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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

there was a joy to logging on. What a time!

Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I got asked how I made the testing rig for my recent experiments with Apple’s on-device LLM. Instead of explaining, I made an app you can download for macOS Tahoe that lets you test your own prompts. natbuckley.co.uk/2025/07/02/i...

An animation showing a macOS app generating multiple responses to a single prompt.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

A week-ish ago I wrote about my experiments with an on-device LLM Apple released for use by apps on the latest beta OSes. A local LLM might be useful in places where you would never use a hosted LLM like ChatGPT, so I wanted to see what’s possible to do with it. natbuckley.co.uk/2025/06/20/d...

A screenshot showing how website contents were turned by a local LLM into a list of topics.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I made some changes to readability and contrast based on your feedback. If there’s anything else you picked up on I would love to know!

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Hello 👋 I’d love to make it better if I can, so any pointers appreciated

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I asked for a reply on what actions my MP is taking to uphold the manifesto commitment to “remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance”.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I sent a paper letter to my Lab MP about my experiences of being harassed in toilets for using “the wrong one” by (presumably cis) women—something which began 10+ yrs ago when I started presenting more androgynously. I argued that the ruling will embolden the bigots, in addition to being unworkable.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

That’s good to hear. And thank you for engaging with your MP on this. I hope that hearing pushback from real people makes a difference.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Very moved by Paul’s clear, evidenced and well articulated letter to his MP about trans rights. I’m especially grateful because the issue is too emotional for me to bring this degree of thoughtfulness to the table po-ru.com/2025/04/26/a...

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A letter to my MP about trans rights

After seeing the way that politicians and organisations have overreacted to the recent Supreme Court judgment and interpreted it the most anti-trans light possible, I decided to send a letter (a real ...

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Happy Ed Balls day to those who celebrate. Here’s something I made 12 years ago to commemorate the occasion ntlk.github.io/edballsipsum/

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Ed Balls Ipsum

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Saved for future reference for project. Love the way you showed the value of each idea through images and animations. Stellar stuff.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Fantastic work. So many great design ideas for transforming relationships through design and technology.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This is absolutely fantastic. Such a simple idea, but it’s mind blowing to me that the current crop of presentation software is not capable of presenting interactive prototypes anywhere near this well

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I do my best thinking on paper, or playing with the material directly. When I work on my own stuff I skip the Figma mockups step entirely

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Working on interaction design experiments in Swift UI

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Thank you! I tried the fix. Hopefully it will work.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A meta question: any idea why this post isn’t showing a nice preview? Or is it just me? Other YouTube links on bsky get nice thumbs etc bsky.app/profile/natb...

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

this is super interesting! thank you for sharing

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Yes, probably, depending on context! In the book most charts show the average by default, so you can also quickly gauge how far off the value is

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I like this idea! Do you know any examples of it out there?

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’m surprised this visual approach isn’t more common. I’ve been in so many meetings trying to figure out if a suspicious data point is a call to action or meaningless noise where this kind of thing could have saved so much time. So what’s stopping this from becoming a really popular idea?

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Though the only real example of this — that I’ve seen — is the sleep tracking data in the iOS fitness app using a visual indicator to show when data is within my “normal” range. Apple also applied the same idea to non-time series data, to highlight the status of multiple variables at once.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In the 90’s, Donald Wheeler published a book about what he called a process behaviour chart, where a visual indicator communicates the range of expected values. It’s such a simple idea! Though I’d call it the expected range chart.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This mistake is over-interpreting any high or low values as signal, when in reality those values often represent predictable variation.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I wrote a love letter to a cool, but underused chart type from the 90's, designed to help avoid one of the most common mistakes people make when analysing time-series data

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It's amazing how much one can get done when there's nothing in the calendar

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

That sounds like something I’d enjoy! And very close to what I was served

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I briefly went to NYC for work last week. I found a coffee shop which served Earl Grey, so I asked for it with milk, and received what I can only describe as an Earl Grey cappuccino. What you’re looking at here is true innovation.

An Earl Grey cappuccino, with the frothy milk concealing the fact that this is actually a cup of tea

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I see you have a better system than mine, teach me your ways

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

What a great idea. Can’t make it today but would love to join next time!

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I’m at 9. My friends tease me about it but I can justify their existence to myself in a very rational and convincing way

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Not only I didn’t get what I needed, I also didn’t really learn anything in the process, whether about the project itself or about how to prompt better to get what I need. So it felt like a waste of time.

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I had a similar experience trying to get it to give me usable code for a project I was working on, which it seemingly couldn’t do, despite my best effort. In the end it was quicker to read the documentation, understand it, and write my own code

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I wrote an article for The Modern House where I put together ideas showing how the Energy Performance Certificates could be even more useful to people looking for a new home. Homes that are more efficient are also cheaper to run, and will have lower CO2 emissions. 🧵

Screenshot of my article on The Modern House website

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Yeah, it’s such a great aesthetic result without too much complex piecing. Wonderful

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Oh this is brilliant. I’m gonna be stealing this idea

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Those are just some of the things I touched on. Full article here: www.themodernhouse.com/journal/reth…

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Nat Buckley 🏳️‍⚧️ @natbuckley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The breakdown of property's energy performance shows the rating of each component of the score—walls, roof, the heating system, and so on. Brains process visuals much faster than they do words. There's an opportunity to add visuals to help people scan info quickly.

Comparison of the current table showing how each part of the property contributes to the overall score, text only, with my adaptation using a visual cue alongside the text

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