Author: Ross Wintle

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.

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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 )

OK. Here’s what I want.

– Parental controls for a computer.
– Instead of one fixed block of time per day, I can set multiple smaller blocks.
– Each block has reminders to stop, like, 5 and 10 minutes before the end of the block
– A cool time time between blocks.

This is for my kids but it would be great for adults too.

Is there a tool that does this?

I’m now, what, 7 weeks into owning the little PlayDate console and I’m a total convert. It’s a delightful little video game snack machine. My favourites are the short, simple, self-competitive games:

– Root Bear
– Whitewater Wipeout
– Hyper Meteor (my current obsession)

But there’s other great games and the creativity is incredible!!

@ivory Oh. I got it…

“Mention and Notification tabs are now merged”

@ivory Did you remove mentions as an option for the little nav bar? Mine has disappeared!

Having not had much opportunity before, I am finally feeling the medium- and long-term benefits of putting my programming opinions into practice on a large codebase and working in a modern software team.

And it turns out they are good opinions. That's a relief!

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/03/i-am-actually-good-at-programming/

I’ve connected to some public WiFi places recently (with VPN!) and many want me to register. So I just register with a random name and an email address at the domain of the establishment I’m visiting. It’s a pointless gate with no verification.

Is it just to annoy people so they don’t use the WiFi?

So my kid has been nagging us for ages about getting a VR headset and we’ve been resisting.

A conversation revealed that he mostly wanted to play Beat Sabre. I’m not paying £300 for that.

So I did a quick search and found a game called Starri that’s £14 and uses webcam motion detection.

This morning the whole family are in on it. Cheaper. Easier. In some ways better.

A real parenting win!!!

I needed to update the best domain that I own. So I took it right up to Laravel 12 and gave it a refresh.

Fun!

https://isthisthingrelaunched.yet.fyi/

Oh my. What Is the world coming to???

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I bought a bag of small easy-peeler oranges this week and not one of them has gone mouldy!!!

Skype shutting down? I have, like, £4.50 credit from when I needed to send an international SMS about 12 years ago. I’d better get that back. I’ve been religiously keeping it alive.