Author: Ross Wintle

  • I’m using AI

    2023-11-26

    This AI tech is amazing. And works so well when aiding humans rather than replacing them. But gosh I can see how it breaks the web.

  • Remembering

    2023-10-25

    If we don't remember, we don't have empathy.

  • The View from the Bottom of the Pile

    2023-10-02

    It seems upside-down, but sometimes when you're at the bottom of the pile, you can see a whole load more looking back up! And there's opportunities for programmers here.

  • What is intelligence anyway?

    2023-07-06

    This episode of This American Life is amazing. It has several parts and looks at artificial intelligence from a number of different creative angles. There’s fascinating stories of how people become convinced of the “intelligence” of ChatGPT. There’s a short story that reverses the roles and tries to see how intelligent machines might question the […]

  • I’m tired of web dev

    2023-07-02

    The web used to be fun and simple and easy to get stuff done with. Now it's discovering that someone who doesn't know what they were doing used a div instead of a button and fixing it involves half a day of frustratedly poking around files that make no sense and fixing a broken build process.

  • Eeek! What does Gutenberg Phase 3 mean for Turbo Admin

    2023-03-25

    Turbo Admin features to be in WordPress core! 🙌 The WordPress Gutenberg Phase 3 announcement is very interesting for me. Why? Because it will be disruptive for my Turbo Admin plugin/browser extension. An admin redesign is in the works which, especially if done in React, may make Turbo Admin impossible to run. Fortunately they are also considering […]

  • Oh gosh. I’m actually writing a post about AI.

    2023-03-19

    WOW! I made a properly "magic method" WordPress plugin that allows you to just write a function name, and have that function created for you by an AI. It just works! (Some of the time).