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@asaio87 Honestly hilarious. Your agency website can't even pass a basic Core Web Vitals test. You have no legitimacy.

I tried Claude Code a few days ago, good tool, average results... give it anything more complex and its messing things up. Here is an idea: give this guy claude code $200 max subscription, and film him while he develops an app. lets see how he flops... Zuck said this exact same thing 2 years ago, we are nowhere near there..

@francesafetytra Paris isn't really a proper global city like London, so a weird comparison. Paris or Barcelona? London or New York?

Would you rather live in Paris or London?

@MaertensDanny @PlanningShit And then took shortcuts on all the things that makes Poundbury work

@PlanningShit The councillors went to Poundbury and thought “ooh, that looks nice! We’ll have that!”

What the ever loving fuck did Lyme Regis do to deserve this cack!

@GaryAlessio @PlanningShit It's honestly nothing like Poundbury. All the proportions are wrong for a start.

@PlanningShit A Poundbury influence? But in the wrong place!

@kevinf567 @archetypal1mage @c_k_lynch Because the Greek’s and Roman’s mastered the art of symmetry and proportion. Reflects proportions in nature. But you’re more than welcome to try.

@archetypal1mage @c_k_lynch Why don’t you invent a new beautiful architectural style bro if it’s so easy

New houses in the Arts & Crafts tradition taking shape in Poundbury

@HackneyYIMBY Haha. And this is why Londoners below a certain age all live in cupboards.

'A planning application for a building next to Hackney’s Moth Club has been refused by Hackney Council. The proposal for six residential flats and a ground floor commercial building.. next to the historic venue would have seriously threatened its future' timeout.com/london/news/ic…

@pedro118118 @michaelgove What architecture today isn’t pastiche? The Greeks and Romans set the standard in symmetry and proportion. I suspect beauty isn't something you care about much.

@michaelgove It's pastiche. Bricks and mortar cosplay. Pleasant, comforting and familiar. Architecture it most certainly isn't.

God Save The King

@pokedstudiouk @c_k_lynch Haha. Using the word “pastiche” to describe architecture is an immediate sign of a sub-80 IQ.

@c_k_lynch I prefer a contemporary style much better living spaces inside, these are a pastiche

New houses recently built in Poundbury If it was not for HM The King, architecture would not have witnessed a revival in this country. His efforts have revived craftsmanship, natural materials, and much-loved traditional details.

@chhddavid I think all this shows is website design is basically dead. Millions of polished, mostly generic looking, vibe coded websites trying to sell something that someone could do in 5 minutes with Claude. We're not going to need websites in the near future anyway.

NO WAYYY Claude Opus 4.6 does motion design... it can now build animated websites. It's so over...

@ianvisits Both busy. Grey matter or fresh ingredients. Take your pick

Two passenger classes in the trains... and at the railway station's catering. (Liverpool Street station)

@circlethywagons @DanMasterton @heygurisingh The most beautiful buildings in recent years have increasingly been coming from architectural designers and those with a background in art. The truth is our most acclaimed architects of the past, such as Lutyens, wouldn't have been allowed call themselves an architect today.

I am a building designer. Been that for 45 years. Architects have been a generally useless profession that scalped off the cost of a building because they tied up the laws of many states hiding behind "credentials". Now, the only good "architect" is one who can actually DESIGN COOL STUFF, not claim their credentials as an excuse to design crap. Architects per se are now useless. The "knowledge base" has been replaced by an AI agent. All you- or anyone with a sense of design has to do is let your imagination run wild and have software like this, as it trains itself and is trained more and more, become your practical utilitarian guide (the only actual value architects brought to the table if they had no ability to design). So, again, there IS no need for architects anymore. They just do not realize that yet. It'll take a few weeks for them to get it. They're like that.

🚨Architects are going to hate this. Someone just open sourced a full 3D building editor that runs entirely in your browser. No AutoCAD. No Revit. No $5,000/year licenses. It's called Pascal Editor. Built with React Three Fiber and WebGPU -- meaning it renders directly on your GPU at near-native speed. Here's what's inside this thing: → A full building/level/wall/zone hierarchy you can edit in real time → An ECS-style architecture where every object updates through GPU-powered systems → Zustand state management with full undo/redo built in → Next.js frontend so it deploys as a web app, not a desktop install → Dirty node tracking -- only re-renders what changed, not the whole scene Here's the wildest part: You can stack, explode, or solo individual building levels. Select a zone, drag a wall, reshape a slab -- all in 3D, all in the browser. Architecture firms pay $50K+ per seat for BIM software that does this workflow. This is free. 100% Open Source.

@SineadOBoyle4 @iamyesyouareno Wow you're don't understand basic economics do you. Council sells the house, then buys 10 houses in a less prestigious part of London - houses 10 families.

@iamyesyouareno What a council is "worth" if sold at market rate, has nothing to do with the tenants who are only renting it. The council wont be paying a mortgage for that, will they? Its a totally irrelevant headline.

The absolute state of the UK.

@Civixplorer No litter. No random crack head. And a country living within its means.

Bank Station, London 🇬🇧 A raw time capsule of 1990s London Underground life.

@RB1649 Fifteen million gather at the gates of Buckingham Palace each year, but it's not countable in the same way as a museum. Also worth looking at this survey.

Latest tourist attraction numbers destroy the myth that tourists come to Britain because we have a ‘Royal Family’.

@thetimes If only there had been a similar energy crisis a few years ago that acted as a wake up call for the government to get its house in order.

UK’s gas storage gap leaves us exposed to global shocks #Echobox=1774026341" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/business/energ…

@nopranablem FEWER!

Netflix, now with "less ads than you might think"

@TKralow I keep seeing this chart, with no reputable source. Of course, the figures from the UK include personal threats via texts and emails (not included in stats from other countries), so not comparing 'like for like'. Not to mention the UK is actually transparent with data.

For the Dubai haters. Do you even know the numbers? Or you just talk out of your asses?

@KieranMaguire I looked at this and thought it was going to be a post about how the UK has some of the lowest and most competitive food prices in the world (thanks free market). But of course it's someone moaning....

Sign of inflation being insidiously introduced as Marks and Spencer move from selling bananas by weight, which was costing me 13-14p each, to individual bananas, 18p each, so a 28-38% increase sneaked in. Same with onions. What next, Cadbury’s mini egg by the egg?

@grok @Milton_DXB @bmay Your reply is misleading. Does the 12,183 figure include threatening or abusive texts and emails, rather than just social media posts (not reported by other countries)? How many led to conviction? And why compare modern UAE censorship to wartime Britain, not present-day Britain?

In 2023, FOI data (The Times) showed 12,183 arrests across 37 England/Wales forces under Communications Act 2003 s127 & Malicious Communications Act 1988 s1 for grossly offensive/menacing online messages (many on social media; full total higher). Trend held ~12k/year into 2024-25; since 2017 >65k total. Includes texts/emails too, not solely posts. Yes, WWII UK enforced Defence Regulations & 1939 Control of Photography Order banning unauthorized filming/photography of military/coastal sites; press self-censorship & media blackouts restricted sharing info/photos that could aid the enemy.

People who left Britain for Dubai because the UK is apparently a ‘police state’ have now been ordered by the actual police state they moved to not to film the war zone they inhabit. These same people haven’t paid the tax that will fund their repatriation. Empathy level: Tiny.

@MichaelXBT It's a tragedy what's happening to Dubai. Suddenly our beautiful city of London is being filled up by airheads selling crypto scams having to escape Dubai.

Goodbye Dubai. One of the best weeks of my life. Pure adrenaline. Going to Los Angeles (trip was planned months ago). I felt safe, but as a crypto trader, I have the luxury of being able to work from anywhere in the world. I’d still rather be in Dubai than London!