Ben Foxall
@benfoxall.bsky.social
I love the web, data, spatial, robotics and hacks.
Prev, Robot Web at Wayve 🫶 🤖 🚗
Prev, Robot Web at Wayve 🫶 🤖 🚗
We think our cat is being bullied 😿 (keep seeing her getting chased home by a stray cat).
… I found an undocumented api for her location tracker (Tractive) and made some plots. Looks like she's been exploring way less over the last few weeks.
… I found an undocumented api for her location tracker (Tractive) and made some plots. Looks like she's been exploring way less over the last few weeks.
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We think our cat is being bullied 😿 (keep seeing her getting chased home by a stray cat).
… I found an undocumented api for her location tracker (Tractive) and made some plots. Looks like she's been exploring way less over the last few weeks.
… I found an undocumented api for her location tracker (Tractive) and made some plots. Looks like she's been exploring way less over the last few weeks.
@remysharp.com I just came back to a page I was reading yesterday to see it replaced with your face bouncing around. Love it 📀
December 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
@remysharp.com I just came back to a page I was reading yesterday to see it replaced with your face bouncing around. Love it 📀
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I gave a talk last week about communication & data extraction with QR Codes.
One thing clicked for me recently: When you scan a QR Code, you're _copying_ data from the physical world to your device.
Was interesting to talk about performance & security with that in mind.
One thing clicked for me recently: When you scan a QR Code, you're _copying_ data from the physical world to your device.
Was interesting to talk about performance & security with that in mind.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I gave a talk last week about communication & data extraction with QR Codes.
One thing clicked for me recently: When you scan a QR Code, you're _copying_ data from the physical world to your device.
Was interesting to talk about performance & security with that in mind.
One thing clicked for me recently: When you scan a QR Code, you're _copying_ data from the physical world to your device.
Was interesting to talk about performance & security with that in mind.
Had some final stage interviews with a multi-billion dollar company this afternoon, managed to tell:
→ The CTO & Cofounder – It's my mum's birthday today
→ Head of Engineering – I went clubbing at the weekend and considered replying to an email at 1am, but didn't
→ The CTO & Cofounder – It's my mum's birthday today
→ Head of Engineering – I went clubbing at the weekend and considered replying to an email at 1am, but didn't
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Had some final stage interviews with a multi-billion dollar company this afternoon, managed to tell:
→ The CTO & Cofounder – It's my mum's birthday today
→ Head of Engineering – I went clubbing at the weekend and considered replying to an email at 1am, but didn't
→ The CTO & Cofounder – It's my mum's birthday today
→ Head of Engineering – I went clubbing at the weekend and considered replying to an email at 1am, but didn't
Now we're talking 😻
November 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Now we're talking 😻
… I guess this is technically what I asked for
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
… I guess this is technically what I asked for
It's getting to the time of year that people I met in the summer have started noticing that I always wear shorts
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It's getting to the time of year that people I met in the summer have started noticing that I always wear shorts
I'm impressed with how straightforward it is to setup your own routing service with OSRM.
(this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
(this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I'm impressed with how straightforward it is to setup your own routing service with OSRM.
(this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
(this instance finds walking directions around Dublin).
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Reposted by Ben Foxall
I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
The present and potential future of progressive image rendering
Exploring progressive image rendering across JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL.
jakearchibald.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I dug into progressive image rendering and found a bunch of common assumptions aren't quite true.
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
➡️ JPEG & WebP progressive-renders worse in Safari
➡️ AVIF _does_ support progressive
➡️ But JPEG XL in Safari doesn't
➡️ JPEG XL decodes much slower than AVIF
⬇️ and more
jakearchibald.com/2025/present...
✨ New blog post: Using QR Codes to communicate with offline devices
benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
Offline QR Codes
Have you tried using a QR Code for that?
benjaminbenben.com
August 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨ New blog post: Using QR Codes to communicate with offline devices
benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/o...
Great to see him dropping some new tracks
July 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great to see him dropping some new tracks
I'm going to play around with some drone footage I captured the other day.
It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
July 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm going to play around with some drone footage I captured the other day.
It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
It's a 4 minute video around a place I camped a few nights ago, captured with a DJI Mini 4 Pro (which I love!)
So, this was scaring me a lot.
I searched for an error "User verification was required, but user could not be verified".
I only saw one result (odd), clicked on it.
[this is the source of the attack, and it's super worrying but I'll look into that separately]
I only saw one result (odd), clicked on it.
[this is the source of the attack, and it's super worrying but I'll look into that separately]
June 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
So, this was scaring me a lot.
I got a phishing attack which tried to steal my github credentials (slight coincidence, I'm implementing passkey auth at the moment)
June 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I got a phishing attack which tried to steal my github credentials (slight coincidence, I'm implementing passkey auth at the moment)
June 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I got nerd sniped by www.flaggle.net this morning
Flaggle 🏁
Guess the flag! A Wordle-inspired game.
www.flaggle.net
June 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I got nerd sniped by www.flaggle.net this morning
Loved attending Dublin Dataviz yesterday (on my first day of living in Dublin 🎉). Great talk by @virt-arch.bsky.social sharing a wide range of interesting projects.
Thanks to @rudi-data.bsky.social for organising and @thedigitalhub.bsky.social for the beautiful space 😍
Thanks to @rudi-data.bsky.social for organising and @thedigitalhub.bsky.social for the beautiful space 😍
May 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Loved attending Dublin Dataviz yesterday (on my first day of living in Dublin 🎉). Great talk by @virt-arch.bsky.social sharing a wide range of interesting projects.
Thanks to @rudi-data.bsky.social for organising and @thedigitalhub.bsky.social for the beautiful space 😍
Thanks to @rudi-data.bsky.social for organising and @thedigitalhub.bsky.social for the beautiful space 😍
This is an incredible project and beautifully detailed write up
February 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is an incredible project and beautifully detailed write up
It took me a bazillion hours to draft this email.
Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks 😭
Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks 😭
February 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It took me a bazillion hours to draft this email.
Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks 😭
Life update: I'll be leaving Wayve in a couple of weeks 😭
I've got a load of "field recordings" from an old trip.
It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
January 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I've got a load of "field recordings" from an old trip.
It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
It's been great listening them back, but I've not found an intuitive way to explore or share them. Are there any tools/sites out there that I could use?
@peterjwest.bsky.social I loved coming across your PR onto every-uuid - looks like a really satisfying journey.
Full UUID search by peterjwest · Pull Request #14 · nolenroyalty/every-uuid
This PR adds fully working search, as discussed here: #12
Huge thanks to @wangqr, this would not have been possible without them.
Replaces the Feistal cipher with a random invertible matrix transfo...
github.com
January 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
@peterjwest.bsky.social I loved coming across your PR onto every-uuid - looks like a really satisfying journey.
This is beautiful.
(and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" 🧘♂️)
(and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" 🧘♂️)
January 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is beautiful.
(and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" 🧘♂️)
(and intense.. I'm glad you can ultimately make it "Into the Sea" 🧘♂️)