Ian Wootten 🛸

All mixes on mixes.it now get nice opengraph images like this that show their content. This is last nights Miss Monique Essential Mix. mixes.it/mix/711/miss...

Lol. Probably the most fun I've had on a transcription apps website: hex.kitlangton.com

Today is a great day to have a static website.

Been trying to think of a term for a certain type of creator for a while. Think I've found it: www.ianwootten.co.uk/2026/10/20/d...

Software engineering isn't dead if you need to reverse engineer something to create new software.

👀 www.analogue.co/super-nt

My little site mixes.it added the Four Tet Boomtown Essential Mix as a Spotify playlist recently. Includes everything played thats available on Spotify. Check it out here: mixes.it/mix/698

Personal software is going crazy. Over the past year, over 1000 screenshot app repos have been created on github. www.ianwootten.co.uk/2026/10/14/h...

By 9:02 today I'd already seen 2 examples of devs building their own tools to replace stuff they'd been paying for forever.

Neat little web app for showing words big with state held via the query string: bigwords.page

Just Quake, ported to rust running in your browser. quake-srp.pages.dev

Gary Oldman is 2 weeks younger than Gary Numan.

Spent ages on Monday building a small kanban app with AI, then I wrote up a spec from the conversation. Tuesday I rebuilt the entire app from scratch using that spec with minor edits. I don't think I would have got to those specs anywhere near as quickly without working through it all first.

GraphicalUI looks dope: www.graphicalui.com

Looks like my most popular post of linked in is going to be me ranting about this. Devs do like a Portal post. I did spend ages trying to put red text on this screenshot so it's perhaps justified.

Boom, my October newsletter is out. I talk about how people are using Claude to generate media: newsletter.ianwootten.co.uk/claude-can-c...

ok, this is actually pretty cool. wtffmpeg: Use natural language for ffmpeg commands: github.com/scottvr/wtff...

This is 100x better motion design than anything I've seen done with Claude in the last few days: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7tQ...

Found some old dj mixes from 20+ years ago and my dad melted mind is struggling to remember the tracks I used.

Didn't even make it til October before I saw my first Christmas ad.

ICYMI, I built tetlist.com over the weekend to highlight the great tracks that Kieran plays in his crazy 4 hr+ sets.

Updated to now also include beatport links.

Made a fun side project this afternoon for viewing Four Tet gigs and finding the tracks on bandcamp tetlist.com

Discovered www.automicvault.com by Max Howell last night and it sounds like a good solution to me for local credential management (mac). Curious to hear what everyone else is using in this brave new world?

Stellar Boomtown Essential mix from Four Tet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZK5...

Happy Birthday to my youngest, a massive 13 years old today! 🎂

If AI is writing CVs for applicants and tracking CVs for employers, then what's the endgame? Seems like the days of using 2 sides of paper to judge a candidate are numbered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Julf...

Happy International Talk Like A Pirate Day folks! Get 20% off almost everything in store with code YARR today! shop.pimoroni.com

Honestly impressed by the onboarding experience and dashboard changes at cloudflare over the last 6 months or so. Used to struggle to find anything, but its gradually improving. Integration with other services also seems slick.

A seriously useful tool to determine where skills you think you've installed have ended up: chops.md

Guess I'm not getting a Steam Frame. Not at £889 anyway.

Nice little free app from Beyond Code that uses the accelerometer in your MacBook to perform actions when you "slap" it. getslapbook.com

I'm incredibly confused by everything going on at Wordpress right now. techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/m...

Somehow a graze.social test feed I set up has a few followers. 🤷‍♂️

Spammers who don't even bother to check if you're on the network they're talking about.

Infuriating: opusfived.dev

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

Tailwind has been acquired by Shopify: tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwin...

Finally, some good news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"One-shotting" anything via a coding agent is a great measure of how little time you spent on something and a crap measure of why anyone would want to use it.

Highly important news mynintendonews.com/2026/09/06/s...

My newsletter is out! - I talk about .lol sites and why everyones making them, who is designing with AI and the tools I'm now using for building. newsletter.ianwootten.co.uk/why-everyone...

Planning on sending my first newsletter in a while tomorrow - If you like the cut of my jib then today would be a great time to subscribe: newsletter.ianwootten.co.uk

AI is being used by both candidates to tailor their cvs to roles and companies to filter out candidates from those roles. That was a comment from a number of agencies at a recent meet up. It seems like a zero sum game for both parties to me.