Ross's Micro Blog

I have this week 100% off with the kids. So will post some of what we're up to.

Today we are Ice Skating – wish me luck!

And the rest of the week is me driving back and forth to Oxford to take kid 1 to these amazing workshops!

https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/story-shapers

So this year, for summer holidays, we did a little experiment.

Rather than “go on holiday”, we’ve stayed at home and used the money we would have spent on travel, accommodation and food for a "summer budget" for days out.

It turns out that it's actually quite hard to spend a couple of hundred pounds each week! But we've been having a ton of fun, not just with days out and activities (bowling, cinema, climbing, etc), but with at-home creative activities.

Fun! And… a success?

Did someone here share the video of the bag-dying guy and say something about him being a master of a craft that they didn’t even know existed? Was that you?

This is REALLY good.

I'm thinking a lot about communication right now and there's a ton of good stuff relevant to my industry and remote work in here.

https://kind.engineering/

There’s some very well thought through reflections on using Claude Code here. I do wonder what I would make of it if I seriously tried it. But do I want to??
https://social.lol/@matti/115028996279496688

Kid: There should be underground trains everywhere!

Wife (not realising): That would be really boring.

Me: 👀

Wife: What?!

Me: Boring?

Everyone except me: 🙄

Trombone Champ is about £5 on the Nintendo Switch right now. I’ve had it 15 minutes and I’ve already had £5 worth of laughing out of it.

Zarathustra… OMG!!! 🤣

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!