Simon Jones

Two critical PHP vulnerabilities were fixed on October 21. Here is what Upsun is doing to help our customers. Follow rollout updates on Upsun’s status page: status.upsun.com/incidents/2c.... Read the rollout details, the version table, and what to check: developer.upsun.com/posts/releas...

If you see a blind or partially sighted person using a long cane, here are a few simple do’s and don’ts that can help make getting from A to B, a whole lot easier for us.

Introducing the Accessible Components Library! Common components with accessibility requirements, test scenarios, and automated tests. • Free to use and adapt • Human-readable tests in Gherkin • Mapped to WCAG 2.2, levels A to AAA Dig in! #Accessibility #OpenSource #WCAG #AccessibleComponents

In Dublin on October 27, 2026? There's a web dev meetup organized by W3C. That's also the week when W3C organizes its big TPAC conference, so there will be a lot of browser and standards people at the meetup. A great opportunity to influence the web if you ask me.

Agree with this. It's hard enough to run projects like Wikipedia - ideally Mappa Mundi would be a project to help raise female voices on Wikipedia...

Apple's HomeView looks pretty neat (the video with the family at breakfast is certainly excellent!). The most interesting thing is the privacy: the device supports up to 6 users. That's super useful and would be good to see on the iPad too.

Move over Harry Styles and Oasis, our very own @stevefaulkner.eurosky.social is taking his talk "No industry for old men" on tour. If you're curating a conference, a meetup, or simply looking to fill Wembley Stadium, get in touch with Steve for a chat.

One thing not getting as much attention re: Dario's essay. In it, he talks about the need for third party evaluators to review models for safety. But a few days before the essay, Anthropic... refused to submit its latest models to the UK's evaluator: www.ft.com/content/560e...

Ifeoma just gets shit done and you find out about it because of the impact. No fanfare. ✴️ Like the extensive tech worker handbook she created: techworkerhandbook.org ✴️ Like passing the Silenced no more act!

Me for the ipaper: "it’s likely they do believe this, viewing themselves as the Oppenheimers of the modern age. They see the race to develop bigger and better models as something that must be done despite potentially lethal consequences" inews.co.uk/opinion/worr...

As a web designer or developer, what questions do you have about iPhone Duo?

I visited a link to a tweet today (which I rarely do). A hot mess of UI from Twitter/X. A QR code hovers on the right and overlaps a Continue to X button, which in turn overlaps a cookie banner that I cannot read. I was most amused by the animated hand pointing insistently. X marks the spot clearly!

Don't forget to join us tomorrow for the first monthly PHP Foundation Community Hour! We will be talking to Matt Stauffer about the contribution opportunities that exist in PHP. 🙌 More info: www.phparch.com/php-foundat... Thanks to our friends at PHP Architect for providing the technical support!

“The age-gating of history – Hi, I'm Heather Burns” https://heatherburns.tech/2026/09/05/the-age-gating-of-history/ > Enter the pearl-clutching brigade, who have deemed real history to be “age inappropriate” content so shocking that it requires age and identity verification to view.

Enjoying our new record player. Currently listening to a rather funky tune by the Wings (I Lie Around) on the B side of Live and Let Die, picked up from Cambridge market. 😀🎶

The climate emergency is not looming; it's here. 200,000 forced to flee wildfires in France and Spain. The Rhine at record low levels. Fires in the Cairngorms. Hosepipe bans across England. No meaningful rain in Cambridge for 6 weeks. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Happy UK paperback release day to our book! www.penguin.co.uk/books/468070... w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social

It’s HEREEEEE!! Bad Services ships tomorrow but here’s a sneak peak of the long awaited sequel to Good Services. good.services/writing/bad-services-has-landed

Just finished reading The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social A fantastic book dismantling AI hype and talking about a more human future for AI. It’s refreshing to read, so many business meetups are caught up with the AI dream, it’s good to take a hard, critical look.

As part of #IndieNewsWeek, join Bylines Network for a special webinar exploring the future of UK independent journalism. How do we tackle news deserts? What role will citizen journalism play? And how does Indi News respond to AI, disinformation, Big Tech and political extremism? bit.ly/BylinesINW26

@neillyneil.bsky.social hi - just bought BFI membership via the website (on a mobile). Do you know the direct debit form is a bit hooky (sort code requires no dashes, just numbers, but doesn’t say that). And order summary is unreadable on mobile. Would be lovely to see that improved! :)

Sad to read the news that the wonderful artist David Hockney has passed. The Modo gallery in Cambridge has some lovely examples of his work. I love the vitality of his art. #RIP modoart.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

This evening we watched the superb Once More With Feeling & videos of Anthony Head as Frank-n-Furter in Rocky Horror. An amazing talent and a wonderful actor. RIP Anthony Head #buffy

New blog post: London Data Store Relaunch https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/london-data-store-relaunch/ It has been sixteen years since the launch of data.london.gov.uk. Back then, it was a trailblazer as one of the first major cities to release Open Data in this way. Now, over a decade later, …

I’ve been reading the Odyssey so thought this rather nice porter, Blind Poet from New River was rather apt! An excellent Cambridge Beer Festival :)

Excited to start reading this translation of The Odyssey by Emily Wilson, as recommended by @wmarybeard.bsky.social. I skipped the intro (for now), but the translator’s notes is an interesting read and talks about the care Emily took in translating this ancient epic poem for a modern audience.

Yesterday I was in London with Kate for a rather special garden party! It was a wonderful experience - military bands playing James Bond tunes, beautiful palace gardens, and a lot of fabulous formal wear. We were invited thanks to Kate’s excellent work on community cafe www.cherryhintonhub.org

No. Have better ideas. That's the approach. This strategy is futile.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

"....there is a deeper problem no one has really reckoned with openly: expanding Cambridge from its centre makes very little sense." capx.co/cambridge-do... Re Forest City. John Parry Lewis said similar back in 1974. You can see his plans... -->

Interesting article about online search engine to allow Germans to find out if their ancestors were members of the Nazi party. But why in this modern age does the BBC still not link to the website? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The Die Zeit website appears to be www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...

Good example of the particle-wave aspect of LLMs: These tools can allow you to do amazing things very quickly, but they are often the wrong things. Something is still missing. annaecook.com/writing/2026...

Even better: stop treating tech monopolies as if they're an immovable part of the landscape which we can only accept, ban, or regulate. We have the means to replace toxic social apps with better ones, including youth-designed and youth-governed alternatives.

Just watched The Assembly with @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social and @stephenfry.bsky.social. A joyful, intelligent programme, well worth a watch. Some great questions & the performance of I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free at the end of Stephen’s episode was beautiful. #itv

Watching the livestream on BBC as the Artemis 2 astronauts become the furthest people from Earth. Incredible :)

This is about how to detect these fake citations, but I'm trying to wrap my head around *how* fake citations end up in papers. (thread) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding." ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

I remember the many tech bros who told me this would go away as the tech got better. And called me an idiot for saying this is clearly just how the software operates on a fundamental level.

🧵And we're off, ladies and gentlemen! It's "they're banning the word EASTER" week. Regular as clockwork... So here comes a history lesson and media lesson all rolled into one thread! PS, I can't believe there's no easter egg emoji? This was the best I could do - 🗿🥚 🤣 I digress! 1/19

I've decided to shut my business and do more volunteer / community work. If you know of an organisation which could use a board member with strong digital skills, extensive experience in open source and open standards, or cybersecurity please let me know.

A few thoughts on the "old" Internet tylergaw.com/blog/the-old...

Just wrote about my books. Some of them are ready to go! llewellyn.substack.com/p/fulfilment...

Had a great time at the CamCreatives Neville Brody talk this evening, hosted by @billt.bsky.social Lots of talk about design, the importance of young people creating things and breaking the rules, and how technology changes design (not always for the better). #design #cambridge #creativity

Cambridge Disinformation Summit free webinar, this Thursday, 19 Mar 3:30 PM UK Interventions to Psychological Manipulation Featuring: Diane Benscoter, CEO of Antidote.ngo, former cult member & deprogrammer, and author. Register here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

“Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world.”

Great to see @craftcms.com publish this page talking about the upcoming Craft 6 Laravel release! craftcms.com/laravel - there's also a good blog post with more details on Alpha & Beta releases. craftcms.com/knowledge-ba... Looking forward to a bright future for Craft & Laravel! #laravel #cms #php

Hmm.. “Department for Science, Innovation and Technology acknowledged limitations to its oversight.”

This is a brilliant course on web components!