It's "Cyber Monday" so allow us to remind you of our Black Friday deals that run all they way up to December 9. All of our courses — including the brand new Mindful Design and JavaScript for Everyone courses — are £189, saving you £60. You get a 50% discount coupon for other courses too!

This is an excellent list of Black Friday deals for web Devs. I'm as always tempted, particularly drawn to @sarasoueidan.com's accessibility course, as it's an area I am sorely lacking in.

📣 Hear hear! The biggest savings on the Practical Accessibility course start *today*—for a limited time only. Starting today, you can get the course for 30% off — that's $279 instead of $399. The discounted price excludes sales tax that may be applied depending on where you are buying from.

Some excellent PHP and Laravel training on offer from Spatie at the moment

Trump v the BBC cont'd: an odd and desperate letter from the US media regulator Or: why you should have your evidence in place before you threaten a law suit A new post by me: emptycity.substack.com/p/trump-v-th...

NEW BLOGPOST: "A reprieve for the Art Deco Hobson Street Cinema – and a new big test for Cambridge civic society" cambridgetownowl.com/2025/11/21/a... #Cambridge people - one for you.

Now that Studioworks is a lot more than pretty invoicing, we wanted to update the website to show off some new features and tell a richer story about who we are, what we’re building, and what a Studioworks membership gets you. studioworks.app

Looks like Cloudflare found a fix (around a 1.5hrs after the initial issues). Let's hope service is restored fully soon. We're seeing a few client sites working fine, and others are still down. Ironically our uptime monitor Pingdom is down since the website uses Cloudflare.

NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market. Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

PHP 8.5 will release this week. Here's what's new: aggregate.stitcher.io/posts/73782

The W3C Security Web Application Guidelines Community Group wants to understand how developers are using specific web platform security features, and what the barriers are to the adoption. Take their survey here: https://bit.ly/3JR6JML

@tink.uk has contributed a chapter to the upcoming book, Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, with contributions from 39 global accessibility and disability advocates. Due out in March 2026, it's available now for preorder on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Digital-Acce...

Built on good old robots.txt, the new open content licensing standard Really Simple Licensing (RSL) adds licensing and royalty terms. Reddit, Yahoo, Quora, and wikiHow are some of the major brands adopting the standard in hopes AI companies will pay. www.theverge.com/news/775072/...

This is remarkably sensible and level-headed. We need politicians who are willing to explore. Even better, we need politicians who are able to do a retro on what did and didn't work.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

More people are getting their news from AI assistants – but can we trust what they tell us? A new BBC/EBU study finds half of AI-generated news answers with significant inaccuracies. Stephen McNair reports

We're really excited about running our 2 hour making data accessible workshop next Tuesday. We still have places available. If you're interested visit our website to find out more. www.contentdesignireland.ie/training/mak...

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

now is a really excellent time to set up a monthly Wikipedia donation if you don’t have one already

The collective term for ladybirds is a loveliness. Have you noticed that ladybirds have been taking advantage of the dry, sunny conditions to find a sheltered spot to hide for winter? The summer's warm conditions are responsible for this autumn's ladybird explosion. 📸 Mike Selby, Anglesey Abbey

Other courses from Piccalilli are great so I’m sure this new one on JS will be good! #javascript #frontend #learning

Join our in-person panel discussion on Erasmus+ & Youth Mobility. 🗓Tues 4 Nov, 📍Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Alfred Quantrill, President @yem1.bsky.social Maria Kurinna, Youth for Inclusive Europe Prof. Ian James, University of Cambridge FREE tickets www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/restoring-...

Decamped to my office in town since my home internet is dead in the great Vodafone outage! I was surprised their website and customer service lines are completely dead too. No message, nothing. Customers just left with no information except national news. Not great.

Looking for illustration and drawing projects. Portraits, children’s books, comic art and editorial illustration just some of the things I can offer. 🎨🧑‍🎨🖌️🖼️ Shares very much appreciated 🙏

Starting my morning with @stephenfry.bsky.social, his dulcet tones and some well chosen melodies on Desert Island Discs is rather lovely www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today is launch day! We’ve been working on Studioworks all year, and I think it’s already the best invoicing platform out there, with the lowest fees, most design customizations, and simplest UI. If you’re curious to try it out, here’s a referral link for a free month: studioworks.app/join/chris

Congratulations Craft team, this is brilliant news and I think great for the #Craft and #Laravel communities! 🎉

This time last week I shared this call for 3 small AI-related freelance gigs to do specialist literature searches on AI and worker safety, infrastructure resilience, and environmental safety. The call's open till Friday this week www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

To add alt text or not to add alt text actually isn’t the question. Simply click "Alt" after you've uploaded your image, write a description and post.

If you’re having a bad day & feeling down just watch this. ‘I’m a lyrical dance flap’

This video is really important. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o... It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition. @katecrawford.bsky.social

Farage wants to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain – even for people who’ve lived, worked and built lives here for years. It’s not policy, it’s cruelty. Read the Bear’s analysis ⤵️

It’s clear that the cruelty is the point. Anything to distress, frighten, undermine, create divisions. And the answer has to be to say ‘no’, ‘never’, not ‘this wouldn’t work’. Anything less is complicity.

My statement on the formal recognition of the Palestinian state.

Thank you to everyone reading my new memoir - you’ve made it an instant Sunday Times bestseller 🗞️ This Is for Everyone is available now from thisisforeveryone.timbl.com @thetimes.com

Very much enjoying the Last Night of the Proms. Bohemian Rhapsody, Bill Bailey on Typewriter, the wonderful Louise Alder singing My Fair Lady (and much more), an uplifting new piece by Rachel Portman The Gathering Tree, and brilliant conducting by Elim Chan. Had the whole family up watching it!

Last night I attended the UK Digital Inclusion Awards, celebrating orgs helping reduce digital poverty. I'm proud @studio24.net was nominated for the Ensuring Accessible Services and I enjoyed talking to like-minded people about how to make digital fairer to everyone. digitalpovertyalliance.org

On Tuesday I launched my memoir 'This Is for Everyone' at @cadoganhall.bsky.social Available now @ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com & bookshops everywhere. Special thanks to Tania Bryer @panmacmillan.bsky.social @intelligence2.bsky.social

An absolutely amazing piece of writing here. Find yourself somewhere to sit down and read it. It might make you weep, if you remember the time and all that’s passed between and how it frames where we are now so be warned.

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

Every Romanian nurse or Bangladeshi care worker isn’t a burden – they’re holding Britain together while ministers scapegoat. The Bear reports

I do wonder whether Labour will start moving towards electoral reform in order to stop Reform UK winning power on 30% of the vote, which is entirely possible under First Past the Post.

Jamin Raskin is an USA attorney, law professor, and politician serving as a congressman for 8th District of Maryland. His words should be heard....

Oooh, that's a conference not to miss: "Web Day Out" 😍 Thanks @adactio.com 🙏🏻 #registered

Oh dear, the Wimbledon ballot website is suffering from 502 bad gateway errors (too much traffic even with a queue system in place). Will come back in a few days to try again…

Oh, it's September already. Time for the HTMHell Advent calendar Call for Papers! 🖤 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Wiener Library opened in London #OnThisDay in 1939. Following the November Pogrom of 1938, also known as Kristallnacht, Alfred Wiener prepared to bring his collection to the UK. It arrived the following summer and opened on this day in 1939, at the time as the Nazis invaded Poland...

The biggest mystery of them all: where did Agatha Christie disappear to? @centralbylines.co.uk

"Do you know the first thing people think about when they think of Nixon?" is one line that jumps out, but there are many, many more americabydesign.fail