Mark Evans
@onlyrss.org
Principal Product Manager, ex-scientist, blogger, data-viz & typography nerd, hobby developer, and general tech enthusiast.
@deceptive.design
Here's one for your "catalogue of deception/manipulation manual" etc. This is from a hotel check-in process. The marketing opt-out is hidden behind a "click here" link. And there was me believing that links were meant for navigation 🤔.
Here's one for your "catalogue of deception/manipulation manual" etc. This is from a hotel check-in process. The marketing opt-out is hidden behind a "click here" link. And there was me believing that links were meant for navigation 🤔.
October 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
@deceptive.design
Here's one for your "catalogue of deception/manipulation manual" etc. This is from a hotel check-in process. The marketing opt-out is hidden behind a "click here" link. And there was me believing that links were meant for navigation 🤔.
Here's one for your "catalogue of deception/manipulation manual" etc. This is from a hotel check-in process. The marketing opt-out is hidden behind a "click here" link. And there was me believing that links were meant for navigation 🤔.
What can you do with an AI browser? onlyrss.org/posts/ai-bro...
What can you do with an AI browser?
I've been using an AI browser for a few days, so thought I'd share some examples of what you can do with it. I've tried to think of tasks that I often find myself doing when online, that I find tediou...
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October 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
What can you do with an AI browser? onlyrss.org/posts/ai-bro...
Photo editing using Gemini onlyrss.org/posts/nano-b...
Photo editing using Gemini
Examples of photo editing using the new Nano Banana model that's part of Google Gemini.
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October 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Photo editing using Gemini onlyrss.org/posts/nano-b...
The enshittification of UK supermarkets onlyrss.org/posts/the-en...
The enshittification of UK supermarkets
UK supermarkets have transformed simple shopping into a data-harvesting nightmare. What was once as easy as picking up an item and paying has become a multi-tiered pricing system requiring apps, weekl...
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July 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The enshittification of UK supermarkets onlyrss.org/posts/the-en...
As an "older" brit, I remember when it was cheaper to buy my gadgets from the US… the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 is £489 ($650) in the UK. In the US, prior to April it was $519, it's now $799. Americans are soon to be one of the most heavily taxed peoples on the planet.
May 2, 2025 at 7:31 AM
As an "older" brit, I remember when it was cheaper to buy my gadgets from the US… the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 is £489 ($650) in the UK. In the US, prior to April it was $519, it's now $799. Americans are soon to be one of the most heavily taxed peoples on the planet.
Vibe-coded myself a "when should I go for my bike ride?" app. Written in Python, uses a weather API (visualcrossing), Google Gemini AI, and #Datawrapper (for charts). Only useful for people who live near my village though! onlyrss.org/apps/when-bi...
When Bike? - Burghfield
A page designed to let cyclists (or walkers) who live in Burghfield, know the best times to go for a bike ride (or walk). It does this for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5-hour slots.
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April 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Vibe-coded myself a "when should I go for my bike ride?" app. Written in Python, uses a weather API (visualcrossing), Google Gemini AI, and #Datawrapper (for charts). Only useful for people who live near my village though! onlyrss.org/apps/when-bi...
My TRMNL eink thing arrived!
April 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My TRMNL eink thing arrived!
There's a nice little feature on the PostPark screenshots/mockups tool, you can get a GitHub commit history by just entering a GitHub username. From the nav: Templates > GitHub Contributions. postspark.app/github-contr...
Here's mine:
Here's mine:
April 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
There's a nice little feature on the PostPark screenshots/mockups tool, you can get a GitHub commit history by just entering a GitHub username. From the nav: Templates > GitHub Contributions. postspark.app/github-contr...
Here's mine:
Here's mine:
AI-assisted coding is the electric-assisted cycling of software development onlyrss.org/posts/vibe-c...
AI-assisted coding is the electric-assisted cycling of software development
My premise here is that electric bikes don't just make cycling easier for existing cyclists—for many people they make cycling possible. I see many parallels with AI-assisted software development i.e.,...
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April 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
AI-assisted coding is the electric-assisted cycling of software development onlyrss.org/posts/vibe-c...
Trump shocked to discover that China knows about big numbers as well. But all is well, Trump has now found out about numbers biggerer than 100, so now there's nothing the Chinese can do, Trump confident that the Chinese don't also know about numbers biggerer than 125.
April 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Trump shocked to discover that China knows about big numbers as well. But all is well, Trump has now found out about numbers biggerer than 100, so now there's nothing the Chinese can do, Trump confident that the Chinese don't also know about numbers biggerer than 125.
Same news, different views: The BBC's design at home and abroad onlyrss.org/posts/same-n...
Same news, different views: The BBC design at home and abroad
Around a year ago I noticed that the BBC news site had updated their article style—and I really liked the new look. But, I then realised that I had my VPN on and was actually seeing the site as viewed...
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April 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Same news, different views: The BBC's design at home and abroad onlyrss.org/posts/same-n...
My shower-thought for today
March 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
My shower-thought for today
Note: This is a long blog post (13m read). "Why Product Managers need to embrace the tech" onlyrss.org/posts/why-pr...
Why Product Managers need to embrace the tech
After 16 years as a Product Manager, I share my thoughts on why technical knowledge is highly beneficial for product managers.
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March 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Note: This is a long blog post (13m read). "Why Product Managers need to embrace the tech" onlyrss.org/posts/why-pr...
@kevinpowell.co I just dumped some HTML & CSS into Claude and asked it to sketch and annotate the layout. It output the following SVG, which (as a CSS novice) I think is kinda useful. Not sure how well it would work with more complex layouts.
February 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
@kevinpowell.co I just dumped some HTML & CSS into Claude and asked it to sketch and annotate the layout. It output the following SVG, which (as a CSS novice) I think is kinda useful. Not sure how well it would work with more complex layouts.
Trump says Ukraine should have "done a deal" with Russia. Exactly the sort of comment I would expect from someone who conveniently developed "bone spurs" which excluded him from Vietnam. Should Europe have done a deal with Nazi Germany?
February 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Trump says Ukraine should have "done a deal" with Russia. Exactly the sort of comment I would expect from someone who conveniently developed "bone spurs" which excluded him from Vietnam. Should Europe have done a deal with Nazi Germany?
These f#&king people. I swear to god, my irony meter just exploded.
February 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
These f#&king people. I swear to god, my irony meter just exploded.
Now this is something I can get behind. There's a lot of wisdom in Netflix's Castlevania.
January 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Now this is something I can get behind. There's a lot of wisdom in Netflix's Castlevania.
In Chrome v133 (i.e. the next version) you can use `atrr()` in CSS to pass HTML attributes to CSS as values—not just strings. And then use them to define parameters such as lengths etc. In this example the bar lengths are in the HTML. No JavaScript was hurt during the creation of this bar chart 😆
January 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In Chrome v133 (i.e. the next version) you can use `atrr()` in CSS to pass HTML attributes to CSS as values—not just strings. And then use them to define parameters such as lengths etc. In this example the bar lengths are in the HTML. No JavaScript was hurt during the creation of this bar chart 😆
Americans wanted lower inflation, looks like they'll have to settle for a US flag on Mars. Seems logical to me 🤔.
January 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Americans wanted lower inflation, looks like they'll have to settle for a US flag on Mars. Seems logical to me 🤔.
Phone fingerprint sensor not working 100% of the time? Here's my tip (that's probably already obvious to most people). In setting, add more "fingers", but use the same finger each time. I went from a 80-90% success rate, to 100%.
January 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Phone fingerprint sensor not working 100% of the time? Here's my tip (that's probably already obvious to most people). In setting, add more "fingers", but use the same finger each time. I went from a 80-90% success rate, to 100%.
@chriscoyier.net Thanks for including the whole of your articles in your RSS feed, it's very much appreciated. The company I work for uses software that blocks access to many blogs—including yours. But, the RSS feed (via Feedly) works fine 😉
January 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
@chriscoyier.net Thanks for including the whole of your articles in your RSS feed, it's very much appreciated. The company I work for uses software that blocks access to many blogs—including yours. But, the RSS feed (via Feedly) works fine 😉
For fans of the Bobiverse series of books, book №5 (which has been available in audio form for a while) will be released in non-audio form on Jan 5th.
January 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
For fans of the Bobiverse series of books, book №5 (which has been available in audio form for a while) will be released in non-audio form on Jan 5th.
I only recently started watching Amazon Prime's Secret Level, and today I got to episode 4. As a “person of a certain age”, let's just say it was awesome to see an episode based on Unreal Tournament!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_...
December 19, 2024 at 3:11 PM
I only recently started watching Amazon Prime's Secret Level, and today I got to episode 4. As a “person of a certain age”, let's just say it was awesome to see an episode based on Unreal Tournament!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_...