(Not so) Silly product ideas I have bouncing around in my head:
* The “Bottle Brush”
* The Multi-Lock for Bikes
* 2FA for online and card-not-present bank transactions
Free ideas – someone go make them!
21/09/2018, 08:13
Wow. Such a busy week. I’m totally flagging today.
21/09/2018, 08:13
But then I’m the guy that has this crazy idea that congestion is caused by a combination of finite road network capacity and too many vehicles.
🤷♂️
21/09/2018, 08:12
I find it bizarre that the council ask the public what they think of solutions to traffic congestion. We don’t have survey data. We don’t have modelling software. I assume the traffic planners do? Can’t we make expensive decisions based on data rather than guesswork and opinion?
21/09/2018, 08:11
Oooh. Email spam with a valid-but-very-old password quoted in it. Interesting. That’s gonna freak a LOT of people out!
20/09/2018, 06:52
Well this was better. Rice flour really did help my issue of the dough getting stuck to the proving basket. Plus I used a less-dampntabke when shaping. Now need to work on the rise a bit! #sourdough
18/09/2018, 22:02
Late, but here’s my summary of last week in projects, posts & pins.
Featuring useful WordPress plugins & resources, a journal for kids’ wellbeing, a post about job titles 🙄 and useful tips for website owners.
17/09/2018, 11:04
Step 1 of “never getting involved in school communications” complete. You’ll hardly notice. In fact…I desperately hope that no one notices. Because that’s the point. 😃
16/09/2018, 13:27
Further to yesterday’s Tweets, I had fun writing up some basic SEO tips:
Be careful what you write! Basic SEO is easy, important, and really boring.
16/09/2018, 13:27
Yay. My question got featured in Craftivist’s weekly “Activist Whisperer” column. Thank you!!!
She shares some creative and gentle ways to engage with your MP: https://uk.lush.com/article/activist-whisperer-0
16/09/2018, 13:26
Sadly, one of my puncture repairs didn’t QUITE work. Anyone got a patch for this?!
16/09/2018, 13:26
(Yesterday, actually…cross-posting now)
#todayIMade
✅ 90 x Beat the Street points
✅ 2 x repaired inner tubes
✅ 1 x white sourdough loaf (currently proving)
✅ 0.25 x boarded-out and better (?) insulated lofts
*phew*
😃
16/09/2018, 13:25
Amazing to see so many people out playing Beat the Street in Swindon (https://beatthestreet.me/swindon). People are being so friendly and helpful. Special shout out to drivers who are giving families loads of time and space to cross busy roads. 👍👏😃
14/09/2018, 14:20
Wondering if there’s a standard way to validate a UK town name.
Remembering the existence of “Westward Ho!” with the official apostrophe.
Wondering if any has yet named a town:
; DROP TABLE ‘CITIES’;
13/09/2018, 18:37
Wintle’s first law of Tomboladynamics (the prize conservation principle) states that there is a set of objects in the world whose sole purpose is to be tombola prizes. Without these objects the Tombolaverse will collapse into entropy.
13/09/2018, 10:21
A bit on CSS and, I hate to say it, job titles! (With both thanks and apologies to @hankchizljaw)
11/09/2018, 22:00
This post also expands on some Tweets from the other day. I really should blog first, Tweet later, I know.
This one asks: “Do website owners need a ‘driving licence’, or should websites be more ‘self-driving’?”
https://rosswintle.uk/2018/09/do-website-owners-need-a-drivers-license/
11/09/2018, 20:27
Expanding on some Tweets from the other day… ”Charging up the SchoolBot” gives more detail on recent updates, says “Yeah, there’s nothing difficult going here”, shrugs its shoulders, and walks away.
10/09/2018, 10:55
Last week I used the word “pragmatic” and some weren’t sure what it meant. As an example, here’s a post about what I would call “pragmatic” programming:
https://programmingisterrible.com/post/176657481103/repeat-yourself-do-more-than-one-thing-and
10/09/2018, 10:23
Also… #thankyoutoday for helpful, supportive people who take an interest, are positive, help you grow and gently nudge you to new ideas (rather than forcefully dragging you into them)