Ross's Micro Blog

This evening my family were talking about whether worms could talk. It was suggested that they might just not be very chatty.

And then I spent about ten minutes attempting to say the words: "introvert invertebrate" 😂

I don’t know why I love the concept of this iOS/MacOS app. I just do! For some reason it’s so much better than AirDrop, iMessaging myself or other options.

A private “Send to Self” chat that syncs using iCloud.

It added photos today and is now perfect!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bookmarks-send-to-self/id6747897667

I have not come across Wiio’s Laws of Communication before.

I’m glad I did.
https://toot.liw.fi/@liw/115005515908594803

We now own the game “Skull”.

It is excellent. Especially to take to a cafe or bar and to just play short games with friends and family. Quick to learn. But always different.

I first learned about it from Tom Scott and it’s actually fun to watch too.

https://youtu.be/rK2locyo-Pc

These books are all amazing.

But they make me wonder: We KNOW how to write good code. It’s all here in the elders… the people who have gone before us (of which I am rapidly becoming one!)

So why don’t we do it??

Do we not know? Is it just pressure to deliver?

I keep thinking…

What if we invested billions
in building houses and training people?

Demo…

I DID write it. I gave it a very strange title and there were embedded Tweets, which did not help.

This is a good one…

https://rosswintle.uk/2019/11/celebrating-sensitivity/
https://crikey.social/@ross/114989815142975381

I am so, so SO sure that I wrote a blog post about a thing. But I can NOT for the life of me find it.

So frustrating.

This was a fun illusion we saw on our trip to Cardiff today.

The exhibit’s own camera was crap, so we tried our own. The quality is WAY better. But the angle is ever so slightly off.

Still… fun!

I loved John Rudolph Drexler.com's Laracon talk.

It's about communication, which is SO important in software development.

A recommended watch for all dev's and engineering managers. (Link should start at the start of the talk at around 4:53:00)

https://www.youtube.com/live/_eMBogMlShs?si=ZHs61OpuCUwo11qK&t=17606

I became much more confident about doing DIY when I suddenly
realised that most of the things that I thought were super hard were actually just gluing bits of wood to walls.

🤷

I’ve been doing too much hacking at my house with a Stanley knife these last couple of weeks.

I have now stabbed BOTH my hands.

When will I learn‽

This is mad. It’s absolutely fucking mad that you can just print and assemble a gun.

But how on earth do you stop it?? (There are ideas in the video)
https://mstdn.social/@990000/114948681940903293