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Matt Hobbs (he/him)

@therealnooshu

• ex-Head of Frontend Development @ Government Digital Service (GDS). • Passionate about #webperf & F1. • Cancer survivor (grade 3 brain cancer, I named Gary). • Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say. • https://hachyderm.io/@TheRealNooshu

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How pissed are all those Australians this morning! 😳 Conspiracy theorists will be having a meltdown! #f1 #AusGP

08.03.2026 04:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent blog post Tom, very insightful given the massive pull (or push?) towards AI and Agentic use, especially in Software Development!

05.03.2026 10:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not really it was more of a security concern and the fact that ESLint seem very resistant to rewrite to update the a new version of ajv, so it sounds like it will always be a issue moving forwards. Plus I get to try something new 😍

05.03.2026 08:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Change Request: update ajv to 8.18.0 · Issue #20508 · eslint/eslint ESLint version 10.0.0 What problem do you want to solve? ESLint currently uses version 6.12.4 of ajv. The authors of ajv have released version 8.18.0 to mitigate CVE-2025-69873. I realise the ESLin...

Decided to move away from ESLint this evening due to the ongoing security issue with ajv: github.com/eslint/eslin... I have just implemented Biome as an alternative: biomejs.dev

04.03.2026 22:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hello. Content design and design systems consultant

It’s that time again - I’m on the hunt for new clients from the beginning of April. I’m open to full or part-time contracts outside IR35.

I can help you with:

- design system consultancy, coaching, management or documentation
- content design
- UX writing
- technical writing

1/2

02.03.2026 19:23 👍 27 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 0
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Apple’s Interoperability Commitments to the UK’s CMA Promise Nothing - Open Web Advocacy

Remember, you only have until the 3rd March to write a stern letter to the CMA, telling them to grow a pair! Just sent my 600+ word complaint! #cma #owa #ios #apple #mobile #browser
open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-...

02.03.2026 18:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Awesome news @twnsnd.com! Looking forward to all the products you will be working on as a CF user! 😍

02.03.2026 18:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fantastic! Thanks Zach! Hope you get over the detox and jet lag soon! 🙏

02.03.2026 15:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks Eric, that’s a project for this week then! 😍

02.03.2026 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I actually saw Ian there, had a bit of a catchup! Now working at NatWest and has a 2.5 year old son, small world!

01.03.2026 23:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes, they were all recorded and live streamed, so I’d imagine they will be on YouTube soon cc: @letorey.co.uk will know exactly when that will be.

01.03.2026 23:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@zachleat.com what tool(s) did you use to create these graphs? It would be really handy to visualise React a Next.js using this style at the moment 🙏

01.03.2026 22:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Pat Meenan blog added to my Blogroll page here: https://nooshu.com/blogroll/

Pat Meenan blog added to my Blogroll page here: https://nooshu.com/blogroll/

Added! Looking forward to more blog posts in the future!

01.03.2026 20:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Netflix's Drive to Survive triggered a new F1 celebrity age As the eighth series of Netflix's hugely popular Drive To Survive is released this weekend, has Formula 1 become one big star playground?

Formula 1's new golden age of celebrity may have just begun. They really are pushing to completely ruin F1, who cares about celebrities. Bring back v10’s and fix the racing!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

28.02.2026 18:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Latest version of the Next.js library for SSR in React. 454MB package anyone! 🤮😳

Latest version of the Next.js library for SSR in React. 454MB package anyone! 🤮😳

Zach pointing out that the Next.js team didn’t invent SSR, many others have done it before and done it better!

Zach pointing out that the Next.js team didn’t invent SSR, many others have done it before and done it better!

React logo with a radioactive symbol in the middle!

React logo with a radioactive symbol in the middle!

Fantastic talks at #sotb26 this year! @zachleat.com pretty much summed up my current struggles at work in 3 slides! Who knew SSR doesn’t need 450 MB of Next.js to work! I’m sure others have done it before and better!

28.02.2026 17:57 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

He’s a popular bloke that @zachleat.com ! I bet you could have made some money off selling them! Unless he’s copyrighted his face! 🤣

28.02.2026 07:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah I saw 11ty mentioned at the start and assumed you were using it! AI is amazing for this kind of migration! Subscribed! Onto the blogroll you go!

27.02.2026 22:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Add an RSS feed please @patmeenan.com ! Dead simple in 11ty! I want to subscribe to all the posts you have backed up in your head over the past 12-years! 😂

27.02.2026 22:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Government Design Principles The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.

Well, there’s nothing like ignoring your own principles: www.gov.uk/guidance/gov... 🤦‍♂️

27.02.2026 18:49 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a man in a tutu is standing in the grass with his arms in the air and a group of people behind him . Alt: a man in a tutu is standing in the grass with his arms in the air and a group of people behind him .

I like it!

27.02.2026 18:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please tell me you had T-shirts printed too! 🤣😍

27.02.2026 18:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I started this because I couldn’t find anywhere to publish it “officially” so I took to Twitter. Real shame the web deserves to know this information!

27.02.2026 18:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So sorry to hear this @ksylor.bsky.social totally their loss!

27.02.2026 18:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🎉 Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

24.02.2026 09:15 👍 64 🔁 75 💬 2 📌 2
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Apple’s Interoperability Commitments to the UK’s CMA Promise Nothing - Open Web Advocacy

If you are in the UK, I'd like to beg 5-10 minutes of your time to file comment with the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) about the proposed (toothless) "Interoperability Commitments" from Apple and Google.

Per usual, @open-web-advocacy.org has deets:

open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-inte…

27.02.2026 12:01 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1

Early morning taxi booked for State of the Browser tomorrow #sotb #sotb26

27.02.2026 17:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yay! See you tomorrow Peter🎉

27.02.2026 17:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Best of luck getting it published elsewhere, I had no luck which is why I took to Twitter, but maybe it has changed and there’s an “official” place to publish this information 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

27.02.2026 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well, not unexpected in the current climate, but what a terrible decision for the open web, not sure why browser data would be so sensitive, unless copyright infringement is involved? Bonkers! 🤪

27.02.2026 17:38 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are you allowed to say why?? I must admit I was expecting to be told that every month I posted them, far to open an transparent for the government. Hardly sensitive data though is it???

27.02.2026 17:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0