Ben Foxall
@benfoxall.bsky.social
I love the web, data, spatial, robotics and hacks.
Prev, Robot Web at Wayve 🫶 🤖 🚗
Prev, Robot Web at Wayve 🫶 🤖 🚗
It's getting to the time of year that people I met in the summer have started noticing that I always wear shorts
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It's getting to the time of year that people I met in the summer have started noticing that I always wear shorts
I'm impressed with how straightforward it is to setup your own routing service with OSRM.
(this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
(this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I'm impressed with how straightforward it is to setup your own routing service with OSRM.
(this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
(this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Ben Foxall
I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
The present and potential future of progressive image rendering
Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.
jakearchibald.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
✨ New blog post: Using QR Codes to communicate with offline devices
benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
Offline QR Codes
Have you tried using a QR Code for that?
benjaminbenben.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨ New blog post: Using QR Codes to communicate with offline devices
benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
Great to see him dropping some new tracks
July 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great to see him dropping some new tracks
I'm going to play around with some drone footage I captured the other day.
It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
July 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm going to play around with some drone footage I captured the other day.
It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
So, this was scaring me a lot.
I searched for an error "User verification was required, but user could not be verified".
I only saw one result (odd), clicked on it.
[this is the source of the attack, and it's super worrying but I'll look into that separately]
I only saw one result (odd), clicked on it.
[this is the source of the attack, and it's super worrying but I'll look into that separately]
June 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
So, this was scaring me a lot.
I got a phishing attack which tried to steal my github credentials (slight coincidence, I'm implementing passkey auth at the moment)
June 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I got a phishing attack which tried to steal my github credentials (slight coincidence, I'm implementing passkey auth at the moment)
June 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I got nerd sniped by www.flaggle.net this morning
Flaggle 🏁
Guess the flag! A Wordle-inspired game.
www.flaggle.net
June 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I got nerd sniped by www.flaggle.net this morning
Loved attending Dublin Dataviz yesterday (on my first day of living in Dublin 🎉). Great talk by @virt-arch.bsky.social sharing a wide range of interesting projects.
Thanks to @rudi-data.bsky.social for organising and @thedigitalhub.bsky.social for the beautiful space 😍
Thanks to @rudi-data.bsky.social for organising and @thedigitalhub.bsky.social for the beautiful space 😍
May 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Loved attending Dublin Dataviz yesterday (on my first day of living in Dublin 🎉). Great talk by @virt-arch.bsky.social sharing a wide range of interesting projects.
Thanks to @rudi-data.bsky.social for organising and @thedigitalhub.bsky.social for the beautiful space 😍
Thanks to @rudi-data.bsky.social for organising and @thedigitalhub.bsky.social for the beautiful space 😍
This is an incredible project and beautifully detailed write up
February 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is an incredible project and beautifully detailed write up
It took me a bazillion hours to draft this email.
Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks 😭
Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks 😭
February 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It took me a bazillion hours to draft this email.
Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks 😭
Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks 😭
I've got a load of "field recordings" from an old trip.
It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
January 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I've got a load of "field recordings" from an old trip.
It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
@peterjwest.bsky.social I loved coming across your PR onto every-uuid - looks like a really satisfying journey.
Full UUID search by peterjwest · Pull Request #14 · nolenroyalty/every-uuid
This PR adds fully working search, as discussed here: #12
Huge thanks to @wangqr, this would not have been possible without them.
Replaces the Feistal cipher with a random invertible matrix transfo...
github.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
@peterjwest.bsky.social I loved coming across your PR onto every-uuid - looks like a really satisfying journey.
This is beautiful.
(and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" 🧘♂️)
(and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" 🧘♂️)
January 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is beautiful.
(and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" 🧘♂️)
(and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" 🧘♂️)
Do you repost your own replies on Bluesky? (I'm new.)
This one has nice screenshots 📊
This one has nice screenshots 📊
The audio is pretty decent too.
I've managed to get a pretty good mapping of devices in the room (from the images), which I want to visualise the audio playback and I'm hoping you'll be able to see where Richard and Chris were standing.
I've managed to get a pretty good mapping of devices in the room (from the images), which I want to visualise the audio playback and I'm hoping you'll be able to see where Richard and Chris were standing.
December 10, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Do you repost your own replies on Bluesky? (I'm new.)
This one has nice screenshots 📊
This one has nice screenshots 📊
I've also managed to do some localisation based on the images (I think this is going to be an interesting basis for playing back device audio)
December 10, 2024 at 10:52 AM
I've also managed to do some localisation based on the images (I think this is going to be an interesting basis for playing back device audio)
Reposted by Ben Foxall
Ben Foxall's talk on QR codes at #mkgn 50 this week was remarkable - creating a network-less local internet, using QR codes 🤯
One of the wildest and geekiest talks I've ever seen.
youtu.be/mJnzN8pd8Gc?...
(Filmed poorly by me, and shared with @benfoxall.bsky.social 's permission)
One of the wildest and geekiest talks I've ever seen.
youtu.be/mJnzN8pd8Gc?...
(Filmed poorly by me, and shared with @benfoxall.bsky.social 's permission)
December 8, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Ben Foxall's talk on QR codes at #mkgn 50 this week was remarkable - creating a network-less local internet, using QR codes 🤯
One of the wildest and geekiest talks I've ever seen.
youtu.be/mJnzN8pd8Gc?...
(Filmed poorly by me, and shared with @benfoxall.bsky.social 's permission)
One of the wildest and geekiest talks I've ever seen.
youtu.be/mJnzN8pd8Gc?...
(Filmed poorly by me, and shared with @benfoxall.bsky.social 's permission)
👏 so many people appreciate this
December 6, 2024 at 12:37 PM
👏 so many people appreciate this
Had a fun time at Remote Hack this weekend
➡️ Generating audio spectrograms
➡️ Planning a ski trip
➡️ Giving people bad advice
➡️ Generating audio spectrograms
➡️ Planning a ski trip
➡️ Giving people bad advice
Remote Hack
A free, fully-remote hackday that happens on the last Saturday of every month. It's very informal and emphasises chill-hacks-ing over actually producing anything that fully works (though if you wanna ...
remotehack.space
December 2, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Had a fun time at Remote Hack this weekend
➡️ Generating audio spectrograms
➡️ Planning a ski trip
➡️ Giving people bad advice
➡️ Generating audio spectrograms
➡️ Planning a ski trip
➡️ Giving people bad advice