📚For a few brief decades, Birmingham had a bookshop scene that reflected the city back to itself: diverse, political, practical, trade unionist, academic and scientifically forward looking.

100% looks like a Benji

Love seeing Sloan on this list

Vindicated

A high quality illustration of a Very Hungry Caterpillar with the face of Matt Andrews

My work here is done

BRB going to commission an illustrator as the only ethical way to get this done

Rob.

Queuing behind Ed Miliband and his family at Inverness airport as my Dad loudly whispered “That can’t be him he looks haggard”. It was him.

This is so good

Means that the first thing I see is more likely to be something like this bsky.app/profile/coll...

Soothing.

Been lurking here for a while trying to find ways to make this not feel like the other place, but again. Think I’ve cracked it:

Quiet posters as the default feed, mutual second. Only look at the firehose occasionally.

Same here. The rub though is that Maddy is now AI, sorry.

Oh! We were there whilst they were rehearsing and I said it sounded like reich. Didn’t realise that’s actually what it was, wishing we come back in time now, sounds great!

Writing Ruby here in Kings Heath like a true wannabe.

Jewellery Quarter is all PHP and SOAP (canon)

Now that’s just praxis

Nothing beyond the docs and pull requests at that link unfortunately. We use Backstop which I can see other replies have mentioned and it’s…fine. I think the barrier is often more around getting things to be stable enough to rely on.

GitHub - citizensadvice/design-system: Citizens Advice Design System Citizens Advice Design System. Contribute to citizensadvice/design-system development by creating an account on GitHub.

We do on github.com/citizensadvi... and it’s the most valuable kind of test we have.

The BBC show that book is based on is a classic. He’s probably had the biggest single influence on me of any writer or thinker.

Always glad to see Berger

Supersonic Festival - BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE + Un.procedure – Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Crafting extraordinary events for adventurous audiences

Reminder to my fellow Brummies that motherfuckin' Bohren & Der Club of Gore are in town on Saturday. Absolutely do not miss this shit - supersonicfestival.com/product/bohr...

Also god damn un.procedure too, see you there!

A day later but here we are

Well that’s decided what I’m watching tonight. Well overdue a rewatch.

Listening to an album all the way through, never heard of it

Now this is why I joined Bluesky!

HELLO THERE WHY ARE WE SHOUTING