Collecting

1. What are we doing?

   Social media platforms have suffered the same fate as Slack groups. The same people posting the same content across multiple platforms. So much wasted time, effort and energy. What are we doing?

2. Research recruitment agencies

   A list of recruitment agencies for design UX research.

3. Explore Explain Live!

   Excited to watch the Explore Explain Live! webinar to learn more about Dataviz. Hosted by @andykirk@vis.social and 6 other fascinating guests.

   

4. The 100 Mile Wildlife Corridor

   I really enjoyed this Radio 4 Open Country podcast about the Weald to Waves project. It was lovely hearing about the work to protect the River Ouse (Sussex), neighbouring projects to Lewes and from representatives from Lewes Climate Hub.

5. Calendars

   A list of calendars and events across the year.

6. Trying out Kagi

   Thanks to j98@fosstodon.org I’m continuing my Big Tech Exorcism™ by trialing the independent search engine Kagi (https://kagi.com/) for 3 months. Friends don’t let friends get tracked.

7. Adding some fun things to my website

   Reading @adactio@mastodon.social’s recent Going Offline post https://adactio.com/journal/21578 reminded me that I needed to fix my /offline/ page after I ported my site from Jekyll to Eleventy. I’ve also added j98@fosstodon.org and @trys@mastodon.social’s Utopia https://utopia.fyi albeit in a very minimal implementation. Of course now I want to refactor everything about my site!

8. Kirby vs. this blog post

   Kirby doing it’s best LLM impression by inhaling the content in this blog post, presumably without permission.

9. Bonsai ASCII art Python script

   A cute Python script that generates procedural ASCII bonsai trees in the command line.

10. Gareth Dennis on trains and EVs

    Novara Media hosts a fascinating discussion about why we should be investing in trains and the hidden costs of electric vehicles.