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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 06/10/2026

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.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 06/10/2026

"Please note only the account has been age-verified, they should be able to receive gifts for mature content."...but it isn't mature?

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Official response from steam support is as expected, useless: "For now, verification based on credit card ownership is the only path Steam currently offers for age verification under the Age-Restricted Material Online Safety Codes."

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 05/10/2026

you get bonus adult points if you used your clubcard

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Example for another game this time a "cosy fishing" one, with the recipient seeing the same message. steamcommunity.com/app/3483740/...

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Did Portal get a new dlc, because I don't remember playing through that campaign?

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 04/10/2026

Steam looks like it is conducting age assurance checks on all gifts for any child in the UK, no matter the age rating on the gift itself. Tried to gift my son copies of Portal 1 & 2 (PEGI rating of 7 & 12) and son met with "Mature sexual content is not allowed in your country for users under 18".

Steam gift of Portal 1 & 2, with a message showing "Mature sexual content is not allowed in your country for users under 18. To accept this gift, you must first add a valid credit card to your account."

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 30/09/2026

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...

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That’s Firefox? See the browser’s surprising new changes

YouTube video by Firefox

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 29/09/2026

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

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 28/09/2026

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

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 28/09/2026

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

tetlist.com

tetlist - Watch Four Tet sets, discover new tracks

Watch Kieran Hebden sets find the source tracks

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Updated to now also include beatport links.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 25/09/2026

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

tetlist.com

tetlist - watch four tet sets and discover new tracks

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 25/09/2026

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?

automicvault.com

CLI security is broken. The packaging layer is where we fix it.

Automic Vault hardens supported CLI tools on macOS, moves exposed credentials into the Keychain, and gates their use while you keep your usual commands.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 22/09/2026

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

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 21/09/2026

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...

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Everyone's using AI to get hired. Now what? | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 18/09/2026

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.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 15/09/2026

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

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 14/09/2026

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

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 14/09/2026

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

getslapbook.com

SlapBook – This app slaps.

SlapBook turns a gentle tap on your MacBook into an action. Tap once, tap twice. A tiny native macOS app.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Yup and Vic Reeves sings the theme.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 12/09/2026

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

Picture of two yellow characters raising a carrot, followed by the text: "Congrats! Your feed just hit double digits!
Ten people wake up and check your curation. Ten people have subscribed to your taste in posts, your eye for what’s interesting, and your voice in the mix."

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 11/09/2026

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

Hey man I noticed you're focused on growing your TikTok marketing.
Just wanted to mention I run a platform that creates and warms up unlimited TikTok and Instagram accounts targeting any country, with automatic content creation and scheduled posting

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

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

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 10/09/2026

This exists already for your Mac.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 08/09/2026

"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.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 05/09/2026

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

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Shipping Stuff

Monthly Notes on Building a Business as a Developer 🚀

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 05/09/2026

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.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 04/09/2026

I got my first dev job because I responded to an email on Bristol's underscore tech mailing list. I ended up working with an amazing crew at Aardman over the course of several productions and leading a small team. I later learned I was the only one who responded to the email.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 03/09/2026

I had no idea talat had mcp built in, thanks for highlighting it.

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 02/09/2026

The Legend of Zelda, but as a Doom mod: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwk0...

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The Legend of DOOM

YouTube video by DeTwelve Games

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Ian Wootten 🛸 @ianwootten.co.uk · 30/08/2026

Wordle 1,898 2/6 🟩⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Kiss my face!

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