written in earnest; do read and share! 💛 ✍️ www.rizwanakhan.com/writing/an-o...

special thing (seriously unbiased) 😇

MIC DROP

It was a journey. Arrived at v3, at last. Updated my website 💛

HOW TO ENSURE YOUR JAN 2026 TURNS OUT PERFECT YOU ASK? ⬇️

Looking for companies in Nottingham willing to support @batchbunch.dev 12-month anniversary event 👀 I’m looking to organize a “boardgame” social/celebratory event (since our venue is a boardgame cafe..) to boost community bonding and mark this milestone, memorably.

...the next @batchbunch.dev event will be "12-month anniversary special" 💛 i'm already planning BB#0012 with so, so much elation!

nottingham's coziest tech meetup is back 😌

Don't forget to join us on Wednesday morning for some wisdom from @rizwanakhan.com, some chat, networking and free breakfast! Come kickstart your day with us :) www.meetup.com/notts-techfa...

making my debut speaking at an early morning meetup ☕️ i'm very much looking forward to meeting more folks in the nottingham tech community 💛

BATCH BUNCH #0010 is complete. A buzzing evening featuring riveting convos on code, art, AI, and podcasts. It was awesome to connect over monthly October-driven projects, too, like Inktober. See you next time? 🖱️⌨️😌🌐☕️

BATCH BUNCH #0010 is today. Come along for an evening of code, chatter, coffee, and community 😌 Equal parts productive and fun. 🗺️ Details: luma.com/exz6bw3y

nottingham's coziest tech meetup is BACK. join us? 🤠

new poem × 2 (grateful to be writing again 🥺)

i think it’s what phaedrus meant by quality being the knife-edge of experience. it feels so good because you get to disappear for a moment

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

There isn't really a secret trick to identifying AI writing. It does things because they appear in the training data; real writers use em dashes, so the AI does as well. But blending that writing and extruding it back out as homogeneous sludge eliminates any passion or joy. The dashes are zombies.

making memories while making stuff 💛

biased but notts folks (+beyond!) deserve to attend at least ONCE. best part? everyone's welcoming, kind, curious. the hustle is "organic" because the env promotes attendees to work on a thing that excites them, a thing they're curious about or even a thing they've been avoiding for weeks/months 😌

AI anxiety? pfffft what AI anxiety 🫨

BB RETURNS 🫡

Algis Valiunas in his review of Richard Holmes’s The Age of Wonder (2008): “Poetry needs science, which lifts the veil from nature, and science needs poetry, which elaborates for public appreciation the beauty of the secrets that have been unveiled.”

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

@batchbunch.dev is calling you! 🦇

✍️ i turned 27 and, yes, the birthday blog post ritual still continues www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27

✍️ i turned 27 and, yes, the birthday blog post ritual still continues www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/oh-27

(if you permit me to toot my own horn for a min 😅) i am so, so proud of myself for pulling this off. the idea of "omg, we need cake" was simple in my mind but executing it with BB-level finesse (& trusting myself to find a sponsor) was much harder 💛 community is the brand ✔️

THE CUPCAKES HAVE LANDED 🚨

moments from eid 💛. wishing your eid had moments, too, of worship, gratitude, love (& eidi).

OOO activated 👒

Kicking off a series on how AI is changing the Web: how it's built, how it's consumed, and how the economics work— agenticweb.substack.com/p/ai-future-...

community + cake + code 🥳

En-route to London for London.js where I will be speaking on “The Ripples from Pebbles” this evening 💛 Here is hoping my talk goes well and I can rep Notts proudly 🫣

✔️ hehe, i made the 🧁 plan happen, so, now ya'll can't not attend 😉

1 week to go for my London.js speaking debut 🫣 www.meetup.com/london-js/ev...

transparently: would love to make celebratory 🧁 happen for the next @batchbunch.dev event as it'll mark 6 months since our 1st event 🤠 cc: (cool) tech companies in nottingham, where you at?

Event organisers, you don't need to do anything www.todepond.com/sky/event-or...

📰🎈 señor, this is a 'senior' speaking

we've just added a resources tab to @vercel.com to make it easier to inspect the infrastructure generated for your deployments in this tab: ◆ searching and filtering are instant ◆ functions link directly to all of our o11y tools ◆ static assets link to their contents

💛 not even being biased when i say each BB session is becoming a tiny yet remarkable day in every month how to explain? it's like: 'energy boost without the energy drinks' 🛼

tomorrow

Typos and lack of nuance will reveal themselves in 3, 2, 1 ... ohhelloana.blog/forty-mins-t...

We’re all living through the "First they came for..." poem right now.

When you have something important to say in a meeting.

Community building highlight for me: @daryl.wtf & I coincidentally ran into a friend + past ProjectFunction (IYKYK) student while walking for lunch → we mentioned @batchbunch.dev → they showed up to attend the same evening 🫡 Nottingham is coming together 💛

//event happening in 3h 54m// BATCH BUNCH #0004 is today! Excited for the side-project(s) hacking to begin 💻 🗺️ details: lu.ma/fytsw6f5

💛 see ya’ll!

Anyone know anyone with an extra @figma.com Config London (in-person) ticket that I could avail? 🔍

Recapping the Vercel offsite (better known as an 'ORTBO') held in CA, 🇺🇸 where I met many new folks, won 2 awards 🏆, and had a new burger experience 🍔. www.rizwanakhan.com/prose/vercel...