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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 12/08/2026

Pac-Man spotted over Newhaven Lighthouse.

Partial eclipse from Seaford beach looking towards Newhaven Lighthouse and harbour wall

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 12/08/2026

I pre-ordered this. It is likely the most useful book for SaaS published this year. bsky.app/profile/asma...

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 17/07/2026

Sleeping with Darwin and a bunch of fossils tonight.

A selfie of me ready to sleep in Hintze Hall

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 13/07/2026

20 years ago today I incorporated the company that became The Skiff Ltd. Looking forward to sharing some of the things members shared with me when we celebrated on Friday.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 12/07/2026

Today is 20 years since I created my Twitter account.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 03/07/2026

Yesterday was a good day.

A 47km electric mountain bike ride around Cuckmere Valley and Friston Forest

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Adrian Marin @adrianthedev.com · 26/06/2026

Avo 4 is here 🎉 15 months, ~2000 commits, and about 50 teams kicking the tires. It's a full redesign, not a fresh coat of paint. A safer way build your internal tools 🧵

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 16/06/2026

Did you know that tickets go live for @ffconf.org next Thursday? 10am UK time. You going for the early bird tickets, or going to wait it out?

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 10/06/2026

At Stripe Tour London. Thousands of people. I might be the only one wearing shorts.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 31/05/2026

24 hours until the first Stripe Brighton meetup. Room for a few more people if you want to join… …and still time for me to include your dietary preferences in the meal order :) luma.com/0zakatid

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Stripe Brighton Community meetup #1 · Luma

Join the Stripe Brighton Community for casual conversations about small businesses making money online. Food and drink will be provided to keep the…

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 27/05/2026

Just published: "The 2026 problem". Check it out and subscribe to get everything I'm making. brightondynamic.com/posts/the-20...

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 18/05/2026

Very happy for Bulgaria’s Eurovision win. Hopefully it’ll be within a week of @balkanruby.bsky.social and I can come to Sofia for a couple of weeks with the family. Bangaranga!

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 07/05/2026

My next newsletter "The only billion-dollar company I'm comfortable depending on" is coming today. Subscribe to get it and stay in the loop on everything I'm creating. brightondynamic.com

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BrightonDynamic

Get smarter about working in Brighton, Sussex, UK.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 29/04/2026

The Skiff is becoming The Imposter Club In the first 4 weekends of May The Skiff is being transformed into The Imposter Club, venue 20 in the central trail of Brighton Artist Open Houses. A celebration of The Skiff’s community and its creative side! Details: brightondynamic.com/posts/the-sk...

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The Skiff is becoming The Imposter Club

Venue 20 in the central trail of Brighton Artist Open Houses

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 08/04/2026

Yesterday, the International Space Station made contact with Artemis II, marking the first time in history that two spacecraft on separate missions communicated directly with one another. A first not just for space travel, but for humanity. Incredible. www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-a...

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 03/04/2026

Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/s...

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The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

a few days ago i watched this video on the xz->openssl exploit and everybody with commit access should be forced to watch it, eyes held open by clamps if necessary

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The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew

YouTube video by Veritasium

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Martijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen, speaking to the FT, on impartiality www.ft.com/content/b139...

Later, he tells a story about impartiality. In Sarajevo in 1992, he saw the shelling of two children’s funerals. “I wanted to do a piece to camera saying, this is the most monstrous war crime you can imagine. I wanted to rant.” Then his BBC instincts kicked in. “I just described what happened.” Nineteen years later, the piece was used as evidence against Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić. “I remember thinking, if I’d got on my soapbox, would they be admitting it in the war crimes tribunal? I don’t think so.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/02/2026

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Been putting off moving off asdf to mise for managing Ruby versions for months. I shouldn't have. It took two minutes to migrate and it Just Works™.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 07/02/2026

Wondering if this is more or less likely to be true now. Might depend on definition of a SaaS.

Tweet by jot in on 11th November 2020:

One day there will be more SaaS apps in the world than there are freelancers.

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Jamie Schembri @jamie.schembri.me · 07/02/2026

Just found the video floating around, but didn't see it posted here yet. Here's hoping there'll be a next time :-). @friendlyrb.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUjV...

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Friendly.rb 2025 - September 10-11 2025

YouTube video by Friendly rb

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tapster @mileswoodroffe.com · 04/02/2026

New post > When ideas can be brought to life at this pace it ushers in a new way of working... The innovation is and always has been the ideas... now can we can implement these ideas so effortlessly and cheaply, the code essentially becomes a disposable commodity mileswoodroffe.com/articles/cla...

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Onur Ozer @onurozer.me · 20/01/2026

Since meeting @jot.is at @friendlyrb.com last year, we've been working on cogrid.com, a competitor research and tracking tool for SaaS founders and marketers. We're launching the MVP in a few weeks. Join our mailing list to follow our progress and get early access!

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CoGrid

Automated competitive intelligence for SaaS teams

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 16/01/2026

Just booked my ticket and accommodation, probably shouldn't have put it off until now - not many rooms left: bsky.app/profile/jot....

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 13/01/2026

It’s Alex’s first day. You want to help them make a big impact fast. You let them use your computer, email address & app logins. They’re so quick you can’t even see all the steps they’re taking. What could possibly go wrong? Why can’t we onboard LLMs the way we would really onboard an employee?

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Jeremy Smith @jeremysmith.co · 10/01/2026

Hey Ruby consultants, freelancers, and agencies! Quick reminder: we have the Ruby Consultants Quarterly Gathering (over Zoom) on Monday, 1pm ET! Come talk shop with other Rubyists. (It's not widely publicized, so if you don't have an invite, DM me and I'll add you.)

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Dan Moore is at Monktoberfest @mooreds.com · 07/01/2026

Great short post from @mheap.dev: michaelheap.com/visibility-i... It takes practice to deliver the right level of abstraction--too many details are not great. But surprises are so so bad. Even if Alice delivers a month later than Bob, people understand why and are more likely to accept it.

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Visibility is Velocity

Why visible progress beats speed: how incremental updates build trust, reduce risk, and change how complex product work is perceived.

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Alex Hillman @alexhillman.com · 02/01/2026

If you haven't seen MKBHD's microchips for scale explainer, you are missing out holy moly this was like Beakman's World of the current era. so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh9p...

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I shrunk down into an M5 chip

YouTube video by Marques Brownlee

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Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 31/12/2025

Did you know that I do sound branding for a fee? 👇🏻 soundlogo.co

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SoundLogo

I create outstanding sound branding for small businesses and content creators.

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Marco Roth @marcoroth.dev · 30/12/2025

Alongside the Ruby 4.0 release last week, I published charm-ruby over Christmas, bringing @charm.land's excellent terminal UI libraries to Ruby. A full TUI framework, reusable components, styled output, forms, markdown rendering, spinners, charts, and a lot more! Demos below ⬇️

A cute, glowing ruby gem with a smiling face, rendered in a pink-purple neon style on a vibrant background. It represents the Ruby language with a Charm-inspired, glamorous CLI aesthetic.

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Julian Rubisch @julianrubisch.at · 21/12/2025

Here's a Christmas present for the Hotwire community! 🎅 I've compiled the entire (free) Hotwire Club knowledge base into a searchable MCP database. 📚 Here's the Github repository complete with install and configuration instructions: github.com/TheHotwireCl...

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GitHub - TheHotwireClub/hotwire_club-mcp

Contribute to TheHotwireClub/hotwire_club-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Xavier Noria @fxn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

We were very proud to present @marcoroth.dev with the Rails Luminary Award 2025. And yes, I was on a secret mission to Zurich 😀. rubyonrails.org/2025/12/17/m...

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Congrats Marco Roth: 2025 Rails Luminary

We are stoked to share that the Rails Core team has announced Marco Roth as the 2025 Rails Luminary.

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Steve McLeod @steveofmcleod.com · 02/12/2025

Wow. Simply wow.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 27/11/2025

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

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Cory Zue @coryzue.com · 19/11/2025

Yesterday all of my sites were down. I could have brought them back up by changing one flag in a dashboard, but the dashboard was also down. So I just made sure I'm better prepared if this happens again. Little guide if you want to do the same: www.coryzue.com/writing/clou...

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How to disable CloudFlare proxying when you can't access the dashboard

Just in case, you know, CloudFlare goes down or something...

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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 18/11/2025

There are two kinds of people in the world - smart people who know they’re lucky, and lucky people who think they’re smart.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 11/11/2025

I think I might have found the perfect Christmas present for my 9 year old (and me): vole.wtf/doctype/

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DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️

’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/11/2025

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 09/11/2025

I decided to spend this remembrance day educating myself about the sacrifices we're supposed to be remembering. I now live on the atlantic coast of France, so decided to learn something about of the second world war here. As a result, I've been down the most amazing rabbit hole of discovery...

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 05/11/2025

Added more photos from our "wall of vibes" ffconf.org/photos/ Lots of lovely memories and probably gives you a sense of what the event is too. Today is the last day before late-bird pricing kicks in, and then we're IRL next Friday.

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FFConf photos over the years

View photos from previous FFConf web development & JavaScript conferences in Brighton, UK.

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jamie @jamie.ideasasylum.com · 30/10/2025

Last week I wrote up a post about why I think you, a software developer, need to adopt AI: jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/24/w... I believe: - AI is inevitable - it's our job to be curious and understand new technologies …

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Why you need to adopt AI (as a software engineer)

I know you’re probably sick of hearing about AI but here’s why I think (some of it) is important to use

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 14/10/2025

I've been given a packing list. On Thursday morning at 9am I fly from Gatwick. I'll return to Gatwick at 6pm on Monday evening. For the ~100 hours between the flights I'll be offline and unreachable - I don't know what I'll be doing. I'm trusting that time to a good friend and a mountain guide.

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