indulged my inner dork today and went on a day trip to Wuppertal primarily to go on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn — one of the world's very few suspended monorails

at Heathrow, imminently off to Düsseldorf for my first ever #btconf, an occasion I've said "I really should go next year, it sounds wondrous" about at least six times. finally, we're doing it ✨

I feel every line of this deep in my soul

I've got availability for new projects kicking off in May, due to a project falling through. Preferably front-end work, I'm a big fan of @astro.build and @craftcms.com at the moment, but happy to work with other tools. Some examples of past work on my website jackwhiting.co.uk.

Everything is bad now because kids get their taste in music from algorithms instead of from trying to impress the older girl you know who looks like the Bombchu Bowling Alley Operator

You can migrate from Bluesky -> Blacksky and keep all your followers and posts move.blacksky.community You can migrate from Bluesky -> Blacksky -> Bluesky and keep all your followers and posts: - pdsmoover.com - move.eurosky.tech

I had been meaning to for a while but today was a perfect day to switch over to blacksky.community as my app view and sign up as a supporter, if you can afford to, you should too 👉 opencollective.com/blacksky

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda: The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

I’ve been doing design+webdev for over 10 years and I have deep expertise building and implementing design systems. if you’re looking for a design/dev hybrid to take polish and product thinking to the next level, let’s chat: ky.fyi

hi friends, what is your favourite EU/EEA-based domain registrar?

me in 2003: i love html! :3 i love to make websites! :3 i hope i get to do it professionally someday! arf X3 web jobs in 2026: lockheed martin is seeking a level IV engineer who is passionate about training agentic AI models to identify elementary schools

It’s that time again - I’m on the hunt for new clients from the beginning of April. I’m open to full or part-time contracts outside IR35. I can help you with: - design system consultancy, coaching, management or documentation - content design - UX writing - technical writing 1/2

🎉 Looking for new work. 15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist. I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems. I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation. Short to long term. Let's chat - [email protected] reposts appreciated <3

I am very much in search of work right now if anyone’s looking for a freelance WordPress developer. I build custom themes, bespoke for each project I work on. I don't personally do design/ branding but I do know some designers if you need that too.

solidarity to my american friends who are having a fascist paramilitary group kidnap their friends and neighbours off the street and in their homes. justice won't be served until every single ghoul involved in this is tried for crimes against humanity

prime exhibit of websites as art

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If you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place

mind blowing how cost of therapy has increased in recent years *me nodding seriously* “indeed. shrinkflation.”

the anthropic drama (tl;dr they blocked third party tools from using claude code subscriptions) is a useful reminder that you use LLMs at the pleasure of the companies providing them sounds obvious but despite all the AI discourse, i don't see a lot of people talking about the consequences of this

heathrow is so incredibly sorry to hear that your flight is delayed. truly, a tragedy. but did you know there are many ways in which to spend money at heathrow? heathrow is delighted to announce this. but they're also, like, so sorry your flight is delayed. awful, really

it’s hella dope that the most optimistic takes on the future of Working With Machine is that we are now expected to do all the bullshit of training 100 junior engineers without any of the dopamine of seeing them grow it owns it rules

in a lift in my old Lewisham block of flats, a baby in a pram pointed at me and said "wow", and while stalling to figure out if that was a complimentary or a derogative "wow", I simply replied "that's right, kiddo"

upon leaving Norway the border agent asked if I was going to London for New Year's and I said nah, I just live there. in response I got the most bone dry "so... how's that going these days?" in response s a v a g e

thought it wasn't going to happen but we just managed to eke out a white Christmas here on Norway's south coast. god jul to any and all fellow heathens who celebrate on the best day of Christmas, the Eve 🎄❤️

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

had some from the very same chain in Ghent this weekend for €5.95. london, I love you, but

my man

'tis the season for homemade liqueurs and boozes mirabel cherry plum liqueur, 2x sloe gin, 2x quince gin, rhubarb gin, peach liqueur not pictured: mulled sloe gin, sloe "port" with the used berries from the sloe gin, blackberry + sloe + rosehip liqueur, blackberry and bay liqueur

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

Christmas hasn't been the same since i noticed Santa has the same handwriting as my wife

this fucks. very fun spin on the photo gallery format

I wrote an important essay that will improve your holiday travel if you follow its very specific instructions: airportbeer.selfhelpartpublishingempire.com

It's wild. We have so many real problems as a country, and instead a large chunk of our political class would rather hallucinate that one of the safest big global cities in the world is actually dangerous.

Whammed! At The Chinese Supermarket 😤

on this day of Wrapped Discourse ™, I have finally managed to quit Spotify

there isn't a single website that shaped my life like DeviantArt in 03-09; I was a very mediocre teenage photographer who honed my craft, made friends, fell in love (moved countries for it!), joined communities, experienced wonderful art. nothing like it since, this piece brilliantly elucidates why

acceptable ways to prove my address, apparently: ❌ my driving license, an official government document ❌ a letter from my bank signed by a human ✅ utility bills from a private company (they're in my girlfriend's name so I can't use them) the UK is a very serious country with sensible procedures

went onto linkedin for the first time in a few months because it's a cursed place, and the website is so utterly dogshit that the login page hard crashed my browser. I'm not even mad, that's impressive, how do you even do that in 2025

Everything Andy touches is of the highest quality. Do yourself a favour and read his raw honesty post, and if you feel compelled, support his wonderful work.

this. people who’s only experience of the frankly shocking uk housing market can be summed up as ‘all of the good parts’ and ‘absolutely none of the bad parts’ suddenly wrenching the ‘housing insecurity is bad actually’ lever is turning me to malice

won't somebody please think of the retired corporate financiers sitting on a large pile of unearned wealth

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

Everything I write myself and everything I love to read or listen to or watch has one bedrock component to it...Jesus Christ I am alive right now and you are alive right now and someday we will not be but for the duration of this we are both stupidly and beautifully alive orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...

This thread is fascinating

hi internet! do i know anyone looking for some freelance work through the end of the year? the project is a tiny bit of web dev but mostly design, animation, and graphic design in a webflow site!