rem / Remy Sharp

I have bought a planer (or a plane, it's not the flying kind, unless I get frustrated). And so, consistently with my sawing, I'm able to plane humps and troughs. And yes, as with soldering it's not an overnight success and takes practice, but COME ON (⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠）⁠╯⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

shitposts aside, this one is serious, my loves: if you’re just waking up and you have any service online running PHP 5.4 to latest, you need to take it down RIGHT NOW and don’t put it back online until after it’s patched absolutely catastrophic vulnerability dropped in the middle of the night

This year’s FFConf is shaping up to be genuinely unmissable. So …um, you know …don’t miss it: https://2026.ffconf.org/ I’ll see you there! 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22807

Any of my friends and acquaintances around Merseyside / the North West want a free C64? It's got the ol' browning colouration, but the cassette deck seems ok. I cannot confirm if it's working or not. Has the PSU and a few cassettes.

Really not likely, but if anyone here follows me has attended #FFConf as a student in the past, I'd love to include a quote from you (I've got a couple of posts, but they're pre-pandemic so I'd love something a bit more recent). Can be a social post or email to events@leftlogic.com

Hi new followers who found me from @ffconf.org 's starter pack! 🥹 I WISH I was going this year, but hopefully I'll be able to make the trip next time. In the meantime, have a fantastic conf. I think it's my favourite.

She was murdered by transphobia 😥😥😥

The "Every #FFConf speaker (we could find on BlueSky)" starter pack has been updated with our 2026 speakers go.bsky.app/QsJs5kh

Can't believe that in less than 4 weeks I will be in Brighton to give a talk about how I build CSS DOOM at @ffconf.org Despite being on my bucket list to attend and speak for at least 10 years, I never managed to visit. But this year I will do both.✨ 🎟️ Tickets are still for sale: 2026.ffconf.org

Two upcoming conferences this November where I will give a talk about how I created CCS DOOM: November 13th - FFConf 🇬🇧 Brighton 2026.ffconf.org November 16th - Halfstack 🇦🇹 HalfStack halfstackconf.com/vienna Both are amazing conferences and have a lovely community. Tickets are still for sale!

I *really* don't understand Music Assistant in Home Assistant. I connected it to Bandcamp expecting it would only play songs I've bought, and now it's streaming songs I've not bought. Nor am I paying for a subscription - so…no idea.

Guys, yes, *just* the guys, watch this. Jo shouldn't have to tell us, but do ask yourself: have you seen this? Have you done this? Can you do better next time? This work should have always been on us. This also *has* to be ongoing, it's not just fixed once. We have to pass it on.

Very much looking forward to this one. 15 years #btconf. 20th November. Join us! beyondtellerrand.com/blog/fifteen...

FFConf in confusing numbers: - 16th outing - 17th year - 19 events I mean, when I say "it's our Nth edition" what number am I actually picking!!? It's 19 events because we ran the same event twice (Thurs + Fri) for 3 years…

Just smashed my way through The Correspondent (book) in 6 days, so picking my next read. It's down to these two: 1. As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers 2. Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow, Book 2) by Xiran Jay Zhao Any of you lovely lot leaning one way or the other?

4 weeks left to get your ticket - I know you've not done it yet. Don't leave it and miss out. Who is this for? Devs, designers, product people, newbies and oldies. It's a single track day designed to reignite our connection to what we do. 2026.ffconf.org

I’m looking to connect with university lecturers and staff. We offer student tickets for @ffconf.org, but they’re easy to miss, and I’d love to give the next generation of web developers the chance to attend a great indie event. If anyone can contact please drop me comment here I can follow up.

Been working on some new code on my blog (for books) and I felt this strong draw to just get the LLM to do it. It would have been faster, but it prompted me to write this: My AI Policy remysharp.com/2026/10/12/m...

Any @firefox.com smarties know if it's possible to have the browser tab wallpaper follow the system theme? Feels weird to have a light wallpaper with a dark browser.

That @amyhupe.bsky.social such a brilliant speaker and communicator. Every time I see her speak, I come away wanting to be a better human. I hope her talk on Listening will be seen after #WDC (no idea what their hashtag is)

@hidde.blog "some of your toots are art" - took me a minute to realise you meant social posts. British (soft) slang for a fart is "a toot". (love if this was on purpose!)

Quite chuffed with this. Though, only really been able to practice in real life once. Super nervous to "speak" to a deaf person - though the intention was to have a backup because of my own hearing.

I mean, I know I'm not smart (like, book-smart), but I just had my arse handed to me. Turns out there's no past tense to sentient, and it's certainly not sentinel. TIL the meaning of sentinel.

And I wonder where you can see @cydstumpel.nl talk next 🤔 ::cough:: FFConf ::cough:: 🥳 (also heard great things about Dark Mode)

Me in our newsletter that was about to go out to 1000s of people: "there's no such thing as rouge AI" 🟥 No, no such thing as red AI… 🤦

Throwback Thursday: www.ne.jp/asahi/hatake... Simpler (and way too complicated) times, eh?

Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...

FOMO over recent conferences? Or even from last year? Join us next month in Brighton for 2026.ffconf.org - join your peers, join the conversations you can't have with your chatbot, join us for 8 amazing talks and one superb day. Get your ticket today, don't FOMO-FFCONF.

I built a game for September (actually I've been working on it since July). Inspired by Waldschattenspiel. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/dungeon/ The explorer must escape the dungeon, the monster must find them before they do. My first multiplayer game! I'm sure there are many bugs. Networking is hard.

I love posts like this from @zachleat.com (2 weeks ago - because, yes, I'm slow): www.zachleat.com/web/ai-websi... I love them because I don't actually need to read anything and from the (rather fancy) live speedruns, you can see the whole point visually. And wow, how is big tech so shit at this?

I mean, sure, if you put the 10% of women speaking at the nearly 30 strong speakers at the very beginning of the list, we're not going to notice lack of effort in diversity…

Music Assistant users - do you use it with Apple Music as a source? My offline collection is still small by comparison, and when HA looks up songs to play (like Wet Leg), it'll either time out or take a few minutes because it's always headed to Apple. Is that normal experience with others?

Me. Earlier.

This is very useful. I do like the direction Firefox design is going, but the very round tabs make me think the hit target for tabs - especially when pinned and muted - is much smaller than it actually is. creolened.com/firefox-vers...

Navidrome users - how do you edit the track metadata? I've got my own completely separate system which lives outside of Navidrome, but I wondered if I'm missing something a bit more obvious?

I'm curious - have you thought about getting a ticket to @ffconf.org but then not (or haven't yet)? Why? It's a sincere question, we're trying to understand what's holding people back. (you can email me too remy@leftlogic.com)

Stupid #a11y question: if multiple images form a logo and I wrap these `img` elements in a `div` with `role='img'` and an `aria-label`, do I still need to set an empty `alt` on the `img` elements?

Simplest sliced text with absolutely no duplication - not in the markup, not in any pseudos. This means it's contenteditable without requiring JS! Live demo on @codepen.io: codepen.io/thebabydino/... #CSS #SVG #filter

There are still tickets available for this

Brilliant satire for a wonderful event

After careful consideration and a look at where the industry is spending it's funding we've decided to pivot #FFConf in a "new" direction. I present to you: ffconf.ai Please share with bots and humans alike.