Author: Ross Wintle

I found out last night that, as part of Sentry's acquisition of the Syntax podcast, all of the LevelUp Tuts content at levelup.video is now free! Amazing resource.

https://levelup.video/

I missed this blog from @jessitron a while back. Incredible stuff about… life… change…

https://jessitron.com/2023/04/15/when-the-world-feels-wrong/

My tolerance for over-complicated code and infrastructure right now is SO low.

If you’re on the receiving end of this: I apologise.

But also: AAAAARRRGGHHH!!!!!

I'm spending more time winding down my own freelance biz tonight and trying to close some final hosting accounts.

I have ONE more sodding domain with <crappy host> that I can’t wait to say goodbye to.

I'm down to 8 cPanel accounts in my reseller.

I was SUPER helpful to a bunch of people who really needed help with unnecessarily complicated technical crap for a while. But Oh My Life am I done with hosting stuff for other people!!!

Idea: We should connect ChatGPT to DNS so that we can actually let everyday people manage their domains without descending into … well … DNS?

(No, we shouldn't. Or should we?)

Here’s a news story about how the UK is struggling to connect enough renewable energy to its grid:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65500339

And here’s one about how small incentives have been proven to dramatically reduce energy usage and change patterns of behaviour:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/10/british-households-and-firms-cut-winter-electricity-use-by-enough-to-power-10m-homes

I…? Could…? Maybe…? 🤔

Ted Lasso S3 E9 spoiler

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Reflecting a lot as I take a beautiful morning walk. Thinking about last night’s Ted Lasso and how we all need a boss or partner like Roy Kent at the press conference.

“They’re not just footballers, they’re also people. And none of us know what’s going on in each other’s lives.

So for <person> to do what he did today. Even though it was wrong. I give him love.

And as for why he did what he did?

That’s none of my fucking business.”

Aaaaand another one. I think that’s three today. It’s getting quite silly.

Waiting for Dropbox AI, Discord AI and flippin Pizza Express AI. 🙄

NEWSFLASH: I'm excited to announce that my posts will soon be harnessing the power of AI to bring unparalleled new efficiencies to the post-reading experience and making me smarter, faster, more relevant and insightful as I combine the knowledge and power of over 4 billion parameters and multiple language models…

Like heck I am.

But EVERY DAMN EMAIL from a product company is like this now.

People with Apple Watches… help a noob out…

Can you buy a charger that's actually MFi certified (as opposed to MFi-certified-on-the-Amazon-listing-only) and doesn't get incredibly hot without paying Apple or Belkin silly money?

Why don’t all new laptops come with a red “on air” light built into the top edge of the screen bezel so that you know not to disturb the user?

This should be a thing, right?

As an experienced parent I can tell you that we will quickly know if/when we have created an artificial general intelligence:

– it will start doing the opposite of what we ask
– it will start telling you at length about things that you didn’t ask it about
– it will cease to be able to combine logic with its knowledge and experience to make good decisions

Hot take: Going nowhere and doing nothing is highly underrated, but gets no advertising or reviews.

Nina Warhurst – BBC Breakfast presenter – is unstoppable. She’s clearly a good time into being pregnant; she’s up at who-knows-what-hour each morning to work; and I swear she’s not had single day off for months.

Today she’s doing an outside broadcast from Liverpool for Eurovision.

Amazing. Respect! 👏👏👏

Finally made a little index page for my Very Useful Apps – a little bunch of tools I made to tinker with web tech, some of which are actually very useful (others, not so much)!

https://veryuseful.app/

LOUIS’S GONE!!!!

Gosh. I hope Chewie gets a medal this time.

I’m gonna have to blog about this but I sat down to help my reasonably IT-literate sister get to grips with an old WordPress website and WOW this experience is AWFUL!

And the block editor is still a disaster.

I know so much work has gone into it but there’s still so many basic things that are so wrong.

I have seen Hamilton. It is good!!

Ted Lasso – not really spoilers

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Ted Lasso continues to delight and entertain. I’m loving how the minor characters have developed: Leslie, Jade, Barbara. Just excellent and (other than the swearing) wholesome telly.