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rosswintle.uk
Curious and creative software developer. WordPress. Laravel. PHP. JS. Made Turbo Admin. Mostly at https://fosstodon.org/@ross https://rw.omg.lol/
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This is a brilliant short film: Space Hoppers in Venice. How DID they do the stairs??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrLa...

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I just saw the acronym EULA for "End User License Agreement" and now I'm wondering if all the Martians wanted in Jeff Wayne's musical War of the Worlds was for someone to sign an unnecessarily-complex legal document?

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I’m sat in a cafe on a University campus. “Stop” by the Spice Girls is playing. It’s 1997 all over again!!! 😂

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Do not install programs written by random strangers that monitor your keyboard. But this is funny.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Is there any application of AI that is ideal, surprises you all the time with how good it is, is better than non-AI alternatives and doesn’t come with a bunch of “yeah, but”? I’m pretty sure there’s nothing. And it is, realistically, a technology that is functionally … well … mediocre!

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Being a Black Coffee Person is probably the best identity choice I ever made, it brings me so much joy every. single. morning.

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I wonder if I could do my job from a Wyse ASCII terminal and a Nokia 3210. Retro-dreaming now.

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“You make a small, high-quality piece of hardware that embraces constraints & does one or two things really well. I actually want that.” On the Nokia design archive and wondering if the world is ready for simpler devices and some quirky design again. Or is it just me? rosswintle.uk/2025/02/are-...

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⭐ Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back 📌 https://rknight.me/links/why-were-bringing-pebble-back/

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My coffee seemed skeptical today.

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I had far too much fun making a fake-day-planner image for my productivity system blog post. 😆 If you know, you know. rosswintle.uk/2025/01/rock...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

It was nice to do some writing tonight. I like writing.

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It recently occurred to me that, after frequently bouncing between tools and techniques, I have a pretty settled productivity system these days. And my Rocketbook planner is at the centre of this. So I thought I'd write it up! rosswintle.uk/2025/01/rock...

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Oh wow! I'm just writing about how I do productivity with a RocketBook and the ones I use are on sale right now. (Fusion and Panda Planner). You'll have to wait for my blog post, but if you've ever been interested in these then this is a good time to buy! getrocketbook.co.uk/collections/...

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I'm SO addicted to Root Bear. But what do I think of my new little Playdate console after a week? rosswintle.uk/2025/01/a-we...

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Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning. From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.

submitted 27 days ago • 129 comments

My little Christmas treat gift to myself arrived today. The lack of backlight is annoying, but the PlayDate is as charming, beautiful, quirky and fun as everyone says it is.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

I see more and more WordPress devs diversifying. As someone who is deep in WordPress but familiar with much more (and especially Laravel) I’m happy to help people level up! I’ll probably try to resurrect beyond-wp.com soon. And while it’s WAY out of date, wptolaravel.com might still be useful.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

This is a weird ask, but I’m kinda missing creative collaboration and social chat. Maybe I could stream some recreational development stuff? Or arrange some short out-of-hours co-coding or online gaming sessions? I’m happy to teach and be taught. Would ANYONE I know be interested in this?

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

me in my twenties: oh neat, a free program me in my forties: oh neat, a free program, what horrors are concealed within

submitted 39 days ago • 10 comments