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Simon Ziegler

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Founder of 2 tech startups. Ex investment banker. Politically centre/lefty. Dad to the most wonderful man and woman on the planet.

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I meant to come and find you to say hello, but failed.

01.03.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Bramus, I meant to ask today what happens if you say have a menu surface to open, that’s both too big to open down and too big to open upwards? Other than fixing bad UX design, what’s going to happen with the browser?

28.02.2026 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because many see things from their narrow political viewpoint. Frankly there’s a lot of white saviour nonsense in there. These poor brown people are oppressed by the people I dislike, and so they must feel grateful for my qualified support. Meh!

28.02.2026 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

An unorthodox presentation and all the better for it. A lot of fun.

28.02.2026 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@jason-williams.co.uk we spoke after your talk today at #SotB2026. Once again a great talk and thank you! Hope you feel better soon.

@londonwebstandards.org

28.02.2026 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They already are acting and it’s only going to get worse. Khamenei won’t be missed, but nothing good comes of this. There’s no strategy here other than threat degradation, electoral boost and Epstein file avoidance.

28.02.2026 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We spoke - this was an excellent presentation.

28.02.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s nonsense of course. It’s well known that Iran has a well set out succession plan.

28.02.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Israel is an amazing country with astonishing innovation, science and technology and a vibrant culture, ruled by charlatans and idiots.

28.02.2026 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The fate of being a father. I get the same just sitting at the table.

28.02.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I’m Spats the cat.

I’m Spats the cat.

@kitation.co.uk, great talk at #Sotb2026. Thank you.

28.02.2026 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m hungry as hell.

27.02.2026 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fun episode

26.02.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Snap

26.02.2026 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A roll of toilet paper

A roll of toilet paper

This is cheaper and more effective

26.02.2026 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes. But with the stress there rather than the O. American β€œtaco” pronunciation isn’t *that* bad.

26.02.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How would you pronounce it? Shouldn’t it have stress on the β€œa”? Although the final β€œoh” inflicted on that word by English speakers isn’t lovely.

26.02.2026 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And thereby improve London’s food!

26.02.2026 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œGag” is appropriate.

26.02.2026 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

10 is a heinous crime carrying instant punishment.

26.02.2026 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Post of the day πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

26.02.2026 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Earlier this month I used AI to reimplement the Material Color Utilities repo in rust and deploy it with WebAssembly. Then I added some further color tokens. The whole thing works like a dream, handling WASM’s difficult relationship with memory with care. Even has custom JS bindings.

25.02.2026 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reposted

24.02.2026 22:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸŽ‰ Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

24.02.2026 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Good to know - let’s see if I can align!

24.02.2026 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cool and refreshing. FWIW what kind of sponsorship do you like to do - if any?

24.02.2026 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
a close up of a man wearing a hat and sweater Alt: Freddie Kruger
24.02.2026 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Super interesting idea

24.02.2026 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reform are only good at the kind of politics that puts Farage front and centre with sweeping narratives. When it comes to detail, devolved decisions or discipline it’s all amateur hour.

The open question for those of us that detest Reform is how to show that the emperor has no clothes.

24.02.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But I'm doing work where the modus operandi is that I need to be in control and so I need to catch the errors. The AI is an exceedingly good tool, but obvs I can't devolve responsibility to it.

So why would anybody sane think that OpenClaw is a good idea right now other than for research?

24.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0