Tony Onodi
@tonyonodi.bsky.social
Developer of numpad.io and meridianapp.co
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In her book The Idealist, Nina Munk talks about the pride a developmental aid community took in having a trash pile for the first time.
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In her book The Idealist, Nina Munk talks about the pride a developmental aid community took in having a trash pile for the first time.
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Did he read the bit in Lord of The Rings where a creepy toxic guy filled the local ruler’s head with idiotic poison and wrecked everything in that kingdom until the king came to his senses and chucked the toxic creep out?
October 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Did he read the bit in Lord of The Rings where a creepy toxic guy filled the local ruler’s head with idiotic poison and wrecked everything in that kingdom until the king came to his senses and chucked the toxic creep out?
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
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I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
Automerge
Automerge is a library for building collaborative, local-first applications.
automerge.org
October 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I can't understate how good of a job the @inkandswitch.com folks did at this Automerge website. Wow, holy shit automerge.org
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
And the fact that you can *interact* with the visual demo at the top?
This is the new high bar for a technical website. Holy moly.
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This is so brilliantly simple, even the police could do it
I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/
October 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This is so brilliantly simple, even the police could do it
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This is utterly brilliant:
I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/
October 17, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is utterly brilliant:
I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/
October 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I built a free tool to try to embarrass British police into doing their job cctv.numpad.io. More info here: onodi.co/bisect/
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In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.
September 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.
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I thought a MWh battery might be ~shipping container size, or something impractical like that. But with a reasonable-to-low density estimate it turns out to be roughly 3,300 litres, or a cube with 1.5m sides. Not terrible!
September 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I thought a MWh battery might be ~shipping container size, or something impractical like that. But with a reasonable-to-low density estimate it turns out to be roughly 3,300 litres, or a cube with 1.5m sides. Not terrible!
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Since WW2, 19 seats in Westminster have been won with less than 30% of the vote. Ten of those were last year. They'll be a lot more next time.
5 parties on more than 12%, winner gains seat with under 30%. Results like this used to be rare, freak outliers. Now they are routine (there was a second just like this yesterday). Electoral chaos.
Newmarket East (West Suffolk) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 29.7% (New)
🌳 CON: 25.0% (+4.1)
🔶 LDM: 17.2% (-3.1)
🌹 LAB: 15.3% (-8.3)
🌍 GRN: 12.8% (New)
No WSI (-19.2) or Ind (-16.1) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
➡️ RFM: 29.7% (New)
🌳 CON: 25.0% (+4.1)
🔶 LDM: 17.2% (-3.1)
🌹 LAB: 15.3% (-8.3)
🌍 GRN: 12.8% (New)
No WSI (-19.2) or Ind (-16.1) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
September 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Since WW2, 19 seats in Westminster have been won with less than 30% of the vote. Ten of those were last year. They'll be a lot more next time.
Apparently I forgot to post my new blog post on here. Oops! numpad.substack.com/p/using-misd...
Using Misdirection to Make a Local-First App Load Fast
It's cheating, but I think it's mostly OK...
numpad.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Apparently I forgot to post my new blog post on here. Oops! numpad.substack.com/p/using-misd...
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2025.09.11 edition now out, featuring:
@maxiferreira.com
@livestore.dev
@tonyonodi.bsky.social
@electric-sql.com
Excali Organizer
Slingshot
@obsidian.md
@maxiferreira.com
@livestore.dev
@tonyonodi.bsky.social
@electric-sql.com
Excali Organizer
Slingshot
@obsidian.md
September 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
2025.09.11 edition now out, featuring:
@maxiferreira.com
@livestore.dev
@tonyonodi.bsky.social
@electric-sql.com
Excali Organizer
Slingshot
@obsidian.md
@maxiferreira.com
@livestore.dev
@tonyonodi.bsky.social
@electric-sql.com
Excali Organizer
Slingshot
@obsidian.md
It’s only just occurred to me that the mantra of TikTok videos is “tell don’t show”
Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob consisting of 30 musicians and singers on a street in Paris.
I reckon Freddie Mercury would have loved this.
[Sorry ... had to choose the lowest quality and cut into two for BlueSky. Hopefully the audio survived.]
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I reckon Freddie Mercury would have loved this.
[Sorry ... had to choose the lowest quality and cut into two for BlueSky. Hopefully the audio survived.]
🧵 1/2
September 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
It’s only just occurred to me that the mantra of TikTok videos is “tell don’t show”
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Well fucking do something about it then
Have you noticed the nights drawing in a little earlier?
September is one of the months where we lose sunlight the quickest as we move towards the autumnal equinox
September is one of the months where we lose sunlight the quickest as we move towards the autumnal equinox
September 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Well fucking do something about it then
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John Burn-Murdoch has broken into my apartment and is charting my personal decline across key metrics in red paint over the walls
August 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
John Burn-Murdoch has broken into my apartment and is charting my personal decline across key metrics in red paint over the walls
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There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI
OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia
write to your MPs.
write to your MPs.
July 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI
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The UK: we must reinvigorate our uncompetitive and slow growth economy!
Also the UK: time to censor the easiest general reference of archive of human knowledge, which is also free.
Also the UK: time to censor the easiest general reference of archive of human knowledge, which is also free.
OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia
write to your MPs.
write to your MPs.
July 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The UK: we must reinvigorate our uncompetitive and slow growth economy!
Also the UK: time to censor the easiest general reference of archive of human knowledge, which is also free.
Also the UK: time to censor the easiest general reference of archive of human knowledge, which is also free.
Well, at least he stopped those kids from being saved from HIV
Elon Musk vowed to cut almost a third of the annual US federal budget ie $2 trillion
Doge’s website claims $170bn in savings
FT investigation shows only a sliver of that figure can actually be verified
US Treasury data has so far shown no drop in government spending
www.ft.com/content/0854...
Doge’s website claims $170bn in savings
FT investigation shows only a sliver of that figure can actually be verified
US Treasury data has so far shown no drop in government spending
www.ft.com/content/0854...
What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved?
Six months after the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was unveiled, it has yet to find a fraction of the hoped for savings
www.ft.com
May 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Well, at least he stopped those kids from being saved from HIV
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the way democracy works now is that we keep voting for people to whack us in the nuts with bigger and bigger hammers. occasionally we vote for someone who says they’ll use smaller hammers, but guess what? bigger hammers
May 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
the way democracy works now is that we keep voting for people to whack us in the nuts with bigger and bigger hammers. occasionally we vote for someone who says they’ll use smaller hammers, but guess what? bigger hammers
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If I may be a little cruder, "The government should punch people in the dick" might poll at 60%, but people will still be angry at the government when their dicks hurt.
Everyone wants welfare reform until their niece's PIP is cut. Everyone wants fewer universities until their grand kid's gets closed mid-degree.
May 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If I may be a little cruder, "The government should punch people in the dick" might poll at 60%, but people will still be angry at the government when their dicks hurt.
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funny to think that jonathan swift, alexander pope, and isaac newton all lost money on the south sea bubble. would be like, idk, kazuo ishiguro and demis hassabis getting rugpulled on some memecoin
May 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
funny to think that jonathan swift, alexander pope, and isaac newton all lost money on the south sea bubble. would be like, idk, kazuo ishiguro and demis hassabis getting rugpulled on some memecoin
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Skype pulled most incomprehensible bag fumble of all time. A 15 year head start. Total ubiquity. Added to the Oxford English Dictionary by 2014. Only to fall nuts-first into irrelevance at the exact moment when all other communication was made illegal. Truly, the Pete Best of videoconferencing. RIP.
May 6, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Skype pulled most incomprehensible bag fumble of all time. A 15 year head start. Total ubiquity. Added to the Oxford English Dictionary by 2014. Only to fall nuts-first into irrelevance at the exact moment when all other communication was made illegal. Truly, the Pete Best of videoconferencing. RIP.
My MacBook now has theory of mind; strange world.
May 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
My MacBook now has theory of mind; strange world.
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Just yesterday I was thinking about how, when social media platforms rolled out algorithms, everyone was like “we don’t want that.” And they were like “no no, trust us, the data says you do; it’ll be great.” Now not only are the algorithms not great, they sucked the life out of everything
May 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Just yesterday I was thinking about how, when social media platforms rolled out algorithms, everyone was like “we don’t want that.” And they were like “no no, trust us, the data says you do; it’ll be great.” Now not only are the algorithms not great, they sucked the life out of everything