Ben Edwards

@benedwards
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Brighton, sailor, web dev, photos, politics, music.

I launched my first iOS app! 🚀

On This Day Rewind shows you photos and videos from today's date in past years. Widgets, reminders, cleanup, and sharing features included - fully on device.

📲 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/on-this-day-rewind/id6754617354

A boost would mean a lot!

#IndieApp #iOS #Photography #OnThisDay

Beautiful day to be a tree

Other colourful computers are available!

Here is my Teenage Engineering PC-1, filled with random bits from old PCs and ebay, dual-booting #CachyOS and #FreeBSD like a champ.

https://teenage.engineering/store/computer-1-orange

Stunning conditions at lunchtime down on the seafront today. Winter gone, the storms have swept a huge mountain of shingle and pebbles further up the beach to reveal a big strip of sand at the waters edge - we have a sandy beach at last! #Brighton #beach #photography #fujifilm
75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

E. M. Forster predicted the gradual decline of Spotify and Sonos in his 1909 short story The Machine Stops:

"I can never be sure of my music now. It gets worse and worse each time I summon it."

"Time passed, and they resented the defects no longer. The defects had not been remedied, but the human tissues in that latter day had become so subservient, that they readily adapted themselves to every caprice of the Machine."

You can read the full short story here:
https://stephango.com/the-machine-stops

The Machine Stops

This short story by E.M. Forster continues to be some of the most prescient science fiction ever written. My appreciation for it only grows with time. I have...

Steph Ango

Orbit is our pilot for a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song by exploring recently played tracks from BBC Introducing!

Find out how machine learning helped us to organise *thousands* of tracks to let you find your next favourite song:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-organise-analysis/

Then read about the design challenges of creating a way to explore music genres and styles... our experiment is called Orbit - and you can read about it and try it out below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-design/

Organising music for organic discovery

Details on how we organised thousands of tracks to build a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song from BBC Introducing acts.

Brick Lane. London 😍

Ended up with more clear skies tonight, despite the forecast. Was testing out the S&Q video mode on the new camera today and it happened to be rolling when the aurora spiked in the early evening.

I love a little moonlight with aurora photography, even a full moon.

Here's a lowres version so I don't fill up the hard drive space on our mastodon instance :)

#Norway #Nordlys #EwenInNorway #Auroras #Grovfjord #Photography #TimeLapse