Simon I’Anson
@simonianson.bsky.social
Design. Cycling. It’s [eye-an-son]
After 23 years in London now live in the woods in Cheshire.
After 23 years in London now live in the woods in Cheshire.
Weird how I’ve never seen a headline like this for a male footballer. Do share if you have.
October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Weird how I’ve never seen a headline like this for a male footballer. Do share if you have.
Is this the most Grand Designs Grand Design ever?
October 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Is this the most Grand Designs Grand Design ever?
Found out this morning that a dear friend and ex-colleague passed away yesterday.
RIP Neil ❤️
Related: cancer you utter, utter bastard.
RIP Neil ❤️
Related: cancer you utter, utter bastard.
September 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Found out this morning that a dear friend and ex-colleague passed away yesterday.
RIP Neil ❤️
Related: cancer you utter, utter bastard.
RIP Neil ❤️
Related: cancer you utter, utter bastard.
OH in the kitchen:
[holding up phone] “Mum, look at this that I made”
“But your hair isn’t that long”
“Yeah, it’s an ai filter. And ai is a bit rubbish”
[holding up phone] “Mum, look at this that I made”
“But your hair isn’t that long”
“Yeah, it’s an ai filter. And ai is a bit rubbish”
September 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
OH in the kitchen:
[holding up phone] “Mum, look at this that I made”
“But your hair isn’t that long”
“Yeah, it’s an ai filter. And ai is a bit rubbish”
[holding up phone] “Mum, look at this that I made”
“But your hair isn’t that long”
“Yeah, it’s an ai filter. And ai is a bit rubbish”
Started a new role. Week 1:
Binned Jira for Linear
Binning Wordpress for marketing site
Committed to PostHog for analytics
Feels good.
Binned Jira for Linear
Binning Wordpress for marketing site
Committed to PostHog for analytics
Feels good.
September 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Started a new role. Week 1:
Binned Jira for Linear
Binning Wordpress for marketing site
Committed to PostHog for analytics
Feels good.
Binned Jira for Linear
Binning Wordpress for marketing site
Committed to PostHog for analytics
Feels good.
Lovely day for it.
August 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Lovely day for it.
Three days at London Tech Week. Done!
Great to lift my head above the parapet and see what’s happening outside my bubble.
Key takeaway: if you’re not working in AI or implementing it into your app, startup or business, what are you even doing?
Longer thoughts to come on LinkedIn.
Great to lift my head above the parapet and see what’s happening outside my bubble.
Key takeaway: if you’re not working in AI or implementing it into your app, startup or business, what are you even doing?
Longer thoughts to come on LinkedIn.
June 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Three days at London Tech Week. Done!
Great to lift my head above the parapet and see what’s happening outside my bubble.
Key takeaway: if you’re not working in AI or implementing it into your app, startup or business, what are you even doing?
Longer thoughts to come on LinkedIn.
Great to lift my head above the parapet and see what’s happening outside my bubble.
Key takeaway: if you’re not working in AI or implementing it into your app, startup or business, what are you even doing?
Longer thoughts to come on LinkedIn.
WTF?
This is horrid.
This is horrid.
A writer pal of mine died five years ago. Today a post suddenly appeared on his Facebook account, some auto-generated AI slop posted by whoever or whatever has got control of it. Annoying and depressing in equal measure.
June 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
WTF?
This is horrid.
This is horrid.
Apple has a serious conflict. Their approach of only shipping highly polished apps and services vs the rest of the industry ‘getting AI in the hands of the user early’ is damaging them.
You can faff with interface all you like but they really need to get on top of this.
You can faff with interface all you like but they really need to get on top of this.
Still no AI-powered, ‘more personalized’ Siri from Apple at WWDC 25
Still no AI-powered, 'more personalized' Siri from Apple at WWDC 25 | TechCrunch
Apple announced a slew of updates at the Worldwide Developer Conference with one notable exception. It still hasn't revealed its previously announced AI-powered Siri.
techcrunch.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Apple has a serious conflict. Their approach of only shipping highly polished apps and services vs the rest of the industry ‘getting AI in the hands of the user early’ is damaging them.
You can faff with interface all you like but they really need to get on top of this.
You can faff with interface all you like but they really need to get on top of this.
So pleased for my good friends at Wonderbly. Now part of the Penguin Random House family.
June 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
So pleased for my good friends at Wonderbly. Now part of the Penguin Random House family.
Visma pulled a blinder today. And UAE blew it. But the riders still have to turn the pedals. Brilliant ride by Yates. And having WvA’s wheel in the valley made it all come together perfectly. Chapeau.
May 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Visma pulled a blinder today. And UAE blew it. But the riders still have to turn the pedals. Brilliant ride by Yates. And having WvA’s wheel in the valley made it all come together perfectly. Chapeau.
Slight country identification error here BBC.
May 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Slight country identification error here BBC.
A Saturday in middle age: jet washed the wheely bins and garden bench. Applied coat of oil to bench. BBQ this evening. 👨🦳
May 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A Saturday in middle age: jet washed the wheely bins and garden bench. Applied coat of oil to bench. BBQ this evening. 👨🦳
Middle age happiness is: a tidy lawn.
Cut, using middle class tools…
Cut, using middle class tools…
April 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Middle age happiness is: a tidy lawn.
Cut, using middle class tools…
Cut, using middle class tools…
Watching a documentary about the Hubble Space Telescope. I hope, one day, America can get back to using their wealth, ambition and world-leading capabilities to do more of these things. From here, it feels like this level of intellectual ambition and curiosity has disappeared.
April 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Watching a documentary about the Hubble Space Telescope. I hope, one day, America can get back to using their wealth, ambition and world-leading capabilities to do more of these things. From here, it feels like this level of intellectual ambition and curiosity has disappeared.
Went to a bike race. Saw this legend win. Again.
April 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Went to a bike race. Saw this legend win. Again.
'Let me Google That For You' has now become 'Let me craft a really good prompt and see what AI says"
April 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
'Let me Google That For You' has now become 'Let me craft a really good prompt and see what AI says"
Powless summoned an inner Stannard. Played it perfectly. 3:1 against! Well done Neilson Powless. @efprocycling.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Powless summoned an inner Stannard. Played it perfectly. 3:1 against! Well done Neilson Powless. @efprocycling.com
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Oh, you need to bookmark this one: Symbl, a single place to get all the little design assets we need, over and over as designers: HTML symbols, emojis, app icons, flags, curors, Apple Store/ Google Play badges, social media icons and payment and big companies logos
symbl.revend.group
symbl.revend.group
March 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Oh, you need to bookmark this one: Symbl, a single place to get all the little design assets we need, over and over as designers: HTML symbols, emojis, app icons, flags, curors, Apple Store/ Google Play badges, social media icons and payment and big companies logos
symbl.revend.group
symbl.revend.group
In other news
First day of a week off. And I’m ill. Think Adrenalin got me through the last 2 weeks with the site launch. Now my body has let go. 🤧
First day of a week off. And I’m ill. Think Adrenalin got me through the last 2 weeks with the site launch. Now my body has let go. 🤧
February 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
In other news
First day of a week off. And I’m ill. Think Adrenalin got me through the last 2 weeks with the site launch. Now my body has let go. 🤧
First day of a week off. And I’m ill. Think Adrenalin got me through the last 2 weeks with the site launch. Now my body has let go. 🤧
This was the site I launched last week.
www.historic-newspapers.com
Heavily tailored Shopify storefront, bespoke pick-n-pack app for the warehouse to fulfil old newspaper orders, API linking to Wonderbly.com global print-on-demand network for the books, rebranded business and products…
www.historic-newspapers.com
Heavily tailored Shopify storefront, bespoke pick-n-pack app for the warehouse to fulfil old newspaper orders, API linking to Wonderbly.com global print-on-demand network for the books, rebranded business and products…
Historic Newspapers
Search and buy original old newspapers from our archive of over 3 million copies and discover our range of newspaper gift books spanning sports, music and national history.
www.historic-newspapers.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This was the site I launched last week.
www.historic-newspapers.com
Heavily tailored Shopify storefront, bespoke pick-n-pack app for the warehouse to fulfil old newspaper orders, API linking to Wonderbly.com global print-on-demand network for the books, rebranded business and products…
www.historic-newspapers.com
Heavily tailored Shopify storefront, bespoke pick-n-pack app for the warehouse to fulfil old newspaper orders, API linking to Wonderbly.com global print-on-demand network for the books, rebranded business and products…
Just launched one of the biggest projects I’ve worked on in a while. US only at the moment. UK coming later this week.
Will post on Friday.
Will post on Friday.
February 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Just launched one of the biggest projects I’ve worked on in a while. US only at the moment. UK coming later this week.
Will post on Friday.
Will post on Friday.
Signs you’re in the final few days of a project and bug fixing: Every message on Slack has a thread. And some of them are <50 messages long.
February 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Signs you’re in the final few days of a project and bug fixing: Every message on Slack has a thread. And some of them are <50 messages long.
No matter how smoothly a project goes in the preceding 7 months. No matter how well planned. It’s always a fraught final few days before launch. Why do the weird bugs always emerge then?
Big push to Tuesday.
Big push to Tuesday.
February 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
No matter how smoothly a project goes in the preceding 7 months. No matter how well planned. It’s always a fraught final few days before launch. Why do the weird bugs always emerge then?
Big push to Tuesday.
Big push to Tuesday.