Author: Ross Wintle

I’ve also added a page about the tech stack and AI use (or almost complete lack of it) in Turbo Admin.

I’m proud that this is almost completely vanilla JS, HTML and CSS, and that it’s very, VERY hand crafted:

https://turbo-admin.com/tech-ai-build.html

OK. Turbo Admin v1.21.0 is feature complete. Docs are done. I’m releasing tonight (I hope)!

It’s been a year, but this is a good one.
– Playground support
– Hide/pin menu items
– Hide the core command palette hint in the admin bar

Changelog for what’s coming: https://turbo-admin.com/changelog

It is really quite extraordinary what is available to apps without permission.

https://mastodon.social/@mysk/116699406028549012

It’s fascinating seeing others learning some of the things I’ve learned about building a #WordPress browser extension for five years! (Turbo Admin’s 5th birthday is THIS MONTH!)

Video about new official extension:

https://thewpminute.com/the-wordpress-browser-extension-goes-beyond-the-admin-bar/

My post with learnings:

https://rosswintle.uk/2024/11/turbo-admin-philosophy-and-workings/

Just set up a free site on @statichost to try it out. Beautifully simple. Fast control panel. Love it. Might have to take out a plan and move some more stuff over.

I somehow lost my swimming goggles two weeks ago, and my shorts and gym padlock at the weekend.

Baffling.

I do NOT lose thing. And I get very cross when I do.

If you use DBngin on MacOS and are running out of disk space, their latest update (build 82 from 21st May) downloads a 500MB installer several times a day and keeps it in ~/Library/Caches/com.tinyapp.DBngin/org.sparkle-project.Sparkle/PersistentDownloads/

https://github.com/TablePlus/DBngin/issues/190

I just reclaimed 50GB of space from here!

I’m very curious about the bird-themed, not-instant messenger app Roost. Seems weirdly … fun?

It has a slightly vibe-coded smell, but if anyone is brave and wants to send me a bird (or snail!) here’s my invite:

https://roostsocial.app/invite/2HXHUZ Join the flock on Roost! Get a free bird when you sign up with my code 2HXHUZ.

This looks fun – a messaging app that delivers your message by virtual bird, showing the location as it “flies”…

https://roostsocial.app/index.html

Expanding on a thought I had a little while ago: “The Writing Triangle”.

An equivalent of the good/quick/cheap job triangle, but for written communication. What are the trade-offs we make when communicating?

https://rosswintle.uk/2026/06/the-writing-triangle/

Occasional reminder post that I made a ridiculously competitive little 2-player, pass-and-play game as an homage to a Taskmaster final task. And it’s so much fun.

Just press and hold the red button to throw the duck. Agree a target score or time limit. And go!

https://duck.pico.games/

Kids. Allow me to introduce you to the 1990’s.

Everything from Chris Evan’s hat to the font in the credits is incredible. I miss this crazy energy.

https://youtu.be/-h7yH9W3lVA?si=C6hJRRZSSLeXUNU-

I forget how hard properly doing product is.

I have a Turbo Admin release coming. Code is pretty much done. But docs need writing and I’m probably spinning up a newsletter for it too (for reliable product updates).

There’s a lot of non-tech stuff to do too!

Back from a brief holiday. I was glad to be near the coast where it was significantly cooler than at home. 🥵

I did some family IT support and I was reminded how crap everything is if you’re not in it all the time.

We needed to reconnect an Echo Dot to new WiFi:
– No Alexa app
– An old Amazon account insisting a code gets sent to a phone number we don’t have. (Very glad to get that fixed!)
– Sending email with magic-open links to a device that’s doesn’t have email on it.

So frickin hard!!

Quite possibly no one here cares. But you are my audience right now.

I think I do the admin-visits-only to show which sites you visit most. Perhaps even opt-in?

Command uses will be for future personalization ("frequently used items").

Amazing the power a browser extension has. I freaked myself out with what data I was gathering!!

The next Turbo Admin (WordPress browser extension) release, will add some local/private usage stats.
– Command palette opens
– Counts of commands on each site (with per-command totals)
– Visits of each detected WordPress site.

But I realised that tracking visits is weird. Especially as I detect ANY WordPress site – not just sites you can log into.

Wondering:
– Should I track visits at all? It's interesting but serves no real purpose.
– Should I ONLY track Admin pages, or when logged in?

This whole “hottest May ever” thing and the Big F’ing El Niño thing…

I’m developing a proper anxiety about climate change.

And I can’t (really) do shit about it. It needs global leadership from people with real power.

I fear for my kids. But highly suspect that even I will see awful consequences.

Spent a morning doing some recreational coding. Properly getting into some data design and gnarly issues. No agents. Pure code. So good to exercise my brain in this way. I took my time. Thought about what I was doing. And very nearly one-shotted a feature. And cool stuff coming soon as a result. 😃