If you'd also be interested in hosting your @tangled.org source code on #PikaPods, drop an upvote here and let's see if we can make it happen 😊 feedback.pikapods.com/posts/923/kn...

@tangled.org Hey folks, would you be up for working with the team at www.pikapods.com to make Knot and Spindle servers available there? I think it'd be a great match; folks can run "their own" Tangled infra with ease, *and* you can apply to receive 20% of the proceeds.

anytime someone brings up "staff-level" engineering

Gosh iOS 26 is annoying. Everything feels noticeably laggier, even on my iPhone 14 Pro. It’s *much* harder to make the OS unexciting too (I keep my background black, icons monochrome, and all but the essential apps only via search). iOS really wants to be your world.

My day of free headshots for science people went so well in London that I'm doing one in Cambridge. Oct 9th afternoon at Canopy (CISL). Email [email protected] if you'd like free pictures to use to promote yourself and do websites and socials and that.

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

@tangled.sh Hey there! Your blog's RSS feed at blog.tangled.sh/blog/feed.xml (shown as one of two auto discovered feeds when visiting blog.tangled.sh) lists all local URLs as `blog.blog.tangled.sh`, which doesn't work and I assume is a typo 😊

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Yo @mattfraction.bsky.social www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Incredible/cursed work

The awesome vole.wtf/vtv put an evil song in my head so I had to learn Strudel to be able to get it out. You're welcome. strudel.cc#Ly8gQGJ5IEpQ...

Secret rotation sounds much cooler than it is

The NatWest banking app doesn’t let you change apps without resetting the log in flow. (Password managers can’t be used) It needs 3 separate pieces of “hard to guess” info to complete a log in. But without a password manager… “Easy *or* Secure” is not a choice I want to make with a bank.

My friend Claire has told me, once again, to Shut Up via #postcard 😂 "SHUT UP JP" (From Hell's Kitchen, 80 South 9th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (July 14, 2025) — https://shutup.jp/#hells-kitchen#postcard

What awesomeness is this‽: This custom made, almost kilogram brass curio is infuriatingly WONDERFUL. I <em>will</em> break into it… eventually. #puzzle #birthday #miriscient #conlang #toki-pona https://www.byjp.me/posts/40th-puzzle-box/what-a-gift/

Hello @archive.org! Is there a safe & trustable way to mirror a limited subset of your files for public good? Is first-class IPFS support on the cards at all?

My friend Claire has told me, once again, to Shut Up via #postcard 😂 "Rho hosan yuddi, JP!" (From Museum of Welsh Life (July 2, 2025) — https://shutup.jp/#welsh-life#postcard

@popsky.app hey folks! It took me a *long* time (the second time I opened the app!) to realise that creating a post requires that I search for the thing I want to review first! I was looking for a “+” button (like Bluesky), which could have just taken me to the “search” box.

I'm really hoping for a standard for #atproto "spoilers with metadata" (github.com/bluesky-soci...) I'd _love_ to read a book and be able to read a chronological feed of anyone's thoughts on the story _up to that point and no further_. You could do that by tagging with ISBN & page number.

My friend Claire has told me, once again, to Shut Up via #postcard 😂 "اسكت JP" (From Burj Khalkifa, Dubai (June 15, 2025) — https://shutup.jp/#dubai#postcard

The Fujifilm Repair Centre: I've been extremely impressed with Fujifilm's Service Centre! #review #photography https://www.byjp.me/posts/fujifilm-repair-centre/

Thoughts on Postcards: A love-postcard to postcards. #postcards https://www.byjp.me/posts/thoughts-on-postcards/

The Beauty of Type: I created a font from a piece of art made for me by a friend. #typography #postcards #project #music https://www.byjp.me/posts/the-beauty-of-type/

Miriscience: Why I created the word &quot;miriscience&quot;, and why it's been so important to me. #words #miriscient https://www.byjp.me/posts/miriscience/

Communicating Slowly: Setting kind expectations in busy times: slow.fyi #microsite https://www.byjp.me/posts/communicating-slowly/

@edent.tel I remember a blog post of yours about a (new?) CSS property that reqeusts lines be split so line length is roughly even — I can't seem to find it on your site, nor the CSS property! Could you help me in my search, or confirm I should consign this to the "weird dreams" bin? 😅

My friend Claire has told me, once again, to Shut Up via #postcard 😂 "กะดอง, JP" (From Wat Rong Khun, Chiang Rai, Thailand (April 22, 2025) — https://shutup.jp/#wat-rong-khun#postcard

Hi internet. I would very much like real-world "Sensayer Training" to exist; a poly-theological coursebook to help you understand what *you* believe, framed through all the religions of the world. (Named for the spiritual counsellors of @adapalmer.bsky.social's Terra Ignota books)

I would love to see a pie chart (including absolute numbers) of the number of corrections every newspaper has issued, grouped into high level categories. This reads as if no-one should get their energy news from The Telegraph and believe it accurate.

As a non-coffee drinker it’s quite alarming how much people in books, media and the world about me profess total addiction to it at the drop of a hat 😅

Evidently the very slow AIs we call corporations have now reached the recycling-their-own-slop phase of the enshittification cycle

Gosh buying Paragon extFS for Mac is a disappointing experience. Double restart is unavoidable, and being forced to create an account to use my new licence key is annoying, but account creation requiring action from the support team is just… WTF‽

My friend Claire has told me, once again, to Shut Up via #postcard 😂 "閉嘴 JP！" (From Keelung, Taiwan (May 12, 2025) — https://shutup.jp/#taiwan#postcard

I visited a friend in Todmorden a month back or so, and bought this lovely oils-on-wood painting of the Yorkshire moors from the art gallery on the train platform. I’ve lost the name of the artist (😭) but I did build it a frame yesterday, which I’m rather proud of ☺️

Beware the Britifh Sea-Pen

This year, I think artists really need to dig into showing the process of their art alongside the final work. The human effort. Different landscape with all this AI stuff happening.

Addendum: my personal view is that there's no way to unfuck the system. Universities basically provide a free vetting system for companies now. Companies get data on potential employees for free, and students pay universities to collect that data.

The website velikeprice.com has scraped one of my honeypot email addresses (or paid for email addresses that have been scraped), and used it an email marketing campaign. I recommend you block this website and all emails from that domain.

I propose the search sorting “from the median price outwards”. Wildly expensive and cheap things come last (they’re probably not the thing you want), and pricing for visibility gets harder, cos it’s more dynamic.

By using FontForge on a PDF from the website for the campaign (web.archive.org/web/20051223...); I can confirm that they are indeed using the illegal clone version of the font, rather than the licensed one!

open.spotify.com/track/0yin14... GROOF

I just swapped to using dithered images for my Gemini capsule — no reason beyond I quite like what my dither tool makes ☺️ gemini://gemini.byjp.me/photos/instagram/mtbmj34wcwl2eppnfbufl3c6ry/ (Go get Lagrange (https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange/releases) if you haven't visited Gemini space

Oh no. I put my phone down after a sensible chuckle and… #xkcd

I saw this lovely postcard and thought I’d take a photo of the same spot ~50 years later!

Why have Loaf been sending us large marking booklets about their sofas every 6 months *after* we bought one from them. The address they have is clearly a small London flat — where would we put a second one? Do they think it's bigger on the inside or something??

lol, youtube added a clickthrough warning modal to save people from getting rickrolled. afaict it's the only video that has it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

Does @archive.org have any partner organisations operating in the UK or Europe? I see their work as very important, but it feels odd to be an exercise limited to only Northern America.

I was such an overachiever in school that even when I was angry at something I got an A in my bonnet