Ross Gardiner
rossng.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
Ross Gardiner
@rossng.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
Software engineer living in #amsterdam, where I make robots do robot things at Monumental.

I have opinions (and am interested in other people's opinions) about […]

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I'm not sure that listing the feature 'direct access to emergency exit' sends quite the right message here.
August 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Solving unimportant problems with poorly-supported browser APIs.

https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-08-09-where-should-i-aim/
August 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I couldn't find a nice way to detect AprilTags on my phone. So I built (well, mostly vibecoded) a little app.

https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-08-03-apriltag-detector/
August 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My guide to the CEFR levels of language proficiency
July 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It's so easy to navigate cities now that most have simple contactless payments for public transport.

Meanwhile, Paris:
June 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Law of physics: corporate entities are incapable of writing any text containing the phrase 'we are increasing the price'
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
There's something immensely satisfying about putting the washing machine on at exactly the right time.
April 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Back when I was living in Bristol it was barely conceivable that one day through traffic might be removed from Park Street. And, on top of that, real segregated cycling facilities through the Triangle!

Drivers nearly killed or injured me many, many times on […]

[Original post on indieweb.social]
March 21, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Being able to use Rust in the browser is great, but it comes with some sharp corners. One such corner is passing arrays of Rust objects into Rust code.

In this post I look at some options and the tradeoffs that come with each.

https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-02-22-wasm-bindgen-vec-parameters/
February 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Scratching my own itch. Sometimes I just want to display a single block colour on the whole screen.

https://www.rossng.eu/posts/2025-02-10-tinted-stream/

https://tinted.stream/
February 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The create-astro animation is really rather charming.
February 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This wasn't what I expected.
February 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Discovered today that petrol stations are now putting video adverts on the pump handle 🤮

I love my bicycle even more now.
January 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I made a little toy for generating brick walls with different bond patterns.

You can really knock out a small webapp with Cursor + off-the-shelf web platform stuff so quickly now. Hopefully I can do this more often.

https://www.rossng.eu/muural/
January 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
What's trending on GitHub? Malware, apparently.
December 12, 2024 at 2:45 PM
I'm currently listening to the audiobook version of Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

It's surprising how well such a technical book translates to audio. Can anyone recommend similar books that have a great audio version?
December 2, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Floating Points is touring with someone making live video art with water and ink (and probably other stuff). It's like a little chemistry lab on the stage. Incredibly cool to watch.
November 15, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Is there some technical reason why fridge manufacturers always use an inscrutable scale like 'low-high' or '1-8' rather than the seemingly obvious 'colder-warmer'?
October 25, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Let's be clear, Google. Doing a journey entirely by taxi is _not_ 'public transport'.
September 15, 2024 at 7:28 AM
I'm curious what exactly the fraud is here. Pretty sure that you can use Upwork from Hong Kong.

Are they just trying to score clients using a 'western' name? North Korean government worker earning money for the state?
August 2, 2024 at 3:53 PM
HP has a line of headsets called 'Blackwire'. They have red wires.

I feel this speaks volumes about HP's product management abilities.
June 28, 2024 at 4:05 PM