Author: Ross Wintle

@danielpunkass Do I see you on Puzzmo?

Would make sense given Black Ink, I suppose.

Was just nice to recognise a name there! 🙂

Software devs: Does anyone work in a team that labels code changes as AI generated or not for the purposes of code review? Are you gathering any data on how comments/changes are affected by AIs involvement?

I’m curious not just about the results, but about the process of measuring.

Turning off BBC Breaking News notifications. It’s got out of hand. I don’t need to know about:

– every single celebrity death
– every gory detail of every mass shooting ever including video of the event

I suspect I won’t miss it and don’t really know why I had it on.

This is so frickin cute. A browser extension that adds a little pettable bird to your web browsing. I love the whimsy.

https://idreesinc.itch.io/pocket-bird

Also found:
– an executable of my A Level computing project
– the first PHP web app that I wrote in about 2008 with no framework and clear SQL injection vulnerabilities
– a WordPress 2.9.2 install set to run on XAMPP

I found a really old disk with an “oldfiles” directory on it that contains the code for my first ever website (maybe my second? I don’t actually remember)

Iframes. Tables. Animated gifs. The works!

Such nostalgia!!

The 1 o’clock BBC News segment starting at around 1:18pm is really quite fun.

“Parenting Wrapped” is excellent.

https://www.threads.com/@jon.thedad/post/DR5Kw11EddD

#PHP 8.5 changes now added to https://caniphp.com/

I spent a few hours this evening working through all the new features and deprecations and closing a few old PRs.

If you use the “API” then this is also updated at: https://caniphp.com/features.json (<- @dianawebdev !)

After a long time away due to a long-lasting cold/flu virusy thing, I finally got back to swimming today. Straight in with 35 x 25m lengths. And didn't struggle as much with breathing as I thought I would.

I'll take that! 😄

Email subject starts: “Missed Black Friday?”

What? How the hell would I have missed it? Do you know how many emails I got???!

I thought these “wrapped” things were an end of year trend?

Honestly December is so frickin overwhelming. You just bounce from one bit marketing hype to the next from mid-November to mid-January. It’s relentless and I hate it.

I'd love to do advent of code, but, I'm sorry to say, I'm reading many, many school emails and figuring out which kid needs to take which things on which days and it's all I can do not to get that wrong.

Today I broke a number input.

In ways that could have repercussions for our entire design system.

And this is why I hate front-end work.

A box that you type a number into.

Sheesh! 🙄

Very good song cover for nerdy tech coder types:

https://youtu.be/p03oO_7sCaY

After a few weeks of mostly bouncing between tickets and a continuous stream of reviews for others I finally got some focussed flow-state time today and it felt really good. 🙌

Ah yes, it's unsubscribe from mailing lists week!

5 already today.

One was just “There will be a Black Friday offer soon!”

(Sadly, not in my inbox there won’t. Not if you clutter it up with stuff like that!)

I recently got my pre-ordered Playtile (https://get.playtil.es) and it's such a cool little thing.

But what I'm most impressed with is how that have used modern web browser features to make such a functional PWA (Progressive Web App).

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/11/the-amazing-ways-playtiles-uses-the-web-for-retro-gaming/