Yesterday, we got denied porting our mortgage from our house in E17 5 to another house in E17 7 because they said they wanted reduce “the saturation of mortgages in the area“ 😞

Waaaaaa ☺️

I saw a waymo drive past as I came out of Gospel Oak station yesterday afternoon

A fox laying down on a bush in our garden looking straight at the camera with the wispy branches of an acer tree in the foreground

Here’s a fox napping in our garden here in Walthamstow #FoxOfTheDay

Venture Phone Case | Protective Phone Case for iPhone Pro Models | Bellroy Premium feel meets rugged performance – this MagSafe phone case for iPhone gives you the confidence to ride the bumps and focus on what matters most.

I’ve had this Bellroy one with two diff iPhones bellroy.com/products/ven... and I like the ruggedness/bulk of it. Friends tease me about the lanyard thing but it is useful!

Yeah it caught me out for a while and then I had to go around dropping that in. Nice how well it works though. Happy new year!

Yeah you see it all over the place. The fix is to not use `height 100%` but to use the newish dvh (dynamic view height) which changes based on browser chrome so `height: 100dvh`

Here’s it in action on a basket overlay, the overlay changes when the chrome pops in and out on scroll

Currently divesting myself from Vercel. I replatformed gif.land over the weekend. It was Next.js on Vercel and it’s now Astro and Cloudflare. I put a little note up on my blog about the transition jonheslop.com/posts/2025/d...

It was my first time building anything with Astro, it’s really nice!

A photograph of me clutching an envelope and paper on my balcony. The paper is a risograph printed and posted by Robin Sloan. You can see the start of the title, it reads “Reality has”

Some wonderful mail has arrived from @robinsloan.com!

www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/...

Week 11 Burgers, bike rides, AI and waterfalls

I’ve managed 4 weeks of week notes — jonheslop.com/posts/2025/1...

Probably speaking too soon, but I might be finally be getting into the rhythm of it gif.land/rudd-work.gif

The day Tweetbot died was the day I stopped using Twitter - looking forward to this

All the ones pulled up on the border with Tottenham outside the ferry 😒

Nah it’s good. I want to know if Severance universe Dieter Rams is OK with his designs being used by a clearly unethical company and if he will come out as anti severing

The meme of Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, sitting in front of his TV excitedly pointing at it.

Watched ep 7 of Severance last night and this was me every time the Vitsœ shelves or chair came on screen

Week 9 Saunas, severence, timeguessr and crustaceans

This weeks week notes - been a glorious weekend of sunshine and shellfish foraging here in West Wales
jonheslop.com/posts/2025/9...

Biffy Clyro’s 2002 single ‘57’ is Simon Neil’s love song to Heinz tomato sauce

I’ve posted week notes for the first time in a year: jonheslop.com/posts/2025/8...

I talk about zwift, sunshine and gif.land

I’ve been reading a lot more RSS lately and wanted to get back into the habit of posting more often myself

This is really nice, been using all morning and it works really well

A few times a year I will have a day where I listen to:
• Underoath - Only Chasing Safety
• The Used - The Used
• Funeral for a Friend - Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation

And I _still_ love it (I am 37 years old)

gif.land My online memory bank of my favourite gifs

Inspired by @ethanmarcotte.com, I’ve made a silly new website called gif.land — an online home for all my favourite GIFs. It’s glued together with Cloudflare R2, a @tur.so SQLite DB and next.js. I’ve blogged about it too: jonheslop.com/posts/2025/gif-land

Beirut - Nantes | A Take Away Show YouTube video by Blogothèque

Well good. Also have not heard Beirut in a long time. Which reminded me I used to love this vid youtu.be/R781LDKOVJE which is 17 years old 💀

I think this is the closest approximation bsky.app/profile/flas... (coming soon) there’s also this pixelfed.org I’ve not tried either.

I do really like retro.app though! It’s not really like instagram but its a nice way to share photos with friends

Ahaha can’t believe we haven’t talked about this

I love twiglets but they are also totally mental. So dry, so twig like. Imagine offering them to someone who didn’t know the concept nor grown up with them.

International Supermarket is where it’s at for veg

This is amazing

/honk

Proper good list ✊