Oh gosh, I'm in a right old grumpy grump this last 24 hours. I'm sorry.😔

See also "health centres" that don't have cycle parking!!

The crazy thing about not-sitting being good for health is that healthcare places are the WORST! Sure, many (maybe most) people waiting for health care need to sit. But they expect you to sit for hours waiting. They come and take your vitals but there's zero encouragement to move around.

Normalize standing and anxious pacing around!! I always feel like such a freak for wanting to stand up. "Take a seat" "Can I get you a chair?" Etc. Thanks, but I spend all frickin day being sedentary and I'm not at work now and I'd like to stretch out and move around.

Apparently it’s 11 years today since I discovered that adding googly eyes to the tap on a wine box makes it look like Shaun the Sheep.

I will never understand how the various search functions work on iOS. App search is kinda fuzzy? Accidental "ohot" matches "gOogle pHOTos" perhaps? Spotlight search is just wrong most of the time. There is a built-in app that I use all the time called "weather" and you can't find it?

Also: I've been getting a load of cold, personal upsells recently. More than usual and more direct. Is this product companies that have over-spent on AI trying to correct?

I know it's a stupid observation. But I'm struggling to see how AI companies get their money back. The cost/benefit to enterprises is already too hard to justify. Maybe that's because the benefit is hard to measure. Maybe it's because benefit is too low.

In retro-tech news… I have a Soda Stream!! I've been drinking a fair bit of Pepsi Max lately as my summer drink. A combination of: - someone mentioning how bad it was that supermarkets ship flavoured water around; - an annoying large amount of recycling; - my daughter's persistent nagging…

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

The Zig programming language guy is smart, considered, articulate and humble. We need more people in tech like this. I hope he doesn't lose his focus and values. (My thoughts on a YouTube interview with him.)

The other day someone asked "What your low-stakes conspiracy theory?" And I knew I had one but could NOT remember at the time. It's this: The famous crop circles of Wiltshire are Swindon's transport planning dept trying out new roundabout layouts!

Trying again with alt text and the correct “joke”… Today I am at Bletchley Park. Home of the WWII code breaking effort. Fascinating place. But I note that geese were properly valued in the 1940s! 😃

NO Connections. I know you're in the "New York" Times, but you are WRONG!!!

Very proud of @trunkmanuk.bsky.social ‘s incredible work with @cosmicshambles.com and creating this amazing documentary series www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.

What's been super-nice this evening is dropping some emails out to people that reported issues with Turbo Admin. They all get saved and logged and I aim to reply to each one when their issue is fixed. My customers are so nice and I love interacting with them.

Turbo Admin v1.22.0 is out with the Firefox iframe fixes - amongst some other minor things. Useful thing… I've improved front-end detection of WordPress APIs, so you can pop the palette up on your favourite WP sites to search them! (This was broken for a while)

I've had a couple of reports of my Turbo Admin browser extension injecting its palette code into places it shouldn't when using Firefox. Seems I was a bit over-enthusiastic with my iframe handling! Fix is identified and implemented and will be released very soon. Apologies if this impacted you.

Please sign my petition to institute a temporary and UK-nationwide standard working day of 6am - 10am and 4pm - 8pm. Everyone gets a long siesta and doesn't have to work though the hottest part of the day. Thanks in advance for your vote!

I'm sure this is fine (alt text on first image)

So frickin’ weird… Four years ago I had a letter addressed to my business about someone leaving a legacy in their will - not to my company, but to a charitable organisation with a similar name. All seemed pretty suspicious. But I contacted the solicitors and they were going to look into it. 1/3

Cross-posting in the Indigo social app is great. Except when you want to write something a little longer. Idea: I'd love to be able to have a "page break" that splits a longer Mastodon post into a multi-post Bluesky thread when cross-posting! Vote:

I'm sure I've said this before but I think we should view AI "tokens" like fossil fuels. They are single-use and supply is costly and unpredictable. Most computer programs are more like "solar panels". They cost to build but subsequent use is essentially free.

The prompts/placeholders in the new post screen in the Indigo app are so good. 😆

Chat today with a friend who thinks their son is ASD, their daughter is ADHD. They themselves are diagnosed as ADHD now too. I know we're just better at recognising & naming these things now. I know that we find each other. But so many people in my sphere (even outside of work) are neurodiverse.

Loads of sites and apps have the colourful monospace terminal look these days. Is it an AI smell? Or just a design trend?

Social media ban press conference. GB News guy says: "Many children will be watching this on our morning programme" Can we ban that??!

I'm hearing Siri on iOS 27 will be using LLM technology by default. And it will route to a cloud-based model (albeit a private one) as a first point of call, possible utilising a local model if the cloud one says it should. Is there no way to turn this off? Are all iPhones suddenly using cloud LLMs?

Well, this week was a thing. - Kid stood on small rusty nail. Infection panic! (All well) - Foot hurting so drove him to school. Road closed. 90 mins to drive 6 miles - 4-hour power cut - 2 birthdays - News that a close relative is very ill -> emergency 275 mile drive. Solo parenting for a few days

Here's the Turbo Admin update post. If you've no idea what this is and you use #WordPress a lot then… well… you're missing out on a very cool tool that makes you WP life much better (in my own, humble opinion!) Find out more: turbo-admin.com/

A cartoon from a little series I've drawn about creativity. This is for everyone who says "I'm not creative". Maybe, just maybe, the evidence says otherwise.

The Indigo iOS app for Mastodon and Bluesky quite quickly replaced Ivory for me. The TapBots crew are great. I've supported them for literally years. But Indigo is being developed at pace. Perhaps Ivory was "finished"? And I like that. But they've been outdone here. Kinda sad in a way.

Just a note to any content producers that care… if your open graph image is clearly generic AI slop, in my head it just vanishes. It's just noise. My brain filters it out. Like those walls of AI slop posters on notice boards.

Yay! Turbo Admin sailed through Google Web Store approval. Update is rolling out to everyone. Blog post coming soon.

Release of Turbo Admin is rolling out to Firefox (and Firefox-based browsers) now. Chrome needs web store approval. I'll keep you posted. Blog post and probably a video during the week!

I've also added a page about the tech stack and AI use (or almost complete lack of it) in Turbo Admin. I'm proud that this is almost completely vanilla JS, HTML and CSS, and that it's very, VERY hand crafted:

OK. Turbo Admin v1.21.0 is feature complete. Docs are done. I'm releasing tonight (I hope)! It's been a year, but this is a good one. - Playground support - Hide/pin menu items - Hide the core command palette hint in the admin bar Changelog for what's coming:

This is kinda interesting and fun. The next release of Turbo Admin will track (internally, 100% privately) command palette usage and admin site visits. These are for future features, but I can show them! There's something compelling about it. Must. Resist. "Turbo Admin Wrapped" at new year!!

It's fascinating seeing others learning some of the things I've learned about building a #WordPress browser extension for five years! (Turbo Admin's 5th birthday is THIS MONTH!)

Just set up a free site on to try it out. Beautifully simple. Fast control panel. Love it. Might have to take out a plan and move some more stuff over.

I somehow lost my swimming goggles two weeks ago, and my shorts and gym padlock at the weekend. Baffling. I do NOT lose thing. And I get very cross when I do.

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

If you use DBngin on MacOS and are running out of disk space, their latest update (build 82 from 21st May) downloads a 500MB installer several times a day and keeps it in ~/Library/Caches/com.tinyapp.DBngin/org.sparkle-project.Sparkle/PersistentDownloads/ I just reclaimed 50GB of space from here!

Squid Bits is just gloriously ridiculous, silly fun. And I love it. (I hope Jess takes that as a compliment).

This is the kind of pointless internet-meets-real-world fun I can get behind: payphonetag.com

I'm very curious about the bird-themed, not-instant messenger app Roost. Seems weirdly … fun? It has a slightly vibe-coded smell, but if anyone is brave and wants to send me a bird (or snail!) here's my invite: Join the flock on Roost! Get a free bird when you sign up with my code 2HXHUZ.

Event: www.retrocollective.co.uk/view-event.p... After the sell out success of our last table sale we're inviting many more vendors to a summer sale for retro bargains. The museums will be open and the team will be there too for a great day out, including lunch! Book now