Happy birthday, Karen! An excellent age. 🎂

Same pattern, every team.

Designer annotates everything.

Design system specifies focus states, heading structure, the lot.

Engineering ships something broken anyway.

Not an awareness problem. A skills gap the industry built deliberately.

Rant here - gbbns.co/journal/acce...

#Accessibility

Does ‘north’ extend as far as Portmeirion? Crazy in the best way, and my now too-cool teenagers still remember it vividly

‘She wore…’ 🎗️🤞

I cannot possibly justify switching ecosystems. And yet…

A news headline saying that Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

I grew up under Section 28.

A state-sponsored silence that dictated what knowledge about my identity could be withheld from me.

“It was the 1980s, right?”

Section 28 wasn’t repealed until 2003. Less than 20 years later, we’re going backwards

Meta started banning queer content from platforms...

Introducing the GOV Reuse Library The GOV Reuse Library is a new cross-government initiative designed to help teams work smarter, faster, and more collaboratively by reusing proven digital service components. Developed by the Ministry...

mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/02/i...

I bounce around to the point of distraction and wish I had a happier answer. Some folk seem to like Zen as an Arc replacement, but I've resigned myself to Firefox for as long as it hangs on in there. Browser + Kagi + EFF's Privacy Badger is the real non-negotiable for me

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So glad you were there for that

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland Personal stories of conflict and peace. 25 years on from the end of the Troubles, those who lived through it share intimate, unheard testimonies - and reflect on its legacy.

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Roadliners Roadliners is a film about inspiration and craft, and the uncelebrated typographers of the road. With filmmakers Pretend Lovers we documented a day in the life of…

A while back, Glasgow's O Street studio produced a nice short film with a roadliner (which had inspired their own rebrand) vimeo.com/162399433 + www.itsnicethat.com/articles/o-s...

Yellow background, black text. Reads 'we're looking for creative and ML technologists to join our network'.

Come and join us to work on some VERY interesting projects that will change the lives of millions of people around the world, with a great team, who like to work hard and have fun too

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designswarm {thoughts} Blogging since 2005

Can't imagine there's *anything* I'm reading you won't already know inside out but particularly enjoying Alexandra (www.designswarm.com/blog/), Mandy (aworkinglibrary.com/thinking/), Maggie (maggieappleton.com), Rachel (kwon.nyc/notes/) and Denise (walknotes.com). +1 for Russell too, obviously...

You spoke really well, Tim — thanks for saying it

Late reply but I initially rebounded into Instapaper, then decided I was missing an opportunity to simplify things more and remove one more extension, so now just using my browser's reading list and, for stuff I want to keep, sharing it into Notes .app where everything else lives for me

Hard pushed to think of a more interesting place or better people to be working with right now

Aww, that's really sad, Si — hope you're doing ok

.@fastmail.com and Google, not Fastmail or Google. Just in case it helps one person... www.andrewtravers.co/journal/fast...

Wonderful. Brought back a few very happy memories too ♥️

Bon Iver’s new thing, SABLE fABLE, is a really good album-as-a-complete-idea open.spotify.com/album/3L3Ujp...

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TH/NGS 2024 - Matt Webb YouTube video by ThingsCon

So true. I finally watched Matt's ThingsCon keynote this morning and it is just... brimming with imagination youtu.be/vDP24ARdGDA?...