Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 10/09/2026@jim.londoncentric.media any idea what’s going on with the lizzie line this week? I’ve never seen noticeboards warning of “disruption for the foreseeable future” before 000
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 07/09/2026Keyboard recommendations for around the same price as an Apple “Magic” Keyboard? I’m open to mechanical options 100
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 20/08/2026Decided to try out the Zed text editor after hearing about it on @syntax.fm. While I love the tabbed worktree management, the performance is rubbish -- constantly freezing up and incredibly slow to search a big repo. Back to VS Code... 000
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 06/08/2026Some wild demos here, it was the "DVD screensaver" that really blew my mind master.dev/blog/somethi...master.devSomething Nobody Told You About The Image Element (It Can Overflow!)You normally don't think of images as overflowing themselves, nor can you put anything else inside to make it overflow, but actually... 010
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 28/07/2026Great meetup, thanks to @willow.sh @scottspence.dev for organising! Hopefully we can squeeze in another before 2027 😉 071
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 18/06/2026Amazing opportunity for #dataviz enthusiasts. Come work with me! 053
Reposted by Elliot BentleyI'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Thinking about life… 414550597
Reposted by Elliot BentleyDatawrapper @datawrapper.de · 11/06/2026🎉 You can now draw arrows in Datawrapper locator maps! Choose between line arrows (to show routes) and flow arrows (to show magnitude too), and style them however you like. Learn more here: www.datawrapper.de/blog/arrows-... 0234
Reposted by Elliot BentleyDatawrapper @datawrapper.de · 14/05/2026Last week, Londoners voted in local elections. What was different this time around, and how does London compare to the rest of the U.K.? 🗳️ Our vis developer @elliotbentley.com walks us through the results. 📊 👇 www.datawrapper.de/blog/uk-elec... 033
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 09/05/2026I assume the bot posts anything with ng-interactive in the url, presumably this story has a little sprinkling of custom styles that requires being hosted like an interactive. 120
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 08/04/2026Ah right! Yeah that sounds more likely if the app isn’t completely locked up. 020
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 08/04/2026There is probably a more elegant solution but would require further debugging to work out where handleChange is being called during that infinite loop. 110
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 08/04/2026To confirm that, you could stick a console.log inside handleChange and see if it fires repeatedly during the freeze. If that is indeed the case, a brute-force fix would be to check to see if "$state.snapshot(value)" has changed before calling onchange. 110
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 08/04/2026My hunch (from just reading the code quickly) is that handleChange is being called recursively, and that when onchange fires and values are the same, it triggers a re-render within GradientInput.svelte, causing the freeze. 110
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 20/03/2026See you there I hope! I won’t be able to make the first edition of the journalism technology meetup sadly but I’ve signed up for updates. 121
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 20/03/2026See also: Source Code, which is billing itself as the successor to Hacks/Hackers -- first event is on March 31 luma.com/6hkl73t8luma.comSource Code — London meetup for journalists and technologists · LumaWhat is it? Source Code is a new meetup and networking event for anyone interested in the intersection of journalism and technology. If you’ve been to… 130
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 17/02/2026This has been my bedtime reading lately, I’m enjoying the frequent charts and optimistic perspective 010
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 20/01/2026This will.i.am quote was my desktop wallpaper for a good while 010
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 19/01/2026Literally every publication I subscribe to has an article about Claude code today. It’s wild 110
Reposted by Elliot BentleyDatawrapper @datawrapper.de · 08/01/2026How likely are we to use AI tools, what for, and how often? And what does gender have to do with it? Our developer @elliotbentley.com looks at students' attitudes to get a better idea. 🧑💻 📊 www.datawrapper.de/blog/ai-gend...datawrapper.deThe AI gender gap | Datawrapper BlogIn this Weekly Chart, we examine the gender gap in AI adoption. 042
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 05/01/2026Really hope my favourite podcasters are back at work today, my feed is getting desperate 010
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 27/12/2025100 books! What’s your secret? Audiobooks? Carrying an ebook everywhere? I’m embarrassed to even share my count 000
Reposted by Elliot BentleyDavid @newreld.bsky.social · 13/12/2025We just launched a new website for @datawrapper.de It features a new design and shows even better how you can use Datawrapper to create great visualizations. Check it out: datawrapper.de 011
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 23/11/2025I've been listening to this show since iTunes introduced podcasts in 2005. Thank you to the hosts for their dedication and congrats on an incredible run 🫡 010
Reposted by Elliot BentleyAmanda Shendruk @not-ship.com · 29/10/2025"This is almost like the Saturday Night Live of posters. You put three idiots together and they say 'okay, we're going to hire AI to do labor posters.'" www.not-ship.com/the-demons-a...not-ship.comThe demons are on show at the Department of LaborThese posters are the scariest thing I've seen in a while. 023
Reposted by Elliot BentleySvelte Society London @svelte.london · 27/10/2025If you missed the last Svelte London, here is your chance to see the wonderful @elliotbentley.com speak again guild.host/events/jsmon...guild.hostJSMONTHLY OCTOBER NO2 EVENT | GuildOct 30th 6:00PM: Schedule: 18:00 Doors Open 18:45 Introduction 19:00 How a vulnerability hack may happen and how to prevent it. //Bruno B 001
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 27/10/2025On a long enough timescale, every piece of software becomes a messaging app. 030
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 26/10/2025I probably can't get away with the 'I made these slides an hour ago' disclaimer again this time 000
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 26/10/2025I'm giving a repeat of my @svelte.london talk on building a game level editor at @jsmonthlylondon.bsky.social this Thursday! Come along to hear me ramble about #playdate & #svelte guild.host/events/jsmon...guild.hostJSMONTHLY OCTOBER NO2 EVENT | GuildOct 30th 6:00PM: Schedule: 18:00 Doors Open 18:45 Introduction 19:00 How a vulnerability hack may happen and how to prevent it. //Bruno B 130
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 23/10/2025Surprise! I gave a last-minute talk at @svelte.london this evening 173
Reposted by Elliot BentleySvelte Society London @svelte.london · 18/09/2025🥳 Oct 23rd at 6:15PM: Svelte London - October 2025 Join us for Svelte London October!! We're being hosted by Tessl! Check it out 👉 guild.host/e/cx03nwguild.hostSvelte London - October 2025Join us for Svelte London October!! We're being hosted by Tessl! 111
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 29/08/2025@polygon.com I know you're going through some changes recently but really what on earth is this banner ad 010
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 24/08/2025Made me think I really should try to update my blog more often. How did I find so much to write about a decade ago? 000
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 24/08/2025This weekend I got an inexplicable urge to redo my personal website. Maybe it's all this recent talk of small web. Anyway in lieu of a total revamp, I changed up the serif font, from round Jost to old friend Oswald. And fixed a bunch of broken links. Fight that bitrot, friends! 110
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 20/08/2025I used to like this style of documentation until LLMs co-opted it. Sigh 130
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 10/08/2025That was the one bit I watched a guide for. I couldn’t stand the stealth sections. 100
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 07/08/2025This is a rhetorical question and definitely not meant as inspiration for someone’s next SaaS. God help us when it arrives 000
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 07/08/2025If Slack was the work version of Twitter, what’s the work version of TikTok? 100
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 07/08/2025Hot take but hard to disagree. My prediction is in ten years social networks will be exclusively short form video. Hell probably even internal work messages 110
Elliot Bentley @elliotbentley.com · 31/07/2025I guess this technically makes a svelte core contributor github.com/sveltejs/sve...github.comfix: add types for SVG bindable attributes by ejb · Pull Request #16525 · sveltejs/svelteThe following props are bindable in SVG elements, but the type definition only includes them for HTML elements. contentRect contentBoxSize borderBoxSize devicePixelContentBoxSize clientWidth clien... 260