I wrote a smol speech about something I'm recently learning:

It's been one year since I published VizDex. The library has grown from featuring 19 data viz blogs & newsletters to 59; still continuing to expand. Thanks to all contributors! www.vizdexproject.com

Working on a little colour blending tool for my #DataViz and #CreativeCoding projects 🎨 Input an R vector or Python/JS array 🎨 Add a blending colour and amount 🎨 Visualise palettes 🎨 Check contrast in greyscale 🎨 Copy colours to use in R, Python, or JavaScript #GenerativeArt #RStats #Python

Weeknotes for week 24, 2026: On losing my voice, staying in and running a personal away day. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 23, 2026: On pride, souvenirs and rain. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 22, 2026: On Club Mate, losing braces and playing maybe my favorite ever set. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 19, 2026: On being wired, becoming one year older and drinking way too much Yebisu. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

OMG it's happening!!!

Weeknotes for week 17, 2026: On late nights, rodizio and losing at chess. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 13, 2026: On mysteries, architecture and german beer. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 11, 2026: On Nandos, Costco and unlimited garlic shrimp. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

As a person actively trying to be more vulnerable (from near zero) for the past year, I’m struggling to see the upside: I get light mockery and reductionism, and while I’m delighted people are getting *something* from my experience, I’d really love some help.

Weeknotes for week 10, 2026: On manifesting paranoid london, watching czechia challenge korea, and kabukicho's best curry alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 8, 2026: On community, specifications and Voyager. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Slack's new activity manager is almost perfect, but has missed the most useful feature: The ability to add *any* channel I'm in into custom views. Like most Slack users, I turn off channel notifications to avoid constant beeping, but I still want to follow and group important channels!

walked all 40km of the yamanote line today. pretty fun but now everything hurts!

Weeknotes for week 7, 2026: On Trifon Zarezan, drinking 13.7 drinks and a 3 year TCO forecast. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

In many ways, the rise of AI agents and chat-based UX is like a consumer rebellion against poor UX and complicated billing.

Weeknotes for week 6, 2026: On Russian-food, Anti-Action artwork and C4. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

If I think about all of the things in my life which cumulatively bring me joy, the loudest is the Roland TB 303 which objectively makes everything better.

Weeknotes for week 5, 2026: On two different jurisdictions of tax, and two different types of soup. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 4, 2026: On a pivot to MCR, and failing to eat Ekiben. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 3, 2026: In which I procure a doll, stay indoors a bit, and then go to see a superstar DJ. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

Weeknotes for week 2, 2026: On climbing, drilling and interesting facts about drinking habits alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

AI writing detection is getting _really_ good these days. I hadn’t been paying attention to this part of the industry and I’m surprised (in a good way) to see how good it has gotten! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Weeknotes for week 1, 2026: In which we ring in the new year and ruin a pan. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 52, 2025: On christmas, karaoke and morning toast alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

I am so sick of ChatGPT's patterned speech showing up in nearly every new piece of marketing I see. Folks, if your marketing reads identically to that of your competitors and every other promo, pamphlet or junk email: You're just blending in!

Migrating to the Next.js App Router doesn't have to be a nightmare. This team used a "dual-running" strategy to move incrementally while keeping new features shipping. { author: @alexwilson.bsky.social } dev.to/alexwilson/m...

Recently we overhauled one of our products to make it faster, more secure and more reliable. We achieved this by consolidating logic & moving rendering to the server, which was made possible by migrating to the Next.js App Router. This is the story of why and how we did it: global.moneyforward-...

Weeknotes for week 49, 2025: On setting up a new team, Zootopia and assembling furniture. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 48, 2025: On kagi, a release and tacos but *not* turkey alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 47, 2025: A year since I left the FT, I visited Nagoya for the first time alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

I want to jailbreak my iPhone just so I can make all my screenshots always show <10% battery

Weeknotes for week 46, 2025: On deleting social media, karaoke and making pizza. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

I'm sick of Doom Scrolling and I'm sick of shadowy algorithms trying to hijack my mood for ad dollars 👎 So, I've built UpBeat to try and tackle all of that, and give people back the control over what they want to see. 😎 Check it out! ✨ upbeat.mitchelltechnologies.co.uk

Weeknotes for week 45, 2025: On what happens when you combine wagyu, sushi and doritos. And some other stuff. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 44, 2025: On walking, gawking and talking. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 43, 2025: Late but at least I remembered the milk. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 42, 2035: On some exhibitions and some other stuff. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 41, 2025: On being sick, cooking and the 40th year of DMC alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 40, 2025: On Osaka, a three day week and hitting a milestone alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 38, 2025: On the Expo. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 37, 2025: I’ve been bad at posting these on time, but I’m nearly caught up! On doing some strategy work, playing counter strike and listening to loud music (again). alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 34, 2025: No, not on that kind of carding. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Weeknotes for week 33, 2025: On Sonic Mania (the good one), being in a smoke filled room and looking at pretty things. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

Belated weeknotes for week 31, 2025: On doing things I'd meant to for years. alexwilson.tech/cont... #weeknotes

A fun mental math trick: Mentally calculating cube roots