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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 23/08/2026

I was expecting your reply to include some of those words you enjoyed exchanging with one another in Bucharest! ;)

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 20/08/2026

Variable frequency is OK for me.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 13/08/2026

Glad to hear it helped! Will let you know :)

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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 · 10/08/2026

Sorry to hear this Jack! We don’t normally throw anything out without giving members plenty of notice. I don’t remember either of those things coming up recently. If you can send me details I might be able to get them replaced.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 18/07/2026

Hope is cool too. Feeling bad for not mentioning her. Especially since her tail is in shot.

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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

Some details and an invitation to join a walk next week: brightondynamic.com/posts/fancy-...

brightondynamic.com

fancy a breakfast walk on the Downs next Friday?

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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 · 11/06/2026

Neat! I would read a blog post write up (even if written by Fable) about this project.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 11/06/2026

I’m thinking I should have done some actual sales and marketing in my Friendly.rb talk ;)

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 11/06/2026

Do you have a way of checking how well the new solution performs against the old way at scale? Sounds like a 1/1,000 failure rate wouldn’t be acceptable.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 11/06/2026

Urlbox pricing drops significantly at volume (especially if the PDFs are small/simple). But if they are simple and you’re not hitting any infrastructure issues Fable’s solution is likely just fine. :)

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 11/06/2026

That’s a lot of PDFs! 😅 Who’s going to read them all?

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 11/06/2026

Now that sounds like a good challenge for Fable!

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 11/06/2026

It’s a significant chuck of Urlbox’s business. $150 would by about 30,000 URLs/HTML to PDF and some Friendly human help when you need it :)

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

This isn’t the only thing to surprise me.

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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

Hope to see you some other time!

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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

Hope you can make it happen. 🤞

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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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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 03/04/2026

I am. Will be good to see you there!

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 03/04/2026

Urlbox got SOC 2 Type II attested in January. It’s made enterprise deals much easier (even when they don’t require it). And while it’s a bit of a slog, all the competing platforms in the space have made the process much cheaper and more straightforward than it would have been a couple of years ago.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 25/03/2026

Similarly I’d rather 1,000 companies make it to £1 million revenue than one gets to £1 billion.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 17/03/2026

You two should talk. You have more in common than this problem!

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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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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 24/02/2026

I’ve been putting off doing that. I’d approach this by first putting Claude code into /plan mode then giving it a prompt like: “Upgrade this project from tailwind 3 to tailwind 4 follow this guide: tailwindcss.com/docs/upgrade... and take before and after screenshots to ensure no visual impact.”

tailwindcss.com

Upgrade guide - Getting started

Upgrading your Tailwind CSS projects from v3 to v4.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 21/02/2026

I also tried it today for the first time today. Was impressed without even changing from the default free model. The TUI experience felt better too - less bloated.

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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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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 08/02/2026

It’s so sad when 80% of applicants hardly make any effort. Especially now they can get free personalised advice that could get them into the top 90%.

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 08/02/2026

Nice! I switched the last of the apps I have with a redis dependency over solid queue today. So much quicker and easier to make changes like this in this day and age.

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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

I’m not sure those are the things they should be coding up though 😅

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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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