So odd that Flickr relaunched their iOS/ipadOS app but haven’t mentioned it on their otherwise frequently-updated blog. Would be very nice to know which broken/missing things are on the roadmap.

I do interaction design, mostly prototypes in code, sometimes for GOV, health but also fintech and startups. Portfolio here: neuromantics.net/portfolio/

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Portfolio Experienced designer, founder, product, ideas. Ex GOV, NHS, GDS, startups. Available now. Designer of three of the most used online public services: NHS 111, Tax your vehicle, and Check MOT

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I wrote down my thoughts on the bad arguments in favour of the UK's proposed social media ban because they were clogging up my brain www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

Behind every great man is an LLM they think is a great woman.

There's not much info online about Wired's brief (1996-7) foray into book publishing with HardWired, so I've put together what I can find along with a list of all their books, published and not. www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

HardWired / Wired Books

Information about Wired Ventures’ book-publishing company from 1996-7, including all the books published and planned.

gyford.com

@lccmunicipal.bsky.social I thought you might like this commemorative plate I found at my parents’

World War I, World War II, the collapse of the British Empire, any of the tiny embarrassing things I did or said that have lived in my brain ever since. What an odd, vague question.

Disappointed Optimist@disappoptimism.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Question for the room: If you are over 35 - What would you say are the most important events of the 1900s you remember / impacted you? What is symbolic of the 1900s to you?

Love an online application for a council service that says "have your supporting documents ready", then the list of supporting documents says "see list on application form", then you have to sign up for an account before you can even see the application form, then…

Ofcom is becoming a retirement home? :)

I always liked the Simon Munnery line: “Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.” Now you could replace the last three words with “do anything but instruct an AI”. No, not as catchy but still.

My Dad's memories of visiting the Festival of Britain as a child, and working as a planner when Seifert's Space House was being developed. www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

John Gyford’s memories of the Festival of Britain and Space House

My dad’s memories, as told to John Grindrod for his book ‘Concretopia’.

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On the one hand this is a silly Godwin’s Law bit of satire. On the other, I think about the truth of it daily.

Phineas@phineas.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New awareness campaign

I did not expect my find myself on the Royalist side in the second English Civil War and yet

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Could the idea of making Rupert Lowe the King instead be "mainstreamed", ask the online racist right!

@thebeautyoftransport.com The "click here to find out how to join in" link near the bottom of stationheritageartefacts.org.uk/about/ is broken. I love the project!

One of the Barbican's maintenance staff and his family – two adults, three young kids – lost their home and all their belongings in a house fire in Leyton. www.gofundme.com/f/help-for-n...

Donate to Help for Naches, organized by Alba garcia

This account has been created to help a friend who just lost his house in a house fire last night leaving… Alba garcia needs your support for Help for Naches

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Everyone: The government should leave X, the extreme-right-supporting platform. Starmer: Welcome to my Substack! keirstarmer.substack.com/p/politics-t... Everyone: FFS.

@yoz.bsky.social I'm sorting through old photos and found this happy memory.

Original sin, 2005.

I like the Apple Weather app but even if its daily summaries of precipitation chance are statistically accurate (although I don't understand how) I'd say they usually give a less-than-useful impression.

Out to whoever was in charge of moving the British Library blogs to a new platform, breaking all existing URLs to posts, and not including an RSS feed in the specs for the new system. www.bl.uk/stories/blogs

Blogs and updates from curators, staff and guests - British Library

Get the latest stories and updates from our curators, cataloguers, reference staff and guest contributors. Find out more about amazing items in our collection.

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It's tempting to rejoin the Labour Party just so I can have the satisfaction of canceling my membership and burning my membership card.

I hope to finally make it to this one.

Wales Goes Pop!@walesgoespop.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hello, here are most of the artists playing WGP 2026! No clashes! HEAVENLY, PROLAPSE EVEN AS WE SPEAK, BRITISH BIRDS STUART MOXHAM, RACHEL LOVE SWANSEA SOUND, LANDE HEKT THE CORDS, THE BOOJUMS YNYS, LILITH AI, THE SCHOOL... 👇

Last week I watched the BBC's 'Girlbands Forever' and was frustrated so many interviews kept cutting from one sentence to the next. "How do I know if they're making them say things they didn't mean?" I thought. I'm sure normalising this kind of editing won't have any more serious consequences.

Need to remove the Duke of York's titles ASAP

Samuel Pepys@samuelpepys.bsky.social · 9mo ago

He tells me also how the Duke of York is smitten in love with my Lady Chesterfield (a virtuous lady, daughter to my Lord of Ormond); and so much that the Duchess of York hath complained to the King and her father about it and my Lady Chesterfield is gone into the country for it.

I've updated my post about my 1995 internet experience with a few more period documents, but rather than read it again you can see all of the scans on this page instead archive.gyford.com/1995/interne...

Phil Gyford@phil.gyford.com · 10mo ago

I wrote about what it was like to go online for the first time 30 years ago. How hard and complicated it seemed, and then how amazing this entirely new world was. Including some extracts from my 1995 diary. www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

I wrote about what it was like to go online for the first time 30 years ago. How hard and complicated it seemed, and then how amazing this entirely new world was. Including some extracts from my 1995 diary. www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

My first months in cyberspace

Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.

gyford.com

This, but about my career making websites. Getting going when it was nothing but HTML and – if you were fancy – a dash of Perl, grinding to a halt just as AI was being spaffed over everything.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10mo ago

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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I remember around 1995 a woman knocked on the door, doing a survey about air fresheners. I never bought any so it didn't last long but I was quite excited that someone was asking my opinion about a product or service. At last! Finally, Gen X was being consulted!

Jon Mellon@jonmellon.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Social scientists often bemoan falling survey response rates. A big part of the story has to be the proliferation of survey requests. I took every survey I was invited to in an 8 day period and took 27 surveys totaling 33 minutes.