Month: August 2025

Next fun holiday project: writing a recursive, regex-based HTML parser for my son in Godot’s Gdscript so he can build a app in Godot that depends on web-scraping some data.

The things we do…

One great thing about WordPress is that people building magazine style sites on it probably don't realising they're publishing an RSS feed too. 😁

The full schedule for LoopConf (London, 25th September) is now out. And I'm sharing a stage with some amazing people.

I'm also working on some fun things for my talk – which is almost going to be a mini conference-within-a-conference!

You can get £50 off a ticket with code “ROSS50”.

👉 https://www.loopconf.com/

This seems like VERY basic coding, but I rarely see newer coders breaking problems down like this.

Background: A while ago I wrote about the basic programming principles I've been using for 30 years.

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/07/the-way-i-code/

I then recorded a video of using those principles.

And I’m extracting some little shorts from it too! Like this!

Not bad for an old dude who skates about once every five years!!

I have this week 100% off with the kids. So will post some of what we're up to.

Today we are Ice Skating – wish me luck!

And the rest of the week is me driving back and forth to Oxford to take kid 1 to these amazing workshops!

https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/story-shapers

So this year, for summer holidays, we did a little experiment.

Rather than “go on holiday”, we’ve stayed at home and used the money we would have spent on travel, accommodation and food for a "summer budget" for days out.

It turns out that it's actually quite hard to spend a couple of hundred pounds each week! But we've been having a ton of fun, not just with days out and activities (bowling, cinema, climbing, etc), but with at-home creative activities.

Fun! And… a success?

Did someone here share the video of the bag-dying guy and say something about him being a master of a craft that they didn’t even know existed? Was that you?

This is REALLY good.

I'm thinking a lot about communication right now and there's a ton of good stuff relevant to my industry and remote work in here.

https://kind.engineering/

There’s some very well thought through reflections on using Claude Code here. I do wonder what I would make of it if I seriously tried it. But do I want to??
https://social.lol/@matti/115028996279496688

Kid: There should be underground trains everywhere!

Wife (not realising): That would be really boring.

Me: 👀

Wife: What?!

Me: Boring?

Everyone except me: 🙄

Trombone Champ is about £5 on the Nintendo Switch right now. I’ve had it 15 minutes and I’ve already had £5 worth of laughing out of it.

Zarathustra… OMG!!! 🤣

This evening my family were talking about whether worms could talk. It was suggested that they might just not be very chatty.

And then I spent about ten minutes attempting to say the words: "introvert invertebrate" 😂

I don’t know why I love the concept of this iOS/MacOS app. I just do! For some reason it’s so much better than AirDrop, iMessaging myself or other options.

A private “Send to Self” chat that syncs using iCloud.

It added photos today and is now perfect!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bookmarks-send-to-self/id6747897667

I have not come across Wiio’s Laws of Communication before.

I’m glad I did.
https://toot.liw.fi/@liw/115005515908594803

We now own the game “Skull”.

It is excellent. Especially to take to a cafe or bar and to just play short games with friends and family. Quick to learn. But always different.

I first learned about it from Tom Scott and it’s actually fun to watch too.

https://youtu.be/rK2locyo-Pc

These books are all amazing.

But they make me wonder: We KNOW how to write good code. It’s all here in the elders… the people who have gone before us (of which I am rapidly becoming one!)

So why don’t we do it??

Do we not know? Is it just pressure to deliver?