So frickin’ weird…
Four years ago I had a letter addressed to my business about someone leaving a legacy in their will – not to my company, but to a charitable organisation with a similar name.
All seemed pretty suspicious. But I contacted the solicitors and they were going to look into it.
Yesterday (!) I get a follow up from a different legal company telling me I need to disclaim my interest under the will.
Seems like a scam, but also seems very real.
I have a safety recall in my car. The phone for the dealership isn’t working. I’m live chatting with someone. They seem to be following a script and they are very unconcerned about the phone issue. But… responses are not instant or with a predictable delay.
Is it a bot? It’s uncanny-valley territory. Should I ask for the blueberry muffin recipe?
Cross-posting in the Indigo social app is great. Except when you want to write something a little longer.
Idea: I’d love to be able to have a “page break” that splits a longer Mastodon post into a multi-post Bluesky thread when cross-posting!
Vote: https://fider.indigosocial.app/posts/168/page-breaks-for-easier-cross-posting-of-long-posts
I'm sure I've said this before but I think we should view AI "tokens" like fossil fuels. They are single-use and supply is costly and unpredictable.
Most computer programs are more like "solar panels". They cost to build but subsequent use is essentially free.
If you use tokens at all, you should use them to build programs that remove the future need for tokens.
Use what you have now to build "solar panels". Not "engines".
The prompts/placeholders in the new post screen in the Indigo app are so good. 😆
Chat today with a friend who thinks their son is ASD, their daughter is ADHD. They themselves are diagnosed as ADHD now too.
I know we're just better at recognising & naming these things now. I know that we find each other.
But so many people in my sphere (even outside of work) are neurodiverse.
It really does feel like something changed. Did it? Or did we just have our eyes opened to it?
I’m struggling to reconcile the reality of SO many actually ND people with “Oh, we just never noticed”.
Loads of sites and apps have the colourful monospace terminal look these days. Is it an AI smell? Or just a design trend?
Social media ban press conference.
GB News guy says: “Many children will be watching this on our morning programme”
Can we ban that??!
I’m hearing Siri on iOS 27 will be using LLM technology by default. And it will route to a cloud-based model (albeit a private one) as a first point of call, possible utilising a local model if the cloud one says it should. Is there no way to turn this off? Are all iPhones suddenly using cloud LLMs?
Well, this week was a thing.
– Kid stood on small rusty nail. Infection panic! (All well)
– Foot hurting so drove him to school. Road closed. 90 mins to drive 6 miles
– 4-hour power cut
– 2 birthdays
– News that a close relative is very ill -> emergency 275 mile drive. Solo parenting for a few days
I have done the “shake and fold” twice so far this weekend.
I believe this needs to be reported to you. 😃
Fun fact. Many years ago I got annoyed with people posting “Happy Birthday” on Facebook because Facebook had told them it was my birthday and had given them a button to press. A real friend – I argued – has gone to the effort of putting it in their calendar and actually writing a message.
I deleted my birthday from Facebook and ranted about it on Twitter.
Every year since, an internet friend that I’ve never met sends me a personal happy birthday message. And I love it. 😃
(You don’t have to!)
Here’s the Turbo Admin update post.
https://rosswintle.uk/2026/06/turbo-admin-1-21/
If you’ve no idea what this is and you use #WordPress a lot then… well… you’re missing out on a very cool tool that makes you WP life much better (in my own, humble opinion!)
Find out more: https://turbo-admin.com/
The Indigo iOS app for Mastodon and Bluesky quite quickly replaced Ivory for me. The TapBots crew are great. I’ve supported them for literally years. But Indigo is being developed at pace.
Perhaps Ivory was “finished”? And I like that. But they’ve been outdone here.
Kinda sad in a way.
Just a note to any content producers that care… if your open graph image is clearly generic AI slop, in my head it just vanishes. It’s just noise. My brain filters it out.
Like those walls of AI slop posters on notice boards.
Yay! Turbo Admin sailed through Google Web Store approval. Update is rolling out to everyone.
Blog post coming soon.
Release of Turbo Admin is rolling out to Firefox (and Firefox-based browsers) now. Chrome needs web store approval. I’ll keep you posted.
Blog post and probably a video during the week!
I’ve also added a page about the tech stack and AI use (or almost complete lack of it) in Turbo Admin.
I’m proud that this is almost completely vanilla JS, HTML and CSS, and that it’s very, VERY hand crafted:
OK. Turbo Admin v1.21.0 is feature complete. Docs are done. I’m releasing tonight (I hope)!
It’s been a year, but this is a good one.
– Playground support
– Hide/pin menu items
– Hide the core command palette hint in the admin bar
Changelog for what’s coming: https://turbo-admin.com/changelog