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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 5h

Keynote doesn't let me draw lines with soft ends (i.e. rounded rather than rectangular), so I used an em-dash using Arial Rounded and made the font-size fracking 'uge.

Stupid Apple.

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Michael Kibedi @uxmichael.co · 9h

This Friday. Bristol. There still a few tickets left 🏃🏾💨

My talk? “Death, and how tech forgot about mortality”

webdevconf.com

WDC2025 - October 10 2025, Watershed, Bristol, UK

WDC is the web conference based in Bristol, taking place in autumn each year. With great speakers and attendees alike.

webdevconf.com

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 11h

Requires a working plex server, which is where my system fails every damn time. There's something wrong with buffering out (maybe power of the device…unsure)

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 12h

That's the first half of the issue (which sounds straight forward to overcome), second part is how I can get songs/playlists offline to play on the phone (and Plex has *never* worked for me - I'm jinxed)

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 14h

(I'm sure it's possible), but I'd want to buy them, then give them back - i.e. it's literally the waste that I'm trying to avoid.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 14h

We ripped all our CDs a long time ago and then sold them off. Which is great because I can listen to the songs that remind me of the times, but kinda eternally locked in time because I can't bring myself to buy more CDs!

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 14h

Is there a site like 404 Media, but for UK news? (i.e. I want to pay for journalist quality)

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 23h

Just one more reason for me to lock down on cancelling the family subscription I've been paying for, for quite possibly a decade.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 1d

“Opt in” will be persistent, annoying calls to action that get in the way of everything, as is tradition.

Spotify hasn’t been a music service for years. It’s just another tired SaaS, out of ideas, and doing nothing particularly well.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 1d

Tron Ares review from @theguardian.com pretty much sums up my expectation. Dangit.

> Pointless threequel delivers a leaden cameo from a white- robed Jeff Bridges and an irritating turn from Jared Leto as a hipster-haired humanoid

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Tron: Ares review – even Gillian Anderson can’t slap this mind-bendingly dull sci-fi into shape

Pointless threequel delivers a leaden cameo from a white-robed Jeff Bridges and an irritating turn from Jared Leto as a hipster-haired humanoid

www.theguardian.com

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 1d

Had I designed my cart with the addition of one more chip (mbc1), it would have worked :-|

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 1d

Annoyingly the actual issue was that I wanted to use images in the "slides" (screens on the gameboy ROM) and I made my custom cart PCB so it could only hold 32k but too late did the maths for the bytes required for the tiles required for an image: it would let me have 4 screens.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 1d

I was just saying this exact thing this morning, but in my case, it's 15 minutes, which, is actually a pretty decent chunk of time.

It's those 5 minute lightning talks that I've got mad respect for!

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 1d

Had a stress dream about my lightning talk at @webdevconf.com - it's been a long fricking minute since I've had one of those!

Annoyingly though, my plan to present directly from a gameboy has failed (technical reasons on my side). Might make a nice blog post though.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 2d

No, certainly not for more complicated tasks. This was pretty specific and very easy to test (i.e. did it deploy and work on netlify).

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 2d

Finally finished reading "Empire of AI" (took nearly 2 months, I'm slow!) - but really strong - lots learnt. I've tried to summarise here - plus links (and potentially _too_ many highlights): remysharp.com/books/2025/e...

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

(4/5) I'd recommend anyone who wants to understand the emergence of AI and OpenAI in particular to read this book.

remysharp.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

🚀 @greenparty.org.uk has grown from 58,000 members in December to 86,000 today.

Six years ago, consistently polling around 2%. Now, above 10%.

Green councillors leapt from fewer than 200 to nearly 900.

Green MPs from one to four.

This is the beginning.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good and bad news for Zack Polanski: the Green conference was a joy, but now hopes are stratospheric | Adam Ramsay

Members loved hearing from a leader who boldly reflects their views and isn’t afraid of the rightwing press. How far can he take the party?, says journalist and Green party member Adam Ramsay

www.theguardian.com

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 2d

Yeah, the grander idea was to make the content searchable through feedbin's API (it's going into one massive feedbin account) - ala technorati days

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 3d

Holocaust was legal, hiding Jews was not.

Slavery was legal; freeing slaves was not.

Segregation was legal; fighting for equality got you killed.

Being a wealthy child molester is legal; abortions is not.

Laws are not a guide for human decency and morality.

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 3d

Well great, now it's in MY head (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 3d

This (incomplete) project was hosted on Vercel last week but now on Netlify: gimme-rss.isthe.link

I let Github's copilot hosted thing make the PR: github.com/remy/gimme-r... (original prompt at the bottom) and it actually worked first time (albeit a fairly simple project).

On to the next ones then

Gimme your RSS

gimme-rss.isthe.link

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 5d

How do people feel about stable diffusion images in slides?

I tried "a very old grandma playing a gameboy looking extremely excited" - intentionally not on openai, et al, and I get this. I mean… she looks excited, right?

(tried my best on the alt-text)

Very hard to describe this atrosity. Definitgely an old lady, but her eyes are entirely something else. She's wearing a christmas cracker hat. She also has two left hands an no right hands. The thumb or finger, fuck knows which, extruding is more akin to something out of Alien.

There's a black and grey box in front of her, facing away, with lots of buttons, nothing like a gameboy.

In fact, the whole thing is nightmare inducing.

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Netlify @netlify.com · 8d

Vercel ➝ Netlify migration made simple.

✅ Checklist
✅ Next.js tips
✅ Best practices

Start here → docs.netlify.com/resources/ch...

Vercel to Netlify migration checklist

A comprehensive guide for migrating your projects from Vercel to Netlify, including Next.js setup, configuration migration, and production readiness steps.

docs.netlify.com

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 5d

Just found a project (that was actually quite useful), that I coded in Nov 2019. But it never made it into git, so doing that now, then converting from vercel to netlify.

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