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At the House of Commons on Thursday evening for the Open UK awards. @universalviewer.io got runner up in the Community Category. An amazing experience and lovely to meet the other nominees.
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Claude Opus 4.5 is *super* good. Had Gemini 3 trying to fix something and it was tying itself in recursive knots. Opus nailed it in one go.
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Recognising the Power of Community Collaboration, the @universalviewer.io project (universalviewer.io) is shortlisted in the 6th Annual OpenUK Awards Community category sponsored by @Arm, taking place on 4th December at the House of Commons, thanks to Dame Chi Onwurah for hosting. #openukawards
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Have been trying out GPT-5-Codex for the last couple of weeks. Started getting frustrated with how slow it is, so switched back to Claude Sonnet 4.5. Noticed an immediate improvement in speed, but also more "You're absolutely rights".
Thinking time seems to be the fundamental trade-off.
November 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I'm going to be presenting "PayloadCMS: A Practical Case Study" at the next Brighton Web Development meetup. If you're curious about @payload.dev and want an introduction with lots of code examples, this is for you :-)

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" PayloadCMS: A Practical Case Study " – Edward Silverton, Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
**" PayloadCMS: A Practical Case Study " – Edward Silverton** Tonight we are delighted to have Edward Silverton presenting his brand new talk on PayloadCMS, a relatively n
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October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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JSX is the new HTML, react is the new JavaScript.
October 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Numberblocks by the BBC is worth the license fee on its own. My 3 year old boy gets two episodes a day max and is obsessed with numbers. He's already starting to get an intuition for multiplication.
July 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Happening later today 👇

#GLAM #GLAM3D #Interoperability #Digitisation #3D
The next @iiif.bsky.social #3D Community call is THIS THURSDAY, July 10!

Neil Trevett of The Khronos Group will present on glTF development. A key chance to discuss 3D interoperability. 12pm EDT / 5pm UK.

Join & learn more: iiif.io/community/gr...

#GLAM3D
July 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I love how stoked Guy Leverton is for Cornish pasties and surfing: youtube.com/@guyleverton...
Guy Leverton
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July 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I've just gotten support added for starting a session & loading Google Maps map tiles with NASA-AMMOS/3DTilesRendererJS -- now you'll be able to load Google maps street & satellite data in three.js. Now I have to find time to make demos 😅

🗺️🛰️✨

#threejs #webgl #maps #3dtiles
June 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Big news: Payload is joining @figma.com!

More: payloadcms.com/posts/blog/p...
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June 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Woah - Figma just acquired Payload?!

Interesting move to acquire a CMS - seem like part of their Figma to AI + Code strategy?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wvo...
Why did Figma buy a CMS?
YouTube video by Syntax
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June 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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We’ve expanded our extensive range of primary source collections that can be explored via the Universal Viewer!

You can find more information regarding the benefits of the Universal Viewer, as well as a list of the fascinating collections that we have recently migrated to it, at buff.ly/Ca7Id09
Even More BOA Collections on the Universal Viewer!
We’ve expanded our extensive range of primary source collections that can be explored via the Universal Viewer!
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May 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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We’re halfway through our latest community sprint!
Our community team have been hard at work – check out our community board to see what they’ve been building, including a new tool to add and view custom configs github.com/orgs/Univers...
DEV EX Community Sprint May-July 2025 • UniversalViewer
A set of three community sprints to improve visibility of config options, improve documentation around analytics, update tools and dependencies and much more!
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May 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The kids' garden is getting there. Willow structures are growing nicely 😊
May 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Each model I use in vscode has a different "personality". Have been trying Gemini 2.5 Pro these last few days. It's definitely smart, but compared to Claude 3.7 Sonnet it plays a bit fast and loose, seemingly ignoring file references. Almost like it's prioritising speed over correctness.
May 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Really enjoying working with @payload.dev on a project. Combined with Neon db and @vercel.com hosting, it's pretty slick!
April 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Spent a sunny afternoon making a living willow play den for my boys. #happywiththat
February 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Snapped this today on Devil's Dyke. My son Joseph was drawing on the walls of a (safe) derelict building with a lump of chalk he'd found, then happened to peek out of the window at his mum and little brother.
February 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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While the main Spatial Heritage Review newsletter is on hiatus, I am pleased to share this guest post by @edsilv.com of Mnemoscene introducing the @iiif.bsky.social enabled exhibit.so storytelling platform!

🔗 nebulousflynn.substack.com/p/a-short-in...

#3D #GLAM3D #3DforCulture
February 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Exciting news: exhibit.so now supports #IIIF AV, thanks to the University of St Andrews! 🎉 Tell richer stories with your image, 3D, and audiovisual collections. 🚀
February 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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🚀 Version 4.1.0 of Universal Viewer has arrived! 🎉 The UV community has been hard at work on new features and fixes to help you share your content with the world. Some highlights include...
Release v4.1.0 · UniversalViewer/universalviewer
What's Changed Highlights: Image manipulation controls (brightness/contrast/etc.) added to OpenSeadragon component (#1052) New defaultToTreeIfCollection config setting (#1107) New "extend thumbnai...
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January 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
For those who haven't seen it, you can watch the full version of Grace now here: www.grace-darling.film
Grace
A film by Sophie Dixon
www.grace-darling.film
December 12, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Just noticed that exhibit.so has passed 10k exhibits created 🤯
Exhibit
Create, narrate, and share Exhibits.
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November 27, 2024 at 11:06 AM