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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 8h

Yeah. Not everyone can do it. But novel ideas the work instead of videos are cool and I like it when people get creative.

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 8h

Also, ask why? And can some other creative idea achieve the goal without a video?

E.g. the hero on turbo-admin.com is an actual interactive product demo!

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 8h

Depends on the video. I don’t mind as long as it’s not hosted on a service that tracks me. But avoid people in it (abstract themes work better esp responsively)and have fallback for bad connections (can you detect that in browser yet?)

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 13h

Thanks! How’s things with you?

Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 21h

All the other talks are up too. Go watch them!

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

LoopConf 2025 - YouTube

youtube.com

Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 21h

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

25 Lessons from 25 Years

YouTube video by LoopConf

youtu.be

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · 2d

A new series of my Household Problems drawings (as seen in my newsletter every week). This one: What your leaning fence says about you.

Black and white drawing with title 'What your leaning fence says about you'.

Fence depicted, with different levels of lean:

Slight lean. Caption: Of course everything's fine - why wouldn't it be?
Medium lean. Caption: Just about holding things together
Extreme lean. Caption: Oh no

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 3d

This is an excellent little pop-up calendar app for MacOS. Free. Love it.

lowtechguys.com/grila/

Grila - Calendar for keyboard addicts

Calendar for keyboard addicts: keyboard-driven and instantly available on a hotkey

lowtechguys.com

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 5d

Heh. That was a fun little thing to make. Used it on my old work website: oikos.digital

Glad you like it! 🤖

Home - Oikos Digital

oikos.digital

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 5d

Awesome! Where are you doing this?

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 6d

It’s really good actually. Some cool new interactive exhibits. Explainers on the museum floor giving helpful talks. The space section has moved and (IMO) makes more sense. They’re updating where the space section used to be.

Packed lunch still recommended!!

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 6d

Congrats, sir.

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 6d

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!!

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 7d

Checking the Aldi leaflet. Prawns are in there. As are ribs.

Maybe you could avoid food for L and just have a stocking?

Or a gingerbread stocking?

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 8d

Oh leaf it out would ya?

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 8d

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?!

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 8d

Pigs in blankets
Ginger wine
Hotel Chocolat Boozy Truffles (maybe that’s just us?)

There’s lots!

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Brent @brendt.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 8d

Turkey
Christmas Pudding
Christmas Cake
Brussel Sprouts
?

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 8d

No.

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 8d

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?

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 9d

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

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 10d

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

Hackivate: Capture the Flag

Cybersecurity challenges for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

www.hacktivate.app

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 10d

I'm joining you in lamenting this crappy bug. Thought I was over it on Friday but it came back for another go today. Urgh.

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Ross Wintle @rosswintle.uk · 15d

This looks like an amazing resource, and it’s free! (Just some P&P)

storytellertactics.com/free-deck

Storyteller Tactics | Get your FREE deck!

Get your FREE Copy Of 'Storyteller Tactics’ Will Show You How To: “Become a Confident Storyeller So You Can Influence, Sell and Persuade”

storytellertactics.com