Author: Ross Wintle

I’ve become so interested in how to make change happen.

There are so many ideas about it and so much advice.

I’m definitely guilty of research/document/present the argument. Maybe that’s a UK-Corporate thing?

Today I watched @GeePawHill’s course intro (https://vimeo.com/823115313?fl=pl&fe=sh) and read @aurooba’s latest post (https://aurooba.blog/why-we-choose-what-we-build-with/)

And I’m also holding in mind what I know about neurodiversity.

And I think that all I can take away is that this is really hard, and everyone is different.

Yes, I'm aware of the irony of me writing this.

I've had several good conversations about AI/LLMs today.

After a few weeks of thinking I could see what they're useful for, I think I'm officially a skeptic now.

Every conversation has had:
– They’ll get better though!
– Yeah, sure they make mistakes, but you learn to deal with it

Or has been about a use case where a simpler, deterministic and far more efficient method would be better.

Mostly though: I'm just sick of talking about and hearing about it. It's just become word salad now.

So… I just found the SCP Foundation.

This seems like something I should have known about for years.

But I'm in now.

Let’s EXPLORE!!!

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

Any software testers near me need a job?
https://mastodon.social/@jessie/115412862518120942

Still trying AI.

Last week: Oh. Claude Code seems really clever. It’s guided me to best practice for a thing I don’t know much about.

This week: Me consulting the docs and finding out this is not best practice at all, and Claude apologising and tearing its own recommendations to shreds.

It’s still just an over-confident bullshit machine isn’t it?

This happens every time.

You folks having success… are you lying? Or are you not validating the results? I don’t get it.

So it turns out that if you barely ever see anyone because you remote work, and then you see many trains, planes, restaurants, bars and offices at a team on-site, you might pick up nasty bugs that you no immunity to.

🤧🤒😴

(Sorry, team. Hanging out with you was great though!!)

"How to build a dev team" on Laracasts with @mattstauffer

Not gonna lie, I freakin' LOVE that Laracasts is doing this kind of content. I've started watching this and it's great!

Three free episodes of this so far.

https://laracasts.com/series/how-to-build-a-dev-team

New post: You probably don't want to build "finished software". But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/10/software-can-be-finished/

@ivory Is there an option in Ivory that makes copying the text of a post not include the link to the post?

I mostly use this to copy my own posts to other platforms and deleting the link every time is quite tedious.

I don’t remember how I found it but Rogue Words is that rare thing: A free game.

That’s it. It’s a free game.

A roguelike word game with Scrabble influence.

Really nicely done.

https://rogue-words.web.app/

I’ve been quiet this week because I was out in Ireland at an on-site gathering with my team.

Amazing to finally meet them – in many cases for the first time!

Face-to-face contact is so important.

I hope we get to do it more often.

It still amazes me what they teach 9 and 10 year olds.

Homework this week:

“Main Focus: How can I make the appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition?”

I’m sorry, do what now?

A little reflection on last week's @loopconf.

I'm so glad this happened. I was honoured to be a contributor. And it reminded me of how important in-person events are, and how hard they are to organise.

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/10/loopconf-and-25-lessons/

No, NYT Connections puzzle. Go home. You’re drunk!

Blog posts I must remember to write:

– Review of LoopConf
– How I do blogging (ideas and notes to pressing publish – inspired by a colleague)
– Software can be finished – this idea is haunting me right now. It needs to be written about!!!

There may be other of my 25 Lessons that need expanding on too. We’ll see.

TV stuff. We have Apple TV+ as part of a bundle. Don’t watch it much.

But I recently watched season 1 of Invasion. Good character development. Very cinematic. But so… very… slow… and meandering with no real resolution. Good, but not my thing.

Now I’m watching Foundation and it’s great! Much better pacing for me. Superb world design. Hungry for more.