the world does not need a New Deal Infrastructure Project's worth of non-deterministic SAAS products! we need flood defences and power storage initiatives and carbon capture projects

Sometimes the internet is magic… here's a map from 1840 and plot 118 is the row of cottages I live in The orientation isn't quite right so we're not sure if the building is the same or if it just due to the map drawing skills of the time (later maps in the 1800's have the right orientation)

🚀 Quick Performance Tip: Most sites do not lose customers at checkout. They lose them to small frictions earlier in the flow. A blank screen, a shifting button, a slow filter. Each breaks trust. And trust is what sells. #ecommerce #uxdesign #webperformance #CRO #pagespeed

A sunrise map of Portugal by @verygoodmaps x.com/verygoodmaps...

1. I've long contended that austerity doesn't save money. It merely transfers costs from one group (the very rich, who would otherwise pay more tax) to others. Last night was a powerful reminder of that. Before I go further, I should say I’m fine. Just a black eye, cuts & bruises, no serious harm. 🧵

These false beliefs do not arise in a vacuum. Yet we seem collectively incurious about their origins.

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It's a bit of a surprise to me, but there are still tickets available for performance.now(), the most important web performance conference of the year: perfnow.nl I'm booking my travel, and hope to see you in Amsterdam next month!

Oh, good morning! Today I became a published author. Took me 20 years (and a cancer diagnosis) so I’m feeling pretty proud.

performance.now() is coming! LCP and INP measure loading and responsiveness of entire pages – but same-document soft navigations were much harder to measure. Until now! @mmocny.com will explain how new Performance APIs make this possible. perfnow.nl/speakers.html#michal

What UK shop has the fastest self-checkout machine? Last Sunday I went on a tour around town to find out! www.debugbear.com/blog/self-ch...

Finally finished Andor season 2… IMV it was no where near as good as season 1 Can definitely tell that they chopped it down from multiple seasons and it seemed to vary between excellent and meh…

☀️ The sun sets over Everdream Village… A peaceful place where cows wander the meadows, with their gentle presence filling the fields with life. 🐄 💛 Here, every moo carries the promise of cozy friendships. 🌿✨ #EverdreamVillage #TrailerTuesday #CozyGames #IndieGame #gamedev #cozy #cow

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

As a legal immigrant to the UK, I would just like to say that Farage is spewing lies. He wants to revoke benefits/welfare so that only UK born nationals can use access benefits. I already can't access public funds or benefits, and I pay an NHS surcharge on top of national insurance for the NHS.

Looks like someone’s added www.statichost.eu to Google’s Unsafe Sites list Accident or malicious?

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The media and politicians must recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm SIGN HERE! notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Train named Ctrl Alt Deleaf to help blast billions of leaves from Great Britain’s tracks www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

TREK BATH IS THE BEST BIKE SHOP IN THE WORLD. Claire recognised my bike on the way in to work and said “that’s not meant to be there” and TOOK IT INTO THE SHOP!! They called me and refused any sort of finders fee. I do not deserve people like this.

Anyone out in Bath today. If you spot this bike and tell me where it is I will pay you fuckin handsomely. Pop a lock on it I’ll literally give you £500.

[this is a subpost] there is a credible, democratically run left wing party in the UK. you can join it here: join.greenparty.org.uk

Chrome: "9. Say goodbye to dodgy notifications and unwanted permissions' (blog.google/products/chr...) Also Chrome: Here's a notification saying that 3rd-parties cookies are blocked (I know I deliberately turned them off)

Don't want LinkedIN to automatically train its AI on your data, switch it off here: www.linkedin.com/mypreference... Not sure about the rest of the world, but if you don't switch it off it will start collecting in November for the Netherlands/ Dutch members.

This weekend is very much a women's rugby weekend… Fri: Canada vs New Zealand Sat: England vs France Sun: Bristol Bears Women vs Sale Sharks Women Rest of the winter winter weekend will then be the local men's team (son plays for them) and Bears Women

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

performance.now() is coming! The Long Tasks API told us that our scripts were busy, but didn't tell us why. The new Long Animation Frames (LoAF) API provides details on what Main Thread activity caused the long frame. @andydavies.me explains. perfnow.nl/speakers.htm...

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Need help with web performance optimization? Have a tricky new build you're working on? I have two projects wrapping up and am available for new ones starting next week. sia.codes/services/

Man who constantly posts hateful racist sexist nonsense and gets feedback about it compares himself to a fascist that was shot by another fascist, then with a torch under his chin warns that the left is too violent, despite their last notable action being to throw a milkshake at a different fascist.

In the 1930s Mosley and his rank and file BUF were careful not to outwardly portray themselves as racists. They weren't antisemitic... far from it... they were just concerned about "bad principles" and "international bankers" and the influx of foreigners Everyone knew what they meant.

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The number of times we've reinvented Yahoo Pipes, Google Wave, and even RSS is mind blowing.

The grim salivating of our press at the prospect of spreading more hate about trans people. Has there been an uglier moment in Britain's modern history?

Renewable energy has gone from supplying 20% of the UK’s power to 50% annually in just ten years. Old things are better than they’ve ever been before: you can pick up pre-owned bikes, computers, cars, hifis, CDs and games for a fraction of their original price and they’re *really* good.

A lovely thing, amid the shitshow that's the world… Four years ago, Beau Miles planted a forest. One tree a minute for a whole day. His return video is a joy. Via @kottke.org

What if you focused your entire life on good. Finances? Doesn’t matter. Happiness? Doesn’t matter. Growing and stabilising @protect.earth has always come first. For five years it’s been my main priority and I made £0 from it. You can help for half a pint a month. shop.protect.earth

Don't settle for "good" LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) in website loading performance. It's time for new thresholds. www.speedkit.com/blog/dont-se...

"Often, when the film's protagonists were confronted with reality, they at first didn't believe, would suddenly just adopt a position that explained the broader picture they had already created." kyivindependent.com/what-happens...

I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.

Portrait of day in Gaza when multiple members of a family were murdered by snipers, who went on to discuss their “eliminations”.

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

"the open web is already in rapid decline", says Google, so there is no need to address its structural power

Remember the moral panic around the gypsy and traveller communities for several years? The front pages. The hysteria. The voyeuristic reports. The protests outside their settlements. The "legitimate concerns" by locals. Weren't they expressed in precisely the same terms as anti-refugee bigotry now?

To potentially oversimplify this, but the number of people arrested at the Palestine Action protests exceeds the entire number of people, on average, attending the anti-asylum hotels protests, yet they are called "fringe" and those outside hotels are called the "voice of the people".

Pricing up replacement kitchen doors… seem expensive for what they are Might find someone to strip the polyvinyl off ours and spray them instead

Remember when record labels bankrupted teenagers for downloading Metallica?

The greatest disease of our time is the disease of wealth inequality. You cannot have wealth without poverty and the general consensus that a trillion dollars is an acceptable amount for any one individual to have says a lot about the society we want or even deserve. #fuckcapitalism