Ian Wootten 🛸

@ianwootten.co.uk

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Software Engineer. Posts about Python, web dev. Building things. youtube.com/IanWootten ianwootten.co.uk

A linkedin message: "Hey lan, thanks for connecting. That trick of pointing a coding agent at your wallowing Astro sites to jump them to v7 is exactly the unglamorous work agents are best at. Since you're comfortable handing them real jobs: have you ever thought about letting one run your Linkedln, the outreach and replies, not just the code?"
A clear Funny Playing Game Boy with transparent case, green motherboard and original black and red buttons. Super Mario 2 6 Golden coins is showing on the bright screen.
Opencode tweet. "2x the Kimi k3 usage on opencode go for 1 week"
Opencode usage chart; including Grok 4.5, Kimi K3, GLM 5.2
A picture of Caerphilly castle entrance in the summer sun, with two swans basking by the moat surrounding it.
A video showing a county map of the uk being filtered and clicked upon. It shows high value premium bond winners in a heat map style, with a sidebar detailing county wins for any given month.
Opencode error "Plan • DeepSeek V4 Flash OpenCode Go •••• Error from provider (Console Go): Provider rate limit exceeded [retrying in 9m 11s"
A screenshot of the frontpage of n3ws.dev for Wed, 1st July
"astro": "^1.5.0"
A carton with the text "RECYCLE ME", "RINSE WITH COLD WATER AND REPLACE CAP SQUASH CARTON" "DROP IN YOUR RECYCLING POINT" shown in different sizes and weights.
A list of uploaded files with different statuses of "Transcribing", "Processing" and "Completed"
Steam Machine 512GB Semi-custom AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T Semi-custom AMD RDNA3 28CUs 16GB DDR5 + 8GB GDDR6 VRAM 512GB NVMe SSD, microSD card slot Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, Gigabit ethernet Integrated Steam Controller wireless adapter Small form factor, ~6 inch cube SteamOS 3
A leaderboard screenshot from darkbloom.dev, showing all time stats: Provider $106, 2001.5M tokens, 705.2K jobs, 261 active accounts.
**Rankings table showing the top 5 wealthiest individuals by net worth.** Elon Musk leads at $1,171B (age 54, Tesla/SpaceX), followed by Larry Page at $296B (age 53, Google), Sergey Brin at $273.1B (age 52, Google), Jeff Bezos at $247.7B (age 62, Amazon), and Larry Ellison at $229.7B (age 81, Oracle, with a peak wealth of $395.5B — the highest peak of any person listed).
Screencast of ghostty running brew with hundreds of bottles downloading.
Pics of storage containers for apples, returned from Duck Duck Go after searching for "apple containers"
Email preview of top 5 links from n3ws.dev sources
tboughen: "I’m a UK teacher. I have built a custom GPT that marks essays for the subject I teach in a repeatable and reliable way. It gives actionable feedback to students." "I use it, and have given my students access to it too - they use it to help their revision." colcoalba: "Students use AI to write essays and teachers use it to grade. What a wonderful system" markdown: "Kids making mud cakes, climbing trees, and taking shots at each other with shanghais. Teachers lounging on a beach somewhere. Meanwhile in classrooms, bots. The Dead Classroom Theory."
Desktop browser showing day by day navigation on n3ws.dev
Screenshot of a Google search: "why is crunchyroll called crunchyroll" Crunchyroll's name is a playful combination of "crunchy" and "roll".
Message on the junodownload.com website: "It's been our privilege to share some of the most incredible music from the most amazing artists, but we're sorry to say, that the time has come to say goodbye. There's still plenty of great music available from Traxsource, Beatport, Mixupload and Volumo, but for now, this is Juno Download signing off. You can download previous orders from your account, and if you need to get in touch, please send us a message, and we will help out however we can."
star-history.com graph of NousResearch/hermes-agent. Shows little velocity til feb and quickly ascends to 186k
Screenshot of an email from n3ws.dev Daily. "Sunday 7th June 2026" with the top 5 items showing from Hacker News
Text: "1.5 million copies of First Light sold in 24 hours"
A picture of the duckduckgo icon themed as link, when searching for "link" on duckduckgo.
Screenshot of a job role. "912 month contract"
An old Google t-shirt showing multiple logos. Gears, A jet engine, android robot and maps.
A selection of leaflets by Labour Cymru and Plaid Cymru showing wildly different voting intention charts for the Senedd election in Wales.
Crowdcube screenshot of what3words funding round. "11 days left, £940,200 raised, 2,224 investors"
A picture of a "Four Tet - There is Love in You" rainbow cd within a cardboard cover covered in colourful dots.
Screenshot of comparison of investment strategies for ACWI. Shows that most years it makes more sense to invest at the start of tax year vs waiting til the end.
Gameboy DMG and Tetris.
YouTube video comment "It's nice of Al to sponsor every single video l've ever seen warning about Al"
Screenshot of Google finance news titles: "FTSE 100 falls as Iran war lifts inflation fears" "FTSE 100 rallies as inflation fears ease"
Pictue of a sock with lots of different colour thumbs ups!
screenshot of backer email "Thanks to you, Ghost has been successfully funded"
A table showing Hetzner price increases from 1st April: CPX11 (HEL1) € 3.85 -> € 5.49 CX22 (HEL1) € 3.29 -> € 4.49 CX23 (HEL1) € 2.99 -> € 3.99
Screenshot of X data. Estimated size 1,289MB
Google Finance chart of Raspberry Pi (RPI) stock for Feb 17th, with a 32% increase to GBX402.80
A pic of "I will teach you to be rich" by Ramit Sethi.
github star history chart showing near vertical gradient from Jan 25th to date.
Pic of fake versions of Morgan Housel books Same as Ever, Psychology of Money
Quote from AudioNoise repo: "Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters -- and that's not saying much --than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do" kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man -- me -- and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer."
a pic of a recent build in cloudflare workers proudly displaying "1 minutes ago"
photo of "Destiny: the collection" box set, with campaign bonus content.
Amazon product image of the DeskPi RackMate T0 in silver.
Screenshot of 'Destroy Droplet' dialog on digitalocean. Asking to enter the name 'traefik'
A screenshot on a gradient blue background saying "500 internal server error" cloudlare
An image of some testimonials from actors over a computer with code on it. Ryan Gosling saying "Ian wrote some code" and Chris Pratt saying "He wasn't awful"
A screenshot of testimonials, including one from me saying " Elements looks really cool. Visual Site builder, completely offline with 1 Year of updates. Only wish I'd paid attention and bought earlier."
Showing the quickstart page on despeech.com. The page is selected and a url is entered to transcribe. After transcription is finished, the final transcript is shown.
screenshot of claude.md file content: -Prefer smaller, more focused methods - Prefer smaller tests of core functionality - Break long methods that do many things up - Restrict comments to complex behaviour - Use UK enlish for spelling
Screenshot of Google finance with suggestions for the volatility index (vix). One states "Dear Vix: I've fallen in love with my best friend and I don't know what to do"
Sarah Neenan on stage with Boston Dynamics Spot.
A picture of Snoop, an ai ad for a croched version, a bad crochet kit and a perfect doll made with no instructions.
Closeup of a mans face wearing some expensive Ray-Ban's with an on-lens display
Image of a screenshot from prosper.co.uk, showing the risk rating ongoing cost and 5 year performance.
Shows an attempted transfer of ianwootten.co.uk, but having to go through email support to discover it can't be completed because it has less than 10 days to run.