So pleased that the team I work with at Southwark Council has been nominated for the Digital Leaders – AI Impact Awards 2026.
Our project uses AI to convert PDFs into accessible HTML, making council information easier to access.
https://t.co/FQsvrxdEqN
I know you're all getting mighty tired of seeing typography on your timeline today!
But here's a pretext.js demo that (hopefully) isn't a crime against justification and indentation.
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
A recently-deciphered papyrus scroll reveals the location of Plato’s grave
The scroll is one of thousands of scrolls that had been scorched and buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius at Herculaneum that scholars have recently used AI to read for the first time.
🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced software that sees you through walls using only WIFI signals.
it’s called WiFi-DensePose. It maps your exact body pose in real-time. no cameras. no sensors. just your living room router.
100% Open Source.
The Great Orme is a limestone headland on the North Wales coast.
It has a herd of approximately 200 feral Kashmir goats.
They were given to Queen Victoria in 1837 by the Shah of Persia. She kept them at Windsor. At some point in the Victorian era they were moved to the Great Orme. They have lived there, unmanaged, entirely feral, for approximately 180 years.
They are technically still the property of the Crown.
The Crown does not appear to be particularly exercising this ownership.
The goats, for their part, have no opinion on the constitutional question.
They have opinions on gorse, on limestone scrub, on the timing of the tourist season, and on the structural integrity of garden fences in Llandudno.
Because several times a year: usually when the weather on the headland becomes unacceptable even by Kashmir goat standards, they come down.
Into the town.
They eat the hedges. They occupy the gardens. They stand in the road. They have been photographed in chip shops, bus shelters, and outside estate agents with the calm assurance of animals that know they were here before the terrace housing and will probably be here after it.
Llandudno has 20,000 residents and 200 goats and it is not always clear who is more inconvenienced by the arrangement.
The goats have never once asked permission.
They were here first.
Technically the Queen gave them the place.