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Neil Thompson

@spokenlikeageek.com

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Technology blog of Neil Thompson, developer of php2Bluesky. Blog: spokenlikeageek.com Github: github.com/williamsdb

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 03/06/2026

Hope my Neo doesn’t bend at the corners like the one in this ad!

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 26/05/2026

I’d not tried this before but the Xteink Tong Card snaps to the back of the X4. Annoyingly it’s off centre due to the positioning of the magnets but it does work.

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 10/05/2026

I'm not sure why it took so long for Apple to add this as an option, but I'm very glad they have finally done so.

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 12/04/2026

What's in my Alpaka Flight Sling 2L - my EDC.

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 29/03/2026

Had to retire my original robotic mower and now he has kindly consented to be used for spare parts. Thanks Robbie for your service and welcome Laurie.

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 26/03/2026

Lack of MacBook Neo keyboard backlight solved. This works surprisingly well.

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 26/03/2026

Yes, I have! www.spokenlikeageek.com/micropost/u…

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 26/03/2026

Upgraded to iOS 26.4 and went through the age verification checks. I guess I've had an Apple account longer than 18 years.

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 23/03/2026

Been trying out the Free2 page-turner with KO Reader on an old Samsung tablet. I hope that Bluetooth gets added to Crosspoint soon so I can try it on my X4 too.

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 27/01/2026

Loving my new Xteink X4 e-reader. Affordable and portable for on-the-go reading. Check out the unboxing here and keep an eye out for a longer report coming soon. www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/01/25/x...

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 25/12/2024

This is somewhat ironic seeing as neither of them had permission to scrape all the data they did to train their models in the first place.

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 04/12/2024

The 300 characters issue is already on my to do list. The issue I have with that is that I cannot find anything in the documentation to tell me how my characters a URL takes up. On point 2 I assume you mean the bit highlighted?

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 17/11/2024

That should be straightforward as the code already has ALT tags there but just set to null. I can probably take them from the input array and just inject the text. If that's something you're interested in can I ask you to do me a favour & raise it here so I don't forget! github.com/williamsdb/p...

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 26/10/2024

Yes Claude tells me that it's not yet supported.

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 17/12/2023

This must win the award for the weirdest calendar picker I have ever seen. What's with the "thirty"?!

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 05/11/2023

Over the next few days there is going to be five posts, one a day, walking you through how to post to Bluesky via the API in PHP. They include posting text, images, handling links and link card. Keep an eye out here and at spokenlikeageek.com

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Neil Thompson @spokenlikeageek.com · 01/11/2023

ChatGPT getting snotty with me when I asked it to help me find a freeware script!

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