This article on #UKGov websites from @tpximpact.com is interesting : www.tpximpact.com/knowledge-hu... Typically as soon as a website leaves the .gov.uk domain we get inaccessible Wordpress trash, unhelpful "check with your local authority" answers and this, the worlds largest cookie banner

Not gonna lie, #Songkick - you had me for a minute there… #RAtM

I'm still in shock that of all the big software releases this month - #MacOS26, #Android16 - it is #Gnome49 that gives a damn about implementing design consistently. The platform is not without its problems & limitations, but the team behind #Gnome really deserve huge kudos: release.gnome.org/49/

It's interesting how humans have evolved so dramatically in the last 5 years that 'gorilla arm' is no longer a thing, so this #Apple #Mac design choice makes perfect sense: www.macrumors.com/2025/09/17/k... *waves from chest mounted arm mutation 👋

mfw

Very nearly piled into the back of a Honda Jazz, driving through East Leeds. I got distracted by all the flags 🇬🇧 I wonder if there is anything to be taken away from this?

Basically this: www.reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

Saw #TheLindaLindas in Manchester a couple of weeks ago. Overjoyed to discover a live performance on a level with their two excellent albums. 1st ever gig for my girl - we stood at the side with her on my shoulders & even got a photo with the band. I told her not all gigs are this good!

Trialling #Wisecut 'AI' for simple video editing for use on social media. 1st vid. Happy with output. Go to 'export video' - it says "Upgrade to Wisecut Premium" Two issues: 1. There is no such product listed as "Wisecut Premium" 2. If I can't output one simple video, it's not really a trial is it?

I feel pretty bad for the kids who have to pass by the dark abandoned railway tunnel - that #PeterMandelson now lives in - on their way to school.

I have no idea why #Chrome is offering me 'homework help' on this article (and only this article). I'm in my mid 40s. #Google most likely know this. Also, you don't know the plural for sheep so are you really in a position to offer academic assistance? #aifail

Happy #Article5 day to all of you who celebrate x 🇵🇱

Back to wonderful school comms! Flu vaccination time: 🏋️‍♀️ Email w\ 1.7M of PDFs in different languages for text-only content (I'm pro-i18n, but not like this) 🔝 PDFs have text rotated 90 degrees ⛓️‍💥 Wrong URL to vaccination consent form 🧙 Found the URL, page asks for a 'School code'… wonder what this is

I understand that art is subjective and all that, but what sort of soulless, cultural void of a loser would buy this #AISlop insta-landfill?: www.cnet.com/home/smart-h...

Fiona Bruce really relished these multicultural Bradford biscuits on #BBC #AntiquesRoadshow this evening. Slow down Fiona!

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3:01 alarm in #Sheffield Typical, the North behind everyone else.

Zuckerberg saying Meta intends to spend at least 600 billion in the US Zuckerberg at the end caught on a hot mic

On #BBCBreakfast r.e. the government emergency alarm test this Sunday: > "I dare say it's a sound we'll get used to" Uh oh. What do you know Charlie? What are you planning!? #CharlieKnows

Angela Rayner resigns as Deputy PM. #AngieRangieRIP #NoCoincidences #UKPol

Another thing we can blame the 👾 Among Us / 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans community for (please choose as applicable to your own personal prejudices): www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Good to read this from the 🇪🇺 neighbours. Trying to at least fix part of the problem using @artefr.bsky.social Meanwhile in the UK we have governments who don't even know what 'soft power' is & chip away at the BBC: www.brusselstimes.com/1622270/germ...

This website wins the award for the website I most expected to utilise scrolljacking but which doesn't actually utilise scrolljacking: americabydesign.gov #AmericaByDesign #FascismUpdate

We're back on September 25th after a long summer (& #FrontEndNorth) with: - Nick Tsim on #React Server Components - where are we in now in 2025? - Tom Baker on landing your 1st web dev role 🎟️ www.meetup.com/front-end-sh...

Trialling form-management solutions to assist with webdev / marketing day-to-day: Documentation uses "Elon Musk" in their examples. Is this cool in 2025? Should I create software where onboarding samples are Heinrich Himmler? Mockup Eugène Terre'Blanche's beaming face on account designs? 🤮

pros: it can write half assed code and emails cons:

Team Big Willy Style used #AI to "improve things" and then Google use their own tooling to automatically "improve things" without proper notification. The result: Disaster for everyone - both content creators and audiences. Played. /via @waxy.org waxy.org/2025/08/will...

My local city council (#Sheffield) promotes a #BetterPoints app to encourage fitness & #ActiveTravel of its population - you get 1 quid off a coffee for every 9000 miles walked, etc. The #UX is laughably crap in many ways but this is a favourite. Here is a very wet 2mph drive I took yesterday:

The beep beep brum brum industry is so cringe these days. Glad I've started to get into pushbikes. Even those lycra bib things are less degrading than this. www.theverge.com/tesla/761325...

I stayed here (for work) a couple of years ago. It's lovely. So whilst it's unfair to say they keep out all the riff-raff, it's nice to see they draw the line at outright fascists: www.thedailybeast.com/staff-mutiny...

Every time I take a shower, I'm going to delete an old tweet. #DoingMyPart 💦 www.theverge.com/science/7582...

Always with this "generally" bullshit. You *can't* duplicate a form using #formcarry. Why not save #AI responses for things you're a million miles away from getting right? (aside from #theGrift of course). I'm lucky, I can sniff my way around simple dev stuff. But what of beginners? God help them.

Sad to see the @hypem.com newsletter being put to bed. I've found some genuinely interesting stuff there over the past few years that I probably wouldn't have picked up elsewhere 🎶 Another loss in the battle against soulless algorithmic streaming dross: hypem.com/stack/500 #HypeMachine

Wake up babe. A new reason to hate Prince Andrew just dropped 🚁

My fellow Englanders who can't dedicate an entire weekend to watching a music festival: You have until midnight tonight to catch-up with the #BBC #Glastonbury coverage on iPlayer before it's - bafflingly - all removed and replaced with that one Radiohead set from 1997. (hat tip to `get_iplayer`)

"A few months ago, Foursquare teamed up directly with ChatGPT, meaning Foursquare’s location data is now powering many of the AI’s responses. What’s really wild about this is that Foursquare has pretty much retired its consumer-facing apps and websites. Yet, it’s now a key aggregator for AI search."

Saddened to learn of the passing of Tom Lehrer and I will just say the song 'We Will All Go Together When We Go' has really got me through some ever-so-slightly dark moments over the last couple of years. Godspeed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAE...

I live in the expensive, authoritarian hellhole that is the UK, so when I tried to seelol funnymeme on BlueSky I was asked to prove my age. As I trust this platform somewhat I let them check my debit card. Didn't work. Had the same account for 20+ years. Not a great start, lads. #OnlineSafetyBill

“If we put eyes on the penis, we won’t blur it. That was a whole conversation with grown-up people for four fucking days.” So happy that #SouthPark is relevant again.

Working through my #SEO newsletters. Some takeaways: 1. Be thankful you're not working in publishing anymore 2. Structure / semantics / linking still important for ML… same as it ever was 3. If you can afford therapy, you should absolutely do it. Sounds conclusive.

Jo Tanner: "People are always surprised that I voted Labour in '97 and then voted Tory later on" - Nope. No one is at all surprised by this. _Everyone_ voted Labour in '97. #BBCLauraK

What a horrible way to find out that your partner likes Coldplay.

Just gonna put this out there: this was a better use of time than Jon Stewarts somewhat egotistical & very flabby take on the #Epstein stuff this week: youtu.be/l6rRz7sr2Nw

#LastFM has a new first-party 'album quilt' generator. I'm using this as an excuse to share mine because it's the one time of the year I look _reasonably_ interesting: www.last.fm/labs/album-q...

<Pretty much what Tom said, but maybe a bit more concisely> #FrontEndNorth

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

Huge well done to our final 4 speakers of the day 💚 Hope you all had a wonderful day! @whitep4nth3r.com @amyhupe.bsky.social @craigabbott.co.uk @joehart.bsky.social Next step, National Videogame Museum! 👾🍕

Notes from #FrontEndNorth in Sheffield today on my website at www.kevinmarks.com/frontendnort... apologies for the typos.

Command and conquer via Jira anyone? There’s a collection at Joehart.dev/games

A great sign off from @joehart.bsky.social imho #FrontEndNorth