Hugo Ashmore

@thameswater just for the record attempted to pay my bill for third time, the website refuses to load a payment form, your automated telephone service typically a nightmare, not accepting my account number and impossible to connect to a real human.

It was so easy to write posts in WordPress... You just type and that's it. Need a list? One mouse click on a toolbar. And now you need to remember which blocks are for what, type and click even more to get the same output. The previous approach wasn't broken, so why change? :(

I couldn’t take it anymore. I tried to help, but freeloaders on wordpress.org with no respect for a plugin author's livelihood drove me to the brink. #sorrynotsorry

@BekoUK big fail on your customer tel support lines, put on hold 3 times after being transferred while asking really simple question: Do you supply replacement feet for your cookers, had installation & guys managed to break foot and leave before I noticed unit sitting on floor

@AdrianBLynch I remember 1.1 & the yellow screen of death & derision " we can't render this page as clearly your level of expertese sucks... Please correct your attempts at coding to Standards"

Remember loving XML? ❤️ Remember loving XHTML? ❤️ Remember getting your pages to validate as valid XHTML? ❤️ Remember when HTML5 came along and shat all over your achievements? 💩 Yeah, me neither 🙄

nice one

@herb_miller No experienced web developer would have passed those, it's better that development is not led by designers, I have good eyesight but struggle reading those labels.

I image that some #a11y experts have already had a good moan about the colour combinations being used when saving a post in the WordPress block editor #Gutenberg - especially the white on sliding oblique stripes!

Oh & #Argos this isn't the first time you cancel orders after processing for no apparent reason, at least you don't seem concerned to apologise - good customer will?

Dear #Argos really fed up at having waited in all afternon for a delivery one confirmed as been processed for dispatch, only to receive nothing, login to complain & see the order was cancelled NO EMAIL NO TEXT to that effect, what pisses me off most is making it so hard to email

yeah but with combos of 'Spanish' 'Red' permutations are massive.

& at least one or more 'Shalott'

@tharsheblows just wet myself a little 😱

My unexpected bed partner last night was well behaved at least

@henrywright You must have been bursting by the time you reached the loo :)

Took 10 hours to drive to Looe in Cornwall. Had to make a stop in Plymouth and deal with a road closure due to an accident but here now

I love it that both Mozilla and Apple are taking strong stances to protect user privacy on the web. I'm proud to work for such a company. Why is it that so many of you still love Chrome??

How true... Fluid/Elastic layouts existed long b4 the rise of those damned frameworks. Oddly, given the CSS properties we waited so long for, frontend dev is in a really bad place & the rot seeps through 2 companies with resources 2 do things right yet cut corners with frameworks twitter.com/jensimmons/sta…

Presenting BuddyPress Xprofile Custom Field Types buddydev.com/add-extra-budd… Yes, It has all the field of the original plugin.

waking up to my fridge GPDRing me

@tw2113 GDPR emails!

So begins my night of trying to figure out where all my hard drive space went. Lost 20gb+ overnight and I don’t know why.

@JJJ Well it is the way you write it 😛

@gtwebdev I'm thinking it's time to re-familiarise with Ubuntu or similar, that perhaps my view on OSX/Win being slicker, smoother, better ui experience an outmoded one. 🤔

Actually #microsoft I am seriously staggered by just what a fucking mess you've caused through this update, an update that I didn't really want or need, time for you to get out of the OS business, focus on Office and corps daft enough to run MS apps.