Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 28/08/2026Taco and I encountered a stranger on our lunchtime walk today 👀 180
Reposted by Dan FreemanEddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Mysterious Hum Of The Earth And What Scientists Think Is Causing It is one of my favourite Flaming Lips songs 14810
Reposted by Dan FreemanJay @aihal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026when searching for a GIF leads Google to think you've fallen into AI psychosis and are hallucinating being viciously defamed by Glinda the Good Witch of the North 121
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 13/08/2026"Man, it sure is draining to constantly have to be switching focus between Slack notifications and the code I'm working on..." *monkey's paw curls* 141
Reposted by Dan FreemanRobin Edds 🏳️🌈 @reddsreads.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The UK has really been testing my commitment to delighting in language change this week... 163
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 09/06/2026The Fortune’s Weave release date announcement has me contemplating a replay of Three Houses this summer and I’m kind of excited 👀 020
Reposted by Dan FreemanAmit Sheen @amitsheen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026👣 CSS Strandbeest This one took a while... Somewhere along the way, this stopped being a CSS experiment and became a trigonometry exercise. 😅 But if there was ever a way to find out what CSS trig functions can do, Jansen's linkage is probably it. 🔗 Live on @codepen.io: codepen.io/editor/amit_... 411519
Reposted by Dan Freemanwarrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN 149155833098
Reposted by Dan Freemanhenry ✷ @strange.website · 20/01/2026my precious boy. my moonbeam child, my wave upon the sand. if the only thing keeping people from thinking your writing is LLM-generated is that it has em dashes in it. the problem is not the em dashes 0386
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 13/05/2026It dawned on me that my two main channels for US and UK news are respectively titled “WTF Just Happened Today?” (@wtfjht.bsky.social) and “Oh God, What Now?” (@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social). I don’t know whether that says more about me or about the news, but it surely says something about something. 1121
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 07/05/2026Honestly gutted to learn that Scottish polling stations don’t hand out “I Voted” stickers like they do in the US. How will everyone know I’ve done my civic duty?? 0100
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 26/04/2026Just finished watching Dan Levy’s Big Mistakes. I was enjoying it, but wasn’t sure it needed another season until the last 10 minutes of the final episode. Now I’m thrilled with how it all came together and really hoping it gets renewed 👀 020
Reposted by Dan FreemanKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 31/03/2026What a writer thinks ISN’T political is always a huge tell. Even something as straightforwardly man vs nature as To Build A Fire is about toxic masculinity—“Any man who was a man could travel alone.” 272145454
Reposted by Dan FreemanKate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026But there is hope! The European Commission is currently undergoing a review of the laws that gave us cookie banners. We can get rid of them! And we have the ability to not make the same mistakes in the future as we regulate AI, a place where _actual_ protections are more important than ever. 4/ 1696
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 19/03/2026“What was once heralded as a tool to advance individual autonomy and privacy has… become a daily annoyance that breeds cynicism with the very concept of consent itself. Cookie banners do not empower; they weary. They do not inform; they obscure. They do not prevent surveillance; they normalize it.” 050
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 14/03/2026First time on the Glasgow subway today—I never realised it was so petite! Nice, though. 130
Reposted by Dan FreemanClaire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 10/03/2026Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny 26730157
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 04/03/2026I love @aptshadow.bsky.social’s whole Tyrant Philosophers series, but the first entry, City of Last Chances, had been my favourite to now. Having just finished Pretenders to the Throne of God (and possibly shed a tear at the last scene), I think he may have outdone himself. 110
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 21/02/2026Back on the writing horse again, thanks to @edinburghjs.org's Personal Website Jam last month! dfreeman.io/blog/hello-a...dfreeman.ioDan Freeman ᜶ Hello, AgainComing back to this site, five years and 1,250km down the road. 021
Reposted by Dan FreemanAndy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 12/02/2026Imagining a Cold War spy thriller set in Stornoway where the agent and their handler meet at either end of a bench and exchange the code phrased "The gurnet is plentiful today", "It is not so plentiful as the dogfish" before sliding across the brown envelope full of photos of the rocket range 0175
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 12/02/2026Working on this website redesign has been a lot of "how much variety can I squeeze out of a little bit of math?" fun. 140
Reposted by Dan FreemanMonkey Buckles @monkeybuckles.bsky.social · 07/02/2026The covers for @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Tyrant Philosophers series are maybe the best in the business right now. Joe Wilson is incredible at having these detailed, eye catching and very distinctive designs that whet your appetite for what is inside. 310510
Reposted by Dan Freemanqntm @qntm.org · 14/01/2026THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION ebook is discounted to £1.99 for one day only, get in there 🐆amazon.co.ukThere Is No Antimemetics Division: The thrilling new sci-fi horror novel, 'mind-bendingly brilliant' GuardianThere Is No Antimemetics Division: The thrilling new sci-fi horror novel, 'mind-bendingly brilliant' Guardian eBook : qntm: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store 810946
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 09/01/2026Had the thought "oh I should totally get back into Frightened Rabbit now that I live in Scotland" the other day, which is how I learned Scott Hutchison passed 😔 010
Reposted by Dan Freemanhenry ✷ @strange.website · 01/01/2026you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.henry.codesA Website To End All Websites | Henry From OnlineHow to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want. 10325125
Reposted by Dan FreemanDan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 01/01/2025Feels like we just got finished with 2024 and now I wake up this morning and there’s ANOTHER year? Ngl I could have used a breather 1152
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 14/12/2025Absolutely floored when it finally clicked for me what this puzzle was doing. Really good. blookerstein.itch.io/showy-homesblookerstein.itch.ioShowy Homes by BlookersteinShort word puzzle with a twist 120
Reposted by Dan FreemanCatherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 08/12/2025It's the season to appreciate the names of Scottish road gritters ❄️ #Scotland #Christmas 14716286
Reposted by Dan FreemanUnison @unison-lang.org · 25/11/2025🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed! After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone! Spread the word!unison-lang.orgAnnouncing Unison 1.0After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we're excited to release Unison 1.0. This version delivers a refined programming workflow and a mature toolchain. Join us as we celebrate this milestone and look ahead to the future of Unison. 012462
Reposted by Dan FreemanMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards. 422805704
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 28/10/2025Back on my “I bet I can figure out how to build a UI with that” nonsense again. This has been fun to work on! 1101
Reposted by Dan FreemanUna Kravets @una.im · 14/10/2025View transitions are in every browser now ✨ 223444
Reposted by Dan Freemandylan's sin (優) @kuresea.bsky.social · 04/10/2025oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened 1627871642
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 22/09/2025Today I thought of sodaconstructor for the first time in probably almost two decades. It was a little 2D mass-and-spring sim that let you build Strandbeest-style walkers and other little automata. Looks like it's gone the way of the dodo now, but wow I really have the itch to play with that again. 140
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 15/09/2025Me: *waits on hold for an hour and 45 minutes* Royal Mail customer service: hang on jerk, it’s 6:30; we’re closed *click* 030
Reposted by Dan Freemanchreke @chreke.com · 03/07/2025When you were partying (learning Python), I studied the blade (learned Haskell). And now that the world is on fire (null pointer error in prod) and the barbarians are at the gate (test suite takes 1+ hr to run) you have the audacity to come to me for help (develop a gradual typing system). 0326
Reposted by Dan FreemanMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025An excellent game if you like puzzles with many solutions and that don’t punish you for messing around. Also one of the funniest and most charming games. And now: cheaper! 212158
Reposted by Dan FreemanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/08/2025"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people 133103561999
Reposted by Dan FreemanJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025The richest people in the world have misunderstood every single science fiction book they've ever read 920128
Reposted by Dan Freemanthe mangosphere @mangmangmang.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Imagining what "a conventional phrase of not more than five words" would be for this crab 3115
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 04/06/2025Parcel from @proud-geek.co.uk arrived with some June reading for me today! Happy Pride, friends 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 071
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 20/05/2025I sure have some questions about where that link preview banner came from, though. 152
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 20/05/2025A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...mcsweeneys.netA Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism MachineHey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou... 083
Dan Freeman @dfreeman.io · 02/05/2025Me, circa 2008: “Sure you can pull some neat tricks with it, but does the pigeonhole principle actually matter for real world day-to-day things?” Edinburgh, this morning: 031
