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Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱
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Tech lead, senior developer, founder of Police Rewired, Newspeak House fellow, Escape the Review gamer. (he/him)

#Innovation #Tech #CivicTech […]

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Devs in tiny teams! 👋

How do you manage peer review? What's important, and what cool solutions have your team come up with to get around the drawbacks when there are so few of you? How about when there's a tight deadline?

👉 pol.is/4bjbbvxvuh

#developers #coding #delivery #waysofworking
An angular, stylised cartoon image of two developers stand next to each other smiling. One is holding a laptop (also smiling!) and the other holds a checklist.
September 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Bingo! A great opportunity to work at one of the best places I've worked... 👉
https://www.nesta.org.uk/jobs/creative-technologist-creative-full-stack-develope/
Nesta is the UK's innovation agency for social good. I'd be happy to chat to anyone about what it's like working here.
#mastojobs […]
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June 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Reposted by Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱
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omfg the font used in this famous anti-piracy campaign was itself, a pirated commercial font.

source: https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f
you wouldn't download a car PSA image
April 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I am having a cute day.
A Windows XP installation screen. A blue gradient runs from top to bottom, and text reads "Welcome to Microsoft Windows" The default Windows XP desktop. The background shows a grassy hill and blue cloudy sky beyond. In the foreground is the Windows XP Start Menu.
April 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Seeking dev strategy advice: Received wisdom is that you don't test in production - however, there seem to be lots of differing opinions out there, and arguments either way. Have you agonised over this? What did you choose and why? #seniordevs #techleads #testing #testingstrategies
October 27, 2024 at 2:31 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Does everyone know about https://lectures.london? It's an open list of #free to attend lectures from universities and institutions across #london.
October 17, 2024 at 11:01 AM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Today commemorates the Battle of Cable Street. It's an opportunity to remember that fascism is despicable, and standing up to fascists is a wholesome, rewarding activity.
🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnMrHQHUa1Y
A red disc from Tower Hamlets Environment Trust, entitled "The Battle of Cable Street". Wording: The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End. "They shall not pass"
October 4, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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I will blog soon about all the extra code I have written for Safari because it is a special little snowflake...

❄️ Play video? Not until they click a button...
❄️ Go full screen? Kinda...
❄️ Storage API? You wish...
❄️ Web Push Notifications? Sometime between now and the heat death of […]
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October 2, 2024 at 4:36 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
What's missing from my mental model is why anyone would begrudge women having pockets. I normally just chalk fashion stuff up to "I'd never get it, it's all mad" but I can't seem to let this one go.
October 2, 2024 at 7:06 AM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
An oldie but a classic from my archive that I was reminded of today... This is from a third party identity service that used to integrate with GOV.UK Verify. Which button do you think lets you cancel? 🤔
#ui #ux #badui #designcrime
A dialog box with title "Are you sure you want to continue?" The prompt says "Are you sure you want to cancel your registration?" The visually primary button says "Continue", and there's a secondary (link-style) button beside it that says "Cancel"
October 1, 2024 at 2:21 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Never knowingly underestimated 😉👍™️
September 30, 2024 at 8:36 AM
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edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
A fun little #css experiment.

What happens if you apply `text-wrap:balance` to a row of icons?

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/tcxTN1ayanTKbiS3KUrPfz
September 20, 2024 at 8:30 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Today I used a #tool I wrote last year, in earnest, and I think it saved me a good few hours of effort. 😇

JsonToSmartCsv can reshape #json data into #csv by following predefined rules. You can use it to flatten rich objects into human readable rows […]
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September 15, 2024 at 1:56 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Who's working on Collective Intelligence? Just reply to this toot!
#ci #collectiveintelligence
September 2, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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In a follow-on from my previous post about the tool itself, I'm building a list of social accounts, people, organisations, communities and bots involved with Collective Intelligence projects. Who should be on it?

✨ https://instantiator.dev/listsky/lists/collective-intelligentsia.html

#ci […]
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mastodon.social
September 1, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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💥🆕 I've posted about ListSky, a new tool for collaboratively managing social media lists through GitHub.

Changes to lists are submitted as pull requests or issues. Accepted changes are reflected on BlueSky and published to the web.

(In future, lists on […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Screenshot of an overview of lists managed by ListSky. Currently it manages a list called Collective Intelligentsia - collating social accounts of Collective Intelligence practitioners, researchers, organisations, communities and bots. Screenshot of the Collective Intelligentsia list - showing people, information about them, and links to their social accounts. One of two graphics for ListSky. A blue butterfly sits at the centre of a clipboard, surrounded by social media icons (these are all pretty non-descript - aside from the twitter bird, and the facebook F, it's not really clear which social networks they represent). The second of two graphics for ListSky. A blue butterfly sits at the centre of a board, surrounded by social media icons (these are all pretty non-descript - aside from the twitter bird, and the facebook F, it's not really clear which social networks they represent). The entire graphic is a nice shade of cyan, and icons are interleaved with a floral design.
September 1, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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Wow, Scavengers Reign is brilliant. #scavengersreign #tv #netflix #scifi #sciencefiction #recommendation
A humanoid robotic figure sits amongst alien greenery and creatures in a jungle-like setting.
August 27, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Entrusted with all the powers and responsibilities of a labelling machine, this is clearly the most useful and best thing I would have chosen to do, too. 💡
Four light switches. Each labelled: "light switch 1", "light switch 2", "light switch 3", and "light switch 4"
August 27, 2024 at 4:52 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
🦋 I'm trying out Bluesky. Come be my friendsky! (Bluefriend?) You'll get largely the same output there as you get from me here, I think, but... with butterflies?
https://bsky.app/profile/instantiator.bsky.social
#software #softwaredevelopment #dev #coding #tutorials #csharp #typescript #games […]
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August 26, 2024 at 6:52 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
This is a test of the Mastodon to Bluesky script created by Maurice Renck 🤞
https://github.com/mauricerenck/mastodon-to-bluesky
August 26, 2024 at 6:17 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
🆕 In this house we celebrate...
💓 A calendar for the geek in your heart! Add alongside your own, and send us suggestions!
https://instantiator.dev/post/in-this-house-we-celebrate/
#geeky #nerdy #calendar #celebration #celebrate #event #annual #events #geeks #nerds #ci #collectiveintelligence
August 24, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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Nature! #rodingvalley #caturday #catstodon
August 24, 2024 at 12:30 PM
instantiator.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Me: Confidently telling my team of course you can plug any microphone into your laptop and it'll just work. It's 2024!
Microsoft and Apple, in unison:
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August 21, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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A wild ride through the history of #ai #fairness tonight at Newspeak House.

Presentations from ​Dr Sophie Carr, CEO of Bays Consulting and John Sandall, CEO of Coefficient.
Photo of a projected screen in a beautifully lit talk space. Slide says: A brief history of AI fairness Photo of a projected screen in a beautifully lit talk space. Slide describes the world's first AI hiring scandal - St George's Hospital, 1979!
August 20, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Sam awoke from turbulent dreams to discover, to his horror, that the mouse had chewed through its leash again. "Damn thing." he muttered, and looked around the camp. By the embers of their fire lay the carcasses of several small beasts. They might once have […]

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A screenshot from a post by Andrew Nadeau. He writes: Sam being able to carry Frodo and not be effected by the ring means the ring doesn't understand transitive properties so they could have just taped the ring to a mouse and then carried the mouse with no ill effects. Whole thing would have taken 20 minutes.
August 20, 2024 at 9:38 AM