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Alright, VfB! Let’s do Chrystal Palace things! 😁🤍❤️

It's been a while since I wrote any purposeful code, so I'm feeling good about having written a private Alexa skill that opens the gate onto our drive automatically, so I don't have to send an SMS from my phone.

Oh hai there! It's been a busy one recently, in work and life and family and all that good stuff since getting back from my LA trip, so lemme try and round all that up into one chunky blogpost. First of all, we've been busy as

Just published a new blog! Grab a cuppa / ice lolly and give it a read: https://blog.jam-factory.com/roundup-019-heard-chef/

Do you use Shiki (https://shiki.matsu.io) or Prism (https://prismjs.com) for syntax highlighting?

I’ve been using Prism on my site for years now – any reasons for why it could make sense to switch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwskv2G0X8A

I made a digital card counterpart for my ‘BroBot-5000’ 3D printed toy, made using @splinetool.bsky.social ✨⚡️ ( Get your own physical toy at strangekids.toys )

So they are really trying to replace the Dollar with crypto, huh? 🧐 That’ll be quite the change …

Dave Grohl’s Sound City documentary is pretty amazing! 🥁🎸😍
(And there’s even the real Rupert Neve in it.)

Back in 2019 I was lucky enough to design & direct the end credits sequence for Aardman's second Shaun the Sheep movie 'Farmageddon'. I just found a bunch of my original style frames:

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I use the 'Shifting Tiles' screensaver on Mac OS and point it to a folder that contains over 3,000 beautiful images of amazing work by amazing humans that I've collected over the years. The screensaver is set to come on after 2 minutes so there's always a fresh buffet of inspiration in my eyeballs!

Where is #CSS subflex when you need it? 😁

@inclusivedesign24 is a non-profit organisation, and we’re able to keep the spirit of Inclusive Design 24 alive because of the generosity of our supporters.

If you'd like to join them, there's more info here:
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/supporters/

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I’ve made my own 3D printed art toy - ‘BroBot-5000’ 👍🤖 Get yours over at mine and my kids DIY ‘Toy Company’ www.strangekids.toys

With agentic AI contributing to the AI hype-cycle, I've been giving it some thought from the point of view of a disabled person, and also as an accessibility specialist who's already witnessing the arrival of the agentic web first-hand:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08/08/accessibility-and-the-agentic-web/

#AI #agentics #accessibility #a11y

Been printing out more ‘BroBot-5000’s at home, as I’m gonna pop them on me online store soon!

Marking 80 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I remember visiting the Peace Museum in Hiroshima and hearing the voices of survivors and the families of those who did not.

I remember the mark burned into steps where someone was sitting when the bomb exploded, the items of clothing left behind, and the photos of such terrible destruction.

I will never forget the helpless rage I felt, caused by people two generations and a continent away from me.

#NeverForget

Edit: Even More Synths! 🥳

https://matthiasott.com/notes/best-free-synthesizer-vst-plugins-in-2025

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