My Open Data Institute chat with Emer Coleman about public services, data and platforms is now up on YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mytYumHnM_Q

#1 in Social Networking in the UK for the first time!

Please enjoy my furbabies in your timeline, friends. ❤️

in next dates don't serialize across the server->client component boundary theres likely a good technical reason, but out of all the things that have annoyed me with this P A R A D I G M S H I F T this annoys me the most

Afternoon

that was a very good night

Today LEGO Horizon Adventures day! #Ad ▶️ I was gifted the game and allowed early access by Guerrilla Games and PlayStation. I will be streaming my first playthrough today starting at normal time: 12 PM CET. Cant wait to see how fun this game is! #LEGOHorizonAdventures

u ever restart a song half way through because u realised u didn’t listen hard enough

We have hired lawyers and we have a draft of the trademark cancellation petition ready (for those who don't know about this, see javascript.tm) https://media.tenor.com/VOf_IsXVKfsAAAAC/meme-elmo.gif?hh=337&ww=498

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I got a remarkable paper pro and I like it a lot

Sunrise giving Mount Doom

The blinky, blinky firehose. bigmood.blue

Some thoughts on creativity and putting yourself out there, inspired by the @btconf.bsky.social conference from last week. https://marisamorby.com/putting-yourself-out-there/

Yep, the paper is now a remarkable. Same principles apply, just less pens running out of ink etc.

tfw when you want to write a little bit of code as a treat but you have a call in 10mins and know you'll forget and have to send an apology for standing them up

I’ve had a Boox palma for that sort of thing as a “night phone”. It’s really good! I needed exactly what you say about the writing though. I take so many notes in a day and that really rags through notebooks. I’ve tried all sorts of digital stuff but this thing is easily the best for writing.

But I bet you crushed it so fucking hard. That’s an adhd super power. I’ll have 2-3 good days a week and get more done those days than some people get done in a full week.

I think one my toxic traits is I’m just not wired to “crush it” every day. Maybe more like every third day. I kicked ass yesterday. Struggling to start on real work today. Maybe I’ll find focus again by Friday.

my message to the world make stupid websites any kind

Hear me out: A conference focused on how our crafts, hobbies, and interests inform how we practice the craft of software engineering.

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Never forget the time I had a blog post about self-hosting my personal websites on a Raspberry Pi cluster hit the front page of Hacker News, and the comments were like, "what about high availability/efficiency/etc!!!!!!!" Like guys, I'm hosting getshreked.com; this isn't that serious. https://getshreked.com

yeah we’ve also fixed some issues with “show less” not working, still plenty to keep fixing though

Ok who is building the browser extension for Safari that lights up a 🦋 icon if the website I’m visiting has an _aproto DNS text record? When it lights up, I can click the icon and follow the account.

spotify showing “sponsored album recommendations” at the center of the home screen on every open despite me being a paying customer is such an L for the product. such a silly way to chip away at trust, and for what

my akg553 headphones have thousands of hours on them and the cable recently failed so like any sane person I researched replacements and decided to build my own from high strand count 24awg wire. I'm pleased even though these headphones are ugly af 😁

Collapsing would be the big thing for me. And flattening replies to yourself