Well unlike Godot, my StarLite V Linux Laptop/Tablet is finally on its way having left Godalming in the tender care of Royal Mail. It's been a long long wait, but at least StarLabs provided some (unitentional) humour in the final month.
Starting on writing J5 components with xbMusic I discover a much better way of creating tags progrmatically (see previous version here). Most of this could probably be done in J3 but I didn't realise that. Essentially instead of creating a Table object and separately calling the bind() check() and store() functions you can create a Tags model and just call save. I think the reason I didn't do this before was because of wanting to check within the createGetTag() function that the tag and its parent didn't already exist.
I finally got around to playing with J5 and annoyed to find that the Atum admin template has implemented a minimal form of link hinting that only detects target="blank" and places an icon before the link text which just feels totally wrong. There doesn't seem to be anything similar in the Cassiopedia site default template fortunately.
Finally bothered to work out the simple way of stopping Joomla 3.10 creating those pesky 0000-00-00 00:00:00 dates which are now invalid in MySql. This is very simple for components you control, and possible to easily hack in the core Joomla - which will be one of the features of Roomla when I get around to it.
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