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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

For comparison, here's how my openlocal.uk data explorer organises far more complex data queries in production. This is a much more contested space with around 60 filters & over 100 columns. I make this a little more accessible by using […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

openLocal data explorer, showing a filter panel to the left, a control panel along the top, and columns for tabular data showing commercial location and ratepayer data for the UK.

The search was for `Byron` (a semi-defunct burger chain) and addresses that match historic sites are indicated with a yellow panel below the name of the current tenant for each address.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

There are two main daily surfaces in any federated service: actor pages, & announcements. #hopsauna #fediverse With the product authoring pages prototyped, next is send, receive & view messages. In social media apps, these are the two most familiar surfaces. Whether reading...

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

This is amazing to me. Not the eclipse itself. I don't tend to stand in awe of the universe. More that millions of people are going to go out with their little plastic spectacles and stare at the sun. We live in a period when there feels like so much outright […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Screenshot of the current headlines on The Guardian:
- ‘It’s going to be spectacular’: Millions flock to Spain seeking best view of total solar eclipse
Eclipse chasers, tourists and astronomers searching for the clearest skies to watch the two minutes of totality

- The best place to see the eclipse and how to view it safely
- How to safely watch the solar eclipse
- Hotel prices in Europe jump before total solar eclipse

Exterior photograph as researchers set up telescopes in a small Spanish town to observe the solar eclipse

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Finally, given we have conditions & regional delivery, products can also offer regional or follower-only pricing. So, between conditional, delivery regions, and specific purchase options, you have a wide range of ways you can engage with your community. Want […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Hopsauna UI prototype showing the name of the offer, the price, currency, and then options to set where, who, when, and a cap on the offer.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

And the buyer needs to see what they're committing to as well.

Hopsauna UI prototype showing the information card a buyer sees when reviewing a conditional purchase option. It shows how many more items need buyers to commit to buying before the condition will be met, and the date when the offer ends. It also provides information on what happens when the click the `commit` button, when they would be charged should the condition be met, and a link to their rights.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

If you happen to sell regionally & can't serve outside that, you might want to offer fallbacks for people. A distributor you have a relationship with in the buyer's region, or even another producer you like. And, then, the Patreon-like approach where you […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Hopsauna UI mockup showing the referral variation to guide customers to other places where they can buy your products, or alternatives you recommend.
Inputs for:
- Where as a key/value -> name/link
- Regional limits for this.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Continuing with #hopsauna #fediverse #fedicommerce product creation UI prototyping. There's a lot here, so we go slowly. - A creator must be attested by an admin before they can sell. - The instance sets editorial policy for each class of product sold (i.e […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

HopSauna UI prototype of the core product creation workflow, showing:
- Name and description
- Any display media, with the first indicated so it is picked up and shown it in some themantic way.
- Category selector which shows its requirements, in this case:
- Read by two editors
- Provision of a sample chapter
- Proof you can sell it.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Every point where one party grants another a right to do a thing - admit a creator, appoint an editor, approve a product for release - must be a formal, dereferenceable, two-party act with an issuer, a scope, a validity, & a revocation path. This is an […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

#hopsauna UI mockup showing the application form for a Creator to request the right to sell on an Instance.

The form offers options:
- to sell individually, or join another creator as a contributor,
- limited by period, or indefinitely,
- applying as a particular creator, although this is linked to an account and the Creator can - once attested - create multiple Seller profiles,
- a motivation for their request,
- and a link to a portfolio of their work.

All #hopsauna sites are limited to a maximum of 150 attested creator accounts (not profiles), and the count is listed.

#hopsauna UI mockup of an Attestation.

This shows that the certificate is active, and at which domain.

Along with:
- who holds the attestation (i.e. who it was awarded to),
- when it was issue, and how long is is valid till
- and the attestation chain, with links to each party in the chain.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

•Card fees exist.• Each payment method shows its estimated cost. Tick a box & buyers can cover it. •One clock.• Ordering holds items for a fixed period, price & availability held, everything released if it lapses, with nothing charged. •Price disclosure.• […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A checkout flow showing the payment step. There are two products to two sellers. Each indicated separated with their delivery and payment fees indicated.

There's no Amazon-style grouping or bulk sending. Each payment is independent, and fulfilment - similarly - would be the responsibility of each seller.

The payment provider fee is indicated, and the buyer has the option of covering that for the seller if they wish.

Payment itself triggers two payment flows. Yes, if you buy products from two different sellers, the checkout basket is a UI convenience. Paying direct means paying to as many sellers as you have selected.

Two buttons shown, and each initiates that sellers Payment flow.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Let's talk federated checkout #hopsauna #fediverse The challenge with direct payments *and* supporting federation is that a basket could contain products from multiple creators, each on their own instances. Sellers may have different payment rails (Stripe […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A UI mockup of a webshop basket checkout flow with two products shown. Each is produced by a different seller, clearly grouped so that the seller, and their product, are obvious.

We also have the usual affordances of a basket: price, volume, a quantity picker, and small glyph indicating that you could save this to a list.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

For the last 18+ months, I've worked on applying ActivityPub to federated stores (www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt6rJpJ7a94…). #hopsauna #fediverse (codeberg.org/whythawk/hopsauna/src/…). I'm UI prototyping before building […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

A UI prototype landing page, with sections for:
- Aboutness: a description of the site
- Featured creator: a followable actor, plus a list of featured products they created
- A list of new product arrivals, also AP actors
- An activity feed from the instance

Firstly, yes, prepare for lots of hop and beer puns. Secondly, demonstrating a few approaches:
- No "infinite feed", you have to click for further items
- It "looks" like a social site, but it isn't, so a feed isn't the reason to be there, although you can view updates from posts in a "stream".
- I'm going to experiment with a context-sensitive middle icon slot on the bottom menu bar. So, add something to a basket and the "home" changes to "basket".

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

I sat in that NG Kerk with the dominee, the official church of Apartheid which helped put a religious foundation under racism, & I thought of the cultural wave shortly to arrive in his small town, & which has changed the fortunes of that part of the Karoo, & I said, "Funny you should say that."

Photo supplied to Daily Maverick for use in their feature.

A picture of a typical white-painted Cape Dutch-style town house with a corrugated iron roof and with the edges of the roof below the gutters decorated with "broekielace", literally panty-lace. The house is shaded by two acacia trees in front and plenty of drought-resistant local flora.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

My theory of the wire windpump is this: if there isn't a group of informal traders by the roadside at the town entrance selling wire craft windpumps, then that town isn't a tourism destination. There were none in Barrydale. I met with community & business […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Image by karoospace.co.za of a galvanised steel water wind-driven pump in the foreground of the dry vastness of the Karoo. In the distance is a mountain called the Compassberg, the highest peak in the region.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

I added it to my research, & went to the Karoo. It's a dramatic & magnificent part of the country, all stone & sky. Barrydale itself, back then, was only famous for Ronnie's Sex Shop (not a sex shop), but is a green oasis amongst the red brown rock. Quiet […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Photo from Barrydale's tourism office.

Exterior photo of Ronnies Sex Shop. It's a perfectly ordinary (and unremarkable) roadside tavern. Square, blocky, white-painted, with the name in red letters, and "sex" seemingly painted randomly on the wall next to the name "Ronnies Shop". Wooden tables are outside to the one side, motorbikes parked in front.

Legend has it that, many decades ago, a regular decided to paint the word "sex" alongside "Ronnies", and that caused multiple drivers, travelling through the remoteness of the Karoo, to stop and take a second look. Out of such stories, tourism legends grow, and it soon made it to the Lonely Planet as a spot to visit. Tourists from all over the world stop, have a drink, are somewhat disappointed and mystified, and move on.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

This is why I have no respect for The Guardian. Can you imagine the utter carnage if this headline was about Jewish rather than trans rights? If a vulnerable minority is targeted for oppression & their government won't protect them, it is not a "debate". It is […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Guardian headline: "Trans rights should be a private affair. A toxic debate does no one any favours"
By Guardian senior columnist, Simon Jenkins, who is a cunt. Picture of gammon-looking dude accompanies.
Sub-title: "The courts are a clumsy means to negotiate social relationships. Let organisations make up their own minds about inclusion"

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2025

My bank emailed me asking for information, but providing no way for me to send it to them. So I tried their help chat in the app. But it's an "AI" which gives me wrong answers only. When I complain, it says "Transferring you to an agent", but doesn't transfer me anywhere.

Chat screenshot with my bank "AI":

"AI": If this isn't quite what you were looking for, please rephrase your question and I'll try my best to get you what you need.

Me: Just reproving that "AI" is incapable.

"AI": I'm just here to help you get things done <hugs emoji>

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2025

South Africa threw off Apartheid and white-supremacy. Trump and Musk can never forgive this. Cry the beloved country.

FT headline: US declares South African ambassador 'persona non grata'. Photo is of Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2025

I'd like to propose **The Godwin Betteridge Corollary**: the probability that any headline that ends in a question mark that should be answered by the word ***yes ***is only left in doubt because the journalists, editors and other privileged proclaimants are […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

New York Times "opinions" section, with the headline:

"Is the Destruction the Point?": Three Opinion Writers on Trump’s First 50 Days
Michelle Goldberg and Frank Bruni join Patrick Healy to discuss the issues that have defined Trump’s presidency thus far.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2025

Fifty years after Trump's catastrophic Canadian campaign in the winter of 2025, noted French cartographer and engineer, Charles Minard, produced the definitive chart revealing the tragic and disastrous losses of the American military advance and retreat.

Figurative Map of the successive losses in men of the American Army in the Canadian campaign 2025-2026. Drawn by M. Minard, Inspector General of Bridges and Roads (retired). Paris, November 20, 2079. The numbers of men present are represented by the widths of the colored zones at a rate of one millimeter for every ten thousand men; they are further written across the zones. The red designates the men who enter Canada, the black those who leave it. — The information which has served to draw up the map has been extracted from the works of M. M. Thiers, de Ségur, de Fezensac, de Chambray and the unpublished diary of Jacob, the pharmacist of the Army since October 28th. In order to better judge with the eye the diminution of the army, I have assumed that the troops of Prince Jérôme and of Marshal Davout, who had been detached at Vancouver and Calgary and have rejoined near Orsha and Vitebsk, had always marched with the army. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2024

The exceptional Angélique Kidjo performing live in Marseille with the La Cité Des Minots choir, opera.marseille.fr/action-culturell…

Angélique Kidjo singing in the foreground, with her band behind her, and the La Cité Des Minots choir in the background

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2024

Nous sommes en 2024. Toute la Gaule est occupée par des nazis ultra-fascistes.

Carte des résultats du premier tour des élections de 2024 dans le sud de la France montrant que les ultra-bigots du RN ont gagné au premier tour dans toutes les régions. Toutes les régions ?

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2024

No! One tiny village holds out against the invaders.

2024 first-round electoral results for the 7th district Bouche-du-Rhone, which is Marseille, showing it as an island of left-wing leadership surrounded by a sea of UltraFascist bigots. Marseille. You know, where they sing La Marseillaise.

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Gavin Chait; @gavinchait.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2024

It is 2024. All of Gaul is controlled by Nazi UltraFascists.

2024 first round electoral results map of Southern France showing that the ultra-bigots of RN secured a first-round victory in all regions. All?

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