Ross Wintle
@rosswintle.uk
Curious and creative software developer. WordPress. Laravel. PHP. JS. Made Turbo Admin.
Mostly at https://crikey.social/@ross
https://rw.omg.lol/
Mostly at https://crikey.social/@ross
https://rw.omg.lol/
Oh fun. My anti virus/malware software says VS Code's GitHub Copilot Chat has a dodgy Base64-encoded script in it!
You'd think GitHub, of all people, would know not to do that!
You'd think GitHub, of all people, would know not to do that!
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Oh fun. My anti virus/malware software says VS Code's GitHub Copilot Chat has a dodgy Base64-encoded script in it!
You'd think GitHub, of all people, would know not to do that!
You'd think GitHub, of all people, would know not to do that!
I'm not a video games connoisseur but one of my faves on the little PlayDate console, Hyper Meteor, is now on Steam!
A tiny asteroids-like game, but so much fun, perfect difficulty level, excellent sound design.
I'm gonna wreck a controller playing this.
store.steampowered.com/app/1425590/...
A tiny asteroids-like game, but so much fun, perfect difficulty level, excellent sound design.
I'm gonna wreck a controller playing this.
store.steampowered.com/app/1425590/...
HYPER METEOR on Steam
YOU ARE LOST IN SPACE! ALL WEAPONS ARE DOWN! Survive by ramming your ship into meteors and hostile forces.
store.steampowered.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I'm not a video games connoisseur but one of my faves on the little PlayDate console, Hyper Meteor, is now on Steam!
A tiny asteroids-like game, but so much fun, perfect difficulty level, excellent sound design.
I'm gonna wreck a controller playing this.
store.steampowered.com/app/1425590/...
A tiny asteroids-like game, but so much fun, perfect difficulty level, excellent sound design.
I'm gonna wreck a controller playing this.
store.steampowered.com/app/1425590/...
This is incredible. And funny. If you understand why.
“Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music”
dustri.org/b/horrible-e...
“Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music”
dustri.org/b/horrible-e...
Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
dustri.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is incredible. And funny. If you understand why.
“Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music”
dustri.org/b/horrible-e...
“Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music”
dustri.org/b/horrible-e...
After this week's firehose, I’m back on my wanting-to-improve-school-comms train again. I'm convinced that there's a relatively simple solution to 80% of most school comms issues. But I also know that schools are focussed on education and care, not comms, and would find process change hard.
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
After this week's firehose, I’m back on my wanting-to-improve-school-comms train again. I'm convinced that there's a relatively simple solution to 80% of most school comms issues. But I also know that schools are focussed on education and care, not comms, and would find process change hard.
A random thing I learned today.
Occasionally this live version of the Gin Blossoms “Hey Jealousy” pops up in YouTube. I like the 90s nostalgia of it.
youtu.be/wgEQ3FzaS1U
They’re on the Jon Stewart Show, and at the end he thanks “Howard Stevenberg” and Howard Stern for being on the show. 1/2
Occasionally this live version of the Gin Blossoms “Hey Jealousy” pops up in YouTube. I like the 90s nostalgia of it.
youtu.be/wgEQ3FzaS1U
They’re on the Jon Stewart Show, and at the end he thanks “Howard Stevenberg” and Howard Stern for being on the show. 1/2
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A random thing I learned today.
Occasionally this live version of the Gin Blossoms “Hey Jealousy” pops up in YouTube. I like the 90s nostalgia of it.
youtu.be/wgEQ3FzaS1U
They’re on the Jon Stewart Show, and at the end he thanks “Howard Stevenberg” and Howard Stern for being on the show. 1/2
Occasionally this live version of the Gin Blossoms “Hey Jealousy” pops up in YouTube. I like the 90s nostalgia of it.
youtu.be/wgEQ3FzaS1U
They’re on the Jon Stewart Show, and at the end he thanks “Howard Stevenberg” and Howard Stern for being on the show. 1/2
Oh, yay! I didn’t think my LoopConf talk recording was going to be free to watch. But it’s out on YouTube.
This was an epic labour of love. I’m so glad I can share it with you.
My 25 Lessons from 25 years of software development in (a little over) 25 minutes.
youtu.be/cyxQ82L298Y
This was an epic labour of love. I’m so glad I can share it with you.
My 25 Lessons from 25 years of software development in (a little over) 25 minutes.
youtu.be/cyxQ82L298Y
25 Lessons from 25 Years
YouTube video by LoopConf
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Oh, yay! I didn’t think my LoopConf talk recording was going to be free to watch. But it’s out on YouTube.
This was an epic labour of love. I’m so glad I can share it with you.
My 25 Lessons from 25 years of software development in (a little over) 25 minutes.
youtu.be/cyxQ82L298Y
This was an epic labour of love. I’m so glad I can share it with you.
My 25 Lessons from 25 years of software development in (a little over) 25 minutes.
youtu.be/cyxQ82L298Y
Reposted by Ross Wintle
A new series of my Household Problems drawings (as seen in my newsletter every week). This one: What your leaning fence says about you.
November 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A new series of my Household Problems drawings (as seen in my newsletter every week). This one: What your leaning fence says about you.
Phew! Epic day with the kids:
- Science Museum
- Minecraft Experience
- Getting lost in Westfield Shopping Centre
- Finding a Nintendo pop-up store!
- Driving to London and back
Hooray!!
- Science Museum
- Minecraft Experience
- Getting lost in Westfield Shopping Centre
- Finding a Nintendo pop-up store!
- Driving to London and back
Hooray!!
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Phew! Epic day with the kids:
- Science Museum
- Minecraft Experience
- Getting lost in Westfield Shopping Centre
- Finding a Nintendo pop-up store!
- Driving to London and back
Hooray!!
- Science Museum
- Minecraft Experience
- Getting lost in Westfield Shopping Centre
- Finding a Nintendo pop-up store!
- Driving to London and back
Hooray!!
I'm taking my kids to a thing in London tomorrow and I can only take in a bag that's A4 size or smaller.
WHAAAAT?!
WHAAAAT?!
October 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm taking my kids to a thing in London tomorrow and I can only take in a bag that's A4 size or smaller.
WHAAAAT?!
WHAAAAT?!
Reposted by Ross Wintle
I wrote down some thoughts about my hope for #PHP open source: stitcher.io/blog/sponsor...
Stitcher.io
A blog about modern PHP, the web, and programming in general. Follow my newsletter and YouTube channel as well.
stitcher.io
October 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I wrote down some thoughts about my hope for #PHP open source: stitcher.io/blog/sponsor...
We played a silly family car game just now. It has raised a very interesting question.
What would happen if you exposed a marshmallow to the vacuum of space?
We are now down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos titled “X in a vacuum chamber”
Can flies fly in a vacuum chamber?
Is this even ethical?
What would happen if you exposed a marshmallow to the vacuum of space?
We are now down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos titled “X in a vacuum chamber”
Can flies fly in a vacuum chamber?
Is this even ethical?
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We played a silly family car game just now. It has raised a very interesting question.
What would happen if you exposed a marshmallow to the vacuum of space?
We are now down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos titled “X in a vacuum chamber”
Can flies fly in a vacuum chamber?
Is this even ethical?
What would happen if you exposed a marshmallow to the vacuum of space?
We are now down the rabbit hole of YouTube videos titled “X in a vacuum chamber”
Can flies fly in a vacuum chamber?
Is this even ethical?
Reposted by Ross Wintle
I stumbled upon github.com/observablehq... and damn, this is cool. I've been looking for a nicer way to render HTML in JavaScript for ages.
GitHub - observablehq/htl: A tagged template literal that allows safe interpolation of values into HTML, following the HTML5 spec
A tagged template literal that allows safe interpolation of values into HTML, following the HTML5 spec - observablehq/htl
github.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I stumbled upon github.com/observablehq... and damn, this is cool. I've been looking for a nicer way to render HTML in JavaScript for ages.
Hacktivate looks like a cool game for MacOS/iOS.
Security/code-breaking challenges, teaching text encodings, image processing, and command-line.
You probably need to be a beginner computer nerd to not be totally confused (there's a free tutorial). But this seems very clever.
www.hacktivate.app
Security/code-breaking challenges, teaching text encodings, image processing, and command-line.
You probably need to be a beginner computer nerd to not be totally confused (there's a free tutorial). But this seems very clever.
www.hacktivate.app
Hackivate: Capture the Flag
Cybersecurity challenges for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
www.hacktivate.app
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Hacktivate looks like a cool game for MacOS/iOS.
Security/code-breaking challenges, teaching text encodings, image processing, and command-line.
You probably need to be a beginner computer nerd to not be totally confused (there's a free tutorial). But this seems very clever.
www.hacktivate.app
Security/code-breaking challenges, teaching text encodings, image processing, and command-line.
You probably need to be a beginner computer nerd to not be totally confused (there's a free tutorial). But this seems very clever.
www.hacktivate.app
Reposted by Ross Wintle
found this weird cable buried in my back garden when I was planting potatoes. couldn't figure out what it was for so I just chopped it up with a shovel. didn't get electrocuted so I assume it was okay. posting here because I can't log into facebook right now
March 5, 2024 at 4:11 PM
found this weird cable buried in my back garden when I was planting potatoes. couldn't figure out what it was for so I just chopped it up with a shovel. didn't get electrocuted so I assume it was okay. posting here because I can't log into facebook right now
Still trying AI.
Last week: Oh. Claude Code seems really clever. It’s guided me to best practice for a thing I don’t know much about.
This week: Me consulting the docs and finding out this is not best practice at all, and Claude apologising and tearing its own recommendations to shreds… 1/2
Last week: Oh. Claude Code seems really clever. It’s guided me to best practice for a thing I don’t know much about.
This week: Me consulting the docs and finding out this is not best practice at all, and Claude apologising and tearing its own recommendations to shreds… 1/2
October 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Still trying AI.
Last week: Oh. Claude Code seems really clever. It’s guided me to best practice for a thing I don’t know much about.
This week: Me consulting the docs and finding out this is not best practice at all, and Claude apologising and tearing its own recommendations to shreds… 1/2
Last week: Oh. Claude Code seems really clever. It’s guided me to best practice for a thing I don’t know much about.
This week: Me consulting the docs and finding out this is not best practice at all, and Claude apologising and tearing its own recommendations to shreds… 1/2
Is “Rotated poop emoji” now a trend in logos? Or is it purely accidental? 🫣
This is the second I’ve seen in as many weeks!
This is the second I’ve seen in as many weeks!
October 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Is “Rotated poop emoji” now a trend in logos? Or is it purely accidental? 🫣
This is the second I’ve seen in as many weeks!
This is the second I’ve seen in as many weeks!
So it turns out that if you barely ever see anyone because you remote work, and then you see many trains, planes, restaurants, bars and offices at a team on-site, you might pick up nasty bugs that you no immunity to.
🤧🤒😴
(Sorry, team. Hanging out with you was great though!!)
🤧🤒😴
(Sorry, team. Hanging out with you was great though!!)
October 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
So it turns out that if you barely ever see anyone because you remote work, and then you see many trains, planes, restaurants, bars and offices at a team on-site, you might pick up nasty bugs that you no immunity to.
🤧🤒😴
(Sorry, team. Hanging out with you was great though!!)
🤧🤒😴
(Sorry, team. Hanging out with you was great though!!)
"How to build a dev team".
Not gonna lie, I freakin' LOVE that Laracasts is doing this kind of content. I've started watching this and it's great.
Also... Oi, @jeffreyway.bsky.social ! Get Laracasts on Bluesky or Mastodon will ya? There's plenty of us over here now! 😃
Not gonna lie, I freakin' LOVE that Laracasts is doing this kind of content. I've started watching this and it's great.
Also... Oi, @jeffreyway.bsky.social ! Get Laracasts on Bluesky or Mastodon will ya? There's plenty of us over here now! 😃
The first three episodes of my "How to Build a Dev Team" course are live--and free--on Laracasts today!
laracasts.com/series/how-t...
laracasts.com/series/how-t...
October 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"How to build a dev team".
Not gonna lie, I freakin' LOVE that Laracasts is doing this kind of content. I've started watching this and it's great.
Also... Oi, @jeffreyway.bsky.social ! Get Laracasts on Bluesky or Mastodon will ya? There's plenty of us over here now! 😃
Not gonna lie, I freakin' LOVE that Laracasts is doing this kind of content. I've started watching this and it's great.
Also... Oi, @jeffreyway.bsky.social ! Get Laracasts on Bluesky or Mastodon will ya? There's plenty of us over here now! 😃
New post: You probably don't want to build "finished software". But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?
rosswintle.uk/2025/10/soft...
rosswintle.uk/2025/10/soft...
Software can be finished - Ross Wintle
You probably don't want to build "finished software". But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?
rosswintle.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New post: You probably don't want to build "finished software". But what can we learn by thinking about it as a concept?
rosswintle.uk/2025/10/soft...
rosswintle.uk/2025/10/soft...
I don’t remember how I found it but Rogue Words is that rare thing: A free iOS game.
That’s it. It’s a free game!
A roguelike word game with Scrabble influence.
Really nicely done.
rogue-words.web.app
That’s it. It’s a free game!
A roguelike word game with Scrabble influence.
Really nicely done.
rogue-words.web.app
October 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I don’t remember how I found it but Rogue Words is that rare thing: A free iOS game.
That’s it. It’s a free game!
A roguelike word game with Scrabble influence.
Really nicely done.
rogue-words.web.app
That’s it. It’s a free game!
A roguelike word game with Scrabble influence.
Really nicely done.
rogue-words.web.app
It still amazes me what they teach 9 and 10 year olds.
Homework this week:
“Main Focus: How can I make the appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition?”
I’m sorry, do what now?
Homework this week:
“Main Focus: How can I make the appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition?”
I’m sorry, do what now?
October 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It still amazes me what they teach 9 and 10 year olds.
Homework this week:
“Main Focus: How can I make the appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition?”
I’m sorry, do what now?
Homework this week:
“Main Focus: How can I make the appropriate choice of pronoun or noun within and across sentences to aid cohesion and avoid repetition?”
I’m sorry, do what now?
A little reflection on last week's @loopconf.com
I'm so glad this happened. I was honoured to be a contributor. And it reminded me of how important in-person events are, and how hard they are to organise (Thank you, @rzen.net !!!)
rosswintle.uk/2025/10/loop...
I'm so glad this happened. I was honoured to be a contributor. And it reminded me of how important in-person events are, and how hard they are to organise (Thank you, @rzen.net !!!)
rosswintle.uk/2025/10/loop...
LoopConf and 25 Lessons - Ross Wintle
In-person events are good. I have missed them.
rosswintle.uk
October 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A little reflection on last week's @loopconf.com
I'm so glad this happened. I was honoured to be a contributor. And it reminded me of how important in-person events are, and how hard they are to organise (Thank you, @rzen.net !!!)
rosswintle.uk/2025/10/loop...
I'm so glad this happened. I was honoured to be a contributor. And it reminded me of how important in-person events are, and how hard they are to organise (Thank you, @rzen.net !!!)
rosswintle.uk/2025/10/loop...
No, NYT Connections puzzle. Go home. You’re drunk!
October 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
No, NYT Connections puzzle. Go home. You’re drunk!