Get involved with the WordPress community and commit to the Five for the Future initiative to give back to WordPress what it gives to you as a business.
And it doesn’t have to mean doing anything with code – just being able to write documentation, translate a language or edit a video is all it takes to take part.
And, you can learn so much from that contribution aspect too.
David Artiss, courtesy of Themeisle
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My second proudest development moment… and why I regretted it
A couple of years ago I wrote about “my proudest development moment“, where I triumphed over a bullying manager. Well, many years later, but at the same company, my second best development moment occurred. But, equally, why I regretted it – it’s a warning for us all!
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Evercade Nexus – All 11 Hidden Games
If you’ve just got hold of the Evercade Nexus games console, there are some fun secret games to unlock, via combination of secret codes and button combos.
Once unlocked, you’ll find they appear on your games menu (the star icon in the UI), under a section titled “Hidden Games”.
Secret Code Games
These are codes that you enter in the Settings -> Secret menu.
- “GRIBBLYGROBBLY” = Gribbly’s Day Out (C64)
- “SEIJIWASHERE” = Kubo 1 & 2 (NES)
- “STONE” = Rogue 64 (Commodore 64)
- “BLOP” = The Lost Mines
- “JUGGLE” = Juggling Balls
- “PEWPEW” = Showdown (Commodore 64)
- Newsletter code = The Sword of Stone (for this you need to sign up to their email newsletter and you’ll be sent a code)
The following are key combinations, which you press down simultaneously whilst on the cartridge menu (with no cartridge inserted)
- L1 / R1 / D-pad down = Spacey McRacey (NES)
- L1 / R1 / D-pad up = NNNNNN (NES)
- L2 / R2 / Select = Gotris (Sega Master System)
- Menu button ten times = Fairy Fire – Defender of the Fairies
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Manhattan TV – good Freeview players but terrible customer service when they go wrong
Last year I finally ditched my Humax Freeview Recorder for a shiny new Manhattan T4-R – the latest iteration of their own recorder, and I’d heard good thinks about their past devices.
However, reporting issues to them has been a combination of frustration and rude responses. Everything is your fault, not theirs. And it seems I’m not the only one with this issue.
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Water flossers and an example of form over substance
Water flossers are great dental hygiene product but, for what they are, they can be pretty expensive. Spending over £100 for something that sprays water through a nozzle is steep – whichever one you buy, it’s just a pump and a water container.
Normally, though, you get what you pay for in terms of better design but, recently, I’ve had an experience of, well, this not being the case.
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Crossing the fuzzy grey line of humour
Anybody who knows me will know that I love to try and make people laugh. At school is was predicted I’d be a comedian. Computers came along and changed that path for me.
But, it’s still within me.
The thing about humour is that everyone has lines in the sand where humour doesn’t land with them – topics that are unacceptable. People often making sweeping statements that particular jokes aren’t funny, but that’s never true – a joke is always funny to at least one person, if only the person delivering it. Humour means different things to different people after all.
What the person is saying is that the joke wasn’t funny to THEM. That doesn’t make the person delivering the joke wrong.
And when that line is crossed between 2 people, how do you best deal with it?
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