Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱 (@instantiator.bsky.social)

@instantiator.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 10:17 AM

Thank you, I'll remove it now. I'm still a victim of my own predisposition.

@instantiator.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:26 PM

libro.fm are really cool. #Voting #BannedBooks #AudioBooks

A screenshot from the libro.fm app where they've highlighted collations of books about the right to vote, and banned books on their front page.

@instantiator.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:20 PM

Discounts from a bunch of referral programmes that I'm on!
instantiator.dev/referrals/

🟢 Discounts for Huel, Fairphone, Octopus, Snapmaker, Agria
🔵 Support local bookshops with libro.fm
🟣 Find work with Jack & Jill

A screenshot of discount vouchers from my site including:
£20 off Huel, €50 off your first Fairphone, £50 to join Octopus Energy, 5% off 3D printing products, £20 gift card joining Agria (pet insurance), and a link to join libro.fm (they're like Audible but they support local bookshops)

@instantiator.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 10:21 AM

OpenDisplay is OSS, really cool, and succeeded where AirPlay failed. Buy this dev a coffee! ☕️
opendisplay.app

@instantiator.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 7:41 AM

Reddit. Burger menu. Settings. Account settings. Scroll the bottom. Turn off all those exploitative ads 👍

A screenshot showing the section at the bottom of your account settings in Reddit. It has toggle switches for: alcohol ads, dating ads, gambling ads, politics and activism ads, pregnancy and parenting ads, religion and spirituality ads, weight loss ads.

@antireform.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 7:53 AMReposted by @instantiator.bsky.social

Learning from history ...
"How the East End Stopped Mosley's Blackshirts at Cable Street in 1936"
via Very Brexit Problems
verybrexitproblems.com/blogs/news/b...

@instantiator.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:58 PM

Working on TCP was the perfect project to test and improve dev-qual - a collation of hooks, scripts, skills and guidance to help coding assistants write high quality, readable, maintainable code: github.com/instantiator...

@instantiator.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:45 PM

Tiny Computer People is an agent orchestrator, geared towards low power and local LLMs. Groups of agents with different specialisms collaborate to solve problems together...
github.com/instantiator...

@instantiator.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 9:52 AM

I am once again reminded of the joy in Case 163: Vacation, from the Codeless Code: Fables and Kōans for the Software Engineer... thecodelesscode.com/case/163 💖

@instantiator.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 9:36 PM

Absolute childhood nightmare fuel.

@instantiator.bsky.social Sep 7, 2026, 8:15 PM

You made your own horse's mouth and now you can lie in it.

A screenshot from a Google Search (in AI mode) answering the question "are youtube adverts getting worse?"

The summary answer: "Yes. YouTube advertisements are noticeably worsening in frequency, length, and intrusiveness."

@openalternative.co Sep 3, 2026, 9:57 PMReposted by @instantiator.bsky.social

90,000 stars for LocalSend.

The pitch never changed: drop a file, pick a nearby device, it's there. No sign-up, no cloud, no cables. Turns out that's exactly what people wanted.

openalternative.co/localsend

@instantiator.bsky.social Sep 1, 2026, 6:05 AM

Can't believe it's been 2 years. Always in our hearts, baby bell 🫶