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Anna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 02/10/2026
I want to make more art but have no energy at the end of my work days to make art. So many ideas and no time 🥲
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I keep having the outcome of #WorldCup matches spoiled on #BBC Sport 🫤 So I've spent some time this weekend making a #Stylus stylesheet that hides everything that might give the game away (pun intended) ⚽ theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/hiding...
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theAdhocracy | Hiding BBC Sport World Cup Spoilers
Are you fed up of having the outcome of a World Cup match spoiled whilst trying to find the highlights on BBC Sport? I was, so I wrote a Stylus overlay to hide all of the scores, stats, and even the v...
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Well this is both extremely sad and extremely lovely. Such a wonderful little animation/interface 🌻
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 03/07/2026
New on the blog: bell.bz/youll-miss-t...
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You’ll miss the soul when it’s gone
Pretty grim day of news in the industry today, with Salma Alam-Naylor stepping away from developer relations work permanently, Josh Comeau taking a sabbatical from making courses and GSAP’s once-vibrant forums descending into a ghost town. The reason your token guzzler “produces” anything that could be described as “good” is because of the years of […]
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Does anyone have/know of a good explanation on how image storage works in #ATProto services? I see the blob storage, but not sure I fully understand how it works? I want to understand where images uploaded to #bsky or Grain (e.g.) actually _live_
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Anyone else run into this with #EUHaul migration to #EuroSky? I'm trying to move a secondary account, to see what its like, and it's been "stuck" on this for quite a while. It says "action required", but then doesn't provide any inputs or anything 😅
Migration progress box, showing Migration Status of "Waiting for your input" and "Action required", but the indicated section just says "Waiting for upload slot" and asks you not to close the tab.
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I'm getting into #IKEAHacking and #DIY, making some cabinet doors, raised garden beds, and "boxing in" existing IKEA wardrobes. Don't have a huge budget, but what power tools should I prioritise? I have a drill, thinking some kind of saw, maybe a router? Hoping for advice from the hive mind!
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Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.eurosky.social · 10/06/2026
**succumbs to peer pressure** www.mohkohn.co.uk/writing/html...
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How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 22/05/2026
This should go without saying at this point but don't use Google search. Use an alternative, like DuckDuckGo or other options that aren't controlling how you find and access information online. And probably don't use Chrome for browsing either. @vivaldi.com is a great alternative.
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I've stopped reading a few newsletters and blogs because their authors keep ensloppifying the content. And that's from established writers, who clearly have the skills, but don't actually care about the craft. It bums me out. But its also an artefact of the commoditisation of our selves... 1/x
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 30/03/2026
Once again finding myself thinking about how much of the Internet's infrastructure should be co-ops.
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Looking for some brand new #ProgRock / #Metal? A friend has just released their band's first track 🤘 Solid production, fun lyrics, and made by a diverse group of PhD scientists. Give it a listen! #NewMusic mantraprog.bandcamp.com/track/the-wa... open.spotify.com/album/7tlseS...
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The Walls (Demo), by Mantra
track by Mantra
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
From @tomayac.com on Masto: toot.cafe/@tomayac/116... I made a recording in JAWS. Reading this paragraph: franktisellano.github.io/datatype/#:~...
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Well it's about three months late, but my review of 2025 (via the data captured largely through my website) is *finally* complete 🎉 theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/2025-b... #IndieWeb #YearInReview #DigitalHomesteading
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theAdhocracy | 2025: By The Numbers
A comprehensive review of 2025, through the lens of the data I captured (or had captured about me).
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Is there any way to subscribe to my bookmarks in Bluesky? Would be great if I could convert them into some kind of web feed (RSS, Atom, h-feed, whatever) so that I could pull them out into productivity tools like Readwise Reader. #BlueSkyHelp #Readwise #RSS
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tante @tante.cc · 19/02/2026
I am a luddite and to me there is a lot of joy in technology. In technology that we deploy for all our wellbeing. Solar panels and vaccines, high-speed rail and wikipedia. But they joy stems from the feeling of being able to be part of humanity in an embedded, meaningful way. Not from buying shit.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I feel like people think "birds are dinosaurs" is a weird fun fact that is "technically true" but I don't know how to emphasize that there are tens of thousands of species of theropod dinosaur on the planet with us right now. People keep them AS PETS. WE EAT THEM.
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Martin "That thing in the cellar is not my mother!" Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Did you know that when you use formatted text in a Bluesky message, assistive technology like Screen Readers can't understand it, so your text can be easily misunderstood. [No shade to the OP, just an example of how easy it is to create barriers to understanding for people who use assistive tech]
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James Lee Animation @jameslee.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fuck the Artists
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Looking back at January, I am watching *way too much* YouTube, particularly Shorts 😬 I also haven't touched my feed reader in _months_. Let's see what happens in Feb if I delete the YouTube app on my phone, and reorder my apps so that Reader is where it was 🤞 #FeedReader #RSS #IndieWeb #YouTube
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2025 marked a decade on the indie web, so I challenged myself to make 10 small improvements to my site(s). It turned into a bit more than that, so as the year ends, I decided to write up the various side quests I've been on: theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/the-ad... #IndieWeb #HappyNewYear #Blogging
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theAdhocracy | The Ad Hoc 10
To better mark a decade of theAdhocracy being online, I've secretly been chipping away at a whole bunch of additional features, bug fixes, and general improvements.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
For those who, like me, love speculative and alien evolution, there's a remarkable new book out, "Wildlife on the Planet Furaha" by Gert van Dijk. www.crowood.com/book/wildlif...
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Wildlife on the Planet Furaha | The Crowood Press
On the planet Furaha, Gert van Dijk creates a biosphere on a new world along with its solar system. Evolution on Furaha found solutions to life’s problems that remained unused on Earth. There are in-d...
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Ryan Trimble @ryantrimble.com · 20/10/2025
Frontend Devs of bsky, looking for community input: Are you using AI/LLMs in your day-to-day work? Are you all-in or only dabbling? What has been working well? What has been frustrating? How has your workflow changed? Do you feel more or less productive? Do you feel like a better dev?
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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 15/10/2025
We've already had a great response to this. Thank you everyone who took the time to make a ranking - I know there's a lot of proposals. If you haven't, there's still time! bsky.app/profile/fire...
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Eurgh, just had two emails in the span of 30 minutes from two companies that I personally use announcing "new AI tools". Both are B Corps. I wonder how that certification is being updated to account for the energy/resource spike these tools are likely to produce? 😔
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
No, no, *you* spent slightly too much money at #DinoConUK 😅 A completely wonderful weekend and event! Will have to start saving for next year... 🦕 (And there were several things I missed out on buying too, due to forgetting to bring cash on day one!)
A pile of dinosaur merch, including a miniature Rabbuck from After Man, a cork Thylacine coaster, DinoCon logo badge, several books, stickers, and sew on patches, and an adorable, orange, watercolour painting of a Spinosaurus, looking very pleased with the fish they're holding in their arms.Stacked palaeoart stickers, prints, and cards, with even more in the background. The main focus is a whimsical ink-pen print of various bizarre shaped ammonites, full of comic tableaus.More piles of palaeoart, mainly cards and prints. A colourful, blue icthyosaur skeleton is tucked beneath a cartoonish image of a Parasaurolophus in dense vegetation, with a speech bubble containing "honk again, I can't find you!".The full haul, with a pile of 20+ palaeoart prints in the foreground, and a backdrop of Almost Real zines, framed prints (including a Pachycephalosaurus made from local slate chips), and figures. The book Speed Thief is visible amongst a pile of stickers, and the general impression is one of colourful, joyful, palaeo chaos.
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Had a brilliant first day at #DinoConUK, and even managed to take a wander around the very theme-appropriate campus grounds! Looking forward to doing it all over again tomorrow 🦕 (And slightly concerned for my wallet)
A photo of two plushie dinosaurs, a small, green Ankylosaurus (called Hank) and very cute brown and cream Parasaurolophus (Katie) sat on moss covered rocks in front of large cycad-like ferns, with a DinoCon badge nestled between them. An adorable, miniature, prehistoric scene.
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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 16/07/2025
I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.
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Why Women in Tech isn't enough
Women in Tech spaces help, but fall short in the long run. Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Today is the day: 10 years of digital citizenship 🥳 It's a little indulgent, but I decided to mark the occasion by piecing together a rough timeline for my personal site. It ended up being quite the fun thread to pull on 😁 theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/ad-hoc... #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #PersonalSites
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theAdhocracy | An Ad Hoc Decade
Somehow, I've been writing these little blurbs for an entire decade now. What better time to take a look back at how this site has evolved.
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
If I ever create a microblogging platform, I'd call it "The Void". Posts would be "shouts". Comments would be permanently disabled. Likes would just add an ever increasing number of eyes around the edge, staring at what you wrote from every angle 👀
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 12/05/2025
Your periodic reminder that "fancy fonts" on places like Bluesky are unicode & are a nightmare for screen reader users. DON'T use for your name Not only that, good lucky having anyone search for you in the search bar by name. More examples in the original post on Masto: toot.cafe/@aardrian/11...
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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 19/04/2025
I encourage any of my UK followers to sign this. Transphobia is not only wrong in itself; it is a beachhead for fascism.
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 18/04/2025
forcing employees to figure out how to use AI is definitely a move people make when they are confident, and not at all panicking about not having a path to profitability right before the bill is due
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Had an amazing time at #SotB2025! Great to catch up with some #IndieWeb folks; chat about personal projects and general web dev; and watch some phenomenal talks. A wonderful community & great atmosphere. Massive thanks to @letorey.co.uk & everyone involved in putting it on. Will definitely be back!
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘
"Scissor Graph" showing men overtaking women in proportional representation in sciences after doctorate
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Ok, so this is (I think) a first for BSky... I'm going to try and produced a megathread on #PrehistoricPlanet, specifically season 2. Previous megathreads at BSky have not worked the way they should so I'm a bit cautious. But here we go, please be patient as these take an age to put together....
Cover slide for Prehistoric Planet Season 2
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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 25/02/2025
The landing page for my new course features a hidden synthesizer, and that synth has a hidden “randomizer” button! Turns out, you can make some pretty cool experimental music by holding a single note and spamming that button. 😮 🎵 Audio on for this one plz:
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Mia [data-css=poetic] @miriam.codes · 12/02/2025
I'm not sure our best practices for responsive & fluid #CSS typography are actually *the best*. On my own site, using the widely accepted approach, a user preference of 16px gives me ~24px font. A pref for 24px gives me ~36px. Where did we go wrong? www.oddbird.net/2025/02/12/fluid-ty…
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Reimagining Fluid Typography | OddBird
Are we responding to the right inputs?
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
What's this, my (first) 2024 round-up post is out before March 2025!?! 😅 These self- / data-analysis posts are always some of my favourite to write! (This one also got stuck behind a broken build pipeline, so I've had to launch a partial redesign as well 👀) theadhocracy.co.uk/wrote/2024-b...
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theAdhocracy | 2024: By The Numbers
Looking back over 2024, through the lens of the data I captured (or had captured about me).
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David Darnes @darn.es · 04/02/2025
HTML, CSS, JS & A11y course stack: - HTML For People by @blakewatson.com: htmlforpeople.com - Complete CSS by @piccalil.li: complete-css.com - Joy For JavaScript Developers by @joshwcomeau.com: www.joyforjs.com - Practical Accessibility by @sarasoueidan.com: practical-accessibility.today
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The Practical Accessibility Course
A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Still not sure about this, but I've decided to move my birding/photography/realising/conservation interests to a new account, @gnaturegnome.bsky.social I always feel weird posting this stuff on this distinctly tech/career-focused handle. Time will tell if this works 😅
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Seen today from the railway bridge at Bowling Green Marshes, Topsham. Not sure of ID? Third (bad) photo shows alongside a godwit that it was shadowing #DevonBirding #DevonBirds #UKBirding
Unknown wader in mud, long yellow bill and similar coloured legs.Same wader, photo of back of camera.Small wader about third the size of godwit behind it.
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Just looking over some photos taken in Cardiff, day before the big storm last weekend. Am I being deceived, or is this a water rail swimming along? Can't really believe it, but it looked odd in the field, hence the (terrible) phone photo. #UKBirding #WalesBirding
Far riverbank, overgrown, with a bird swimming close to the edge. Dark colouration, whitish tail feathers, long, low body. Red beak. Low quality, digitally zoomed.Same image, no crop. Bird is tiny.
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 29/11/2024
ps: look up what the term technoableism means
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I hadn't realised how much of a sweet spot I find Mastodon's 500 character limit until using BlueSky more often, *particularly* for replies where nuance is often more useful. I rarely use all 500, but I also rarely have to hyper-edit anything. It's nice.. (I also clearly miss text formatting too 😂)
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
5000 signatures at my bed time. Thank you for all the support. We start again tomorrow. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Alright, CSS challenge: why do scrollable elements cause Grid "blowouts"? Nest a scrollable component within a Grid layout, & often the overflow value is ignored. Min. repro (toggle commented display): codepen.io/theadhocracy... Any fixes that can be applied to the scroll element? #CSS #FrontEnd
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CSS Grid Blowout
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theAdhocracy @theadhocracy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
One of the weirder "goals" I set this year was listening to 10,000 songs. In 2023, I managed just shy of 9,000 ‒ still the most I've ever tracked! Today I crossed that line, completely accidentally and without any fanfare, whilst debugging an API issue. Not sure how to feel about that 😅 #LastFM
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