Rhys Wynne

Never expected a game trailer to make me cry when I woke up this morning but there we go.

Honestly, the large part of why the web is creaking right now is how exhausting it is when everybody has access to Claude and folks don't know how to use it.

Oh no. I've just realised that AI Poppy Slop is going to be a thing this year, isn't it?

When your site ranks for "What version of PHP does my WordPress site run?"

The quality of professional wrestling matches. Granted it is a different style and characters may be different. But athletically it is so much more impressive now. Compare Ospreay vs Omega at Wembley to Hart Vs Bulldog from 35 years prior. Different world (and Hart/Bulldog is seen as amazing!)

And Breathe :) What a year the last 3 days have been. Here's a bit of an overview of what happened and things I've done (and what I could potentially do better). And also, what you can do...

It says a lot that the Pico8 community put a ban on everything AI. It is one of the most fun, joyful communities right now, and I love making games in it.

Ondřej Surý fixed PHP. Open source is completely wild.

I didn't know about this guy until about 36 hours ago. Fund maintainers. Thank maintainers.

The chances of me singing this drunkenly in a Karaoke on Canal Street post #wcmcr has risen significantly because of this PHP vulnerability.

There is a bit in the new Street Fighter film Ken gets battered and is waking up the next morning singing "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes. I felt like that this morning.

Nothing puts the lie to "PHP is irrelevant" like "good morning, 70% of the internet needs to be fixed ASAP".

Once agin, this feels apt for today.

I'm not certain enough to put money in it, but I'm fairly sure there'll be at least one person who posted "LOL WORDPRESS IS INSECURE" on Linkedin, without realising it's a PHP vulnerability and their vibe coded app is hosted on a server that has PHP enabled.

NEW POST: Scribbled about 650 words on the new Street Fighter Movie. Thar be spoilers ahead. #streetfighter #sf2

A storm hitting Cornwall on Thursday....

@simoncox.com today's activity for my partner's birthday is relevant to your interests

So I went to the Pencil Museum today in Keswick. Nice place, very friendly staff. You get a quiz to do as you go around learning about pencils. And if you do it, you get a free pencil. Anyway shout out to the couple who were speaking to ChatGPT to get answers.

Afternoon

Street Fighter thoughts. Dumb, felt a bit rushed as they squeezed two story arcs into one and fritted between fights. Lots of fan service. Loved Blanka, Guile and Dan. Bison gave me the ick. No idea how you could follow it if you don't have knowledge of the games. But the ending was touching/fun.

Justice for Retsu

Always is my favourite quiz rounds "rank the offensiveness of these swear words".

Looking through the attendee list of #WCMCR is an absolute joy. Seeing the names with a sense of familiarity, then clicking on their website and saying "oh flipping hell it's them!". Good folk getting back together. Anyway, less than 20 tickets to go (and not 19!) manchester.wordcamp.org/2026/

I am sure someone is counting "new AI feature usage" from the click metrics where the stuff I didn't want for just takes the most prominent UI position from something actually useful. 99.9% of the time in Google Slides, I want to upload an image. Not generate one. Accidentally click all the time.

Reblog: The Search for Joy You should all read @rosswintle.uk's blog post from a few weeks ago, and here's my way - along with selfishly talking about myself and #wcmcr.

It's galling reading an AI generated email with the line "🌲 Please consider the environment, and ask yourself whether you need to print out this email 🌲" in the signature.

Absolutely majestic football game, this.

"Your order will be delivered by Relay!" Oh God. This is what happened the last time Relay delivered a parcel....

I didn't know Nick well, but he often popped into our Zoom "pub" during lockdown, and he was a smart chap and giving with his time too. Barry's words - especially the last sentence - ring true. RIP Nick ❤️

Haigh Woodland #Parkrun Today. Wet. Muddy. Hilly. 46 down. 4 to go. Indoctrinated my partner's brother in law to Parkrun too.

Good thing that Steam didn't send this email else it'd chew up the bandwidth of the internet.

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