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Another great #iotlondon meetup this evening: Music Thing (modular synth, which is having a dangerous effect on my gadget urges); Smarty Plant (a plant heath device and app); Tether, a cycling safety device and heatmapped routes for safer travel. Great work curating these @designswarm.bsky.social
e557 - The British are Coming! This week's episode has Andy welcome special guest host Ian "epredator" Hughes, to have a chat about some of the latest AAAA games, as well as observations about the UK-based origins of many of these franchises and studios. Take a listen!
e556 with Michael, Andy and Michael - tories and discussion on Michael R’s annual #edu-cation, #chatbot #trickery, #DataCenter #DataVisualization, #LeRobotHumanoid #OpenSource #robotics, #LEGO and a whole lot more!
Some fun stuff at #Retrofest2026 today
More frustrating experiences with companies that don't pay enough attention to the needs of their elderly customers.
Current #plotterart in progress.
I've been trying out eYou*, a new social network claiming to be EU sovereign. AFAICT, it's a completely purpose-built API and data model, running on Google Cloud. Some interesting elements built in to it, like "verified posts" i.e. individual posts get marked for truthiness. Best of luck to them.
The tech sector is massively failing older people. I just spent over an hour trying to assist an elderly neighbour with her home phone. The provider’s website and contact phone number make it as difficult as possible to speak to a human, defaulting to mobile phone based text workflows.
Checking out anisota
This will be cool. You should come. If you’re *really cool*, you’ll volunteer a shift or two as a member of the crew. Even if you don’t do that, you’ll learn stuff and have fun.
OggCamp@oggcamp.orgA reminder that OggCamp is happening on 25th - 26th April in Manchester, UK! Join us at an unconference celebrating Free Culture, Free and Open Source Software, hardware hacking, digital rights, and more All the details including tickets, call for papers, and how to join the crew are at oggcamp.org
Unloading some ideas, into a post about hope and joy.
Reflecting on my year in 2025.
