Jamie Nemeth
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Jamie Nemeth
@jamienemeth.bsky.social
🎓 Physicist turned software developer
🎻 Fiddle/violin · 📺 Teletext · 🖖Trekkie
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Pontardawe, Wales
🌍 www.jamienemeth.co.uk
🔗 linktr.ee/jamienemeth

Teletext Labeler: @teletextlabeler.bsky.social
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I guess it's time for a reintroduction!

Software developer from South Wales. Used to be a physicist, always will be one at heart. Got a PhD and everything.

Also a musician (violin/fiddle).

Recently dived into the Teletext enthusiast world, and fused that with Trek on my very own Teletext service!
Happy annivalentines to mum and dad 💜
February 14, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Here's the link to the in-vision Pages From Ceefax I captured from videotape:
youtu.be/VKlRJ18tGNQ

Remember, Pages From Ceefax is still a thing in 2026 thanks to @nmsni.co.uk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OU...

#PagesFromCeefax #Ceefax #Teletext #VHS #History #Retro #Nostalgia
February 12, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Checked in on the latest tape going through the teletext recovery setup, and discovered I was capturing teletext from the VBI while teletext was also in-vision on Pages From Ceefax. Very meta.

(Yes, I'll rewind when it's done and capture that, too, before you ask.)

#VCR #Ceefax #Teletext
February 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
"The massive discount coupon we emailed you - that you haven't used and can't actually use on anything you've wanted to buy recently as it only applies to the things we stock and supply directly (which seems to only be about 10% of what's actually on our website) - is about to expire, hurry!"

🤔
February 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Jamie Nemeth
Why is nobody asking if “severe” rain is over diagnosed when it is part of natural weather variation? Instead of flood warnings, people should be helped to find dignity through labour with a compassionate approach to getting those in a temporarily submerged lifestyle back into the workforce.
February 9, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Did you know there was an official #NFL #teletext service here in the UK (in 1991 at least)?

Even though this page is from late July, I still thought it was a nice coincidence that I recovered it from videotape in close proximity to this year's #SuperBowl.

www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/vie...
February 9, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Reposted by Jamie Nemeth
That time I recreated the Simpsons intro using only stock footage.
February 6, 2026 at 8:58 AM
I am now a mobile phone repairer (sort-of)!

The new power button set arrived from AliExpress, but the cameras, screen, battery, and antenna all had to be disconnected, and the motherboard entirely removed, in order to get to the buttons to replace them.

But my phone has survived the experience!
February 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Jamie Nemeth
Using @jamienemeth.bsky.social's bamboozle generator, I have created 'bedriegd!' It's a quiz with general knowledge questions with 3 levels. It's on page 601 on bmn Bollentekst.
February 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Reposted by Jamie Nemeth
The Pages from Ceefax live stream has now been running for a full year - as of about 5pm (GMT).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OU...
Pages from Ceefax
YouTube video by Nathan Dane
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:37 PM
I said there'd be more wizards!

Teletext's Ten To One is next on my radar.

Are there any other Bamboozle-style quizzes you know of, that could be template-ized?

www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/too...

#Teletext #Bamboozle @tvark.bsky.social #SPARK #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy
January 30, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I recently posted about my Bamboozle Generator, and how nothing new had been added to it in years.

That changed today...there are now wizards (and there will be more!)

#Teletext #Bamboozle

www.jamienemeth.co.uk/teletext/too...
January 29, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Decided to add an engineering page to Nemetext, partly for amusement, partly to genuinely keep track of which frequencies to avoid when setting my UHF modulators so I don't get interference.

My internal analogue Raspberry Pi channels are coexisting happily with broadcast Freeview in all rooms 😊
January 28, 2026 at 9:41 PM
OK, I joined UpScrolled (jamienemeth). Already here and on Mastodon and Signal. What other Meta/X alternatives should I look into?

Trying to reduce the number of socials I'm on, but also recognising the need to be ahead of the shockwave if/when the big ones implode, and diversifying just in case.
January 26, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Reposted by Jamie Nemeth
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Finally plucked up the courage to try out the hot air station I bought in...*checks notes*...Feb 2024 😮

Getting this newfangled glued-on back off this old phone was disconcerting, but I did it. Now waiting for a £4 power/volume button replacement part.

If I pull this repair off, I'll be chuffed!
January 23, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Made this meme ten years ago. Still true.

Typos are forgivable. We're all human. It just baffles me how anyone could interact with the text in their graphic designs quite so much - font choice, colouration, shape, kerning, etc. - and still not notice that they'd missed entire words out sometimes.
January 20, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Reposted by Jamie Nemeth
In beta - the Teletext Archive Online Recovery Editor! Soon you'll be able to fix all those VHS errors you see in recoveries. It's therapeutic and addictive! There is an approval process in place to keep things right; a context menu for cut/copy/paste and editing attributes, and clip art library
January 19, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I'm very much a fan of baskets in the middle of the store. It's perfect for the thing we all do, which is to assume we definitely won't need a basket, then we subsequently realise halfway through our shop that we really should have picked up a basket, and bam, there they are, just when we need one!
January 19, 2026 at 7:01 PM
*sat with family, eating food in my living room / kitchen / diner, but not bothering with the dining table this time, just perching plates on laps and/or available corners of other nearby surfaces*

"You know what this house doesn't have yet? Trays!"

Non-slip, too 😉
January 12, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Me, watching Star Trek: Picard, Season 2:
"It's a great story, but setting the time travel stuff in 2024 and making ICE out to be this huge domineering entity we should all be terrified of isn't going to age well, there's just no way anyone would stand for it in our real timeline."

Me, now:
"Oh."
January 9, 2026 at 5:15 PM
After years of light dabbling / copying-and-pasting commands from forum posts with only a vague idea of what I'm doing, Linux has finally infiltrated my brain by osmosis.

Opened a Windows command prompt (i.e. DOS), wanted to list the files in a directory, and instinctively typed 'ls', not 'dir' 😮
January 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Reposted by Jamie Nemeth
Ok but, hear me out: it is though, isn’t it? And the angrier she gets the more hilarious it becomes. Comedy gold.
Roses are red,
today it was sunny,
January 8, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Does this mean that Trump has set a precedent for it being acceptable to kidnap Trump? 🤔
January 4, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Briefly existed inside a Christmas card on the way to the local shop.
January 4, 2026 at 12:38 PM