Myles Lewando
@codemacabre.com
Director and data visualisation developer at @opendataservices.coop. Fond of arthropods, maps, and taking long walks in graveyards.
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Myles Lewando
@codemacabre.com
· Oct 24
Myles is running the Cardiff Half Marathon for Mind
Even though 1 in 4 people have mental health problems, most of us don’t get the help we need. This has to change. We’re Mind. We’re here to fight mental health. For support for respect, for you. We ch
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com
Well, after successfully running the Cardiff 10K last month, I've now committed to running the Cardiff Half Marathon for @mind.org.uk next year.
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
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I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
Read this, and invest in yourself by taking one of their courses.
I found the Complete CSS course essential, and I'm excited to start on one (or both) of the others before the year is up.
I found the Complete CSS course essential, and I'm excited to start on one (or both) of the others before the year is up.
A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020.
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛
bell.bz/its-been-a-v...
It’s been a very hard year - Andy Bell
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year...
bell.bz
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Read this, and invest in yourself by taking one of their courses.
I found the Complete CSS course essential, and I'm excited to start on one (or both) of the others before the year is up.
I found the Complete CSS course essential, and I'm excited to start on one (or both) of the others before the year is up.
Eyes glazing over after tracing backwards through a quote of a quote of a quote of a post from halfway through a 20-post-long thread about a screenshot from Xitter.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Eyes glazing over after tracing backwards through a quote of a quote of a quote of a post from halfway through a 20-post-long thread about a screenshot from Xitter.
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What little CS knowledge I have was hard won over a long period of time. I still don't really care for it, except where it's pragmatic enough to help me make better decisions while I work.
If you have a similar background to me, this article is your shortcut to more intentional programming.
If you have a similar background to me, this article is your shortcut to more intentional programming.
The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are missing with the aim to improve your code in the long term.
piccalil.li/blog/program...
piccalil.li/blog/program...
Programming principles for self taught front-end developers
The majority of us are a bunch of self taught people with rather spotty knowledge and that's fine! Kilian (also self taught) is here to share some of the computer science fundamentals you probably are...
piccalil.li
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
What little CS knowledge I have was hard won over a long period of time. I still don't really care for it, except where it's pragmatic enough to help me make better decisions while I work.
If you have a similar background to me, this article is your shortcut to more intentional programming.
If you have a similar background to me, this article is your shortcut to more intentional programming.
This is a lovely idea.
🚀 NEW MAGAZINE ⌨️
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
Back in the ’80s there were printed mags of BASIC programs to type in, we’ve brought that back but for web pages!
10 amazing games, toys, puzzles and utilities, no coding knowledge needed
vole.wtf/doctype/
DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️
’80s BASIC type-in mags are back, but this time for HTML!
vole.wtf
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is a lovely idea.
I'm no longer going to use interstitial journalling in my daily notes from tomorrow onwards! This is a big, controversial decision for me, as I love to have timestamps next to everything I do, but the pressure of having to record everything accurately is too frictional.
#pkm #journal #notes
#pkm #journal #notes
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Daniela Kubesch wrote her Master's Thesis on "The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays on the Usability and User Experience for People with Permanent Visual Impairments".
Now we can say "Scientific research has shown that accessibility overlays are ineffective."
overlays.dnikub.dev
Now we can say "Scientific research has shown that accessibility overlays are ineffective."
overlays.dnikub.dev
The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays | Master's Thesis by Daniela Kubesch
This thesis, published in 2024, investigates the impact of accessibility overlays on the usability and user experience (UX) for individuals with permanent visual impairments. The conducted research…
overlays.dnikub.dev
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Daniela Kubesch wrote her Master's Thesis on "The Impact of Web Accessibility Overlays on the Usability and User Experience for People with Permanent Visual Impairments".
Now we can say "Scientific research has shown that accessibility overlays are ineffective."
overlays.dnikub.dev
Now we can say "Scientific research has shown that accessibility overlays are ineffective."
overlays.dnikub.dev
Reposted by Myles Lewando
Well, after successfully running the Cardiff 10K last month, I've now committed to running the Cardiff Half Marathon for @mind.org.uk next year.
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
Myles is running the Cardiff Half Marathon for Mind
Even though 1 in 4 people have mental health problems, most of us don’t get the help we need. This has to change. We’re Mind. We’re here to fight mental health. For support for respect, for you. We ch
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Well, after successfully running the Cardiff 10K last month, I've now committed to running the Cardiff Half Marathon for @mind.org.uk next year.
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
Thanks to @bcmerchant.bsky.social's Blood in the Machine newsletter (via the @utaw.tech community), I discovered the excellent zine 'Looming' today:
www.bloodinthemachine.com/i/177307175/...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/i/177307175/...
November 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Thanks to @bcmerchant.bsky.social's Blood in the Machine newsletter (via the @utaw.tech community), I discovered the excellent zine 'Looming' today:
www.bloodinthemachine.com/i/177307175/...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/i/177307175/...
Reposted by Myles Lewando
“To be a Luddite today is to refuse the fatalism of techno-inevitability & to demand that technology serve the many, not the few. It is to assert that questions of labor, agency & justice must come before speed, efficiency & scale.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/
We should all be Luddites
Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.
www.brookings.edu
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“To be a Luddite today is to refuse the fatalism of techno-inevitability & to demand that technology serve the many, not the few. It is to assert that questions of labor, agency & justice must come before speed, efficiency & scale.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/
This was such an excellent talk, meticulously researched, with gorgeous slides
Converge, if you missed the URL at the end of my talk, here it is. A fairly thorough list of books, podcasts, and quotables that informed it: jovo.design/framing
Framing the Future
A compilation of sources that informed my talk Framing the Future
jovo.design
October 31, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This was such an excellent talk, meticulously researched, with gorgeous slides
I'm off to @zeroheight.com's Converge conference in #Bristol today.
Who else is going? Fancy socialising with an anxious/awkward person?
Who else is going? Fancy socialising with an anxious/awkward person?
October 30, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I'm off to @zeroheight.com's Converge conference in #Bristol today.
Who else is going? Fancy socialising with an anxious/awkward person?
Who else is going? Fancy socialising with an anxious/awkward person?
On this recommendation, I switched to Niri and I love it so far! Spent far too long tinkering with the lock and idle aspects of it, but I now have it pretty close to perfect.
oh by the way, I've been considering experimenting niri, which is kindof new.
github.com/YaLTeR/niri
this is what @brodierobertson.xyz uses
github.com/YaLTeR/niri
this is what @brodierobertson.xyz uses
GitHub - YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to YaLTeR/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
On this recommendation, I switched to Niri and I love it so far! Spent far too long tinkering with the lock and idle aspects of it, but I now have it pretty close to perfect.
Reposted by Myles Lewando
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Just learned of Hyprland's history of toxicity via the Framework controversy and now considering switching to something like SwayWM. I'd just got Hyprland set up perfectly but it shouldn't be too much work to mirror that setup in Sway.
October 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Just learned of Hyprland's history of toxicity via the Framework controversy and now considering switching to something like SwayWM. I'd just got Hyprland set up perfectly but it shouldn't be too much work to mirror that setup in Sway.
Reposted by Myles Lewando
Things that not every product needs:
- push notifications
- chat
- a perky AI assistant
Jus’ sayin
- push notifications
- chat
- a perky AI assistant
Jus’ sayin
October 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Things that not every product needs:
- push notifications
- chat
- a perky AI assistant
Jus’ sayin
- push notifications
- chat
- a perky AI assistant
Jus’ sayin
Trying to decide whether to leave @zeroheight.com's Converge early next week to attend my bookclub in Cardiff, or to stay in Bristol and enjoy the afterparty.
October 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Trying to decide whether to leave @zeroheight.com's Converge early next week to attend my bookclub in Cardiff, or to stay in Bristol and enjoy the afterparty.
Five.
Be honest. How many books are you in the middle of reading right now?
October 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Five.
Well, after successfully running the Cardiff 10K last month, I've now committed to running the Cardiff Half Marathon for @mind.org.uk next year.
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
Myles is running the Cardiff Half Marathon for Mind
Even though 1 in 4 people have mental health problems, most of us don’t get the help we need. This has to change. We’re Mind. We’re here to fight mental health. For support for respect, for you. We ch
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Well, after successfully running the Cardiff 10K last month, I've now committed to running the Cardiff Half Marathon for @mind.org.uk next year.
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
Please sponsor me!
cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/myles-lew...
#CardiffHalf #CardiffHalf26 #CardiffHalfMarathon
Inspired somewhat by this episode and @hypervisible.blacksky.app's ideas of #LuxurySurveillance in general, I sold my Garmin watch and I feel so much freer already!
Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
This week @hypervisible.blacksky.app joins @parismarx.com to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/298_...
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Inspired somewhat by this episode and @hypervisible.blacksky.app's ideas of #LuxurySurveillance in general, I sold my Garmin watch and I feel so much freer already!
Finally getting to The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social.
What are you reading this weekend?
October 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Finally getting to The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social.
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@danmcquillan.bsky.social puts it so well:
"Wherever AI is proposed as 'the answer', is already a seam that needs unstitching, a structural problem where those who are directly involved should be at the forefront of determining what needs to be changed instead."
danmcquillan.org/decomputing_...
"Wherever AI is proposed as 'the answer', is already a seam that needs unstitching, a structural problem where those who are directly involved should be at the forefront of determining what needs to be changed instead."
danmcquillan.org/decomputing_...
Decomputing as Resistance
danmcquillan.org
October 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
@danmcquillan.bsky.social puts it so well:
"Wherever AI is proposed as 'the answer', is already a seam that needs unstitching, a structural problem where those who are directly involved should be at the forefront of determining what needs to be changed instead."
danmcquillan.org/decomputing_...
"Wherever AI is proposed as 'the answer', is already a seam that needs unstitching, a structural problem where those who are directly involved should be at the forefront of determining what needs to be changed instead."
danmcquillan.org/decomputing_...
October 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM