Ross Wintle @magicroundabout@mastodon.social
Not actually a 6-roundabout roundabout in Swindon. Or a restaurant in Old Street. Or an Australian Cricketer. More #WordPress #Laravel #parenting #cycling
Joined Aug 2018
Ross Wintle
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If you’re a fan of Ted Lasso you’ll appreciate this video of Roy Kent teaching kids about the letter “F” on Sesame Street. https://ew.com/tv/brett-goldstein-sesame-street-first-look-cookie-monster-tamir/
Helpful IT Notice: Emails with your password in! 😱
(Not so) Silly product ideas I have bouncing around in my head:
The "Bottle Brush"
The Multi-Lock for Bikes
2FA for online and card-not-present bank transactions
Free ideas - someone go make them!
Wow. Such a busy week. I'm totally flagging today.
But then I’m the guy that has this crazy idea that congestion is caused by a combination of finite road network capacity and too many vehicles.
🤷♂️
I find it bizarre that my council asks the public what they think of solutions to traffic congestion. We don’t have survey data. We don’t have modelling software. I assume the traffic planners do? Can’t we make expensive decisions based on data rather than guesswork and opinion?
Oooh. Email spam with a valid-but-very-old password quoted in it. Interesting. That's gonna freak a LOT of people out!
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Hello friends I know I mentioned this last week, but it’s time for a new challenge. I’m looking for a design and / or front-end dev role in a product team.
More info: hankchizljaw.io/hire-me
I love
#a11y, #ProgressiveEnhancement and generally making good things that positively impact people.
Boosts appreciated 💖
Wintle’s first law of Tomboladynamics (the prize conservation principle) states that there is a set of objects in the world whose sole purpose is to be tombola prizes. Without these objects the Tombolaverse will collapse into entropy.
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The series 4 Apple Watch has advanced health tracking features to help you detect a heart attack the moment you see the price of an iPhone Xs
2) #thankyoutoday for helpful, supportive people who take an interest, are positive, help you grow and gently nudge you to new ideas (rather than forcefully dragging you into them) - these are the people the world needs more of.
Two today:
1) #thankYouToday for the organisers, staff, volunteers, runners and supporters that made the Swindon Half Marathon (in my home town) a brilliant successful event on Sunday!
I got this going on Twitter - it's good, so cross-posting on here.
Your challenge: find (at least) one person or thing to be thankful for each day and Toot your appreciation publicly with #thankYouToday.
There's ALWAYS something (and often many things) and it's a great discipline to be in to find things to like in the world.
Wow. Really hadn't realised there were so many strong opinions about CSS-in-JS or not. Is there some kind of basic, impartial primer on the pros and cons of each? I mean, I could guess/work it out. But...
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You're probably aware of the recent Twitter hot drama about CSS, so instead of accusing people of doing front-end wrong, I thought I'd explain it all in a little tutorial instead.
Hopefully, this will make folks who did get it wrong feel a little better.
https://hankchizljaw.io/wrote/css-specifity-and-the-cascade/
This is years old. But reminded of it today. It’s still all I got.
Parenthood: The sum of my knowledge
https://rosswintle.uk/2012/05/parenthood-the-sum-of-my-knowledge/
I’m just too pragmatic for this Tooting thing. 😕
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I keep sending this link to folks who are new to Mastodon, so I thought I might as well keep a link to it.
Kev does a great job of explaining how it all works in human-terms which is really crucial in getting a wide spectrum of people understanding and using Mastodon.
His email analogy to explain how users from other instances interact is very good too.
@hankchizljaw Has the global RSS feed from your site stopped working? Last update was 7 days ago?
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Programming isn't about what you know; it's about what you can figure out.
Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.
Not actually a 6-roundabout roundabout in Swindon. Or a restaurant in Old Street. Or an Australian Cricketer. More #WordPress #Laravel #parenting #cycling
Joined Aug 2018
