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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 22/08/2026

My Bristol tips a bit rusty but the Here Gallery in Stokes Croft is good. There’s also there’s probably somewhere on the Christmas Steps and then you could check out Interlude Coffee!

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 19/03/2026

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“ 😞

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 26/01/2026

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 24/01/2026

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

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 31/12/2025

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!

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 31/12/2025

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 13/10/2025

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!

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 24/03/2025

Some wonderful mail has arrived from @robinsloan.com! www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/...

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”

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 18/03/2025

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

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Week 11

Burgers, bike rides, AI and waterfalls

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 06/03/2025

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 04/03/2025

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 04/03/2025

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 04/03/2025

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

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.

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 02/03/2025

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

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Week 9

Saunas, severence, timeguessr and crustaceans

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 27/02/2025

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 25/02/2025

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

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Week 8

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 14/02/2025

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 12/02/2025

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)

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 05/02/2025

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

gif.land

My online memory bank of my favourite gifs

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 04/02/2025

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 💀

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Beirut - Nantes | A Take Away Show

YouTube video by Blogothèque

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 21/01/2025

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 22/12/2024

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

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 22/12/2024

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.

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 18/12/2024

International Supermarket is where it’s at for veg

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 17/11/2024

*family’s. Further context. It was 1997 - I wasn’t allowed games. I just got to play encarta 95 and creative writer. It turned out, my dad was staying up at night addicted to Descent. I eventually found out. They thought I would get obsessed but I didn’t get it.

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 17/11/2024

This was also my (our families) first computer, got it on my 10th birthday. I cried

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 15/11/2024

Hard agree, we have a “definite length” one and it’s so useful plus everyone loves pulling the little lever. I also really like the simplicity of this one cwandt.com/products/m-r...

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M.R. Tape Dispenser

A multi-radius tape dispenser uses tension to hold one or multiple rolls of your favorite tape.Bent profile.Constructed out of a single piece of machined and bent stainless steel, tape is fed through ...

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 15/11/2024

Maude in her new desk bed

Maude, a border terrier - sitting in her tiny bed on the window ledge next to my desk. Her little paw poking out onto the desk

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 14/11/2024

Whilst it quite exciting watching this get big very quickly, and sure Bluesky’s algo is kinder right now. It reminds me of this brilliant and elegant essay/thing Robin Sloan wrote/built about the inherent problem with runaway engagement and communication at scale www.robinsloan.com/special/plat...

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Thread by robin on Rosegarden

All this suffering, when the fix is so simple.

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 14/11/2024

Maybe bluesky should be where I post about birds. I saw these two this morning. Deffo not Curlews. Could be be sand pipers but I thought their beaks looked too skinny. So maybe godwits???

A picture from a bird hide of a view out across the river Teifi. It’s low tide and the muddy banks are out and there are two small birds wading in the shallows

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Jon Heslop @jonheslop.com · 12/11/2024

Finally jumped ship, I somehow was in some twitter bubble where I wasn’t really seeing the grim stuff others seemed to (I never read replies and only looked on following) BUT Twitter mostly died for me when I couldn’t use Tweetbot anymore. Anyhow lets see how it goes over here 👋

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