Al Power

@alpower
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Product designer with a UX mindset, perennial web tinkerer, artist and sometimes photographer, living down on the South coast of the UK.
I got a bit obsessed with all the old road/building signage in Bath. Edited with @aphera
A few good dogs from a weekend in Bath. Edited with @aphera
A few signs of Spring. Edited with @aphera
The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Enjoyed trying out @heliographe_studio on my iPhone in 65x24 aspect ratio at the Royal Crescent in Bath today - loved the lawn stripes! #photography
Lovely exhibition of Gees Bend hand-stitched quilts at the American Museum in Bath - the size and precision was incredible. Made me want to get crafting. https://www.americanmuseum.org/exhibitions
Cool Werner Bischof images at the Fox Talbot museum taken in the 1940s with a Devin Tri-Color camera - it captured in one shot three different photographs through the colour filters: red, green and blue. So vivid!
Lego printing presses Dang - as a linoprinting nerd this is a really fun lego project. Hope it gets fully supported. https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/93429dcc-22ac-41f2-b213-a27f69cb7eac
Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas

The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Your moat is now a bridge

Harlequin SQL IDE for your terminal https://harlequin.sh/
Harlequin: The SQL IDE for Your Terminal.

Harlequin is a drop-in replacement for the DuckDB CLI, SQLite CLI, psql, etc. that brings SQL IDE features to your terminal.