Andy Davies
andydavies.me
Andy Davies
@andydavies.me
Web Performance Consultant @speedcurve.com

Vegetable grower… Eurorack synth dabbler… Bristol Bears Women’s fan




https://andydavies.me
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👋 I currently have availability for front-end and design systems work.

I come with free dad jokes at stand-ups and a track record of making components more reusable than my material.

alwaystwisted.com

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Always Twisted - Design Systems & Front-End Consultant
Hi, I’m Stu Robson, a Design Systems consultant and front-end developer helping teams create scalable, accessible systems that enhance collaboration.
alwaystwisted.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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Did you know that the number of pharmacies in England open after 9pm has decreased by 95% in just three years?

I did some data analysis on this, inspired by needing an out of hours pharmacy over Christmas, and it has been featured in the Financial Times today: as.ft.com/r/4333cab1-6...
Number of late-night pharmacies in England plummets
[FREE TO READ] Decline comes after cash-strapped chemists reduced opening hours to cut costs
as.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds
Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time
www.independent.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I miss www.burntsugar.co.uk

They produced the best fudge and coconut ice going
www.burntsugar.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 9:06 PM
WTAF… do National Savings and Investments not know how browsers work?
February 2, 2026 at 12:25 PM
@remysharp.com Saw this and thought of you…
As part of a collaboration with the incredibly talented @redherring32.com of Opentendo fame, we are happy to announce the OpenTendo-AGB (OpenGBA)! This is a fully open source recreation of the AGB-CPU-01 circuit board.

(Repository is attached in the next post)
February 2, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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If I’d known Dale Vince was going to keep rattling off the same lies for two years I’d have done a better job of explaining his absolutely laughable fever dream of powering the entire country with vegan biogas. Hes at it again so here’s the same bloody post again. philsturgeon.com/why-is-dale-...
Why is Dale Vince Lying About Heat Pumps?
Dale Vince has been lying about heat pumps for days so he can sell more vegan gas. WTF does that even mean?
philsturgeon.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:16 PM
GWR’s battery powered train is going into service!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK’s first rapid-charging battery train ready for boarding this weekend
Great Western Railway service recharges in three and a half minutes between trips on west London line
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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A great conference run by a great team. You should go!
January 29, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Give me a few more paid subscribers and I’ll do an expose on how the entire U.K. environmental movement bought into well proven lies and entirely fucked the U.K.s most critical green infrastructure (HS2) out of existence, but there’s one party who wants to make it happen.
Follow my blog. There’s a lot of swearing, but there’s a lot of long drawn out stories about amazing things happening if you truly pour your hear into giving a fuck about something. It might be what you need right now. philsturgeon.com/january-was-...
January was hell but at least we created Baths largest nature reserve
Two weeks of losing my mind waiting for the most important thing I've ever done with my life to go bloody through come on.
philsturgeon.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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Follow my blog. There’s a lot of swearing, but there’s a lot of long drawn out stories about amazing things happening if you truly pour your hear into giving a fuck about something. It might be what you need right now. philsturgeon.com/january-was-...
January was hell but at least we created Baths largest nature reserve
Two weeks of losing my mind waiting for the most important thing I've ever done with my life to go bloody through come on.
philsturgeon.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:26 PM
@sturobson.com Do your DMs work?
January 28, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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Right here’s something to be cheerful about: the wonderful @philsturgeon.com has finally bought 81 acres in the West Country for re-wilding. I can’t wait to see it IRL.

Recently Phil helped me plant 1,000 trees at my primary school & he is such a great advocate for nature. 😍🌳💚
It has been a long wait but the sale of the land near Bath, UK has finally gone through. We now own 81 acres of land on the banks of the River Avon which we are calling Warleigh Nature Reserve.

New website on the way, but for now you can sign up here for email updates! warleighnaturereserve.org
Warleigh Nature Reserve
Warleigh Nature Reserve is 81 acres of land directly on the River Avon near Bath
warleighnaturereserve.org
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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trillions invested

wasters
And chatGPT has started introducing weirdness. It looks okay, but look at Ireland; then notice Cardiff and Plymouth. Paris seems to have been renamed to Southampton!

14/n
January 27, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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NEW – Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/5g3BVAp
January 27, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Forms are better with
and because of accessibility and stuff (adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-... for details), but did you know that
also has a hidden DX feature? You can toggle its disabled attribute to enable or disable whole sets of inputs all at once!

#html #webdev
January 26, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Mazda offered me a 20% discount on the cost of updating the maps in my SatNav 🤪

Why does any car need built in SatNav these days?
January 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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So @github.com copilot decided to extract some secrets into a plain markdown file which it committed to my repo 😰
January 26, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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Last week I lost my job. It took me a while to process...

If you or your company needs an experienced full stack developer who understands how the web works, knows modern tech, communicates well, please reach out.

My CV: pawelgrzybek.com/cv/

I'd appreciate if you could share. Thank you.
CV | pawelgrzybek.com
I’m a software developer with 15 years of professional experience, specialising in building performant and accessible full-stack web applications. I’m passionate about web standards and ethical design...
pawelgrzybek.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Didn’t realise you can just peel the back off a modern debit card

Mag strips, signature strip and numbers are all on a thin film that comes off in one piece
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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turn off autoplay. give yourself a break. today is a queue day

newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/queu...
queue vs feed
Though it’s far from a new idea, there seems to be a fresh wave of articles going around at the moment about digital detoxing in its various forms. It might...
newsletter.sachajudd.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Does anyone know how to apply controls to their parents YouTube account

Visiting my 85yr old dad for the weekend and the YouTube recommendations he getting are horrendous stuff — click bait, scams, right wing politics etc
January 24, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Today is a good day to disable video autoplay
January 24, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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I wasn’t much of a Tesla fan before, but our new house came with two Tesla products pre-installed.

Both of these are kinda fucked due to intentional decisions made by Tesla to screw over customers.

The EV charger will only charge Tesla EVs and the Powerwall essentially cannot ever be upgraded.
January 23, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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👋 Ahoy hoy!

I'm looking for new client/contract work opportunities.

I'm a front-end developer that has a penchant for specialising in design systems, design tokens, & components.

If you're building, maintaining or working on a design system, I can help.

Let's chat!

[email protected].

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January 22, 2026 at 1:28 PM