I saw people saying lots of good things about the local multiplayer game goodness that is Towerfall. How have I never heard of this? It’s EXCELLENT!!!
2025-01-06 21:16:30
Chatting with friends about productivity and managing work and tasks and I’m realising that I’ve settled on a really good system (for me).
Must write about that.
It involves Rocketbooks. Which I was initially very skeptical of.
2025-01-02 10:40:54
Back to work… might take a while to get warmed up!!
(Seems I didn’t shut down properly!!)
2024-12-30 23:48:00
Related to All The Other Thoughts I’m having, I’m loving having unconnected devices again.
I have an Analogue Pocket and an Anbernic retro game handheld. I can play complete games with no monetisation, leaderboards or upgrades.
I’m listening to MY music on an iPod. Just mine. Anywhere I like. No interruptions.
My Kobo IS connected, but I just read books on it. That’s all!
I’m longing to get a BluRay player (we’re still on DVD!) and buy some actual movies.
I’ll be buying a road atlas next! 😃
2024-12-30 21:45:01
I can't stop thinking about this… I want… I NEED… a simple, succinct version of some of it to send to people to TELL THEM that this is what's happening.
https://fosstodon.org/@ross/113736031375268562
2024-12-30 21:32:18
🤔 I struggle to get started sometimes. I don't think it's perfectionism. Bit I've realised it may be what I've decided to call "craftsmanship". Here's my thinking…
https://rosswintle.uk/2024/12/craftsmanship-vs-perfectionism/
2024-12-30 16:58:09
Plugging this indie iOS browser because it’s the business in terms of privacy and customising the UI. And because it’s astonishing that only 100 people are paying $2/month for it.
Try it. And if you like it, support it!
(It became my default browser after about 24 hours of use. And that’s not something I change easily)
https://mastodon.social/@quicheindustries/113742767489954653
2024-12-30 09:28:06
And this one was, of course…
“A dark room with strange blue and orange lighting and what looks like torture equipment. A man reaches up to a metal bar attached to the ceiling. It must be my new gym.
Oh. Wait. No. This is Captain Picard in the torture room of an alien species from Star Trek: The Next Generation's Chain of Command episodes.”
2024-12-30 09:27:35
Because I took time to write the Alt texts and you may not see them. This was:
"A dark room with angular green neon lighting. There is a plinth at the front where the king of the robots stands, illuminated by spotlight. Robot underlings bow down before it in worship.
Oh no. Wait. It's a bunch of static exercise bikes. This is the spinning class at my new gym.
Looks horrid.”
2024-12-30 09:19:19
My gym closed for a month to do a big revamp, and – while I'm sure many will like the new style – I find it REALLY oppressive-looking. I just can help but compare it to the torture room in STTNG's "Chain of Command”
2024-12-30 08:37:07
I had not come across https://iotools.cloud/ before.
Loads of online tools, generators, encoders/decoders.
Nice!
2024-12-29 18:41:57
On the plus side: I absolutely bossed my kid’s Christmas gifts this year:
– The Undertale Art Book has already inspired some “concept art” for a new game and just lots of joy and knowledge about game dev process.
– A stupid, 90cm long cat plushie which was either going to be a huge hit or a huge flop, was absolutely the former!!
– A fold-up compact mechanical keyboard for the boy who loves to take his computing gear with him. 🙌
Nailed it!!! 😃
2024-12-29 18:37:36
Ugh. I feel like such a bad human. Amazing how quickly my values get thrown away in challenging circumstances.
Nothing serious: driving short distances; bad-for-you take-away food; giving in to kids’ demands.
But hungry, tired, overstimulated, and in-some-cases autistic kids is a potent combo.
I’ll get back to doing my best soon!!
2024-12-29 17:44:05
Thinking today about perfectionism vs craftsmanship.
To be honest, the space of the holiday time means I’m having lots of thoughts about lots of things!!
But today is craftsmanship.
2024-12-29 12:08:31
This is an excellent long read on enshittification and makes me feel like quite the rebel being the person that actively avoids crappy free/cheap stuff. (And yes, I acknowledge my privilege)
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
2024-12-27 17:55:04
I swear I’ve spent about 75% of my “spare time” this holiday season just making sure that all my families devices are charging!!
2024-12-24 22:36:19
Well I worked right up til Christmas Eve.
I only just realised I have NINE DAYS OFF!!!
That’s a gift right there!!
2024-12-21 16:07:53
After earlier questions, I did a little weekend AI research project.
I tested whether AI can accurately refactor code. Spoiler: It can't! But I had some fun and did some neat meta-programming along the way.
https://rosswintle.uk/2024/12/ai-copilot-and-deterministic-code-refactoring/
2024-12-21 16:00:57
After earlier questions, I did a little weekend AI research project.
I tested whether AI can accurately refactor code. Spoiler: It can't! But I had some fun and did some neat meta-programming along the way.
https://rosswintle.test/2024/12/ai-copilot-and-deterministic-code-refactoring/
2024-12-21 09:27:58
Thinking about yesterday when I asked Copilot to refactor a loop through an array into a series of discrete steps.
It did it but I checked Every! Single! Change!
Because I know it’s non-deterministic. But I don’t know how non-deterministic it is.
I DO NOT TRUST IT!!
It did the job perfectly. But how was I to know that it would do that?