Author: Ross Wintle

Just found an old joke…

“I’ve really had it with my dog,” said the first guy to his neighbor. “He’ll chase anyone on a bicycle”

“Hmmm, that is a problem,” said the neighbor. “What are you thinking of doing about it?”

“Guess the only answer is to confiscate his bike!”

Me, nearly ten years ago:

I’m concerned about the future of WordPress. … I’m concerned that money is starting to influence its development more and more and that this is reducing the project’s open-ness.

https://rosswintle.uk/2015/07/wordpress-commercialisation-concerns/

Does anyone actually read BOOKS on their desktop?

I love the idea of web-based books, but the truth is I load them up in tabs but then rarely go back to them. I just really struggle to think of my laptop as a device I READ on.

Examples:

https://themediocreprogrammer.com/

https://resilientwebdesign.com/

https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/responsive-web-design/full/

Do you read books on the web?

I read books on the web
I don’t read books on the web
I’ve not tried/other

Do I know anyone else that's on Puzzmo? I need friends to compete against.

I finally got to reading @zuzana_kunckova's excellent article on diversity in tech.

I've been fortunate to work in teams with a lot of diversity, and I value it SO much and I know, from experience, that it's good for teams.

I endorse and support this message. Thank you Zuzana!

https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/dei-in-tech/

Oh, this is good. Chrome disabled the old one for me about a week back. Good work, @jetbrains and @phpstorm https://techhub.social/@phpstorm/114160062265790455

I’ve been shutting down some old web projects recently. It’s so weird looking back 6 years at when I attempted to build privacy-aware analytics.

I had this idea at about the same time Paul Jarvis had the idea for Fathom and started building it with @dvk

It was a great experiment. But I’m glad someone else took the idea and ran with it properly.

https://blog.kownter.com/2018/04/23/competition/

It seems my 9-year old child has written “a two voice poem using expanded noun phrases and figurative language".

What the hell are we teaching primary kids? This is ridiculous!

(She's very good at it though)

If I created an alt account to post about all the things I want to post about but can’t or don’t want to, would you all follow it and then promptly forget who it actually was???

I rarely swear out of anger and am 100% happy to pay my taxes but fucking interest on payments on account that no one told me I had to make is just bullshit.

I’d have paid if you’d told me I had to. You didn’t. You can’t charge me interest on a payment that I don’t know I have to make.

🤬

So here’s my tooling for reading the Internet on iOS. It’s getting to be a pretty sweet setup:

– Kagi search
– Feedbin via Reeder Classic for RSS
– @quicheindustries Browser
– @maxmelzer’s Flyleaf for a read-later list
– @mactanaka’s “Play” app for my YouTube queue

A pile of excellent, indie tools that give me a super-curated experience and some nice workflows.

So… I know it’s controversial because of the Yandex thing. I don’t know what to do about that. But heck, Kagi search is GOOD!!!

Modern world dilemmas. 😕

Good!!!
https://mstdn.social/@tdwllms1/114117763078795299

@maxmelzer

Hi Max. It’s the weekend so there’s no hurry. But I just sent you a Flyleaf help request as I have a “stuck” app that won’t load new articles.

Happy to chat here if that’s quicker/easier to help fix it.

Such a nice app! I forgot I had it but then started sending a bunch of stuff to it and now I’m sad that it broke.

Thanks!

So “vibecoding” is asking an ill-equippped and inexperienced thing to do a job for you and just accepting the sort-of-right result without questioning the details?

I get enough of that shit trying to get my kids to do chores. I don’t need it from my computer too.

😂

Yes, I could search for it. But Google is almost certainly full of SEO articles that got thrown together because there’s a bandwagon.

Can someone explain what “vibe coding” is? Is it a new name for something we were doing already?

This is an amazing website that takes you on a journey of exploring trust through game theory. But just SO well done.

https://ncase.me/trust/

(h/t @whitep4nth3r )