A headshot of Bruce Lawson, alongside the text "Conference MC & Web Standards Legend", the Pixel Pioneers logo, the date (19 June 2026), and the location (Bristol).

📣 I'm very excited to announce that @brucel.bsky.social will MC @pixelpioneers.co Bristol this year! 🙌

A veteran of the browser wars, many a standards skirmish, and an #a11y apocalypse or two, Bruce now leverages synergies for @vivaldi.com.

🎟️ Schedule and tickets: pixelpioneers.co/events/brist...

‘I feel like I’m losing her’: the families torn apart by older relatives going far right It starts with a ‘back in my day’ nostalgic meme – then suddenly your elders are sharing AI-generated ‘boomerslop’ and repeating conspiracy theories …

The moral panic about kids playing video games should have been over boomers having access to social media. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Bicycle Day (psychedelic holiday) - Wikipedia

Happy Bicycle Day to all those taking a trip to celebrate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle...

I just hope Anthropic pays me the money from the class action for using my books without permission before it goes tits up.

you didn't come across that way at all! I was agreeing with you, and pretending to be shocked!

wash your mouth out with soap!!

"The App Store, in other words, is rotten...If you can’t make the App Store a truly reliable resource for good, safe, legitimate software, then give iPhone users the freedom to install from other places. Or just stop pretending the App Store monopoly is about anything other than revenue." - Macworld

What's the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users? The Ledger Live and Freecash incidents remind us that whatever Apple's app-vetting procedure is, it's not working.

What’s the point of the App Store, if it can’t protect users? www.macworld.com/article/3115...
The editor of Macworld(!) writes "The Ledger Live and Freecash incidents remind us that whatever Apple's app-vetting procedure is, it's not working."

Designing Collections A new way to share and discover accounts on Mastodon

Mastodon is getting "Collections" - a way for people on Mastodon to curate and share bundles of accounts they’d recommend to others - helping to grow these connections more quickly, instead of newcomers hunting around for accounts they might be interested in. blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/desi...

How Many Bites at the Apple? In Apple legal news last week, Apple has again asked the Supreme Court in the United States to excuse its engagement in unfair methods of competition and contempt of court to preserve what Apple appar...

Gene Burrus, who headed up Microsoft legal after the landmark IE browser monopoly case, writes "Apple has again asked the Supreme Court in the United States to excuse its engagement in unfair methods of competition and contempt of court" burruscompstrategies.com/blog/f/how-m...

Users lose $9.5 million to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store After a fake version of the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet app made it onto the normally highly curated Apple App store, customers lost $9.5 million dollars to the malicious product. Believing it was a ...

After a fake version of the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet app made it onto the normally highly curated Apple App store, customers lost $9.5 million dollars to the malicious product. www.web3isgoinggreat.com?id=fake-ledg... "Highly curated"???!? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha lol

In its push to become Big Tech’s data center hub, India is overlooking local resistance Google and Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar projects under construction in India are facing backlash from farmers, while the government offers huge tax relief to foreign companies setting up data cente...

In its push to become Big Tech’s data center hub, India is overlooking local resistance restofworld.org/2026/india-d... "divert[ing] scarce public resources away from essential sectors like healthcare, education, and rural development, thereby undermining the right to equitable development".

Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it Microsoft begins removing Copilot labels in Windows 11 apps, but AI tools stay, leaving users feeling misled rather than satisfied.

Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it www.neowin.net/opinions/mic...

as mock-up of terrible AI Trump-posted art. Me as a Jesus-like figure laying my hands on the head of a sleeping Winston Churchill, surrounded by George Formby playing his ukulele, frida Kahlo and Hattie Jaques from 'Carry on Matron'. In the background is a stylised cityscape of Birmingham. In the sky is a celestial shining HTML5 logo, and 3 angry birds are flying.

La Daughter painted me as a doctor, healing Winston Churchill's nasty haemorrhoids with HTML5 reiki. Limited edition autographed prints will be available for purchase very soon.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

"A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away." www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-i...

Athough it was granted the title "Kings Town" in the 13th century, the governor denied the king entry to the city. It was then besieged by royalist forces in 1642 and 1643 – the first armed conflict of the English Civil Wars. So no-one i n Hull calls it "King's town".

You're south of Hull!

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Developers Up North Conference A conference for developers in Northern regions of England.

My alma mater, Hull, is having its very own front-end conference, Developers Up North, on June 18. My southerner chum @csswizardry.com - the man behind the very first Cheeky Girls official fan site - will be a speaker. Super early bird tickets are a mere £49! www.developersupnorth.co.uk

I had some people round for dinner last night, and I tried to impress them with a sauce created from vodka, gravy and nitrous oxide. But all I've done is make myself an absolut laughing stock.

Under the hood of MDN's new frontend | MDN Blog You may have spotted that MDN has a new frontend. There's plenty happening under the surface, so let's unpack the technologies we chose, the architectural decisions we made, and why we did a rebuild a...

Under the hood of MDN's new frontend developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m... - using React to serve essentially static content "accumulated quite a lot of technical debt", and is better replaced by … Web Components and CSS, AKA "the web platform". developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m...

I only listened to a couple of minutes, because Jazz is terrible. But I think that it's only playing notes in the same key, so most will harmonise, and at a sedate pace. And when there is occasional clashes (eg, 7ths), that's infrequent enough to sound like Jazz, which uses lots of brief dissonance.

Indiana Jones, fording a stream, but he's a hedgehog.

Hérisson Ford.

The Beatles, except George Harrison is replaced by a hedgehog (with a trademark Beatles fringe)

George Hérisson

Reading list number 357 is out – just for you, mon hérisson d'amour indiciblement voluptueux brucelawson.co.uk/2026/reading...

Webloc uses ad-based data to monitor hundreds of millions of people across the globe. Customers include ICE, Hungarian domestic intelligence, El Salvador national police. IDF received training on it. Other EU governments were "coy". Hurray for Ad Tech. citizenlab.ca/research/ana...

Signal gives you a way to stop this in Settings > Notifications > Notification Content

I expect you're as surprised as I am to learn that a Reform councillor and a mate of Little Tommy Ten Names were in a WhatsApp group that rejoiced in the idea of burning migrants, discussed buying guns, genocide of muslims, and murdering the UK Prime Minister. www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/sh...

The bone-spurs exemption still applies for the rich, of course. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...