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Former Front End Developer, Former head of Delivery on the National Booking Service for the Covid-19 & Flu vaccines at NHS England. Currently at looking for my next role. Optimistic technologist | Trekkie πŸ₯“

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ChatGPT Helped Me Dewarp a Year-Old Fisheye Video UsingΒ FFmpeg Turning distorted 360Β° footage from an aerobatic flight into something watchable. About a year ago as a treat for my big birthday, my mate Stu took me up to do some aerobatics. I’d never been in a light aircraft before and was a bit nervous about the aerobatics bit. I am not a massive fan of heights. Stu is an accomplished pilot and cool as a cucumber, I had a whale of a time, and I felt safe throughout. The plane had a 360ΒΊ camera installed, so we got some footage of the flight.

ChatGPT Helped Me Dewarp a Year-Old Fisheye Video UsingΒ FFmpeg

Turning distorted 360Β° footage from an aerobatic flight into something watchable. About a year ago as a treat for my big birthday, my mate Stu took me up to do some aerobatics. I’d never been in a light aircraft before and was a bit…

08.03.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Evening.

28.02.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 827 πŸ” 212 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 8

Do you think AV is preferable to PR? I haven’t really looked at the pros and cons of each and don’t see much hope of us getting either any time soon

27.02.2026 10:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Being β€œtold how to vote” or voting tactically to keep the fascists out is absolutely fine

27.02.2026 08:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

On first reading, I thought Polanski was sneering, which had me confused

27.02.2026 07:54 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're heading to WorthingDigital this evening you'll find us in the in the snug, opposite the bar

29.01.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ChatGPT has taken to calling me β€œmate” and. I honestly don’t mind.

22.01.2026 22:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Well, I certainly didn't have 'sharing clip of the Tory Shadow Leader of the House' on my to-do-list today.

But here he is absolutely going for Farage!

And managing to use the word 'bullshiterati' while doing it.

It had to be shared!

22.01.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 182 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 9

Yeah. I do see that, but having elections this year just seems like an unnecessary expense

22.01.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character is holding a newspaper that says " old man yells at cloud " Alt: a cartoon character is holding a newspaper that says " old man yells at cloud "

So many people up in arms about it. Although I think the same people would be up in arms whatever was being proposed

22.01.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know that I am exceptionally old, but it has just occurred to me that La Grange by ZZ Top and Daytona by Chris Rea are quite similar.

15.01.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting… would like to try that out. Spotify discovery has got worse IMO

06.01.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Dropping Names…and other things – with Brent and Jonny

Fellow Trek Nerds, this has just come to my attention. Could be the best conversation since Picard and Darmok droppingnames.com

05.01.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wondering whether this air freshener was deliberately given an amusing name

03.01.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Turns out it didn't have legs

07.12.2025 04:24 πŸ‘ 2419 πŸ” 341 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 11
Notification from TikTok β€œElon Musk started following you”

Notification from TikTok β€œElon Musk started following you”

Well, that’s TikTok ruined. Although I doubt it’s actually him

04.12.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Noticed that Flash Gordon was on ITV the other day. I wasn’t sure that I’d ever watched it all the way through. If I have it was a long time ago.
Anyway, I just managed about 8 minutes before turning it off

02.12.2025 10:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

WorthingDigital’s final social of 2025 is this Thursday (27 Nov) at Brewhouse & Kitchen πŸŽ‰
In 2026 we’re bringing talks back + looking for speakers + venues.
Interested? Drop me a message.
See you Thursday!
Meetup Link for Thursday: www.meetup.com/worthingdigi...

24.11.2025 17:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, there’s nothing else on, so we should probably just give it a try this year…

16.11.2025 23:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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public.monster Remember when the web was fun? Upload your HTML and go live instantly.

I absolutely love this idea btw public.monster
A throwback to a simpler happier time. Thanks for sharing @sachajudd.com
#ffconf

14.11.2025 18:34 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At the

14.11.2025 07:39 πŸ‘ 5836 πŸ” 1126 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 42

Inspiring talk from @gearsco.de at #ffconf, although… way to make me feel like an underachiever on a Friday afternoon πŸ€ͺ

14.11.2025 16:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Being a dinosaur, and a dinosaur that hasn’t written code for years… at the start of this talk I was just thinking β€œwhy not just use Plain Old Semantic HTML?”
But, I think I get it… this is good stuff. And I do love a design system.
πŸ¦–
#ffconf #webcomponents

14.11.2025 12:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Starting my day at #ffconf with delayed trains. So that’s fun

14.11.2025 09:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Zarro Boogs Found!

Funny what pops into your head when you're busy doing nothing. This lunchtime it was the old zarro boogs message from Bugzilla. Who remembers using that for bug tracking before Jira?
Simpler, arguably happier times

13.11.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I see what you did there

11.11.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very on brand Himal. I bet you won’t see too many of those on the carousel

08.11.2025 09:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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NHS England Β» Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce NHS England Β» Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce

The ADHD Taskforce report is finally out.

We called what it needed to contain a month ago: national standards, fair shared care, real ownership.

First look: some movement, still too many gaps.

Reports don’t fix systems. Continuity does.

Read the report here www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...

06.11.2025 13:28 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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31 Days, 31 Barriers to ADHD Care What ADHD Awareness Month taught us

The final barrier from our ADHD Awareness Month campaign: lack of national ownership, accountability, and strategy.

Without this, barriers stay stuck locally.

Our blog post explains why national ownership is the only way to change the system.

Read it here.

04.11.2025 10:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Does anyone ever cull their contacts on their phone? I’m just going through mine, I’ve got people in there from a job I left 18 years ago, a couple of dead people and some that I have no idea who they are.
I’m not going to delete them though, I’m not a psychopath

15.10.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0