Mark Ford

If you're heading to WorthingDigital this evening you'll find us in the in the snug, opposite the bar

ChatGPT has taken to calling me “mate” and. I honestly don’t mind.

Well, I certainly didn't have 'sharing clip of the Tory Shadow Leader of the House' on my to-do-list today.

But here he is absolutely going for Farage!

And managing to use the word 'bullshiterati' while doing it.

It had to be shared!

Yeah. I do see that, but having elections this year just seems like an unnecessary expense

a cartoon character is holding a newspaper that says " old man yells at cloud " Alt: a cartoon character is holding a newspaper that says " old man yells at cloud "

So many people up in arms about it. Although I think the same people would be up in arms whatever was being proposed

I know that I am exceptionally old, but it has just occurred to me that La Grange by ZZ Top and Daytona by Chris Rea are quite similar.

Interesting… would like to try that out. Spotify discovery has got worse IMO

Fellow Trek Nerds, this has just come to my attention. Could be the best conversation since Picard and Darmok droppingnames.com

Wondering whether this air freshener was deliberately given an amusing name

Turns out it didn't have legs

Notification from TikTok “Elon Musk started following you”

Well, that’s TikTok ruined. Although I doubt it’s actually him

Noticed that Flash Gordon was on ITV the other day. I wasn’t sure that I’d ever watched it all the way through. If I have it was a long time ago.
Anyway, I just managed about 8 minutes before turning it off

WorthingDigital’s final social of 2025 is this Thursday (27 Nov) at Brewhouse & Kitchen 🎉
In 2026 we’re bringing talks back + looking for speakers + venues.
Interested? Drop me a message.
See you Thursday!
Meetup Link for Thursday: www.meetup.com/worthingdigi...

I mean, there’s nothing else on, so we should probably just give it a try this year…

public.monster Remember when the web was fun? Upload your HTML and go live instantly.

I absolutely love this idea btw public.monster
A throwback to a simpler happier time. Thanks for sharing @sachajudd.com
#ffconf

At the

Inspiring talk from @gearsco.de at #ffconf, although… way to make me feel like an underachiever on a Friday afternoon 🤪

Being a dinosaur, and a dinosaur that hasn’t written code for years… at the start of this talk I was just thinking “why not just use Plain Old Semantic HTML?”
But, I think I get it… this is good stuff. And I do love a design system.
🦖
#ffconf #webcomponents

Starting my day at #ffconf with delayed trains. So that’s fun

Zarro Boogs Found!

Funny what pops into your head when you're busy doing nothing. This lunchtime it was the old zarro boogs message from Bugzilla. Who remembers using that for bug tracking before Jira?
Simpler, arguably happier times

I see what you did there

Very on brand Himal. I bet you won’t see too many of those on the carousel

NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce

The ADHD Taskforce report is finally out.

We called what it needed to contain a month ago: national standards, fair shared care, real ownership.

First look: some movement, still too many gaps.

Reports don’t fix systems. Continuity does.

Read the report here www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...

31 Days, 31 Barriers to ADHD Care What ADHD Awareness Month taught us

The final barrier from our ADHD Awareness Month campaign: lack of national ownership, accountability, and strategy.

Without this, barriers stay stuck locally.

Our blog post explains why national ownership is the only way to change the system.

Read it here.

Does anyone ever cull their contacts on their phone? I’m just going through mine, I’ve got people in there from a job I left 18 years ago, a couple of dead people and some that I have no idea who they are.
I’m not going to delete them though, I’m not a psychopath

A post box wrapped in black plastic with a sign affixed saying “OUT OF SERVICE AUTOMATED SYSTEM, Coming soon”

Spotted this on a dog walk a couple of days ago. The Royal Mail site didn’t immediately offer any clues. Apparently it’s this www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Glad I can stop obsessively checking for the iOS 26 public beta now, just waiting for it to download. Hoping it won’t brick my phone. I mean, I’m sure it won’t, but still…

My feed has gone way too sportsy for my liking this evening, which prompted me to check whether Bluesky offered keyword blocking like the bird site does. Turns out it does…

Go to Settings → Moderation → Muted words & tags

Screen shot of my pinned tweet from 2019 “Every now and again it’s worth saying “Computer, end program” out loud, just to see if the holodeck doors will open”

Great minds think alike

A thread on Threads this morning was talking about being old enough to remember FTPing directly to live, which got me reminiscing. Now the mental scars of battling Visual SourceSafe have resurfaced.