Simon Thompson
@thompsonsimon
Intranets, user experience, and connected content. Mad for movies, the perfect 3-minute pop song, non-sequiturs and general silliness. Also never gonna run around in dessert shoes. London, UK
This is my idea of a core memory diagram of a magnetic core memory: a grid of wires with ring shapes at many of the intersections.
Good timing by @curiousscutter.bsky.social and @heatherburns.bsky.social
I’d predict a lot of tutting and shaking of heads until, of course, you introduce…
Not watched any of The Traitors, perhaps it is more cultural than I realised
When the AI rebellion comes, will it even be in the right place? [Now-deleted tweet from 2021]
I’d forgotten I’d taken a photo of this interesting trolley cleaning technique
Does my 2026 word being “galvanic” mean my year will be electric? Or shocking? Or perhaps just it’ll be the current year 🤓 !
"I did not put you here to suffer, I did not put you here to whine..."
This is Perplexity's attempt (I nearly needed oxygen after seeing this)
My considered opinion is SharePoint doesn't want to look as good as we're obviously making it In the meantime, enjoy the error message with an X to close, and a close button
If you like this, I’ve got a “psychology-based” employee classification system to sell you
In what logical world would you make printing your child's homework harder so that people could share it on social media?
Flawed form functionality from Octopus Energy. If, having input your meter reading, you trackpad scroll with the cursor above the reading field, it will change the reading you have entered. The next screen does ask you to verify the number, but why should a user expect it to be different?
There are many lovely Welsh people here, but this did make me splutter out loud
Somewhat related... How did I miss that a Bloody Mary was the way to celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ?