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Web developer & charity trustee. Building accessible, user-centred sites since the web was new. East London. richholman.com

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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 30/09/2026
As a joke went to create a mascot for my local model experimentation app (Kettle Cups) mostly to take the p**s out of the sudden cutesification of agents. Annoyingly, I really like it. Introducing Temp - a tiny office temp who happens to be a cup: earnest, slightly officious.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 25/09/2026
Got up super early today - for reasons - but then decided to just Johno Verity it around London. Stunning city.
Statue in front of the London eyeSunrise on the north bank of the Thames. Across from Tate modern. The shard Tower Bridge at sunrise
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 25/09/2026
Yay journalism
Article about the threats of AI
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 24/09/2026
Pretty good one tonight
Sunset over London.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 21/09/2026
Elephant in the data centre room? Sorry.
Djungelskog elephant with loooooong label due to EU regulations.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 20/09/2026
No idea why. But it was Eurofighers down from Lincoln - over London then off towards Oxford. Odd
Flight path of fighter jets.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 12/09/2026
Sat in meeting rooms at a reference publisher when I was the ‘marketing and web development executive’ people would smirk when I talked of its potential - was once referred to as ‘Pollyannaish’ which annoyed me as I didn’t know what it meant Newspaper article from a year after I started that job
Newspaper article titled ‘internet may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it’
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 04/09/2026
In a fitting coincidence, moved a food pantry on National Food Pantry Day.
Food pantry shelves
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 20/08/2026
Remember when Kelly Rowland texted her man via Microsoft Excel and was
fuming he didn't text back?
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 12/08/2026
First and last (visible) eclipse of my lifetime (in the U.K.)
Eclipse of the sun
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 12/08/2026
Take that sun!
The eclipse.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 05/08/2026
I saw this reposted recently. At this point I had been working on the web for 1 year.
Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'

By James Chapman
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 05/08/2026
Rather amazingly we have corn growing in our community garden. Build it and they will come in reverse.
Photo of corn growing in a community garden.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 30/07/2026
WTF am I looking at, none of these words in this order makes sense.
Banner ad: "CX Al delivers for Kristen Bell. Watch Now"
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 26/07/2026
Rode 110 miles again out to the coast, for the 9th time. Wonderful, crazy, Dunwich Dynamo. Although at least I wasn't attempting it on penny Farthing
two people riding from London to Dunwich Suffolk on Penny Farthings
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 22/07/2026
Hugging Face had to use an open-weight model to log and analyse a hack because the frontier US models have security guardrails that stopped Hugging Face from analysing and reporting the hack that was initiated by the frontier US models.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 22/07/2026
i ain't reading all that
i'm happy for u tho
or sorry that happened
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 20/07/2026
Got a photo of this as well. Think there were a couple of additions since.
STILL BARRED
JASON
STARING PERVERT
always comes in a crash helmet
& armes all
ADAM THE DEAF GUY
MILLER
ONE ARMED KIETH
MICKEY TWO SUITS
FAT PAUL
VITRIOLIC QUEEN...OOHH IT'S NOT HOXTON
THE GLASWEGIAN
FLAT CAP
COKE FIEND BARRED FOR THREATENING
REGULAAS
(AND EVERT TANG
FLSE
THE GINGER DRUNK TWAT CALLED ANGUS
JULIA TANT...AKA MILLIE TANT FROM VIZ...DEAD RINGER
SONTH AFRICAN CADGING
THE EX CON CHAV TWAT
SCAMMER • PONYTAIL + BAD GOATEZ
DANNY MILLER / DANNY PARTRIDGE * He'S BACK & FAT
THAT BLONDE BITCH
SHAUN - STILL BAPRED, SNUCK
INe SUNDAY
CRAZY LINDA
ARI THECHEFI
ROB ROE
- Kept hitting
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 18/07/2026
sigourney weaver alien film
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 16/07/2026
Heh, achievement unlocked:
Domain registration screenshot

Details
Registration details
Paid until January 8, 2128
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 14/07/2026
Heh, remembering that time I accidentally walked into the set of Les Misérables when it was being filmed in Greenwich
Scene of Les Miserables, people holding French flags
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 12/07/2026
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 09/07/2026
My own connection to Clacton: there used to be a paddle driven steamship that ran from my home town of Medway to Clacton Pier. I travelled on it once - it was awesome.
PS Medway Queen, Gillingham Pier 2016
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 04/07/2026
Cheers Lighthouse, now you've made me cry.
Lighthouse results on a website, 99 (Performance), 100 (Accessibility), 100 (Best Practice), 100 (SEO)
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 02/07/2026
Considering doing a blog series. Why shouldn't I?
After All, Why Not? Why Shouldn't I Keep It? Meme from Lord of the Rings
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 01/07/2026
Hah. So this one worked for me. First one in this thread did not.
Screenshot of post above about Zelda games. With site.standard publication info.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 28/06/2026
Working on something spooky, might take a few months.
Spooky wallpaper.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 26/06/2026
Good posting timing
Mamdani posting GOALLLLLLLLL under a post of my political beliefs aligning with Mamdani
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 26/06/2026
10/10 no notes.
Trump’s having his motorcade drive across the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool last month.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 26/06/2026
I'll take that!
My results: Zohran Mamdani

Quiz on https://britmonkey.com/2020s-political-compass/

The 2020s Political Compass - The test has 64 questions and scores you on four axes.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 25/06/2026
every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours?
The M2 Bridge (officially the Medway Viaduct)
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 24/06/2026
Finished this absolute banger.
Systems Thinking in the
Public Sector
the failure of the reform regime... and a manifesto for a better way
John Seddon
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 19/06/2026
Never change Britain.
Andy Burnham celebrating his win alongside fellow candidates (Count Binface - a person wearing a large bin-shaped helmet and an animal rights campaigner dressed as a giant furry fox). 

Photograph: Temilade Adelaja/Reuters
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 07/06/2026
Picture of Homer, Bart and Lisa looking through the window of a Monorail from an Episode of the Simpsons.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 31/05/2026
Thanks Nicola now I’ve got the A-team theme tune stuck in my head.
BBC headline and a picture of Nicola Sturgeon

Sturgeon tells BBC: I'm serving a sentence for crime I didn't commit
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 26/05/2026
Clooooooouuuuuddddssss Sweet relief from the sun.
Photo of a cloud with the sun setting behind it. Urban foreground.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 24/05/2026
Emirates stadium tonight. Vibes.
Flares over Emirates stadium tonight. 🏆
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 23/05/2026
Google fixed the disregard snafu but now all the results are about the snafu.
Screenshot of a Google search results page for the word disregard
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 06/05/2026
Decided to to check and I do indeed have a 4.27gb AI model downloaded by Chrome in the background, Google's Gemini Nano: /Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel/ Just straight up U2ing it.
Finder window, showing /Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel/ and a 4.27gb AI model
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 01/05/2026
An 11ty driven og-image and thumbnail generation via yaml and @resvg/resvg-js no one says? Oh yes.
Preview image, with a yellow background and text "Strike span" with a strikethrough on the word Strike.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 10/04/2026
The space between Canary Wharf and the City
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 02/04/2026
Yeos.
"Anybody here named Jeff?"
Jeff: "Yes"
Geoff: "Yeos"
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 25/03/2026
Today at noon during PMQs - just as Kemi Badenoch was calling for more oil and gas drilling - the UK grid was generating 32.9 GW from renewables alone. That's 77% of the entire grid from wind, solar and hydro. I believe that's the most renewable energy Britain has ever produced at once.
UK electricity generation mix at 12:00 on 25 March 2026, shown as a stacked bar chart. Renewables dominate at 32.81 GW of 42.72 GW total - 77% of the grid. Wind offshore (12.7 GW) and onshore (10.2 GW) make up the largest segments, followed by solar (9.9 GW), nuclear (4.5 GW), imports (2.3  GW), gas (1.4 GW), biomass (1.1 GW), other (0.6 GW), and hydro (0.1 GW). Gas provides just 3% of generation.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 25/03/2026
The UK absolutely Lieutenant Daning it into the wind power right now.
Fuel Breakdown:

Wind 63.9%
Nuclear 11.8%
Imports 5.8%
Solar 11.5%
Gas 3.8%
Biomass 3.0%
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 21/03/2026
Shot. Chaser.
Jack Dorsey posting. Just setting up my twttr Robert Mueller just died. Good, I'm glad he's dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 20/03/2026
Had to sell a kidney. But hell yes. We’re so back.
Asparagus
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 17/03/2026
What a wonderful sight:
Chart showing 73% renewable

Wind: 46.4%
Solar: 26.5%
Nuclear: 9%
Imports: 7.5%
Gas: 7.2%
Biomass: 3.5%
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 14/03/2026
Same. Walthamstow right now. Bleak.
Photo of a river
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 12/03/2026
Sorry to bring the news that woke money appears to be on the streets already.
Ten pence piece with a section of the three lions.
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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 12/03/2026
'You can't put animals on a bank note' Roger Pfund...hold my wallet.
Switzerland 1,000 Francs | 1985
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