Ross's Micro Blog

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

Took the kids to see the live-action How to Train Your Dragon movie and it’s EXCELLENT!! 😁

But what have they done to the cinema experience? Big fancy seats are nice, but everything is now automated and self serve?

Sad. I liked having people working there.

I’ve not seen anyone post this theory, but is Apple’s Liquid Glass a clever way to make devices obsolete by demanding more of their processing just to put stuff on the screen?

Didn’t know you could do this. Still my favourite iOS browser!!
https://social.lol/@sinky/114938029110773236

Well, today I came across Mullvad VPN and what an amazing looking service that I’ve never heard of!!
https://social.lol/@robb/114925211929063231

So my local Chinese take-away restaurant gives you free fortune cookies.

These are now… sponsored!

By a gambling company!!!

I don’t know WHAT to think of this. Is this hilarious? Or awful?? Can it be BOTH???

Can someone be real with me about travelling to the USA right now. You hear the scare stories, but am I really likely to have my phone and socials checked as I enter?

(This would be a work trip)

@macstories @johnvoorhees If there's anything in here that you think should be used to update the original article, please do so! I struggled for a few hours with this and got very confused. But it's such a neat idea!!! 😁

If you, like me, saw the @macstories article about using an 8BitDo controller for automation and productivity, but couldn't get it working, here's some things that might help!

(8BitDo have three, THREE apps with the same name. It's confusing!)

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/07/using-the-8bitdo-micro-game-controller-with-a-mac/

I keep trying the AI assistants.

Just to see.

I thought I’d found a place that was good for them.

Auditing a bunch of React components to rate their complexity based on some very specific rules that I had already written.

With a bit of extra detail in the rules it seemed pretty good at this.

So I asked it to analyse all files in a directory using the specified rules and…

…it missed a file!

If it is incapable of following the most basic instruction, how do I trust it with… well… anything?!

This BBC News article about weak passwords killing a business popped up on my phone this morning:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2gx28815wo

So it's a good time to re-promote my internet security post that's aimed at regular people, helping you take the next step with security:

https://rosswintle.uk/2020/01/stepping-up-the-security-ladder/

This is all going to go to my head, I tell you. I'm going to be unbearable until about the end of October.

Please tell me if I am!! 😳

I don’t do public speaking often. I don’t take my talks on tour. I don’t really like traveling very much, and family commitments prevent me getting out much.

But when I do… oh boy, it’s a BIG deal.

https://rosswintle.uk/2025/07/public-speaking/

(This post includes links to the very few bits of public speaking I've done that have been recorded.

Including, if you missed it, my @wordsesh talk from this year, which can now be watched for free! Thanks @rzen !!)

The only reason I don’t use Koko is that most of my online sites right now are static pages.
https://toot.re/@dvk/114891430661244368

This is amazing.

"Programming Sucks”

https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks