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Web developer & charity trustee. Building accessible, user-centred sites since the web was new. East London. richholman.com

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Bots / AI overviews? Been tracking some on site for a while and there are a lot of bot traffic.

11.03.2026 12:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.

This is actually pretty huge, 900 years of inherited power going in May.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

10.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The last time a Tudor got this badly embarrassed by the Spanish, England schismed christianity.

10.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4
The Day Today - Fact
The Day Today - Fact YouTube video by YukijinVsMothra

She's vibing an inside cube you see.

youtu.be/PAXQyqqWChA?...

10.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Domino meme

Small domino: people upset about high food and energy prices 

Large domino: higher food and energy prices

Domino meme Small domino: people upset about high food and energy prices Large domino: higher food and energy prices

This is going to get really old

17.12.2025 02:00 πŸ‘ 317 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

Oh WordPress permalink structure. Never change. But like do.

10.03.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When did the British right get so unpatriotic? Backing Donald Trump over the UK isn’t popular

"It is not that one expects these guys to actually *like* Starmer: few of those who actually voted for him do. Nonetheless – when did denizens of the British right convince themselves that backing a foreign leader over their own countrymen was in any way patriotic?"

On "patriotic" "conservatives"

10.03.2026 10:40 πŸ‘ 218 πŸ” 58 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3

I like Zak a lot, but Ed Miliband has basically shown how green leadership works if we mean green as in climate. Clear, authoritative, delivery focused. This feels like several steps back and will end with less delivery.

10.03.2026 10:26 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Donald Trump is the reason your bills are going to rise.

10.03.2026 09:55 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2
BBC NEWS | UK | UK journalist killed in Iraq named

Genuinely angry about this, also there were many journalists killed in the last wars. Did they forget or not care?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3049...

10.03.2026 09:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'll always be fascinated how an actual PhD degree in economic history from actual Harvard can be so bad at the money thing.

10.03.2026 09:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I almost missed that in a video where the former Chancellor of the Exchequer talks about "Institutional Credibility", the video misspells the word "credibility", which kind of sums this whole thing up

10.03.2026 09:07 πŸ‘ 281 πŸ” 91 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 9

Hearing about jury trials is a very personal experience for me. At 18, murder trial, no preparation, no warning - just: decide this. A victim's justice, a person's fate. Then back into the world. I believe in jury trials, but it's not straightforward.

10.03.2026 09:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Acme Weather

Day 10 of checking to see if Acme Weather app is available in the UK

acmeweather.com/app

10.03.2026 09:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

IMHO, UX industry mostly solved many of these problems
Circa 2006-2014 but it didn’t scale as much + stakeholders didn’t like the answers or extra cost (thus dark patterns). So they mostly just went back to design + project management + engineers

09.03.2026 17:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gentle reminder that even if the UK drilled for more oil, we would still have to pay market prices. It’s not the government that drills for it, but private companies.

09.03.2026 10:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So far today have helped with a renewal of insurance for a community centre and an order for 53 mΒ³ of top soil.

Now onto some code.

09.03.2026 10:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed. I wrote a fairly complex auditing plugin with several steps inputs / outputs. Then at some point asked the question, could this be done via a single prompt and it was β€˜yeah’. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Understand the process, build tools for fill gaps.

07.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In a world of lies, we need the BBC more than ever. This week could be our last chance to save it | Polly Toynbee As the public consultation on the BBC nears its end, the right will be out in force to undermine it. But its supporters can do their bit – with this guidance, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Deadline is Tuesday

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

07.03.2026 10:14 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

β€˜That’s the thing about normal people – we talk to each other, we depend on one another’

Brilliantly said. They don’t get the majority of people in this country.

06.03.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was β€œyour piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

06.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 4515 πŸ” 846 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 57

The UK press currently getting into their hot dog guy outfit and getting the keys to the hot dog van.

We should enter the war with Iran.

05.03.2026 08:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Spent the day reading about, using and exporting markdown. It really did just win didn’t it.

04.03.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

## yay!

03.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran War Cost Tracker β€” Live Estimate of U.S. Taxpayer Spending Track the cost of the Iran war in real time. Live estimate of U.S. taxpayer spending on Operation Epic Fury β€” updated every second.

iran-cost-ticker.com

03.03.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I think there is not enough appreciation to how good this FT visualization is

the original is like this πŸ‘‡

03.03.2026 13:23 πŸ‘ 260 πŸ” 75 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8

Keir Starmer needs to do a photoshoot at an old style windmill for then lols.

03.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Build Awesome Seamless collaboration, professional-grade tools, and beautiful templates all in one place.

Did you hear? @11ty.dev is becoming Build Awesome!
And yes. We're featuring a Kickstarter video with the Awesome-verse cast you know and love.

β†’ Same open-source core.
β†’ Optional Pro tools.
β†’ Much bigger future.

Back the Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

03.03.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

Oh wow. This is awesome. Congrats all. Loving the features.

03.03.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Watching someone dig a big hole is somewhat on the nose for the general news environment right now.

03.03.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0