Waaaaaa ☺️

Currently divesting myself from Vercel. I replatformed gif.land over the weekend. It was Next.js on Vercel and it’s now Astro and Cloudflare. I put a little note up on my blog about the transition jonheslop.com/posts/2025/d... It was my first time building anything with Astro, it’s really nice!

Some wonderful mail has arrived from @robinsloan.com! www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/...

I’ve managed 4 weeks of week notes — jonheslop.com/posts/2025/1... Probably speaking too soon, but I might be finally be getting into the rhythm of it gif.land/rudd-work.gif

The day Tweetbot died was the day I stopped using Twitter - looking forward to this

Watched ep 7 of Severance last night and this was me every time the Vitsœ shelves or chair came on screen

This weeks week notes - been a glorious weekend of sunshine and shellfish foraging here in West Wales jonheslop.com/posts/2025/9...

Biffy Clyro’s 2002 single ‘57’ is Simon Neil’s love song to Heinz tomato sauce

I’ve posted week notes for the first time in a year: jonheslop.com/posts/2025/8... I talk about zwift, sunshine and gif.land I’ve been reading a lot more RSS lately and wanted to get back into the habit of posting more often myself

This is really nice, been using all morning and it works really well

Inspired by @ethanmarcotte.com, I’ve made a silly new website called gif.land — an online home for all my favourite GIFs. It’s glued together with Cloudflare R2, a @tur.so SQLite DB and next.js. I’ve blogged about it too: jonheslop.com/posts/2025/gif-land

I love twiglets but they are also totally mental. So dry, so twig like. Imagine offering them to someone who didn’t know the concept nor grown up with them.

This is amazing

/honk

This was also my (our families) first computer, got it on my 10th birthday. I cried

Maude in her new desk bed

Whilst it quite exciting watching this get big very quickly, and sure Bluesky’s algo is kinder right now. It reminds me of this brilliant and elegant essay/thing Robin Sloan wrote/built about the inherent problem with runaway engagement and communication at scale www.robinsloan.com/special/plat...

Maybe bluesky should be where I post about birds. I saw these two this morning. Deffo not Curlews. Could be be sand pipers but I thought their beaks looked too skinny. So maybe godwits???

Finally jumped ship, I somehow was in some twitter bubble where I wasn’t really seeing the grim stuff others seemed to (I never read replies and only looked on following) BUT Twitter mostly died for me when I couldn’t use Tweetbot anymore. Anyhow lets see how it goes over here 👋