James Basoo
@jbasoo.bsky.social
Front-end dev. Enjoys nerdy stuff, cars, cooking, tinkering etc. UK based. jamesbasoo.com
film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
Back To The Future: Doc Brown's Surprise
Alt: Back To The Future: Doc Brown's Surprise
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David Bushell 🪿@dbushell.com · 7d agofilm you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. hard mode: no star trek, star wars, lotr, marvel, disney, or ghibli.
👋 I'm looking for work! 15+ years of frontend dev, design engineering, and leadership. TypeScript, Astro, React, Next, Node, you name it. I'm based in Berlin and I've helped tons of startups with their products (and other problems). I've worked remotely with US companies for 4+ years.
Is there a German word for the feeling of loss when your wife forces you to throw out an old, holey t-shirt?
This is one reason why I always say “consistency is more important than absolute correctness”. Yes, it’s bad that the decimal point is implied in the first examples, but if it works the same everywhere, it’s at least manageable. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IoqZsOmfbnA
🚨 Cool Job Alert! Are you: - a front-end dev (Sass, Vanilla JS, React) - based in Austria / Vienna - ideally with some backend knowledge (Python, Django, APIs) - looking for work in a small, dedicated, remote team? Let's talk! (reposts for reach appreciated)
A dumb joke where a TV show or movie or maybe a book meets a technology. I will go first - Docker Who.
enjoy CSS Day and the other web/tech events for those who are visiting Amsterdam
The excellent accessibility team at the Ministry of Justice are looking for two Accessibility Specialists. Deadline: 12th June. www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...
Accessibility Specialist:National
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Hi BlueSky pals 📣 Having just completed a fun project with the folks at Clearleft, I’m on the lookout for my next project. I’m open to part-time or full-time contracts outside IR35 and I can help you with: - design systems consultancy & management - content design - design systems documentation
Testimonials
Content design and design systems consultant
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A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.
Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...
I really wish Apple would allow me (Android user) to mark my wife's Airtags as safe and not keep notifying me that I'm being followed. Better yet, just make them work on Android!
London. Next week. The Astro core team, more than 100 Astro devs, and… you? Unique swag, talks from @mk.gg, @fancypenguin.party, @florian-lefebvre.dev, and more. Sign up: luma.com/lzh944vx
Rather than the same old boring internet pranks, I thought I'd build something more fun this April Fools. CSS or BS. Can you tell your CSS properties names from BS? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-or-bs
CSS or BS?
Think you know CSS? Real property or made-up nonsense? 20 rounds. No mercy.
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Google's Circle to Search has just become incredibly useful to me. I've just been added to my wife's family group chat and, while imperfect, the screen translation lets me quickly understand the gist of the Finnish conversation. I'm not sure I could use a phone without this now.
Video game developers: not every gamer is sitting six inches away from their screen. Some of us game in our living rooms where the TV is several meters away from where we're sitting. Please include the option to enlarge onscreen text.
My electric shaver died and I just tried using a regular razor for the first time in years. I won't be doing that again. I look like Electrode.
"Jaffa" crepe cake. Alternating clotted cream and orange marmalade between regular and chocolate crepe layers.
have a chuckle at this "Git flow" slop might explain GitHub's recent outages learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini...
Components of the GitHub flow - Training
Learn to use the components of the GitHub flow
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📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
I've been on a bit of a social media hiatus, but I've written a new post about something that's been on my mind a lot lately localghost.dev/blog/stop-ge...
Stop generating, start thinking - localghost
Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
localghost.dev
My contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP. I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility. I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦 Shares appreciated!
I’m not a big user of BlueSky (yet), but if anyone sees this I’m looking for work. I’m a front-end developer, with a focus on low-carbon, design-led, accessible, websites — often using Astro and headless CMSs like Storyblok. I’m open to freelance or possibly the right perm role 🤞
I don't suppose anyone has collated a list of good front-end or web conferences worth attending somewhere? Ideally with information such as dates and ticket prices.
As a sponsor of this year's State of the Browser conference, I have one online ticket to give away. I'd love to give it to a student or some who otherwise can't afford it. If your interested, send me DM. :) 2026.stateofthebrowser.com
SotB14 | State of the Browser
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of State of the Browser, a yearly one-day, single-track conference with widely-varying talks about the modern web, accessibility, web standards, and more, organised b...
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
UX Designer at the Tate, £40k, London jobsearch.tate.org.uk/jobs/job/TG7...
TG703461 - UX Designer | 29 January, 2026 | Jobs and careers with Tate
Jobs and careers with Tate - This is an exciting time to join Tate’s Digital team! Our platforms reach audiences around the world, and we are focused on deepening those connections making it easier fo...
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