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Matt Eason
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Designer & developer working in digital government

ambiph.one / govukvue.org / matteason.co.uk/scotbeats / stationlifts.org.uk

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"A beautiful song, some very apt lyrics, talking about people being changed for good - and for many people, Remembrance Day is about learning from history, learning from the lessons of the past, for good, for unity and of course, for peace"

Satire is dead
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Dare I suggest you buy them for your whole family and a Taskmaster trophy of your own head and make them scream how merry they are all Christmas to win your approval and golden face? DARE I??

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November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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I've just added these Christmas Taskmaster tasks to my Etsy shop if you'd like to make someone's Christmas significantly more high-pressure

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A Taskmaster-style task on folded card reads 'Have the merriest Christmas. You must exclaim "I'm so very merry!" with increasing enthusiasm every time you feel merry. You have until New Year's Day. Merriest Christmas wins. Your time stars now." A red keyring in the style of a wax seal with the initials GD in a typewriter-esque font, sealing a white folded task card
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Great to have a self hosted option but this bit sucks - you're giving people two months' notice that nuxt.studio is being discontinued? That wasn't part of the original announcement and is going to cause huge problems for people who use Studio with static sites
At the end of year, the hosted platform will be sunset and the module will be the only way to edit your Nuxt Content website.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I'm using (and really liking) lucide.dev icons for a new project and am desperately trying to engineer a scenario which would call for a 'Bean Off' icon
A white outlined icon of a bean, next to the same icon with a diagonal stroke through it with the label "bean-off"
October 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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DPD: We tried to deliver your parcel 😟 but you weren't in 🥺 we have proof! 😢

The proof:
DPD tracking page says "Sorry, we missed you. Your driver Adam won't be back today but we'll be back Wed 22 October with your parcel". Below is the 'proof of delivery' image: a featureless grey/black gradient
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Even you weren't immune to the Mean Girlification of DVD cover typesetting
Cover of Mean Girls DVD, with the title and stars' names in two contrasting weights of Futura (eg Mean in a heavy weight and Girls in light), a style that pervaded movie and DVD logos in the early 2000s
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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For the design nerds, here's Network Rail's official design manual for Rail Clock

It incorporates a sonic pigeon deterrent.

www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/u...
4.9.3 Pigeon Deterrents Sonic deterrents incorporated inside hanging bracket casing to be directed at the top of the clock to prevent pigeons from perching on the clock. No physical deterrents should be deployed.
October 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I've added a a couple of options to the Rail Clock you can switch on via the URL:

- railclock.matteason.co.uk#analogue to treat the arrows as hour and minute hands rather than rotating once a minute

- railclock.matteason.co.uk#seconds to show seconds
A clock displaying 09:32:47 in sans serif white digits inside two red rings. Along the rings there are arrows at the positions an analogue clock would be pointing to
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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...and a fistful of Taskmaster keyrings going out today
Three wax seal style keyrings with different pairs of initials, two sealing a folded taskmaster task and one on a business card printed like a task
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I'm making tiny Taskmaster trophies now if you'd like to be a tiny Taskmaster

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Antique gold trophy of a woman's head on a black base with red wax seal with letters 'LT'. Labels say 'Your face here and your initials here'. In the corner, a polaroid photo of the same woman
October 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I just added a vacuum cleaner sound to ambiph.one and I'm taking bets on how long before I have to change this icon for being too baffling to anyone outside the British isles
Sound activation button labelled 'Vacuum cleaner' featuring a cylindrical vacuum with a smiling cartoon face
October 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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It's like the middle Animorph between this and actual Goatse
Simon from The Inbetweeners giving an exaggerated double-thumbs-up
September 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Maybe pick a different icon
thameswater.co.uk on the side of a van, with a computer mouse icon that manages to look phallic
September 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Could politicians stop putting major policy announcements behind a paywall please?
Keir Starmer article in the Telegraph, truncated by an obnoxious popup saying "To read this article free, enter your email address for 7 days' website access". The only visible words are: "Politicians on the Left and Right are considering how to counter a nativist populist Right..."
September 26, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Considering buying these earbuds purely because we need a return to whimsical transparent electronics
A pair of Sony WF-C710N wireless earbuds. The shell is a translucent deep blue
September 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Any politics aside this whole thing is hilariously slapdash. Case in point: this cursed text justification on the privacy policy
Details of ICO address and helpline number and MOU Operations Ltd address, but lots of the words haven't got a space between them so the justified text looks really weird
September 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Oh my god I need it
screenshot of Nintendo Direct livestream with new Virtual Boy VR headset accessory and text reading 'Available from My Nintento Store. Pre-orders being later today'
September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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2025 is the year of cyan I guess
Email from Starling Bank. On the left are various examples of the new branding - the app icon is a cyan capital S on a very dark purple background, with the bottom curve of the S disproportionately big. Examples of cards in different colourways including pink, cyan and brown and the cyan logo in the app. Text reads: A guide to what’s changing New Starling app icon Your app icon will change. It’ll still be called ‘Starling’ on your home screen, but you’ll see our new icon. Your digital cards will get a design update. The cards in your mobile wallet and in our app will change in the coming weeks. We will start sending out physical cards in our new colours next year. Our logo will now only show the word ‘Starling’. We’re dropping the ‘Bank’ from our logo. Our website and social handles will still be www.starlingbank.com and @StarlingBank. We’ve made some design changes. You’ll see our app, emails and website all use our new colours and logo. screenshot from GOV.UK brand guidelines. On the right, 6 versions of teh gov.uk logo in various colourways, with the text in white and the dot in saturated versions of the background colours (blue, green, purple etc) Text: Adaptive dot colour At times, our social content will need greater impact.
 One of the ways this can be achieved is through the use of colour. Our logo follows the adaptive dot colour principle, which allows the dot to change colour depending on the background. This must always follow the tonal range of a colour. The adaptive dot colour should be reserved for moments where the brand requires more expression, and should not be used in communications that require a more sombre or serious tone. For example, if using Purple Shade 50% as a background, the dot colour would become the Accent Purple. This can be applied within the live artwork files using the relevant swatches. Always consider accessibility when making these changes. To aid brand recognition and coherency, adaptive dot colour should not be used within video end frames.
September 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Trying to send a parcel; instead Royal Mail's website returns HTTP 418 I'm a teapot
Firefox error page reads Looks like there's a problem with this site. business.parcel.royalmail.com sent back an error: error coe 418 I'm a teapot
September 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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It's fine, I didn't want to feel anything this year anyway
Email: Thank you for registering your details for tickets to Radiohead Europe 2025. Unfortunately, you have not been randomly allocated an unlock code for this Friday's sale. While every effort has been made to accommodate as many fans as possible, the number of registrations far exceeded the available tickets.
September 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Look at my tiny TV
September 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Something weird going on with Google Meet this morning. I can get to the waiting room screen but can't join anything. www.google.com/appsstatus/d... says everything's fine but downdetector.co.uk/status/googl... is going 📈
Down Detector graph of Google Meet outages. Occasional reports for the last day then a big spike to 26 since 9am this morning
September 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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I'm pretty sure og:image / twitter:image URLs need to be absolute, so these need nooshu.com on the front
og:image and twitter:image meta tags with a relative URL
September 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Omitting and opening and closing tags is valid in some situations! There are some funky rules about comment and whitespace positioning but if it's being minified those shouldn't matter
html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/sy...
Usually, however, whitespace isn't an issue. If we first remove the whitespace we don't care about: <!DOCTYPE HTML><html><head><title>Hello</title></head><body><p>Welcome to this example.</p></body></html> Then we can omit a number of tags without affecting the DOM: <!DOCTYPE HTML><title>Hello</title><p>Welcome to this example.</p>
September 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM