Author: Ross Wintle

  • Today I…

    2017-07-06

    Creativity is more important than ever. What will you do today? In a world that seems to have gone mad recently, creativity has become more important than ever. Not just “arts”, but making, doing, sharing, writing, hacking, teaching, growing, mending and so many other things are creative endeavours. But it’s sometimes hard to recognise your […]

  • To the man on the pink scooter

    2017-06-27

    You probably thought I was a bit funny. I mean, you were the adult man on the pink, three-wheeled Barbie scooter, but *you* probably wondered what *I* was doing. I was in my car. I saw you from afar and had resolved to cheer you on. At first I wasn’t sure if you were a […]

  • Getting to grips with Laravel’s service container

    2017-05-17

    I finally feel like I’m getting to grips with Laravel’s service container. I’ve understood HOW it works and WHAT is does for a while, but it’s taken a simple, real-world example to pull it all together and make it all “stick”. Disclaimer: I may still have all this wrong, in which case correct me in […]

  • On making an anti-social network

    2017-05-03

    Building a niche social network seems like an exciting prospect at first, but it only takes a little thought to realise that it's a bad idea.

  • Re-learning to learn to code (and discovering JavaScript’s foibles!)

    2017-01-08

    I don’t know JS So I’ve kinda got stuck in to learning JavaScript. I’ve previously said that I think JavaScript is like the assembler of the web: coding in vanilla JS isn’t really something you should do because it’s too easy to get things wrong, so you should have a layer of abstraction on top. […]