Jonathan Sanderson

Family roboticist/STEM engagement academic/digital tinkerer/film maker/general-purpose geek. @jjsanderson on that other cerulean site.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

My username elsewhere is typically @jjsanderson, as here. My up-since-the-90s, never-quite-mothballed blog is at https://t.co/Nz8p91GAXF. At some point I’ll add links from there to… wherever.

Meanwhile: feed readers are the future. Everything old is new again.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@profRoys @STSFTrust Yikes! I hope you have a smooth recovery, Roy - don’t rush it.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

It’s the annual ‘stop the muppets from wrecking another institution that’s just fine, thanks’ effort. Takes seconds to vote for the Trust’s recommendations, or there’s loads of detailed notes if you’re so inclined.

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

Members, you have until 11.59pm tomorrow. I don’t know about you but Restore Trust hasn’t knocked anything into me yet, and I’m feeling pretty great.

Vote here https://t.co/DMANUEet4s

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

I’ve moved Twitter off the home screen of my phone, and replaced it with Blue Sky. Not expecting to be as active there as I once was here, but also expecting to be largely inactive here.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@plasticmind I’ve seen it mentioned by people without memory enabled, which seems… problematic 😂

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@plasticmind Interesting. And I guess my snark has a softer edge too, in that people find value in horoscopes not so much for any predictive capacity, as for the prompt for introspection. “Do I agree with this analysis of me as a person? What might I do about that?” seems valid to me.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@plasticmind @fooljay @byrnereese @arvindsatya1 @appnelgroup DO IT!

(partly because I still have a site running off a Melody-generated archive, and I’d quite like to be able to turn it back on fully :-)

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@lucasphysics I like Hugo a lot - I’m an old Movable Type hack, I see similarities - but without a web UI I can’t put it in front of my colleagues.

Wordpress has always been awful; in the last decade it’s been workable; the ecosystem is awesomely brilliant. That’s why the ACF thing cuts deep.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

Wordpress is dreadful early-00s architecture that’s had a stranglehold on the web by being ‘just about good enough.’ A better platform might not have left room for Facebook, Twitter, et al.

I hope we all now move to that better platform. Just as soon as we work out what it is.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@leashless Well it was supposed to be the self-evident absurdity of the assertion. Which might have been funny in the late 90s, but now…

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@WordPress From the policy to which you link. How’s this part going for you?

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@Alan_C_1 @NorthEastTweets Well, that's the worst aurora photo I've seen this morning.

:-)

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@lucasphysics Quite. Ugh.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

What is going on with all these spammy and deceitful ads which bear no relation to their host brands? This one’s an apparent outdoor clothing company, linking to a ‘motorcycle’ site styled to look like the BBC. Layers of deceit.

This isn’t an advert; what are they paying for?

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

Blimey. Hanna was a legend. Unhinged, obviously, but legendary. Sadly I post-date this era of displays (let alone his Red Arrows stint), though I saw him fly MH434 often enough.

Great clip.

[Ron Eisele @ron_eisele]

1971 Fairoaks Aerodrome, Chobham. Ray Hanna puts the 1943 Spitfire Mk. IX MH434 through her paces at the Tiger Club airshow. The kind of performance that will likely never be repeated.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@pimoroni Dunzo

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@KatySDuncan @Ri_Science Signs point to ‘nope.’

Be warned that one of the other RI legends is that nobody ever truly escapes.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

Fair play to Islabikes for making it really easy to find an obscure spare part for a bike that's 12+ years old and on at least its fifth child. They may have 'closed', but their spares operation is still the best in the business.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

@carlafrancome Ach, I think all my old cycling contacts are retired or worse, but you never know. Good luck with the project, it sounds awesome and timely. I look forward to seeing the short, and the future work too.

[Jonathan Sanderson @jjsanderson]

What a story!

(Note the appeal for cycling-connected folks, in thread)

[Carla Francome @carlafrancome]

🥁For the last year, I’ve secretly been working on a brand new film, and I can finally tell you all about it. 🥁

It follows a group of amazing women who cycle in Africa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film is 15 mins long.

Deborah, Nadia and the others in … 1/9