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Muddy Matt
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Matt is one of the founding molefathers of the Muddymoles - https://muddymoles.org.uk

Mountain biking (MTB) in the Mole Valley, including Leith, Pitch and Holmbury Hills. Based in Surrey Hills, UK.
His mum is Prue Leith
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Agree that it has drawbacks. But the majority of people are not abusing it and it still supports the industry.

I would prefer something with wider access for people for sure but people using it are not cheats and villains.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I don't care who takes advantage of C2W. It is a subsidy to the industry that badly needs it. If there is a better way to support bike sales, mechanics, shops etc. let's hear it.

Appreciate it excludes self employed but maybe (Idk) they have their own opportunities to limit tax etc.?
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
An evergreen choice. Feel it could be bigger on mobile in this instance but have lots to tidy up before optimising.

Trying to make UX and accessibility as good as possible but there's no help for the guff we write ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Agree and don't see why there's no protected cycle lane on A25 Guildford > Dorking > Reigate. Busy commuter routes that would link well with A24 at Dorking
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
We're doing just that next April - five of us getting ferry to Dunkirk, cycle to de Panne, train to Ghent, then to Middleburg, Rotterdam and Amsterdam by bike, train back to de Panne. Looking forward to it a lot
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Thanks for the info. I might give it a go and see how it looks.
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
To transition between pages on e.g. a blog that's served from a db (as per many websites)... is there a performance implication/penalty in using it? Esp. mobile and low bandwidth?
November 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I know it's a common pattern but not convinced.

First, it's an annoying pattern full stop and I can't actually see the use case.

Second, a screenreader needs to know the menu is available and is in/out of view.

Third, the animation is poor for accessible reasons.

I could go on but...
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Not sure about this annoyance for many people.

a) what is the benefit/use case of this?
b) how is it accessible?
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Your suggestion to reduce driving associated taxes to increase growth is predicated on a car-centric model, when the majority of people live in cities where public transport and non driving travel would create broadest benefits. Long distance, rail capacity would be most effective IMO.
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Yes, uses asides which I feel is wrong as it becomes a landmark to a screenreader for a discrete piece of information which might not make sense out of context. What I'm really looking for is a block level emphasis element I guess 🤣😓
October 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Yep! Hopes and dreams Vs cold hard reality 😞
October 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It's a big topic. This issue is telling a screenreader that the information has some emphasis on it without breaking the flow of the content. Blockquotes are for quoting external content and asides are for secondary observations, neither work here. Visually it's obvious, code wise it's not at all.
October 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Forget about development costs. Technical debt kills every project, every time.
October 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I agree with you. Quality and craft counts; this gap will grow as AI becomes ever more averaged.

Not wanting to shake fist at clouds, but current students also risk over reliance on AI without embedding core skills. Consequences for taste, judgement and creativity.
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Ultimately a failure of spec (was it suitable in the first place?), then a failure of effective inspection and enforcement, both during and after the work.
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM