Whose Party Is It Anyway?

Any politics aside this whole thing is hilariously slapdash. Case in point: this cursed text justification on the privacy policy

Me designing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me building: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Claiming Delay Repay from Thameslink is my most profitable side hustle

Oh my god I need it

2025 is the year of cyan I guess

Trying to send a parcel; instead Royal Mail's website returns HTTP 418 I'm a teapot

This week's South Park is going to be interesting

It's fine, I didn't want to feel anything this year anyway

"This app doesn't allow taking screenshots" - I beg your finest pardon? Why is an app allowed to decide that?

Apple are surely going to move to year-based numbering for the hardware like they have for the OSes? "iPhone 17" sounds tired already

Why is there no EV shaped like the Cadbury Creme Egg car? Who's working on this?

Real bookmarks are here! Except they're called Saved Posts! But the icon is still a bookmark! Just ignore that bit! It doesn't look like the Bluesky API lets apps create bookmarks yet, so I can't build a converter to automatically transfer over your DM bookmarks yet... (1/4)

Something weird going on with Google Meet this morning. I can get to the waiting room screen but can't join anything. www.google.com/appsstatus/d... says everything's fine but downdetector.co.uk/status/googl... is going 📈

Specsavers just told me, without a hint of irony, that my son's eye test was cancelled "due to unforeseen circumstances"

AI is just three Mad Libs in a trenchcoat

Give me a big PURGE TEEN ANGST button at the top of Gmail please

I'm making a mini retro TV out of an old NUC mini PC, 8 inch touchscreen and 3D printed enclosure. 3D modelling is hard and I hate it

New York Times put the NYT Mini crossword behind a paywall This link will let you bypass the paywall and play for free: www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g... I reverse engineered their JS and found the paywall is all client-side. This URL overrides the config flag which enables the paywall

New York Times put the NYT Mini crossword behind a paywall This link will let you bypass the paywall and play for free: www.nytimes.com/crosswords/g... I reverse engineered their JS and found the paywall is all client-side. This URL overrides the config flag which enables the paywall

There's an emergency alerts test coming up on Sunday 7 September at 3pm www.gov.uk/alerts

Oh brilliant, now I'm older than a time capsule www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The TfL headphones campaign is great news but imo the design isn't direct enough. Here's what I'd propose... (TfL's first, mine second)

What about this. Even more direct.

The TfL headphones campaign is great news but imo the design isn't direct enough. Here's what I'd propose... (TfL's first, mine second)

Re-re-posting because it's really nice. I've been listening all day, it works really well as background noise while you're working

This internal review is due tomorrow... ⌛

Now it's barely a meal and barely a deal

Throwing away the energy label on your fridge? Prison.

Just found out via TikTok that I need to stop selling to the US immediately because Trump has removed the $800 'de minimis' lower limit for tariffs to kick in and my customers would be charged a flat $80 on a £6 keyring, wtaf

Can't wait!

I pitched a talk on this to a service design conference and it was rejected but they still have two unfilled slots months after the programme was announced. Trying not to take it personally that they'd rather have 105 minutes of silence than hear me talk about my made up fairy service

Straight to the spam folder. Hit them right in the deliverability.

I didn't think I could hate Royal Mail any more and then I started sending stuff regularly and oh boy

My imperfect bookmarking solution becomes slightly less imperfect, and still infinitely better than Bluesky's native bookmarks, in that it actually exists

Live police radio is now live on @ambiph.one! Give it a try and let me know what you think. More cities coming soon. Here's a mix to start you off - police radio chatter with ambient music: ambiph.one?m=1-Ambient+...

Live police radio is now live on @ambiph.one! Give it a try and let me know what you think. More cities coming soon. Here's a mix to start you off - police radio chatter with ambient music: ambiph.one?m=1-Ambient+...

This was broken on iOS Safari before but it should be working now. If you're an iPhone person please give it a go and report back 🫡 (Depending on when you start listening you might need to wait a little bit before you start hearing messages - some times are busier than others)

I listened to this mix all the time when I was building Ambiphone. You'll have to provide your own "tourist screaming cause a seagull stole their chips", sorry ambiph.one?m=1-Seaside+...

I want YOU 🫵 (pretend my finger is 🤏this close from your nose) to test new live police scanner feeds in Ambiphone Mix them with ambient or lofi music or white noise or waves or whatever. Dystopian? Kinda! Relaxing? Maybe! Listen on test.ambiph.one

If you like white noise @matteason.me's app is fab. My fall asleep mix is rain on glass + thunder.

This is ridiculous, no one ever used IE like this. You'd have 20 toolbars minimum

Earlier this year I asked people who love Ambiphone to share their favourite mixes with me. Here's a lovely one from Piper:

I seem to be in an A/B test of a new YouTube player UI...

@zoebread.bsky.social vs The Government

Someone just rewatched Ratatouille

Tiny feature but I finally implemented share images on @ambiph.one! They'll show up when you share a custom mix, like this... ambiph.one?m=1-Underwat...

I recently gave a presentation to staff at the Information Commissioner's Office about my perspective as a user of FOI after 20 years, positive and negative, and also my views on the ICO itself and its FOI work - this is what I said: rosenbaum6.substack.com/p/twenty-yea...

BREAKING: BBC are currently livestreaming the view from inside a combine harvester: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

To be honest with you Jimmy I don't think that's any of your business