I always feel a warm glow whenever I see "data driven" when it comes to prototyping and design While I was lucky to work with graphic designers who could push me to better designs, it frustrated me that they'd only ever pick the simplest names, the showcase categories, and the nicest images.

Wow I could’ve used this in school decades ago

What tool/platform are you forced to use (by your employer or client) that you’d rather toss into an open fire?

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent ‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time.”’

A good read about good reading (and writing, and content in general) Hearty recommendation for @iainbroome.com's renamed Clear Language Club newsletter www.clearlanguage.club/ready-for-an...

Hmm, that coffee tastes really weak. Did I grind the beans badly? Also me: have you eaten anything that might have affected that? Me: what, apart from those coffee beans? Also me: well, I wasn’t going there, but 🤷‍♂️ [Deleted tweet from April 2001]

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website. accessibilityforeveryone.site The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

Perhaps Microsoft has the evidence that this "we know best" approach will help people work more effectively – I'd love to know if this is the case

Not watched any of The Traitors, perhaps it is more cultural than I realised

While Grok’s nudification habit has been dominating the headlines, it’s not the only troublesome AI tool in town. Full story and more A-EYE in the new Private Eye, out now.

“We’re going live to the High Court now, where we’re expecting a ruling over the ownership of the One Ring. Joining us is our Sméagol correspondent…”

Tweet from on this day in 2010 If my name was Al Day, I'd surely have a friend called Oliver Knight and we'd form a Kinks tribute band

One for the online publishing aficionados, but this is a good from the GOV.UK team about how they're starting to deconstruct a page-centric publishing model into distinct and relatable content objects. Good tactic to avoid AI Agents mangling your messages. insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/20/t...

My laughsnort at this disturbed my teen who was quietly reading XKCD

More than fair

My laughsnort at this disturbed my teen who was quietly reading XKCD

When the AI rebellion comes, will it even be in the right place? [Now-deleted tweet from 2021]

I wonder how many real life assassins would die for their current employer at the hands of a pissed-off dog owner or someone who with a newfound respect for life

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“Your scientists were too preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they moo-ed”

TERRY WANTS TO KNOW… What are YOUR memories of seeing The Phantom Menace for the first time in 1999? We’d love to hear from you for our next episode. Please RT. (Thank you)

I would be so grateful if folks could share this thread. I hate doing fundraisers, but it's the only way I can get any Ada Lovelace Day related stuff done these days, absent sponsorship.

Ah yes, I remember it well. #TimeTrumpet

"History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it."

I've just discovered a new cupboard in my classroom that I swear wasn't there last term. Should I open the cupboard door? I'm going to open the cupboard door. If you don't hear from me again, please tell someone to check the cupboard.

Three Christmases have passed since this tweet, how many more before it comes true? Tangentially…we’ll know AI is truly taking over when Copilot enables you to mail merge and print out a flawless set of Christmas card labels FIRST TIME

What's orange and stripy, and sings cynical songs about Rocky? The Ironic Tiger (From another time and another place, but posting it here for it to be under-appreciated once again)

From a now-deleted tweet from 2023: The race to the bottom, rather inevitably, accelerates downwards Into a battle of those with the most resources and the least scruples. AI also spells Adversarial Internet

The “Next” family includes seven (7) weights, each with carefully crafted upright and italic versions. PLUS webfont and variable weight variations for fancy web folk like us. (Great use case: password entry and recovery.) Good for your readers. Free for you. What’s not to love?

If you like books about men who cross their arms, Waterstones in Manchester has a bunch of them

…and more importantly

Internal Comms is an undervalued tool in the adoption of AI (or any other change) in business – it's nice to see this from @meetdux.bsky.social

Content is for someone else.

Turning on its own…? Its own kind? Its creators?

I keep coming back to the question: what is workplace content really for? I like Christian's choice of words when he says that content strategy needs to stop being marketing’s problem and start "behaving like a shared organizational capability"

Today in linguists are not kidding when we say your capacity for language includes the ability to understand sentences that have never been produced before in human history

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Agree completely, but don’t let dads of young kids off the hook, because some think reading to and with children isn’t their job. Lines like “no veg”, “biscuits are our favourite thing”, “Mog didn’t like things to be different…” and “I was bounced!” are a part of our language thanks to books.

Does my 2026 word being “galvanic” mean my year will be electric? Or shocking? Or perhaps just it’ll be the current year 🤓 !

Oh, please! And no over-active foley artists, especially ones making fake splooshy watery noises

H) As I said above, execution is all. Start with a prologue if you want, start with a dream if you want. Sprinkle your story with footnotes, yank that god out of the machine, put some tinsel on your squid and place it proudly on the mantelpiece, whatever. Just aim to do it as well as you can.

A2: I'm not seeing very much Copilot in my clients, tending to be engaged by internal comms or content teams. From what I've seen, though, there's a long way to go. Employees have embarrasedly said they'd put something into ChatGPT, and managers been unable to push back. #collabTalk

Oh good, I am a harvester of souls and occasional deliverer of midwinter gifts. Or perhaps a duchess.

The Alec Guinness version of Tinker Tailor is on as part of a spy/Le Carrè series on BBC4 tonight

Click on the part of the body you need to keep close to you?

Looking for some new music? I won't say John's albums of the year are infallible, but there is always something interesting (and a few I usually intend, and fail, to catch up on)

You’ve just opened a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it? The Café on the Edge of Forever