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[Boy Better Know voice] too many errors, too many many many errors, no more errors will be reported to the console for this context.

My latest book project for Artica Svalbard. A series of interviews with six people from seven different countries about their time on Svalbard; how they came to Svalbard, what made them stay and why new immigration legislation might one day force them to leave.

On iOs is it possible to style the default audio player away from that miserable little grey box without getting into an accessibility nightmare?

Buy font, do good. This is a great little initiative with a very good cause and you end up with a sexy font from an amazing designer www.instagram.com/p/DW3RHycgFb...

I'm starting a radio show in a few weeks, catch it 12-2pm on the 3rd Monday of each month on www.doyou.world Hoping to drag in some artists I know who work with sound or music to talk about their work. Expect disco, boogie, Balearic and house sounds and a distinct lack of professionalism.

If you're wondering how my day is going the site I'm working on remains untouched but I now have a model of the new turntable setup I'm planning..

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I've been lucky enough to give @marktomlinson.dev some advice while they've built this and we're already using it at @set.studio. I'm so glad it's now available sugarcube.sh Complete CSS will be replacing Tailwind for utility classes ASAP too

sugarcube

Design tokens, generated CSS, and optional components. Build front ends on strong, reusable foundations.

sugarcube.sh

Searches if your local NHS Trust is using Palantir and emails them on your behalf, please take a minute to do this because we must fight this evil company getting a hold >> notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Say no to Palantir in the NHS

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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I wonder how many more layers of “yes we’re deliberately ruining your lives” everyone will need shovelling on top of their heads by the worst fucks on the planet before they understand it? Tune in today for more endless horrors that fail to hit home…

This is Han-Solo-in-Carbonite for the watching-The-Generation-Game-at-your-nan's generation.

Tom@zenithedtom.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Signs and portents

I’m slowly moving into second gear with @raycast.com - setting up some nice shortcuts/scripts. Getting rid of the muscle memory of doing stuff the hard way is not easy to shift though

Oh cool, after an update my Adobe apps now hijack my screen and won’t let me switch to anything else. I can’t even uninstall them. Enshittification right before my eyes. @adobe.com why do you suck so badly?

Inspired by (ripping off) @maxleonard.bsky.social here’s a thread of books I’m reading this year (it will probably total what Max reads in a week). First up: Why history matters to graphic design by Clémence Imbert. A reexamination of why the history of the field is still relevant to students.

positioningsymposium.com A site I worked on last year but forgot to share. A lightweight custom Wordpress theme for Publics, a leading cultural institution in Helsinki. Nothing fancy going on so it’s nice and snappy. I worked with Valerio Di Lucente from (erstwhile) Studio Julia which was an honour

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A Symposium on Curatorial Thinking in the Nordic-Baltic Region & Beyond

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the new (beta) @penpot.app renderer is such a huge improvement. snappier in a 100-tab browser window from hell than the Figma desktop app with a single file open. i know i keep saying this but if you design for the web and you haven't tried penpot you owe it to yourself to give it a whirl.

I just setup google sheets as a CMS for a really simple client @astro.build site that just has a few text fields. It was so easy. Now to try the same thing but using something not owned by the devil...

I’m just starting a new book project about research into aperiodic order in art and mathematics. It’s a bit of a mind boggler at this stage, hoping I can get my January brain around it quickly en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperiod...

Aperiodic tiling - Wikipedia

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My final act of 2025: taking out double top in the family doubles darts tournament. My wife set me up by hitting the bullseye before me. This is pretty much the same as renewing our vows and cancels out all the evils of the proceeding year. May your 2026 be as glorious

Squeezed in one last personal project; it syncs data from Rekordbox into a little web app, improving the filtering so I can browse what records are in the same rack, plan mixes etc away from my computer. Yes it's a WCAG nightmare but it's just for me so I can wallow in my pastel neon squinty world

I’m marking some student work today that I think @loftio.co.uk would approve of

Buy it for the title alone www.juno.co.uk/products/the...

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

One of my academic colleagues is looking for interviewees for her PhD. Let me know if you fit the bill and I can put you in touch with them. Feel free to share.

I’ve got x3 gift three month passes to Kagi if anyone wants one? Since trying it early last year I haven’t used Google since.

I'm also contractually obliged to share that my course is part of the @piccalil.li Black Friday deal. Get mine and get Mindful Design or JavaScript for Everyone with your 50% coupon and again, I'm contractually obliged to let you know I'll love you forever. piccalil.li/complete-css/

Complete CSS

A high quality, expansive CSS course that will elevate your CSS and core skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

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I’m on board and looking forward to getting stuck into this after I finish a couple big projects. Come and join me! Worth it for the quips alone I’m willing to bet

Piccalilli@piccalil.li · 8mo ago

Mindful Design is here! You get the exact same deal as our Black Friday deal, so if you buy Mindful Design for £189, you can get JavaScript for Everyone or Complete CSS for only £124.50 That's a massive £184.50 saving off their full price for 2 premium courses! piccalilli.link/md-launch-so...

Ooooh fun css-tricks.com/the-range-sy...

The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if() | CSS-Tricks

Being able to use the range syntax with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can compare literal numeric values as well as numeric values tokenized by cus...

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I'm working on a dual language book about immigration. My typographic approach is to set both languages together with each paragraph varying in width to take up the same amount of lines as its equivalent in the other language.