Author: Ross Wintle

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

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.

Oh right. This was actually because of the stupid VPN I got so that I could safely use the internet from coffee shops.

*sigh*

Oh gosh, I'm full of complaining right now. Sorry.

Our primary school teachers have my utmost respect. It's sad that they have to put so much time and effort into getting 10/11 year olds to pass a stupid set of government-mandated tests that are more about the school (and probably the government) than the children.

I can't help but thing that outcomes would be better if year 6 was things like fun and interesting (yes, it is once the SATs are done!).

Life tip: Do not… do NOT accidentally choke on/inhale toothpaste. Your lungs will NOT enjoy it. 😬

So I swapped my small-size Apple Watch with a rubber strap for one with a larger case and fabric strap. Thoughts after a week or so:
– Do they really have to ship this around the world on 5 flights? 😬😬😬
– Battery life is actually OK. I think I can live with it.
– It’s definitely achieving my main goal of keeping my phone in my pocket/bag.
– I will also REALLY refine my notifications.
– The music app is just terrible, isn’t it?
– And seriously… these straps are BAD design! Epic overengineering.

I think I’ve been in “consuming” mode for too long. Time to make stuff!! 😃

Exciting!!!