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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Engines of Reason by @aptshadow.bsky.social (I’m about half way through and enjoying it very much. Start with Elder Race, if you’re interested.)

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Honey and garlic with apple cider (for the taste and to avoid botulism apparently)

A squat fermenting jar filled with cream coloured garlic and golden honey.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 12/07/2026

I stand (or sit quietly) with Posh ✊

David Beckham and others wildly celebrating a goal, Victoria Beckham sits quietly next to them staring in to space.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 05/07/2026

Some gentle taps from a rubber mallet and a kind lend of some pliers and we’ve got the frame bolted together, the hulls on and inflated, and the mast together if not raised. I

My son collapsed backwards onto the trampoline of our Catapult Comet catamaran on the sands by Dovestone Reservoir.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 02/07/2026

Siri just read this as “from Nuh snore eh-plea”. Amazing.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 03/06/2026

They’ve had at my back door crocs overnight, I’m sure it’s them. Must be cheese puff flavoured somehow?

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 26/05/2026

My Poem/1 AI rhyming clock by @genmon.fyi is here everybody!

A lovely AI rhyming clock reading as follows:
Shadows stretch as
day turns gray, / It’s
eight forty-two,
dusk’s ballet.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 18/01/2026

Heading in the right direction.

The Solstice Watch app, showing “2 min, 48 secs more daylight today compared to yesterday”, relieving the crushing feeling of eternal darkness at this time of the year.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 30/12/2025

A Harvard University professor of Religious Iconology and Symbology.

You are now forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read. What is the job?

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 23/12/2025

Errr, no, automated shopping list classifier…

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 18/12/2025

It’s a Holiday Soul Party with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings everybody!

Album cover from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings showing Sharon offering a gift and the kings sitting around her looking festive in red suits.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 23/11/2025

I’m not sure this notification is anything other than noise. Sometimes it’s useful to be told when rain will start or stop, but knowing there’s a seven minute gap allows me to do… what? Nip across the road without an umbrella to post a letter? Seems un-useful.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 07/10/2025

These recommendations based on "people in a similar role to you" was pretty harsh from LinkedIn, I felt. Context: yes, I am currently unemployed, but dammit I don't need robots reminding me 😆

An array of people's profiles on LinkedIn that the LinkedIn algorithm is suggesting I connect with as they have "similar roles" to me… all the people are currently unemployed (as am I).

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 30/09/2025

Love this evergreen engineering conversation

hailey @hailey.at
okay go.bsky.app redirects should be a lot faster now (idk why yet but they should be)

Kuba Suder @mackuba.eu
WHAT

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com
wtaf theyre noticeably faster

hailey @hailey.at
we don't know what technology allowed for this, but we're taking this win paul

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com
I just checked the slack and hailey isnt lying nobody has a concrete theory on why. I hate it.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 17/09/2025

I wonder whether the product team got tired of people not seeing the “Download” menu item, by any chance #ux #product 🤔

The dialog with options when viewing books on the Kindle iOS app. The most prominent menu item is “DOWNLOAD” in all caps.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 01/07/2025

Can’t help showing off about eating these leftovers for lunch 😆

Grilled chicken in a whole grain mustard, chilli, and coriander marinade on a salad of squished cucumber and peach slices.

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 30/06/2025

In this weather, spam bot? Are you mad.

A spam message on telegram enquiring “how’s the leather working?”

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Simon Wheatley @simonwheatley.co.uk · 26/06/2025

In Hamburg for #ProductAtHeart, sitting having la lovely poke bowl lunch overlooking the Langer Zug, watching the boats go past and contemplating all the things. If I know someone here who’s going, let me know and let’s make sure to say hi while we’re here