Joe Lanman

Uh oh Slay the Spire 2 is out

Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.

I'm not sure they need reviewing? The points here still stand

www.gov.uk/service-manu...

Quite literally the official chatbot of the war in Iran

Joplin seems good, simple open source notes app, with a choice of storage including Dropbox

joplinapp.org

Ah sorry, missed spare, sounds like a good approach!

I wouldn't regard any agentic stuff as safe. There's still no solution for prompt injection. So.. if you want to do it I'd put it in a virtual machine or it's own physical machine, and be very careful what you give it access to

Like I said, no cookie for Dario.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Wow that's a lot of neon

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Marathon is pretty Wipeout inspired huh

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting.

Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

Some of the most beautiful hand-drawn diagrams i've ever seen. Turkish "Justice Gazette", 1920, artist: Cerîde-i Adliyye.
Source [substack] casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...
#türkiye #infographics #stunning

I'm saying it's the exception, not the rule

Services are required to use progressive enhancement so in general react is not a good fit

Boycott ChatGPT

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet.

OpenAI: We'll do it

HMRC collects extra £16bn from big business with more ‘hands-on’ approach Extra tax obtained from the 2,000 largest businesses doubles in three years

You don’t hear much about efficient and effective govt so here’s a good news story in our latest @nao.org.uk report - HMRC collected an extra £16bn from the biggest businesses last year after it took a “more hands-on approach”
www.ft.com/content/c96d... (Full report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/taxi...)

Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts Care roles hit particularly hard by UK’s lurch to the right on migration, according to analysis of Home Office data

The mind boggles.

Overseas nurses down by 93%, overseas care workers by 97%.

In what world does this make sense? Especially if there is no attempt to replace them by a homegrown workforce?

One thing is certain, and that is that everyone needs a nurse or care worker at some point in their lives.

Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan gets final official approval City Hall hopes to stop traffic from using the street by September.

Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.

Ocado failing to deliver on its potential as one of UK’s great technology hopes Firm’s automated warehouses are struggling to compete against swift deliveries from stores by bike riders

Awful company
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

GOV.UK browser and OS analytics Collated browser and operating system data from the GOV.UK website.

🗃️ For y'alls information: I’m having to cease providing GOV.UK analytics data.

https://beeps.website/govuk-browser-data/

Baby boy born to UK mother after womb transplant from dead donor Grace Bell says she is ‘the happiest I’ve ever been in my life’ after giving birth to baby Hugo in UK first

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

At least they paid for the data, unlike say... Anthropic

Why does Bluesky still not have edit? Mastodon has had it for ages

Experimenting with dark mode for image readers Looking at how we can improve our service for image readers, taking into account their typical ergonomic setup and lighting conditions.

Great example of desiging in the open: default to dark mode for a context where the user is looking at dark screens (mammograms)

design-history.prevention-services.nhs.uk/manage-breas...

This is really nice chocolate:

www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/produ...

Acting ethically in an imperfect world Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.

@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:

tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...

A few further comments, 🧵>>

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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...