mike-dev

Simply beautiful. San Fruttuoso, 🇮🇹. Only accessible from the sea. #travel #Italy #Genova

Great to know that my garden is good place for wildlife. I think I have 3 hedgehogs. This one, one of similar size that scratches a lot, and a smaller one.

Who knew? On an iPhone there is an 'Open as Web App' feature. Game changer? Thoughts? www.miketoft.com/blog/iphone-...

Is it just me who doesn't want to pay for subscriptions and therefore have to put up with irrelevant advertisements? How did the internet end up this way?

I read today that if a #hedgehog is active during the day, it could be unwell. Alternatively, it could be ‘nesting’ ahead of giving birth.

Meet Russel who appeared this evening. This is a special moment, proving my garden (yard) is nature-friendly. My heart is full.

I put some cat biscuits in the Hedgehog hut last night. This morning the dish was empty. 👍🏽 But this morning a smallish cat appeared on the nearby fence. It then prowled around the hedgehog hut. 👎🏽 Was it wishful thinking of mine that a hedgehog was eating the food?

I look forward to setting up a solar-powered wildlife camera in the #garden tomorrow. The truth will be revealed. Will it be a mouse (I don't think so), a rat (I hope not), a small cat (surely not?), a Hedgehog (I hope so), or something else (OMG!).

Last year I built a hedgehog shelter in the garden, hoping that one would hibernate in it. My neighbours reported a hedgehog sighting in the last few weeks. I placed a small dish containing dried cat food in the shelter two days ago. The dish was empty this morning! Could it be hedgehogs?

I haven't posted for a while. Life got in the way - a new role in work circles, a growing family and so on. What have I missed?

Mastery in 5 moves! ⚪️⚪️⚪️😕 ⚪️⚫️⚪️⚫️ ⚪️⚫️⚪️⚪️ ⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️ www.miketoft.com/apps/mastery...

I’ve just watched a minute of Google introducing their next AI thing that we don’t need. It was reminiscent of a Bond villain introducing’River’. I can’t remember which film.

I beat mikons in 6 moves, easy level! 🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟦🟦🟦🟨 🟨🟦🟨🟦🟨 🟨🟦🟨🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 How did you do? www.miketoft.com/apps/mikons....

Last year I created Mazey. Random mazes with a PacMan-esque concept. Hope you like it. www.miketoft.com/apps/mazey/

I used to play the original game for hours and hours with my Dad. It is quite addictive and annoying at the same time. It took several attempts to code this for it to work properly but through determination and after a lot of head scratching it is good to go. www.miketoft.com/apps/tiles/

Early sign of Spring. At long last! Has the hose pipe ban been lifted yet?

Just bought tickets from one of those bucket airlines. What a crap web experience and their brand new mobile app is even worse. It makes you wonder whether there was a UI/UX team involved.

BBC Newsnight right now. Whoever the Labour Government representative is, is f*ing useless. No clue, no ideas, no responsibility. As a tax payer I need to choose where my taxes go. That does not include paying people who refuse to work or feign sickness.

When I create an app and think someone else could learn from it, I like to write a post on how I did it. www.miketoft.com/blog/make-so...

So I created a little app called 'What's that flag?' Find national flags by colour selection. Created with svelte 🚀 www.miketoft.com/apps/flags/i...

Loving the fact that you can embed Svelte apps within an Astro website and blog. Life just got better.

Is the DuckDuckGo search engine down?

When what you thought you bought falls about 40% short. :/

How glorious is Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing?

Anyone else learning a language with Duolingo? It’s rather good, or should I say molto bene.

Anyone paid for #Duolingo super, then given no alternative to signing up to the Max version? WTF.

For f*** sake, can’t we all live in peace?

I beat mikons in 7 moves, medium level! 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟨🟦🟦🟨 🟦🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟦🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟦🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 How did you do? www.miketoft.com/apps/mikons....

I beat mikons in 7 moves, medium level! 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟦🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 How did you do? www.miketoft.com/apps/mikons....

This is tricky Mastery in 6 moves! ⚪️⚪️😕⚪️ ⚪️⚫️⚪️⚪️ ⚫️⚪️⚪️⚪️ ⚪️⚪️⚫️⚪️ ⚪️⚫️⚫️⚪️ ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️ www.miketoft.com/apps/mastery...

I just don’t understand how this person was elected.

For once and for all can we ban the word ‘utilise’ and instead use ‘use’?

The peonies are being decimated by the rain. 🙁

This time last year these #hosta plants had been devastated by slugs or snails. I don’t know why not this year. I have plenty of snails in the undergrowth.

A couple of years ago I took a variegated leaf from the Hosta and walked into the local #Dulux shop. ‘Can you match these colours please?’ Nice work.

Nature lovers, do you know what these little creatures are? 2-4mm long in garden pond. #springwatch #nature #pond

I just reached level 9 of Mazey! www.miketoft.com/apps/mazey/

Peony flower in milk bottle.

I created a flower display. Send me 💜.

I beat mikons in 6 moves, easy level! 🟦🟦🟨🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟨🟨🟦 🟨🟦🟨🟨🟦 🟨🟦🟨🟨🟦 🟦🟨🟨🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 How did you do? www.miketoft.com/apps/mikons....

What’s not love about gardening? 🐝🌸

Chelsea Flower Show debrief. Excited to go? Yes Too crowded? Yes Saw all gardens? No (too crowded) Learn some tips? Yes Rip-off prices: Hell yes Value for money? No Disappointed? Yes Going again? No Best advice? Watch the gardening experts on TV

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The direct link to my SEO post is here: www.miketoft.com/blog/improve... Thanks. 🚀

As for as I am aware SEO is only for the Search Engines. Large Language Models (LLM) behind AI apps, like Chat GPT-4o, last trawled the web in October 2023. Our SEO activities may affect search results, not AI outputs. Am I right?

I was contacted about Search Engine Optimisation. Fortunately I had written on the subject. www.miketoft.com/tags/seo/ It led me to check my re-developed site with @astro.build. I know Lighthouse scores are just a metric but it is a useful tool. Not all pages gained 4x 💯 but they were close.

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I created by spin on 2048 with Svelte. Great to code and play. www.miketoft.com/apps/2048/in...

Peony partially closed. Do I get a silver-gilt?