2025-03-08 12:36:50

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?

2025-03-08 11:00:02

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!!

2025-03-05 20:56:59

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?

2025-03-02 10:21:16

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!!!

2025-03-01 08:22:57

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

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

2025-02-28 22:19:26

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.

2025-02-26 18:47:54

So the big question I – and I suspect lots of people like me – are asking now is:

What’s a web application stack that I could choose to develop for and make a living from that doesn’t have enshittification and growth-at-all-costs in its near future?

Where do I go now???

2025-02-24 22:56:22

Unsolicited Grumbles: Today I learned that if there's one thing worse than an auto-playing hero-section video, it's an auto-playing video that scrolljacks its way to full screen.

No.

Just, no.

2025-02-24 07:56:53

Yay! I’m like properly going to WP London Meetup on Thursday for the first time. I’ll finally meet some people in 3D and re-meet some folks I call friends. Exciting!!!

2025-02-19 14:42:10

At my local computer museum. So much retro nostalgia!

I’d forgotten how freaking big the Lynx was! A kid at school had one and brought it in for us to drool over at lunchtimes. Amazing.