Author: Ross Wintle

I DID write it. I gave it a very strange title and there were embedded Tweets, which did not help.

This is a good one…

https://rosswintle.uk/2019/11/celebrating-sensitivity/
https://crikey.social/@ross/114989815142975381

I am so, so SO sure that I wrote a blog post about a thing. But I can NOT for the life of me find it.

So frustrating.

This was a fun illusion we saw on our trip to Cardiff today.

The exhibit’s own camera was crap, so we tried our own. The quality is WAY better. But the angle is ever so slightly off.

Still… fun!

I loved John Rudolph Drexler.com's Laracon talk.

It's about communication, which is SO important in software development.

A recommended watch for all dev's and engineering managers. (Link should start at the start of the talk at around 4:53:00)

https://www.youtube.com/live/_eMBogMlShs?si=ZHs61OpuCUwo11qK&t=17606

I became much more confident about doing DIY when I suddenly
realised that most of the things that I thought were super hard were actually just gluing bits of wood to walls.

🤷

I’ve been doing too much hacking at my house with a Stanley knife these last couple of weeks.

I have now stabbed BOTH my hands.

When will I learn‽

This is mad. It’s absolutely fucking mad that you can just print and assemble a gun.

But how on earth do you stop it?? (There are ideas in the video)
https://mstdn.social/@990000/114948681940903293

Took the kids to see the live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie and it’s EXCELLENT!! 😁

But what have they done to the cinema experience? Big fancy seats are nice, but everything is now automated and self serve?

Sad. I liked having people working there.

I’ve not seen anyone post this theory, but is Apple’s Liquid Glass a clever way to make devices obsolete by demanding more of their processing just to put stuff on the screen?

Didn’t know you could do this. Still my favourite iOS browser!!
https://social.lol/@sinky/114938029110773236

Well, today I came across Mullvad VPN and what an amazing looking service that I’ve never heard of!!
https://social.lol/@robb/114925211929063231

So my local Chinese take-away restaurant gives you free fortune cookies.

These are now… sponsored!

By a gambling company!!!

I don’t know WHAT to think of this. Is this hilarious? Or awful?? Can it be BOTH???

Can someone be real with me about travelling to the USA right now. You hear the scare stories, but am I really likely to have my phone and socials checked as I enter?

(This would be a work trip)

@macstories @johnvoorhees If there's anything in here that you think should be used to update the original article, please do so! I struggled for a few hours with this and got very confused. But it's such a neat idea!!! 😁

If you, like me, saw the @macstories article about using an 8BitDo controller for automation and productivity, but couldn't get it working, here's some things that might help!

(8BitDo have three, THREE apps with the same name. It's confusing!)

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/07/using-the-8bitdo-micro-game-controller-with-a-mac/

I keep trying the AI assistants.

Just to see.

I thought I’d found a place that was good for them.

Auditing a bunch of React components to rate their complexity based on some very specific rules that I had already written.

With a bit of extra detail in the rules it seemed pretty good at this.

So I asked it to analyse all files in a directory using the specified rules and…

…it missed a file!

If it is incapable of following the most basic instruction, how do I trust it with… well… anything?!