Ben Foxall
@benfoxall.bsky.social
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I love the web, data, spatial, robotics and hacks. Prev, Robot Web at Wayve ๐ซถ ๐ค ๐
@alexlizhill.com
every few years I get in a conversation about Pull Requests and end up directing people to your Lead Dev 2018 talk. It just happened again, so thanks!
8 days ago
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So
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copilot decided to extract some secrets into a plain markdown file which it committed to my repo ๐ฐ
about 2 months ago
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We think our cat is being bullied ๐ฟ (keep seeing her getting chased home by a stray cat). โฆ I found an undocumented api for her location tracker (Tractive) and made some plots. Looks like she's been exploring way less over the last few weeks.
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3 months ago
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@remysharp.com
I just came back to a page I was reading yesterday to see it replaced with your face bouncing around. Love it ๐
4 months ago
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I made an advent calendar with a picture of our cat each day ๐.
benjaminbenben.com/catlendar/
4 months ago
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I gave a talk last week about communication & data extraction with QR Codes. One thing clicked for me recently: When you scan a QR Code, you're _copying_ data from the physical world to your device. Was interesting to talk about performance & security with that in mind.
4 months ago
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Had some final stage interviews with a multi-billion dollar company this afternoon, managed to tell: โ The CTO & Cofounder โ It's my mum's birthday today โ Head of Engineering โ I went clubbing at the weekend and considered replying to an email at 1am, but didn't
4 months ago
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Now we're talking ๐ป
4 months ago
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โฆ I guess this is technically what I asked for
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4 months ago
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It's getting to the time of year that people I met in the summer have started noticing that I always wear shorts
4 months ago
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I'm impressed with how straightforward it is to setup your own routing service with OSRM. (this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
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4 months ago
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I've been playing around with visualising Irish rail data
benjaminbenben.com/trains/
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5 months ago
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reposted by
Ben Foxall
Jake Archibald
5 months ago
I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true. โก๏ธ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari โก๏ธ AVIF _does_ support progressive โก๏ธ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't โก๏ธ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF โฌ๏ธ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
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The present and potential future of progressive image rendering
Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.
https://jakearchibald.com/2025/present-and-future-of-progressive-image-rendering/
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โจ New blog post: Using QR Codes to communicate with offline devices
benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
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Offline QR Codes
Have you tried using a QR Code for that?
https://benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/offline-qr-codes/
7 months ago
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Blog post - video playback in 3d space
benjaminbenben.com/2025/07/16/v...
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Video Space
Pose-aligned video tracking with WebGL
https://benjaminbenben.com/2025/07/16/video-space/
8 months ago
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Great to see him dropping some new tracks
8 months ago
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I'm going to play around with some drone footage I captured the other day. It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
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9 months ago
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So, this was scaring me a lot.
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9 months ago
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I got a phishing attack which tried to steal my github credentials (slight coincidence, I'm implementing passkey auth at the moment)
9 months ago
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Getting ready to talk at DubSec tomorrow
www.dubsec.ie
9 months ago
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I got nerd sniped by
www.flaggle.net
this morning
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Flaggle ๐
Guess the flag! A Wordle-inspired game.
https://www.flaggle.net/
9 months ago
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Loved attending Dublin Dataviz yesterday (on my first day of living in Dublin ๐). Great talk by
@virt-arch.bsky.social
sharing a wide range of interesting projects. Thanks to
@rudi-data.bsky.social
for organising and
@thedigitalhub.bsky.social
for the beautiful space ๐
11 months ago
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This is an incredible project and beautifully detailed write up
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about 1 year ago
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It took me a bazillion hours to draft this email. Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks ๐ญ
about 1 year ago
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I've got a load of "field recordings" from an old trip. It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
about 1 year ago
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@peterjwest.bsky.social
I loved coming across your PR onto every-uuid - looks like a really satisfying journey.
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Full UUID search by peterjwest ยท Pull Request #14 ยท nolenroyalty/every-uuid
This PR adds fully working search, as discussed here: #12 Huge thanks to @wangqr, this would not have been possible without them. Replaces the Feistal cipher with a random invertible matrix transfo...
https://github.com/nolenroyalty/every-uuid/pull/14
about 1 year ago
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This is beautiful. (and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" ๐งโโ๏ธ)
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about 1 year ago
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Do you repost your own replies on Bluesky? (I'm new.) This one has nice screenshots ๐
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over 1 year ago
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I've also managed to do some localisation based on the images (I think this is going to be an interesting basis for playing back device audio)
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over 1 year ago
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From
#mkgn
last week โ photos of a QR code aligned together
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over 1 year ago
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reposted by
Ben Foxall
Ben Seymour
over 1 year ago
Ben Foxall's talk on QR codes at
#mkgn
50 this week was remarkable - creating a network-less local internet, using QR codes ๐คฏ One of the wildest and geekiest talks I've ever seen.
youtu.be/mJnzN8pd8Gc?...
(Filmed poorly by me, and shared with
@benfoxall.bsky.social
's permission)
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๐ so many people appreciate this
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over 1 year ago
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Had a fun time at Remote Hack this weekend โก๏ธ Generating audio spectrograms โก๏ธ Planning a ski trip โก๏ธ Giving people bad advice
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Remote Hack
A free, fully-remote hackday that happens on the last Saturday of every month. It's very informal and emphasises chill-hacks-ing over actually producing anything that fully works (though if you wanna ...
https://remotehack.space/
over 1 year ago
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Started printing some nice christmas decorations โ๏ธ
over 1 year ago
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๐ hello
over 1 year ago
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