Sam Fazakerley
@fazakerleysam.bsky.social
20 years in CG, VR and tech. Digital artist, web dev and creative technologist. Ability to understand and integrate the latest technology, with the craft and flare you would expect from an artist.
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New blog post: A big list of things I disable in WordPress
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/
There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that …
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/
There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that …
A big list of things I disable in WordPress
There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that its way is the best and there shall be no deviance. That means a lot of forced cruft being injected into my site. Headers that bloat my page size, Gutenberg stuff I've no use for, and ridiculous editorial decisions. To double-down on the…
shkspr.mobi
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New blog post: A big list of things I disable in WordPress
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/
There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that …
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/a-big-list-of-things-i-disable-in-wordpress/
There are many things I like about the WordPress blogging software, and many things I find irritating. The most annoying aspect is that WordPress insists that …
Reposted by Sam Fazakerley
Michael Green brings numbers to show why the economy feels like we're all just completely fucked, you'll be delighted* to hear it's because we're just completely fucked. also a lot of extremely obsolete metrics
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Michael Green brings numbers to show why the economy feels like we're all just completely fucked, you'll be delighted* to hear it's because we're just completely fucked. also a lot of extremely obsolete metrics
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Sad to hear 8th Wall is closing. I just finished using it for a project in Milan, and it went down really well.
Here's hoping they can open source the most important parts of the project, the SLAM engine and detection. #opensource
You can read the annoucenment here, www.8thwall.com/blog/post/20...
Here's hoping they can open source the most important parts of the project, the SLAM engine and detection. #opensource
You can read the annoucenment here, www.8thwall.com/blog/post/20...
Thank You For Building With Us: The Next Chapter for 8th Wall
8th Wall will wind down over the next year, with hosted projects remaining active through February 2027.
www.8thwall.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Sad to hear 8th Wall is closing. I just finished using it for a project in Milan, and it went down really well.
Here's hoping they can open source the most important parts of the project, the SLAM engine and detection. #opensource
You can read the annoucenment here, www.8thwall.com/blog/post/20...
Here's hoping they can open source the most important parts of the project, the SLAM engine and detection. #opensource
You can read the annoucenment here, www.8thwall.com/blog/post/20...
Finished making Super Symmetry 2x bigger and 2x lighter. Looking for galleries and venues that would like to display it. DM if interested.
November 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Finished making Super Symmetry 2x bigger and 2x lighter. Looking for galleries and venues that would like to display it. DM if interested.
Everybody please keep taking about baseball. This is really good for my social media habit.
October 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Everybody please keep taking about baseball. This is really good for my social media habit.
Reposted by Sam Fazakerley
NEW from me:
In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs
It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs
It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
The Tariff Exemption Behind the AI Boom
Data Centers get Tariff-Free Imports. Why Shouldn't we All?
www.apricitas.io
October 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
NEW from me:
In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs
It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
In his 2nd term, Trump has pursued the largest trade war in modern US history—with 1 glaring omission. Computer imports are almost entirely exempt from tariffs
It's a special carveout that AI companies are now reliant on for their data center buildout🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
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🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud:
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”
Pretty odd phishing attack has shown up in #onedrive. Someone sends you a 'shared' file via #sharepoint, the link asks you to log into oneDrive - oops, you just enetered your details into something you shouldn't.
August 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Pretty odd phishing attack has shown up in #onedrive. Someone sends you a 'shared' file via #sharepoint, the link asks you to log into oneDrive - oops, you just enetered your details into something you shouldn't.
Thanks, will give it a try!
Most alcohol-free wines taste weird. They don't taste like wine. But French Bloom, a sparkling alcohol-free wine with its roots in Champagne, actually tastes really good. The idea is to make a wine that is designed to be dealcoholized and carbonated wineanorak.com/2025/07/28/f...
July 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Thanks, will give it a try!
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This essay by @baldurbjarnason.com on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:
Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge riskTrusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
www.baldurbjarnason.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This essay by @baldurbjarnason.com on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:
Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH:
So. This is good. Right?!
The AMD Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
AMD will be officially supporting the RADV Vulkan API driver. "The Mesa Vulkan driver will be officially supported,"
www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-...
AMD will be officially supporting the RADV Vulkan API driver. "The Mesa Vulkan driver will be officially supported,"
www.phoronix.com/news/Radeon-...
Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers
With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are n...
www.phoronix.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So. This is good. Right?!
Do your kids play 'jinx' when they say the same word? Mine don't, they have to quickly shout, 'sudo chgrp recursive!'
Then the other one isn't allowed to talk until someone restores their permissions.
Then the other one isn't allowed to talk until someone restores their permissions.
May 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Do your kids play 'jinx' when they say the same word? Mine don't, they have to quickly shout, 'sudo chgrp recursive!'
Then the other one isn't allowed to talk until someone restores their permissions.
Then the other one isn't allowed to talk until someone restores their permissions.
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I hate crypto, I hate online gambling, I hate AI, I hate pay-later, I hate subscription models, I hate the gig economy, I hate ring cameras, I hate drones, I hate self checkout.
I don't want to come off as a luddite but capitalism's hold on tech sucks.
I don't want to come off as a luddite but capitalism's hold on tech sucks.
May 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I hate crypto, I hate online gambling, I hate AI, I hate pay-later, I hate subscription models, I hate the gig economy, I hate ring cameras, I hate drones, I hate self checkout.
I don't want to come off as a luddite but capitalism's hold on tech sucks.
I don't want to come off as a luddite but capitalism's hold on tech sucks.
Reposted by Sam Fazakerley
UK backtracks on AI ‘opt out’ scheme for creative works
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/05/u... - text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRm8... - video
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/05/u... - text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRm8... - video
UK backtracks on AI ‘opt out’ scheme for creative works
The UK government very much wants to give the AI grifters everything they ever wanted — including open slather on UK creative works. If you didn’t want the AI companies training on your stuff, you…
pivot-to-ai.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
UK backtracks on AI ‘opt out’ scheme for creative works
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/05/u... - text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRm8... - video
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/05/u... - text
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRm8... - video
I would like a protocol for messaging. I want to leave WhatsApp, but still contact people on WhatsApp. This doesn't seem impossible, as messaging revolves around phone numbers, not userIDs.
oh hey guess what it's an EU-jurisdiction atproto relay.
hosted in france on an OVH eco KS-1 box: 4 cores/8 threads 32GB ram 480GB redundant SSD and 300mbit unmetered connection for three million dol-- i mean, sorry, it's $18.22 in USD/mo.
hosted in france on an OVH eco KS-1 box: 4 cores/8 threads 32GB ram 480GB redundant SSD and 300mbit unmetered connection for three million dol-- i mean, sorry, it's $18.22 in USD/mo.
ran this on a fresh server and apart from one tiny ordering mistake (fixed on main!) it just... works!?
relay3.fr.hose.cam
relay3.fr.hose.cam
April 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I would like a protocol for messaging. I want to leave WhatsApp, but still contact people on WhatsApp. This doesn't seem impossible, as messaging revolves around phone numbers, not userIDs.
I want at shirt.
April 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I want at shirt.
Will definitely be giving this a go.
After 5 years in the making, I'm very happy to finally release Anime.js v4, my dream animation library:
🧩 New modular API
⚡️ Highly performant
🖱️ Scroll-linked animations
🫵 Draggables
↔️ Responsive
✨ Additive animations
🪽 WAAPI support
And so much more!
Check out the new website animejs.com!
🧩 New modular API
⚡️ Highly performant
🖱️ Scroll-linked animations
🫵 Draggables
↔️ Responsive
✨ Additive animations
🪽 WAAPI support
And so much more!
Check out the new website animejs.com!
April 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Will definitely be giving this a go.
Wow! I had Tracker on Acorn A3000, when I was 12 - loved it! Same UI but by then we got 8 tracks, not that I ever used them!
April 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Wow! I had Tracker on Acorn A3000, when I was 12 - loved it! Same UI but by then we got 8 tracks, not that I ever used them!
@iquilezles.bsky.social perhaps #shadertoy could benefit from this?
If you are running an open source or open internet project that’s being hobbled by AI crawlers, at @fastly.com, our Fast Forward program will protect you. We’ve already committed nearly $100M to supporting the open web, and we can help your project too. www.fastly.com/fast-forward …
March 27, 2025 at 7:27 AM
@iquilezles.bsky.social perhaps #shadertoy could benefit from this?
Winds changed @heathrow.com so planes are landing on west London again. Wake up to the smell of jet fumes in the air 🤦
March 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Winds changed @heathrow.com so planes are landing on west London again. Wake up to the smell of jet fumes in the air 🤦
I've decided to start posting som eof my commercial projects here. It's not always flashy, but I try to include animation 'delight' in every project, so hopefully that comes across.
This project for federated-telecoms-hubs.com, built in #wordpress uses Rive animations for titles.
This project for federated-telecoms-hubs.com, built in #wordpress uses Rive animations for titles.
March 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I've decided to start posting som eof my commercial projects here. It's not always flashy, but I try to include animation 'delight' in every project, so hopefully that comes across.
This project for federated-telecoms-hubs.com, built in #wordpress uses Rive animations for titles.
This project for federated-telecoms-hubs.com, built in #wordpress uses Rive animations for titles.
Reposted by Sam Fazakerley
Reposted by Sam Fazakerley
When you read this it becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act.
Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning
The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.
www.planetearthandbeyond.co
March 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
When you read this it becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act.
The term seems relevant to GenAI.
1/8
SCMP: "Premier Li Qiang vowed to launch a “comprehensive crackdown on neijuan” – the first time the premier has mentioned the concept in his agenda-setting annual address."
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
SCMP: "Premier Li Qiang vowed to launch a “comprehensive crackdown on neijuan” – the first time the premier has mentioned the concept in his agenda-setting annual address."
www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
China’s cutthroat competition targeted as ‘two sessions’ tackles economic foe
In a first, Premier Li Qiang vowed to stamp out ‘neijuan’ – which refers to excessive, cutthroat competition – in his agenda-setting annual work report.
www.scmp.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The term seems relevant to GenAI.
"websites can be more than just “information delivery systems”; they can be works of art. Digital canvases where creativity, functionality, and user experience intersect."
Great article.
Great article.
One the most interesting read I had about what is my own job as web developer.
Parallelize website with art, business and personality. Developers resolve things and create value by authenticity; Maybe one of the reason why we will not disappear in a few days.
perozzi.blog/posts/websit...
Parallelize website with art, business and personality. Developers resolve things and create value by authenticity; Maybe one of the reason why we will not disappear in a few days.
perozzi.blog/posts/websit...
Websites are dead (and more click bait!) | PEROZZI – BlogGithub
Some thoughts, experiences, opinions and unsolicited advice on the current state of websites and web design as a freelancer.
perozzi.blog
February 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
"websites can be more than just “information delivery systems”; they can be works of art. Digital canvases where creativity, functionality, and user experience intersect."
Great article.
Great article.