Ross's Micro Blog

Wait, what? All the supermarket fridges are on the internet?

https://chaos.social/@jonty/117428072074406675

This needs to be immediately followed with:

#thankYouToday for kind, generous friends, that accept me as I am, encourage me, and welcome me into their home.

#thankYouToday for swimming and hot chocolate with my kid, and some much-needed new clothes (with style advice from the same kid!)

https://crikey.social/@ross/117424740928374102

Did some writing… it’s a bit personal, but it seems important and it might resonate with some.

"Things are over-happening. I've been wallowing. It's time to re-focus.”

https://rosswintle.uk/2026/10/the-search-for-joy/

Might just make this my new bio!

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dvvvi2lfda3eq46zikkozitb/post/3mxgfji7zd22g

They continued with the script.

A few minutes later I started asking if they used their own AI tools and if it had given them any idea of how likely I was to convert. If their AI saved time then was it worth talking to me?

They totally missed the joke.

I bailed after 10 mins.

2/2

Oh. I didn’t tell you. I had a very fun not-a-sales call the other day for an AI automation platform for business. Sometimes I play along a bit to see what happens.

A few minutes in I declared that the thing I most wanted to automate was blocking of cold sales calls.

1/2

This is not good. Curl is EVERYWHERE!!

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/117398235777756798

Long chat with my wife tonight about what on earth my career looks like right now.

Pretty sure there’s a correction coming at some point. But what’s left after the correction is what’s important. And that’s crystal-ball stuff.

I’m lost. But clinging to the things I have and am good at.

Like, sure, I’ve built some dumb shit in my time. But I was thoughtful and learned my craft while I was doing it. These people burned the planet, created slop and learned nothing! This is not fun or interesting. It’s probably irresponsible.

3/3

https://youtu.be/ku83Cdoj_G0

– A vibe coded app that you manually input a bunch of health data into, with zero discussion of security or privacy? That’s fine then!!
– And wait. Is that… really… an app that… calculates the mean average of two provided numbers??? 🤦‍♂️

2/3

I know this was meant to be fun, but The Vergecast getting people to pitch vibe-coded apps at them just showed why just-because-you-can-doesn’t-mean-you-should.

– A vibe-coded app that collects photos of dead people. Nothing could go wrong there, I’m sure.

1/3

My daughter is away for the week on a school residential and my son is old enough to be pretty self sufficient and OH MY GOODNESS WHAT DO ALL YOU CHILDLESS ADULTS DO ALL EVENING LONG???

This Drone-Delivered Potatoes thing is excellent buffoonery. I approve.

https://www.theverge.com/report/1002172/potato-by-air-wing-drone-delivery

Yay! Travel and hotel booked for #WordCampManchester!!

I’m properly going to be there!

(Just need the day off work now! 😂)

It’s a great TV season right now in the UK. We’re in the midst of The Celebrity Traitors, Taskmaster, Ludwig and Ted Lasso.

However, as well as Ted Lasso I’m also catching up on S3 of Colin from Accounts, and I’m SO confused because Keely/Ash + Roy/Gordon are basically the same story, aren’t they?

Did someone I know post a script or something for removing the AI packages from a new Laravel project? I can’t seem to find it and I’m sure I saw it.

Anyway, I’ve mostly been ill for the last two days and all that has, apparently, been brewing in my neurons while my immune system worked (and boy was it working hard!!)

🤷

I do really lament the apparent lack of (or possibly mis-directed?) curiosity that LLMs seem to have created.

Sensible assessment is mostly drowned out by hype.

And I really worry that we’re handing over critical thinking to corporate-controlled machines that may not be there in the future.