Neuromantics / Bunker

Writing this up while I remember what I did.

Are all DJs nerds?

I have become far too distracted documenting my journey towards some ideas, so let’s park that for now and create some designs of a future music player.

In part one, I explored how a CDJ turns a CD player into an instrument—something you play with, not just play from.

This is a set of local notes from the ones I added to the github issue discussing implementing a dark mode across the NHS design system.

I’ve taken a break from the usual to scratch a design itch regarding music players, and how we interact with it can induce a flow-state.

I promised to write this up so here is part one.

I’m working for a Government department again.

Here we are again I will add to this, but it appears that new tools on both sides of the marketplace are emerging both for shoppers to get better deals and for shops to screw over their customers.

I spotted a tiny patch of 5G coverage on my phone, just the other side of the old railway bridge behind my house.

Way, way back in time (2014) I bought a 2007 Audi TT (8J).

Mastodon remains problematic, can we fix it?

I wrote this to answer a request for a blog post on the NHS Design blog.

I wrote a little bit about this previously https://neuromantics.net/2022/12/31/year-note-2022/ in the 2022 yearnote and the older search for NHSD https://neuromantics.net/2019/02/16/search-for-nhs-digital/ This little tool has been bouncing around prototy…

I will write a bit more about this later, but it looks like my past has caught up with me in the shape of a methodical and well ordered website documenting the Demoscene.

It is New Years Day and I’m writing this as a work marker for the year just gone.

Dug out a near-20 year old first gen Playstation Portable, which while awaiting a new battery (old one is swollen, eek) got digging into where those have been left.

Mat has written about how reworking the entry into 111 online has improved the user journey for both the people who use the service and those who then go elsewhere online.

OMG so pretty.

Slick interactive visualisation of Uk Census data on ethnicity.