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So it turns out that if you barely ever see anyone because you remote work, and then you see many trains, planes, restaurants, bars and offices at a team on-site, you might pick up nasty bugs that you no immunity to.

🤧🤒😴

(Sorry, team. Hanging out with you was great though!!)

"How to build a dev team" on Laracasts with @mattstauffer

Not gonna lie, I freakin' LOVE that Laracasts is doing this kind of content. I've started watching this and it's great!

Three free episodes of this so far.

https://laracasts.com/series/how-to-build-a-dev-team

New post: You probably don't want to build "finished software". But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/10/software-can-be-finished/

@ivory Is there an option in Ivory that makes copying the text of a post not include the link to the post?

I mostly use this to copy my own posts to other platforms and deleting the link every time is quite tedious.

I don’t remember how I found it but Rogue Words is that rare thing: A free game.

That’s it. It’s a free game.

A roguelike word game with Scrabble influence.

Really nicely done.

https://rogue-words.web.app/

I’ve been quiet this week because I was out in Ireland at an on-site gathering with my team.

Amazing to finally meet them – in many cases for the first time!

Face-to-face contact is so important.

I hope we get to do it more often.

It still amazes me what they teach 9 and 10 year olds.

Homework this week:

“Main Focus: How can I make the appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition?”

I’m sorry, do what now?

A little reflection on last week's @loopconf.

I'm so glad this happened. I was honoured to be a contributor. And it reminded me of how important in-person events are, and how hard they are to organise.

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/10/loopconf-and-25-lessons/

No, NYT Connections puzzle. Go home. You’re drunk!

Blog posts I must remember to write:

– Review of LoopConf
– How I do blogging (ideas and notes to pressing publish – inspired by a colleague)
– Software can be finished – this idea is haunting me right now. It needs to be written about!!!

There may be other of my 25 Lessons that need expanding on too. We’ll see.

TV stuff. We have Apple TV+ as part of a bundle. Don’t watch it much.

But I recently watched season 1 of Invasion. Good character development. Very cinematic. But so… very… slow… and meandering with no real resolution. Good, but not my thing.

Now I’m watching Foundation and it’s great! Much better pacing for me. Superb world design. Hungry for more.

Was reading today about something taking over from MCP (Model Context Protocol) and it solidified a thought:

We are RUSHING into all this AI stuff so ridiculously fast.

I know why. Business!

But I honestly think we should be doing way less with this than we are. Moving more slowly and carefully. But how??

I’ve not flown on a plane for about 15 years.

I am flying next week.

I am SO confused about baggage and check in.

Oh yay! One of my favourite little Playdate games is on Steam too!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1425590/HYPER_METEOR/

(via the excellent Wired write up of the Playdate: https://www.wired.com/story/three-years-on-playdate-is-still-gamings-best-kept-secret/)

Can the title of this article have the “for seniors” removed? This sounds like a good direction for TVs for everyone.

https://www.theverge.com/news/785808/lg-easy-smart-tv-senior-citizens-redesigned-remote

I've not exported slides for my @loopconf talk yet. But honestly, they're not that interesting.

However I created a little resources for exploring notes and links about the “25 lessons" that I presented (or was it one lesson?), and you can select lessons and get those notes here:

https://25.forwp.dev/

LoopConf talk done! Phew! Does that stage ever get less intimidating?

Thank you everyone for all your lovely feedback.

And thank you @loopconf and @rzen for such an amazing day.