Jonathan Whiteland

What a difference a white dot makes! #screenprint #robin

Colourway, a recently completed project in Plumstead that transformed an underpass with murals, ceramic walls and staircase, new lighting, new paving and power-points for events, created in a superstar team with Adams & Sutherland & Makegood. photos by @gardnergareth.bsky.social

Not sure how it has taken me this long to realise the pleasing circularity that Canary Wharf is now the heart of the Isle of Dogs and is named after the Canary Islands, whose name derives from the Latin for Isles of Dogs.

24th September 2026 Alan Turing keeps watch over the setting sun.

Took the Brompton out to the wilds of IKEA Wednesbury via a train to Walsall and then mostly along the canal.

A rather lovely exhibition at the Library of Birmingham: "Discovering Lisel Haas" – a gay, German-Jewish photographer, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, and rebuilt her life and career in Birmingham, sharing it with her partner Grete Bermbach. midlandsrainbow.wixsite.com/lgbtq/post/b...

Hey! Would you like good news? Remember how the police seized and crushed a legal Tern cargo bike by mistake? Well charges against rider dropped! Compensation for crushed bike! And dodgy “test” used to detect illegal “e-bikes” dropped! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Canary Wharf today

Lovely end to the afternoon at Brindley Place (I really like its early 90s architecture): had a lolly, finished my book. Perfect!

Thinking of Tobias Wong especially today, he of SunJar fame (and so much more) flic.kr/p/7iVz3

Mind-blowingly excellent portrait exhibition at #RBSA this afternoon. As ever, fun to agree/disagree with the prize winners. Sometimes I think "I could have a go at that", but in this case, absolutely not. :-) #birmingham

Beat that, Galápagos Islands! In yer face, Serengeti! Bluebells: a British nature spectacle.

The #UrbanForest reawakens (first the Hawthorn, now the Birches). #Birmingham

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

Stopped to snap the blossom beside the River Cam, as I cycled alongside earlier. #BaitsBiteLock

The A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo is 19% faster than the M2 Ultra in the Mac Pro in single-core performance (Geekbench 6). The MacBook Neo starts at $599. The Mac Pro, which is still for sale, starts at $6,999.

Early signs of Spring on the balcony: leaf buds on the hawthorn are slowly breaking open. #UrbanForest

A pair of lovebirds for Valentine's day

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Been working on this one for a while — it's a little bit of history of a key foundation of internet technology, and a little bit of an explainer about how people _actually_ invent things. This is the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world. www.anildash.com/2026/01/09/h...

Walking around some of the central Birmingham canals to see the ice and snow before it all goes later tonight (I think).

My christmas DIY project (I currently have access to my tools and a garage!): IKEA-hacked spice racks repurposed into shelving. Bit more work to do on it yet.

Apple 1992 vs 2025

So the OBR's "early PDF publication snafu" report has been published obr.uk/investigatio... Not sure I agree with criticisms (WordPress scheduled post/page publication (nope); HTTP_REFERER configs (weak); blaming the Download Monitor plugin (seems robust)) but I could have misunderstood. #JustUseFTP

Thinking that the best way to deal with racists is to try to get them to vote for you by enacting racist policies just means you become racist. The only way to deal with them is to fight back, to oppose them, and (for those who can change) to change them. And render the remainder powerless.

Went down to #London for a Peccadillo-Pictures-organised preview screening of Marcelo Caetano’s “Baby”. Was completely invested in the characters, great sound design and score, informative Q&A with the director. Well-worth the slog to Bermondsey. :-) peccadillo.film/pages/films/...

Always fascinating to visit the #London Design Museum (and experience their complex hyperbolic paraboloid roof too, of course).

While visiting The Hague, we made a day trip by tram out to Delft. We experienced the pretty canals and quintessential humpy bridges we were hoping for. Plus we climbed the church tower for amazing views over the town.

Just back from The Hague. Probably not an obvious European city-break destination, but we had a great time. There was a staggering breadth of retail (and restaurants) in the centre ranging from international and local chains through to quirky independents. Oh, and some historical buildings too. :-)

The #ForwardGallery 's current exhibition, "The Master Collection", contains an amazing array of internationally famous artists. For free! Right in the centre of #Birmingham! The staff are lovely, knowledgeable, and friendly to those of us who perhaps can't afford to buy anything. :-)

Evening view from the kitchen window with Mum’s old SunJar (designed by Tobias Wong, from SUCKUK www.suck.uk.com/mob/products...)

The #Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market is nearly upon us (for the next 8 weeks)

A new ceramic artwork that I've just completed in a subway in central Birmingham. Video by @gardnergareth.bsky.social

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

A human on a bicycle is nature's most efficient traveller. A version of this graph went on to inspire Steve Jobs of Apple, who used it in a 1980 presentation describing the personal computer as "the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."

There’s some comfort in Vodafone being down for everybody this afternoon: it’s been the most unreliable ISP for us here that I can ever recall, can’t wait to be out of contract in February to switch to somebody – anybody! – else.

Nielsen Norman Group on iOS 26 usability https://anderegg.ca/2025/10/12/nielsen-norman-group-on-ios-26-usability

Today I walked past where Birmingham New Street's living wall used to be. Despite promising (in April 2024) that they “…are reusing old plants and adding specially selected new ones…” it is, somewhat predictably, now just plastic plants. And some hoardings with pictures of a living wall. :-(

Liquid Glass; Why Now? https://pxlnv.com/linklog/liquid-glass-why-now/

There was a time when every railway station in the country had something they don’t have any more - a railway map of the UK. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/a-c...

Walked over to The Birmingham Oratory this afternoon, open as part of #BHeritageWeek. Wow.

Wandered over to have a look at the two under-construction #HS2 bridges here in central #Birmingham. They’re very big and really not very finished. Given the money it’s all costing, I kindof expected workers there today… seems not.

Paid a visit to the #ForwardGallery in Cannon Street earlier. Loved the Horace Panter "Access All Areas (AAA)" exhibition they've got upstairs at the moment, and also great to see other contemporary art downstairs too. Friendly, not at all intimidating! #Birmingham

The Tim Cook Era Is Fully Cemented https://pxlnv.com/linklog/cook-era/

First Look: iPadOS 26 Public Beta