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@jonnelledge.bsky.social Spotted in St Pancras Waterstones 👀
A stack of Jonn’s book on a table
October 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The idea of cats roaming to get dinners in multiple households was the subject of one of my favourite books when I was a child, I am delighted as an adult to discover this is founded in reality
The cover of “Six Dinner Sid”, by Inga More. The cover is an illustration of a black cat with yellow/brown eyes, smiling towards the viewer, and next to him is six small bowls in a variety of bright colours and patterns.
August 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Psh, that looks simple.

Now this? This is peak British bathroom design.
A crude sketch of a bathroom featuring two sinks with separate taps, connected to different looking controls labelled “S” and “T”
July 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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A crude sketch of a gnome with a distressed looking t-rex in its mouth.
July 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Recreating a bird animation: alexwlchan.net/2025/swift-b...

I learnt a bunch about animation on the web by reading the Swift.org source code, like:

✨ Using a dash pattern to draw partial paths
✨ HTML5 Canvas and globalCompositeOperation
✨ Anime.js
✨ MutationObserver
✨ prefers-reduce-motion: reduce
June 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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A crude, out-of-focus, hand drawn sketch of a potato
May 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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A digital file picker showing “Cold Shoulder”, where the word “Shoulder” has clearly been photoshopped into the file to replace a different word.
March 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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actually the world was plotting against you yesterday when it led me to realise you’re on bluesky and I should follow you here and then see this post today
A handwritten note: “Wow, sounds like a 阴谋 (conspiracy)! More literally, a sinister (阴) plot (谋). There are clues in the characters – 月 is the Moon radical and is associated with shade and dark, while 讠is the speech radical and often associated with information.”
January 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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1. You can scroll back past 1AD to what is presumably BCE, but the interface doesn’t update to reflect it, you just have to trust I got that far back

2. It looks just like a regular month, alas
Screenshot of the macOS Calendar app showing a year titled “45”, which is really 45 BCE. All the twelve months look like they have the normal number of days.
December 31, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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Preserving pixels in Paris: alexwlchan.net/2024/preserv...

Last month I went to France for a conference about archiving the web, and I’ve posted some of my thoughts and photos.
Looking up towards the ceiling of a large oval room. There's a large oval window at the very top of the ceiling, then smaller circular windows around it. Above each window is the name of a city; below it is an archway with bookshelves filling the archway. Each archway is wide, enough to hold six bookshelves. A window display with old video gear tastefully arranged -- including a VHS player, various tape cassettes, a large reel-to-reel film projector, and a few video cameras. A densely-wooded area full of green trees, and in the background are two towers which are shaped bit like a capital L. The towers are mostly glass and metal, with shorter glass and metal buildings extending from the towers and into the foreground.
May 23, 2024 at 8:59 PM