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Founder & Product developer @ calibreapp.com. Into sustainability, online privacy, cycling, photography, music, hiking, native country and creative pursuits 🌞
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I’d always wondered how Muppets puppets went outside, pretty cool to see all the visual tricks and engineering youtu.be/t86ZjhGxwAY?...

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Shout out to Google's MVP:

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

U wot m8?

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One more slicey boi and a dedicated helper could solve a bunch of problems Gilly arrived in Melbourne, @monteiro.bsky.social

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Went back for another look today — spotted this rare kanga again

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This thread by Andy is yet another excellent example of how the web we built fails us all. To be clear this kind of sloppy crap existed long before LLMs, enabled by the existing systems of power (aka MONEY). Burn it all down and start again.

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Saw an albino baby kangaroo earlier this afternoon 🦘

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

🛰️ Cool new bot account by @ryanseddon.com - collects satellite images, then animates them to show you the earth in the last 24 hours

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/ by @benjaminaster.bsky.social is incredible! Editable Minecraft-style world, entirely CSS and HTML, not a single line of JS My notes on how it works here. It uses radio boxes for state, paused animations for controlling the viewport simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...

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In support requests I started tracking user preference for dark mode. The split is about 50/50. Receiving support walk-through screenshots in the wrong color mode can be super disorientating! When I send screenshots of Calibre, I first check their preference, update my own, THEN take screenshots 📸

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Monday

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

After having our floors professionally resanded, we painted the walls, skirting boards, and caulked the perimeter of the floor. It took us three days — we are both a bit battered and bruises, but SO stoked with how it’s looking 😍

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments