the same repository ;-)

• Sander March 14, 2019 at 1:26 pm

  It's wasteful to load all the site's css and javascript if the visitor only comes to visit one page.

• Sander March 4, 2019 at 7:58 am

  Daily crossword puzzle but with the puzzle replaced with denying a consent dialogue. #idea

• 📣 Image Widget Release: Image Widget 4.4.7 | WordPress.org

  Sander March 1, 2019 at 2:17 pm

  📣 Image Widget Release: Image Widget 4.4.7 | WordPress.org

  So, what’s new in this release? Glad you asked, because I was getting to the change log:

  • Feature – Added new Link Title field and filter to improve tooltip (previously used alt text) (thanks @marklcm)
  • Tweak – Added new image_widget_option_defaults hook to improve customizability (props @svandragt)

  #wordpress #contribution

• Sander March 1, 2019 at 10:18 am

  I've just signed up for Zapier and Mailchimp to create a weekly email of an RSS feed containing any interesting articles I find. Hopefully that will both improve my Friday and stop the urge to share every interesting link. #lifehack

• Sander February 26, 2019 at 6:27 pm

  Im trying to go paperless but logging into stuff to get my statements out Is as bad as getting paper. Any solutions?

• Sander February 21, 2019 at 7:08 pm

  The WordPress community is very excited about raising the minimum PHP version to one that's longer supported. ;-)