Rich Holman
@richholman.com
Web developer & charity trustee. Building accessible, user-centred sites since the web was new. East London. Likes HTML/CSS, cycling & drawing.
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It was only a matter of time before I’d have to face trigonometry in CSS, really. It’s been a good run, but I suppose it’s time to dust off those GCSE maths skills again.
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It was only a matter of time before I’d have to face trigonometry in CSS, really. It’s been a good run, but I suppose it’s time to dust off those GCSE maths skills again.
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
I know not many people like Keir Starmer but I generally have. But there does come a point where you sort of have to do the thing. Be the person you should be rather than fighting a rear guard position all the time.
EXCL: Downing Street has launched an extraordinary operation to protect Keir Starmer amid fears among PM’s closest allies he is vulnerable to leadership challenge in wake of budget.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge
No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local elections
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I know not many people like Keir Starmer but I generally have. But there does come a point where you sort of have to do the thing. Be the person you should be rather than fighting a rear guard position all the time.
Did a Covid test today (negative). Was like riding a slightly traumatic bike.
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Did a Covid test today (negative). Was like riding a slightly traumatic bike.
Like with Brexit there will be a time, if what some people are now demanding, when they wonder why Strictly or Traitors isn’t on any more or why Match of the Day is now mostly adverts for crypto.
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Like with Brexit there will be a time, if what some people are now demanding, when they wonder why Strictly or Traitors isn’t on any more or why Match of the Day is now mostly adverts for crypto.
With WordPress 6.9 around the corner, I’ve been testing some of the new features - including the new Accordion block - and adapting it to match the GOV.UK design system.
dgw.ltd/2025/11/10/6...
dgw.ltd/2025/11/10/6...
DGW.ltd - WordPress 6.9: GOV.UK Accordion via Core Blocks
We are drawing closer to the release of WordPress 6.9, so I figured it was time to road-test the theme
dgw.ltd
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
With WordPress 6.9 around the corner, I’ve been testing some of the new features - including the new Accordion block - and adapting it to match the GOV.UK design system.
dgw.ltd/2025/11/10/6...
dgw.ltd/2025/11/10/6...
Not sure if I have any legal-industry followers on here, but an organisation I work with has just launched a new feature called Playbooks - a set of resources to support different approaches to legal work. The first one covers how to run a legal hackathon:
chancerylaneproject.org/playbook/run...
chancerylaneproject.org/playbook/run...
Run a legal hackathon
Create climate-aligned legal content through collaborative hackathons
chancerylaneproject.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Not sure if I have any legal-industry followers on here, but an organisation I work with has just launched a new feature called Playbooks - a set of resources to support different approaches to legal work. The first one covers how to run a legal hackathon:
chancerylaneproject.org/playbook/run...
chancerylaneproject.org/playbook/run...
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A story of grief, community, and hope... 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A story of grief, community, and hope... 🧵
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“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders.
“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”
“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders.
“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”
“At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.”
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
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The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire
Proper cried at the end of Traitors. What a final.
November 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Proper cried at the end of Traitors. What a final.
Working on some 25 year old HTML, and apart from some wild throwback tags it’s amazing how it just works. Not much tech that can be said of.
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Working on some 25 year old HTML, and apart from some wild throwback tags it’s amazing how it just works. Not much tech that can be said of.
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Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
Billionaire libertarian tears on Meta glasses today.
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Billionaire libertarian tears on Meta glasses today.
This reminds me when the Tories went on the attack towards 'Do-gooders'.
The GOP’s new villain lives in New York — and they’re already launching attack ads to make him every Democrat’s problem in 2026.
Republicans try to turn national Democratic candidates into Mamdani copycats
Republicans are working to make New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani the face of the Democratic Party in the midterms.
www.politico.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This reminds me when the Tories went on the attack towards 'Do-gooders'.
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Good to hear. I contributed to this investigation. Usually a big fan of Apple but they have seriously inhibited the development of the mobile web to protect the App Store and its revenues.
The 🇬🇧UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially designated Apple as having Strategic Market Status (SMS). After four years investigating Apple’s restrictions on browser engines and web apps, the CMA now has statutory authority to enforce a code of conduct.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Good to hear. I contributed to this investigation. Usually a big fan of Apple but they have seriously inhibited the development of the mobile web to protect the App Store and its revenues.
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The full ad featured:
9 white
2 black
1 Asian
So yes, it was one of the 51% of adverts with a black person in it.
No, 51% of the people in the advert were NOT black
6/
9 white
2 black
1 Asian
So yes, it was one of the 51% of adverts with a black person in it.
No, 51% of the people in the advert were NOT black
6/
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The full ad featured:
9 white
2 black
1 Asian
So yes, it was one of the 51% of adverts with a black person in it.
No, 51% of the people in the advert were NOT black
6/
9 white
2 black
1 Asian
So yes, it was one of the 51% of adverts with a black person in it.
No, 51% of the people in the advert were NOT black
6/
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Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
November 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
🧵
1/22
Decided to try out the £1.75 Lime Bike Hackney cap yesterday.
Got charged £3.90.
Do you have to click a button or something (journey was from Dalston to Stoke Newington)?
Got charged £3.90.
Do you have to click a button or something (journey was from Dalston to Stoke Newington)?
November 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Decided to try out the £1.75 Lime Bike Hackney cap yesterday.
Got charged £3.90.
Do you have to click a button or something (journey was from Dalston to Stoke Newington)?
Got charged £3.90.
Do you have to click a button or something (journey was from Dalston to Stoke Newington)?
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Goodwin says "it takes more than a piece of paper" or birthplace to make somebody British.
This is not often applied to Fred West/Ian Huntley, Kim Philpy, etc
So how it is applied to British-born people from the majority + minority groups who commit crimes + who don't is rarely/never made clear
This is not often applied to Fred West/Ian Huntley, Kim Philpy, etc
So how it is applied to British-born people from the majority + minority groups who commit crimes + who don't is rarely/never made clear
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Goodwin says "it takes more than a piece of paper" or birthplace to make somebody British.
This is not often applied to Fred West/Ian Huntley, Kim Philpy, etc
So how it is applied to British-born people from the majority + minority groups who commit crimes + who don't is rarely/never made clear
This is not often applied to Fred West/Ian Huntley, Kim Philpy, etc
So how it is applied to British-born people from the majority + minority groups who commit crimes + who don't is rarely/never made clear