2025-07-12 23:56:53

This week my phone has occasionally said.

“Charging On Hold. Charging will resume when [device] returns to normal temperature.”

This is what my brain has been like all day.

It just got down to 20°C and it’s nearly midnight. Brain just started working again!

Let’s go people!!!

😆

2025-07-12 23:46:01

The internet is so weird.

Years ago, I made a simple interface to Twitter's advanced search.

I stopped using Twitter a long time ago. But this little thing is BY FAR my most visited side project – it gets 4k views a month! (I know that's tiny, but it's all I got. Lol!)

It's the THIRD organic result on Google for “find tweet”.

Amazing.

tweet-finder.veryuseful.app/

2025-07-12 23:23:16

How I Code. Part 1. Possibly the most important programming knowledge I have.

These three principles have stuck with me for 30 years.

Start with good decomposition. Then use encapsulation to create good abstractions.

rosswintle.uk/2025/07/the-way-

(Writing this makes me want to overhaul my blog design to make it more readable. It is what it is for now.)

2025-07-12 10:24:30

I try NOT to sarcastically rant too much. But, like, seriously. The last place I would think of having “AI” is in my password manager.

Why, why, why???

2025-07-09 21:48:32

Some fixes for my (free, no login, multi-player, serverless) Scrabble clone today.

1. There's now a display of the current move score.
2. The move list now shows the player number correctly! (Oops!)

Feel free to start a game!

words.pico.games/

2025-07-08 16:20:26

My friend @tnash is releasing the first module of his security course on Thursday.

If you sign up before the end of tomorrow (Wednesday 9th) you should get a £50 discount.

Tim is that rare combination of deeply knowledgeable and experienced AND a great teacher/communicator.

Worth a look:

wpsecurity101.com/

2025-07-07 19:03:21

Realising I’m not “move slow and fix things”.

Well. I can be.

But my preferred mode is: “move slow and do things right in the first place!”

2025-07-06 19:00:36

I really don’t like long drives. But a weekend in York with the family celebrating with good friends and catching up with old ones has been good for the soul.

2025-07-04 13:38:01

TIL that switching from CommonJS to ES Modules applies strict mode to all your JS code, and thus, code that you have not modified suddenly errors and breaks. What fun!!!

2025-07-03 08:24:39

Yesterday on Bluesky someone asked what our all-time favourite song lyric was and it made me go and play a bunch of my favourite songs.

So here’s a little game:

Post a favourite lyric. Don’t tell us the song or artist – we have to figure that out.

I’ll start:

“Look, here comes a Ford Mondeo, isn't he Mr Inconspicuous?”