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David Longworth

@djl.fyi.bsky.social

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4 Followers  |  8 Following  |  35 Posts  |  Joined: 06.02.2024  |  1.528

Latest posts by djl.fyi on Bluesky

Letter from the owner of Trakke saying how they will be closing down.

Letter from the owner of Trakke saying how they will be closing down.

nvm, I cursed them. Sad to see a 15 year old British brand come to an end. RIP

20.02.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a delivery service which uses 'Amazon Logistics'

Screenshot of a delivery service which uses 'Amazon Logistics'

My absolute favourite – when you avoid Amazon by going directly to a manufacturer, then they end up the shipping with Amazon anyway πŸ˜“

20.02.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Estate agents’ ideal customer: β€œHi, I’d like to see properties you’ve sold and are no longer available.”

19.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trakke | Waxed Canvas Backpacks & Messenger Bags Waxed Canvas Backpacks, Messenger Bags & Accessories for Travel and Adventure. Handmade in Scotland and Built to Last. Worldwide Shipping.

Bags made in Glasgow trakke.co.uk

17.02.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you think we’ll ever see an iPhone that lies flat on a surface (i.e. no camera bump) ever again?

17.02.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WAWWA | Sustainable Clothing Putting Planet And People First WAWWA Are A Sustainable Clothing Brand Making Organic, Fairtrade, Vegan Planet Friendly Clothing With A Positive Social Impact.

Also from Manchester, casual and workwear wawwaclothing.com

16.02.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Private White V.C. - Great British Luxury Clothing All garments are handmade in England and have been designed to last a lifetime. Express international shipping direct from own factory in Manchester, England.

Coats, jackets etc from Manchester www.privatewhitevc.com

16.02.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Hiut Denim Co. | We make jeans. That's it. Do One Thing Well We make the best jeans, not the most jeans we can. And we only make jeans. We say no to anything else. No distractions. No compromises. No bobble caps. Only jeans.Β Be narrow. Be good. Do One Thing Wel...

Jeans from Wales hiutdenim.co.uk

16.02.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A thread of made in Britain brands I like

16.02.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

You should only be added to a marketing mailing list once the thing you ordered has arrived

12.02.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ShadeMap for 51Β°31'56"N 0Β°2'14"W Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any date and time

See where has light any time or day of the year shademap.app

31.01.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do Instagram know their explore page is just a directory for OF?

29.01.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone made a greetings card with β€œCongrats(?)” on the front.

10.01.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Around 2005 I had a personal blog with β€œHosted by DreamHost” with a referral link in the footer. I still get $30-40 every now and then from them. Cool but why?!

04.12.2024 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Good. Fast. Cheap: pick two

Good. Fast. Cheap: pick two

I will never not think about this every day

02.12.2024 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Two biggest uses of AI I’d like to see 1) autocorrect fixing uses of β€œyour” and β€œyou’re” 2) automatic predictive turn signalling in cars

05.11.2024 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My vibe check for devs and companies - do they use React or Vue (or Svelte)?

22.10.2024 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œArchitected designed” property? Oh means some students used a lot of birch plywood?

14.10.2024 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Resubscribed to Netflix after ~5 years. Wow the app sucks now, I remember it being best in class. And auto playing video with sound you can’t disable(!) Is this React Native?

07.10.2024 09:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vegan chefs need to spend more time making tasty food and less time trying to make it look like a non-vegan dish

28.08.2024 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Spreadsheets are Japanese knotweed for businesses

12.04.2024 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sriracha is ketchup for Millennials.

15.03.2024 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enhance Speech from Adobe | Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio This AI audio filter improves spoken audio to make it sound like it was recorded in a soundproofed studio.

The ultimate hack for at home voice overs podcast.adobe.com/enhance

06.03.2024 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I the only cinema lover that cares not for IMAX?

06.03.2024 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Airline guitar logo from the 1960s

Airline guitar logo from the 1960s

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Had some fun redrawing the 'Airline' guitar logo for a screen printing class I'm going to.

26.02.2024 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Already called this app "Dark Sky" by mistake 🌩️

26.02.2024 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The internet's NEW favorite camera? (Fuji X100VI)
The Fujifilm X100VI doesn't look a lot different from the X100V, which took the internet by storm 3 years after it released. But.. why did that happen? And w... The internet's NEW favorite camera? (Fuji X100VI)

β€œA lot of people want to take good looking photos, but don’t want to have to do a ton of editing in post all the time. People are just looking for a vibe.” - exactly why I got and love the X100V. I probably won’t upgrade but looks like more of the same.
youtu.be/jNb4hPvLWYQ

20.02.2024 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Then the next level up is using CSS to animate, then JS to add interactivity!

20.02.2024 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Designers/illustrators looking to get into code can use them to figure out how things get drawn and manipulate them just by making small changes.

20.02.2024 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I ❀️ SVGs

20.02.2024 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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