Author: Ross Wintle

Oh… is Julia cooking up something cool for the static website afficionados??
https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/114615521057934100

I’m not a big car person. But I love Jack’s reviews on the Fully Charged Show.

Though this one beats up my home town (Swindon, UK) just a little too much. 🔥

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cmy1E-ja5U0

Asides:

– Product updates are hard work, aren't they? Testing, videos, documentation, more testing, blog posts, social posts.
– I always write too much. I'm sorry. But I'm also not.

It's here! v1.20 of Turbo Admin for #WordPress is rolling out through auto updates in your browser.

It has the mythical plugin installs and user switching in the command palette. And it's great!!

Also:
– I may start using an email list for customer updates soon.
– There may be a price rise coming!

Read all about it:

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/05/adding-plugin-installation-and-user-switching-to-turbo-admin/

And see it in action…

As a rare treat, we have a jar of Nutella.

I have read the ingredients.

And it makes me think that food stuffs should be required to describe themselves in terms of their ingredient proportions.

E.g. Nutella should not be “Hazelnut spread with cocoa”

It should be “Sugar oil with nuts and cocoa”!

Today in browser extension development, I have run into an 11-year-old bug in Firefox that only affects JavaScript in browser extensions, and that has still not been fixed properly!

Crikey!

Also… ARGH!!!!

My #WordPress browser extension Turbo Admin’s next release is so close!

– Plugin install from the repo
– User switching integration
– Fast, cached search of installed plugins
– Kinsta staging domains
– Much better multisite integration (and other new features very thoroughly tested on it!)
– Better REST API discovery = fewer error states

I just hit some issues with final testing, but it’s coming in the next few days!

https://turbo-admin.com/

Ugh.

I actually liked Arc. It was good. Full of good ideas. But many of the best ideas have just been copied.

But it always bothered me that they were constantly pivoting. I won't trust Dia to be around long. This company has zero stability.

I'm amazed his investors haven't asked for their money back.

https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-2025

Apologies if anyone clicked the stupid funny animal question links I shared and was bombarded with crappy ads.

I obviously have a browser with good ad blocking because I saw NONE of this.

I should probably object terribly to this website. But even if it’s AI slop, it’s amusing me greatly.

‘A dog with no legs is typically called a "three-legged dog" or a "tripod dog.’

‘What do you do with a dog with no legs?

Take him for a drag.’

🫣

https://www.nahf.org/article/what-do-you-call-a-dog-with-no-legs

Oh my. This whole article is a wild ride!

We just wanted to know if a rabbits has four legs or two. Little did we know, this is a true rabbit hole!!

(Please tell me this is AI-generated slop content)

https://www.nahf.org/article/how-many-legs-do-rabbits-have

I have a real fear that over-hyped AI companies destroy the web and web search (Google must be in trouble at some point?) and then fall flat on their faces. And then what are we left with?

The World Wide Web feels very fragile right now.

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Apparently this offer, even though clearly labelled “You're upgrading <MY NUMBER>" only applies to getting an additional SIM.

The help person asks their manager who “agreed to match this for you as an exclusive offer”… like, OF COURSE YOU DID, you don't get kudos for literally giving me a plan that your website offered me and is in my basket awaiting checkout and I'm trying to make it cheaper and easier to do by not sending a SIM and doing a number port.

Sheesh!!

🫩

Wow. I'm trying to upgrade my SIM-only phone plan, and the whole thing is a disaster.

They offer me an upgrade on my existing number. But want to send me a new SIM? Weird.

I try to contact someone.

I hit redirect loops on the help page.

I find terminology that doesn't existing in the help (in fact, you can't search the help).

To get to speak to someone I had to track down a button in the iOS app that called a number that sent me a link to a web-based chat.

…

Honestly, this new website my friend @keithdevon built might just save the forthcoming rainy school holiday week. It's SO good.

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/05/activities-website-makes-school-holidays-bearable-offline-kids/

For Pocket replacements, I use this weird (but works-for-me) combination of:

– Feedbin for RSS and Newsletters (on mobile I put Reeder Classic on top of it)
– Raindrop for bookmarking

Both could be used for Read Later. Though in reality I mostly use browser tabs 🫣. (Though there’s this app called Flyleaf for iOS and Mac that I’m trying to get into the habit of using for actual read later!)

Oh, and for YouTube, the “Play” app is amazing. My curated video feed!

Such great indie software.

What? Pocket is closing down too? Wow.

Oh well. At least we have AI-enhanced everything coming our way. 😬🥴🙄

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket