Month: September 2018

A little write up of my tinkering with Geolocation APIs and seeing how hard it would be to build a “virtual” Beat the Street game:

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/beat-the-street-virtual-tinkering/

School homework task: “Write a silly story using 10 of your Year 1 common exception words”

Just 10? This is harder than it seems.

How about:

“They once said ‘come here’. Today my house is full!”

👍

People: Do you like the new MailChimp re-design?

Me: I’m the kind of person that looks for clothes with re-inforced knees, sturdy pocket linings and that are non-iron and machine-washable at 30. It still has lists and campaigns. It still sends emails. So it’s all good. 😉

Yay! I did it!

✅ At least 1 kid all day
✅ Both school runs
✅ Little one napped (eventually)
✅ Swim class at 4pm
✅ Everyone fed evening meals
✅ Solo double bedtime (!!!)

I know this is a normal day for many people. But it’s a personal triumph for me as an individual!

I wonder what happens if two people with Gmail just keep using the suggested responses. Would the conversation actually go anywhere?

Helpful IT Notice: Emails with your password in! 😱

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/product-ideas/

(Not so) Silly product ideas I have bouncing around in my head:

* The “Bottle Brush”
* The Multi-Lock for Bikes
* 2FA for online and card-not-present bank transactions

Free ideas – someone go make them!

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/product-ideas/

Wow. Such a busy week. I’m totally flagging today.

But then I’m the guy that has this crazy idea that congestion is caused by a combination of finite road network capacity and too many vehicles.

🤷‍♂️

I find it bizarre that the council ask the public what they think of solutions to traffic congestion. We don’t have survey data. We don’t have modelling software. I assume the traffic planners do? Can’t we make expensive decisions based on data rather than guesswork and opinion?

Oooh. Email spam with a valid-but-very-old password quoted in it. Interesting. That’s gonna freak a LOT of people out!

Well this was better. Rice flour really did help my issue of the dough getting stuck to the proving basket. Plus I used a less-dampntabke when shaping. Now need to work on the rise a bit! #sourdough

Late, but here’s my summary of last week in projects, posts & pins.

Featuring useful WordPress plugins & resources, a journal for kids’ wellbeing, a post about job titles 🙄 and useful tips for website owners.

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/the-week-17th-september-2018/

Step 1 of “never getting involved in school communications” complete. You’ll hardly notice. In fact…I desperately hope that no one notices. Because that’s the point. 😃

Further to yesterday’s Tweets, I had fun writing up some basic SEO tips:

Be careful what you write! Basic SEO is easy, important, and really boring.

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/be-careful-what-you-write-basic-seo-is-easy-important-and-really-boring/

Yay. My question got featured in Craftivist’s weekly “Activist Whisperer” column. Thank you!!!

She shares some creative and gentle ways to engage with your MP: https://uk.lush.com/article/activist-whisperer-0

Sadly, one of my puncture repairs didn’t QUITE work. Anyone got a patch for this?!

(Yesterday, actually…cross-posting now)

#todayIMade
✅ 90 x Beat the Street points
✅ 2 x repaired inner tubes
✅ 1 x white sourdough loaf (currently proving)
✅ 0.25 x boarded-out and better (?) insulated lofts

*phew*

😃

Amazing to see so many people out playing Beat the Street in Swindon (https://beatthestreet.me/swindon). People are being so friendly and helpful. Special shout out to drivers who are giving families loads of time and space to cross busy roads. 👍👏😃

Wondering if there’s a standard way to validate a UK town name.

Remembering the existence of “Westward Ho!” with the official apostrophe.

Wondering if any has yet named a town:

; DROP TABLE ‘CITIES’;