woo, bought my ticket for State of the Browser, excellent. (I threw in an online diversity ticket as well, it's only a fiver, and means that someone gets to watch the stream who otherwise wouldn't; worth considering when you get yours too.) See you all in London! #sotb26

this is a neat idea! I wish @vivaldi.com could do this, but afaict an extension can't fiddle with themes, and themes can't change the address bar appearance separate from other stuff anyway

If you are a lawyer/legal researcher familiar with UK law in this area pls do drop me a line on this

#uksnow B1 1/10 uksnowmap.com

OWA's 2025 in Review! A huge and special thank-you to all of our volunteers and donors. We can't wait to see what we can do together in 2026! open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-202...

A review of 2025. I'm glad it's over. Fingers crossed. Warning: not the cheeriest thing I've ever written. www.kryogenix.org/days/2026/01...

If you are a TTRPG Actual Play creator who records in-person & would be willing to share your setup (photo/video or me observing in-person*), I’d love to hear from you as I finish the book. (Comments, DMs or [email protected]) *In-person: - Atlanta/AL/GA - Philly area - DC area - Bonn - UK

Be careful today. It’s quite slippery outside.

I used to love Twitter, even if I had to really reign in my shitposting when I got elected. It used to be genuinely useful professionally too. It has long ceased to have any positive net benefit, either individually or societally, and anyone in public life who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

Whatever little bits you're doing to do this, to rewild the internet as Maria Farrell puts it, to re-establish a place online that's ours and makes me actually want to go there, that's a good thing that you're doing. This very post is part of it as well as talking about it.

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

@juudes.bsky.social what amended in the Archers? A whole bunch of people seem to be very scandalised by it all and I reckon you’d know what the score is

Well done Yorkshire Heart for Quaffer. A very easygoing beer, which I suppose is exactly the point given the name. My dad would have been well pleased with it and the strength of it, and I’m enjoying it a bunch.

What an extremely lovely day with my friends that was.

@bell.bz I must have missed bell.bz/why-bother-l... at the time but: it’s good stuff. Nice one.

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Anybody got any suggestions about how to find and batch delete duplicate photos in google photos without downloading them all? Search results on this are uselessly overrun by bullshit. Note: this is exact duplicates: I don’t need AI detection of similarity, just photos that are in there twice.

Trying to patiently explain to my mum that yes, the Exif metadata in this huge collection of her photos from 2003 probably isn’t completely reliable and no, they don’t have gps locations because the only people who had gps back then were tanks. I’m not making much headway. Still fun though.

Cylinder seals from ancient Mesopotamia — tiny objects carved with images and text — were early signatures. People rolled them over wet clay tablets and envelopes, and they tell us a lot about identity and authenticity. Interesting, brief read by Serdar Yalçin theconversation.com/signatures-m...

The Luddites were not actually opposed to progress or innovation: they were opposed to being exploited. But the term "Luddite" as most people understand it -- a stick-in-the-mud who dislikes change and cleverness for their own sake -- is really useful! Can we have another word which does mean that?

He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he needs. Wally's got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again.

I have just gone through a weird mental journey from “never heard of these things” through “hang on just making stuffing as a snack, is that even allowed?” to “I must have this, immediately, where can I get some panettone” in the space of about forty seconds

December 20th. A partially rubberised torso stands on the corner of Edward Street and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing.

My MP is Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary. I don’t agree with a lot of her stances on immigration. But as a constituency MP for Birmingham, good job Ms M. shabanamahmood.org/2025/12/17/g...

My dad's best mate is a bloke called John. But people who've known him for a long time call him Jumbo, because he was a bit fat. When he was at school. Sixty years ago.

Changes to iOS in Japan to comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA). Developers can distribute apps on alternative app marketplaces, process app payments s outside of Apple In-App Purchase, use alternative web browser engines. developer.apple.com/support/app-...

Listen, I’ll grant you this thing sucks ass and doesn’t work, and employees and customers hate it and by extension us for using it. I’ll grant you all that. But what if it doesn’t? Wouldn’t we look foolish? I think my logic is sound.

I've been asked for information about UK-based researchers with interest in TTRPGs and Actual Play. I have a half-dozen names off the top of the dome, but would be happy to hear of more to pass along for Schemes.

Looks like zero hours contracts will be gone, now that the Employment Rights Bill is through the Lords. Bunch of other good stuff coming too. I’m not particularly happy with the Labour government I voted for, but this is a good day. (www.acas.org.uk/employment-r... has a reasonable summary I think)

random idea for a tabletop game just popped into my head, where you have a big pile of (worthless) rings in the middle and your turn involves putting rings on various of your fingers, or using those rings to... do something? attack? cast spells? maybe some sort of binary count on fingers? dunno?

It took a while (mainly due to the huge quantity of data collected on some questions!), but the #StateOfHTML 2025 survey results are now live! 2025.stateofhtml.com/en-US/ Big thanks to @lea.verou.me who not only designed the original survey back in 2023, but then came back this year to update it.

Name an actor who you think has an iconic voice. Eartha Kitt.

I am neither lucky nor smart, but I have a smart friend who told me to do this and he was completely right and I’m very glad I did. Cheers @wimpys.world

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel

you know how when I get asked what I want to see in CSS, one of the things I say is a fictional "font-size: fit-container"? It's this. This is the thing I wanted. hooray!

today I solved a problem with SSIs. Yes. Server-side includes in HTML. I had to explain what they were to the team first. Sometimes the old stuff is still fine, y'know? Party like it's 1999.

I’ve got my problems with JavaScript, and its creator, but it’s quite fundamental to a lot of what I do and a lot of what everyone does in my industry and beyond. And it’s pretty good, these days. Thanks for a big chunk of my career, JavaScript and those who make it. Here’s to the next 30 years.

This tracks. Most proud that "friends" and "y'all" are on there 1. "11ty" (60×) 2. "shopify" (50×) 3. "webperf" (44×) 4. "meetup" (43×) 5. "performance" (41×) See which words you used the most here: anisota.net/harvest

My box of Bold washing pods was weirdly sticky inside: one of them leaked. So I thought, I’ll rinse out the box with hot water to get rid of the spillage. And then I thought, but the pods are all sticky as well, I’ll rinse them off too. Don’t do this. The outsides, obviously, dissolve in hot water.

I remember Dawning Realization Month for the NFT people too. Think this is going to take much longer because of how wrapped up the whole economy is in this, but it really feels like it's happening.

Nice! Gotta listen to this www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

hugely missed opportunity in The Mighty Nein animated series, in my opinion

See, I always thought @matthewmercer.bsky.social was a pretty cool bloke. But in an interview he said the book he’s anticipating is the next Department of Truth graphic novel. You and me both, brother. 200 bonus points for this pick.

Anybody got any recommendations for a decent frozen three bird roast in the UK for five people at Christmas? We’re talking about supermarkets here, not some handcrafted place that want a hundred quid. I’m sure their stuff is hand reared loveliness but we just don’t need it.

I have had the heating on all day and the flat is only just on the warm side of ok. I would like to register a complaint

Today’s cooking experiment: honeyed figs stuffed with nuts and pepper. Cheers to @tastinghistory.bsky.social for the recipe. I should really be watching gladiators fighting while eating these. www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/roma...