Ross's Micro Blog

Man, embedding your own video on micro.blog and Mastodon is painful.

More holiday fun: loved Glendurgan’s gardens – especially the maze!

 

Fun with automata at Falmouth Arts Museum

I try not to post about being ON holiday. But I’m back from a fantastic trip to Devon and Cornwall. The chaos resumes!!

#css Well if I haven’t been using :before and :after incorrectly all these years… https://css-tricks.com/to-double-colon-or-not-do-double-colon/

This will be a bit boring for people that know me, but I wanted to start writing more about what I’m up to (learning and working and life) and this serves as an introduction and background.

What I (actually) do! : https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/what-i-actually-do/

Today’s little writing: Things that are harder when you…STOP EATING THE GRASS LIKE A DOG!!!

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/things-that-are-harder-when-you-stop-eating-the-grass-like-a-dog-have-small-children/

All this mass of user interface in the WordPress #Gutenberg editor and can I work out how to turn a paragraph into an unordered list?

No. I cannot.

Still not convinced I can sell this “experience” to clients.

The brilliant Chaz Hutton on drawing comics, even if you can’t draw!

https://medium.com/@chazhutton/how-to-draw-comics-when-you-cant-actually-draw-dd0b8b684562

Today, I took the boy to a cartoon-drawing workshop in a library. A brilliant free activity. I didn’t quite know what I was getting into, but I think I had more fun then he did! https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/cartooning/

Some in my industry rally against the use of the knowledge-assuming word “just”. (As in “Just do this thing”)

But you can avoid the word “just” and still assume a heap of knowledge and make someone feel stupid.

Maybe I should be posting more about what I do, rather than what others are doing. But…there are challenges in that. https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/what-i-do/

Creating and Consuming – why this is a tricky thing to get the balance of, and why I want to try and get back to creating: https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/creating-and-consuming/

I confess, this is not really the day I had planned.

If all the broken things could fix themselves that would be awesome.

Thanks.

Weird A’ Level results/going to Uni fact: The grades I needed to get my first choice Uni place were a LOWER points score than my second choice Uni.

(Do they still assign “points” to grades?)

This sucks. Twitter – which, early on, was built on the work of third party developers using their API – are locking their API down and forcing people to use their own app. This is incredibly sad.

I’ve mentioned my “SchoolBot” a few times. My crazy idea to have a central “brain” for useful primary school information. I took some time to write up what this is, what it does, why I made it, and what its status is.

https://rosswintle.uk/2018/08/about-schoolbot/

Gosh, I’m completely incapable of short-form writing. 🙄

Not a bad afternoon with two small kids in tow!

#dadOps

✅ Visit library, sign up for summer reading challenge, get books, ask about re-registering
✅ Visit outlet centre, do mini treasure hunt
✅ Buy drawing pads for holiday
✅ Coffee + playtime
✅ Buy holiday clothes
✅ 👋 to Mum at work
✅ Buy milk & things for tea
✅ Get boy a haircut