Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱

@instantiator.bsky.social

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Tech lead, senior developer at Nesta, fellow at Newspeak House, keen escape room and puzzle gamer. (he/him) https://instantiator.dev #CivicTech #Volunteerism #OSS #RetroComputing #Tzedakah #Vegan #BLM #CollectiveIntelligence #CI #ProDemocracyTech #PDT 🌱

The "sky" logo. It's the word "sky" coloured with a combination of sunset colours - oranges, reds, purples, and a deep sky blue.
A bat flies across a dusky sky. I was lucky enough to be ready with my camera set to slow motion.
Two cats lie on a gravel path in the heat reaching out to each other, paw to paw. They look like they're posing for The Creation of Adam. It's a collage and below is the famous painting. God reaches out to touch Adam with his forefinger.
Vertical stripes running from left to right show London temperatures over the years. Decades ago they were pretty blue, now they're hot red and it's definitely a trend.
Momo, a cute little black cat, takes his life into his own hands by clambering into the wheel hub of our car. His sister Suki, a cute little tortie who clearly understands the danger, sits and watches.
Momo, a cute little black cat, has curled up except for one paw which is pointed backwards. He seems perfectly happy about this.
A view of the Thunderbird email client with no messages in the inbox. It's got a lovely rainbow theme. Folders include: Jobs, Newsletters, Offers, Orders, Receipts, Research, Updates
Text from an AI model's reasoning process is used as the base image for a meme. The text shows that it is largely trying to grasp the intent from a user's prompt (my prompt). The user asked it to review 2 comparison documents, but it found 2 filenames and only one of them says comparison in it. It seems to be having a little panic because it can't find an obvious second comparison document. It's debating the issue with itself. Text on top of the image says "You took a perfectly good statistical model, and gave it anxiety. That's what you did."
A black and white e-ink display shows weather, inside and outside temperature, upcoming calendar events, the bins schedule and the current electricity rate.
A sprig of lilac flowers with text printed in front of it: "Truth, justice, freedom, reasonably priced love, and a hard boiled egg"
A screen shows the word "Hello" at the front of a busy hall full of people sat, waiting for Interesting 2026 to start.
A 3D render of a book. Words on the visible page are the opening text from the Inform text adventure "Shade". The book has a red cover and is open on the first page. The paper is textured and printed in a navy sans-serif font. *** Shade *** A brief story by "Ampe R. Sand" (Andrew Plotkin) First-time players should type "about". ... Odd, how the light just makes your apartment gloomier. Pre-dawn darkness pools in the corners and around the tops of walls. Your desk lamp flares yellow, but the shadows only draw your eyes and deepen. Not much of an apartment, no. One desk, paper-piled, with a dusty computer shoved to the... (that's the end of the page).
Momo, a little black cat who is a perfect little angel, sits on a towel on an office chair. He looks like a little person. It's adorable and you love him.
Momo, a very cute little black cat sits loafing on some paving stones to a background of greenery and I'm looking in from the side of the image. It's a short video that zooms in on us slowly because we're so cool.
A screenshot from the Great British Spring Clean website, sporting the Keep Britain Tidy logo. The Great British Spring Clean is the nation's biggest mass-action environmental campaign. Each year, more than 400,000 volunteers clear litter from our streets, parks and benches.
Momo, a little black cat, lies on a box facing you and your heart just melted.
A sleepy black cat lies curled up fast asleep with a weather-beaten wizard hat on his head.
Graphic of some ducks in a pond with text asking the question "Are some already doing this?"
3 texts from Pets at Home. The first stating that there has been an incident at the Harlow Store and that the order will be moved to Hertford. The second saying that the message was sent in error and everything is fine. The third saying that the store has closed with immediate effect!
A graph of elevation for a cycling journey. It's flat for 90% of the journey, and the last part is a large spike where elevation goes up a lot before coming down again.
A cute little picture of a cat is on a shiny 3D rendered door.
The cover art for Sam & Max, the Devil's Playhouse. A point and click adventure. Sam, a large dog in a suit, runs towards the screen holding a gun. His colleague, Max, a kinetic rabbity thing with sharp teeth is beside him.
Screenshot of the docs page on hosting.404nerds.com - it shows "error: not found"
Philomena speaks to camera and explains that Santa has a list of good and bad children. The good children will get lots of presents, and so will the bad children. In fact, the only children who won't get lots of presents are the poor children. That's because Santa judges a child's goodness largely on parental income.
Dave Lister leans back on his chair, next to a console in Red Dwarf, with one leg on the desk.
Two cats lie next to each other on a towel. They look cosy and comfortable next to each other. On the left, a beautiful tortoise shell cat, Suki, is curled up. On the right, her brother Momo, a black cat, has popped his head up to look at the camera. You have instantly fallen in love with them both.
Momo, a little black cat who is sweet and cuddly and gentle sits on a mat on a wooden floor. He has big black eyes, a haunted look on his face, and a Very Fluffy Tail. He came thundering in the catflap to tell me about the dog. Don't worry though, he's gonna be alright.
A screen capture of an error messages generated by the GitHub web interface. It says "Changes cannot be loaded. The page is unavailable due to a system error. Try reloading the page, or if the problem persists, contact support."
A screenshot from The Codeless Code, case 163 - Vacation: On first cool day of autumn, a messenger had come to the Temple bearing urgent news. To her puzzlement she found every courtyard vacant, every hallway and common-room empty. Not a soul was to be found. Passing an open doorway, she heard the clattering of keys from within. Inside she found an old scribe staring hard at a monitor. “Where—” began the messenger. “Vacation,” said the scribe without turning around, waving absently in the direction of the rest of the temple. “Not you?” asked the messenger. “I, too,” said the scribe. “But on your screen—” said the messenger. “Yes,” said the scribe. “The ugliest, buggiest, most obstreperous PHP code you will find in the Seventeen Provinces.” “Then why do you labor on it?” asked the messenger. “Because,” smiled the scribe. “It is not the Temple’s code. It is mine.”
A photo from the Manchester Evening News shows a man in a blue suit lying on the road, drunk, but looking posed. To his right, 2 police officers restrain a person lying on her back on the road. It's general drunk chaos in the background, people standing around, a woman kibbitzing the restraint. How things are laid out look like a bit of a mirror image of the other photo on this post...
Suki and Momo, a tortoise shell and black cat, both about a year old, are curled up together on a blanket on a sofa. Photo is taken from above. They are fricking adorable and you have fallen in love.
A screenshot from the BeMyEyes app showing the current statistics. There are just over 920-thousand blind members, and 9.4 million volunteers.
An audiobook screenshot for Six Conversations We're Scared to Have by Deborah Frances-White. Track 1 of 17. The book is just over 11h long in audio format.
Suki, a perfect little tortie cat, lays on a blanket watching a laptop screen. Benjamin Sisko, played by Avery Brooks, is on screen making it perfectly clear to Michael Eddington that he's going to help them find the cloaked missiles heading for Cardassia. She's in love.
A painting of Ada Lovelace. She looks composed, and she looking into the painter's eyes (cripes, I almost said camera!) She's got a pale complexion, curly brown hair, brown eyes, and she's wearing some kind of yellow headband / fascinator with a yellow flower on it.
Two beautiful little cats sit on a sofa. Left, Momo is a little black cat. Right, Suki is a tortoise shell. Both are looking at the camera.
Momo, our sweet little black cat sits on the front of our "surprisingly affordable" refurbished car looking for all the world like the Jaguar hood ornament.
Momo, a very handsome little black cat with two little white wisps on his chest stands on a bench under an apple tree looking for all the world as if he is Very Proud of the 2 apples next to him. He didn't used to like pets or people and now he loves pets and people, so you can take that to the bank.
A photo of an inner tube, with markings that indicate it's for a 47-60x584. That means it supports a range of widths from 47mm to 60mm, and a diameter of 584mm. It's also printed in imperial as 27.5 x 1.75-2.4 - meaning it supports a 27.5" diameter wheel, and the width range is 1.75" to 2.4".
A photo of a couple of boxes, each containing a tyre inner tube with a presta valve. The size stated in large letters at the top of the box is "29 inches, 27.5 / 27 inches". Beneath that are listed 9 different sizes that the inner-tube should fit, each described in a different unit - but mostly without specifying the units. Sometimes inches are indicated with inverted commas. Otherwise, you're left to guess from the range of the numbers which unit they represent!
A photo of a tyre. It is labelled as: 50-622, 28 x 2.00, 50/110-622 M/C 35B 2.5-4.5bar, 35-65psi
A little black cat sits in a wheelbarrow held by yours truly (a strikingly handsome 40-something man in his mucky old gardening jeans and hoodie). They look at each other lovingly. Background of greenery, bushes and long grasses.
An email purporting to be from the Cambridge University alumni email service... It reads: Dear Cantab User, We emailed you last month to let you know about changes we are making to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. These changes are key steps towards creating what's next for our consumers, like you, while empowering them with transparency and controls over how and when their data is used. In order to continue to access your (Cantab.net) Mail account after September 30, 2025. You will need to confirm and accept the Terms of Service. Click here to start If you do not want the new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to apply to you, you will no longer be able to access your account from September 30, 2025. Sincerely, The Email Service
A screenshot of a notification from Home Assistant. It says "Motion detected on camera Camera 01" and "There's motion on the path". The photo is of a silhouette of a man, in black and white night vision, neatly framed by a spider web (out of focus) very close to the camera. It looks pretty spooky!
A ladybird sits on the end of a very tiny twig. It's in focus against a background of nicely blurred gravel. I don't know much about photography, so I guess all I can tell you is that I took it on a Fairphone 5.
Two adorable cats, one a tortoise shell, one black, just a year old, play amongst some very neatly piled paving stones beside (what will be) a path and a bush.
A little black cat sits on a hand crafted wooden bench under an apple tree amongst greenery, looking out.
A screenshot of a warning generated during a build, printed to the terminal: "You or someone you depend on is using Q, the JavaScript Promise library that gave JavaScript developers strong feelings about promises. They can almost certainly migrate to the native JavaScript promise now. Thank you literally everyone for joining me in this bet against the odds. Be excellent to each other."
Am angular, stylised cartoon image of two developers stand next to each other smiling. One is holding a laptop (also smiling!) and the other holds a checklist.
A photo of a big bowl of vegan curry, from above. Wow it looks delicious. I'm hungry now.
A cute little black cat (possibly the cutest) has climbed half way up a small bush and sits there looking out at the horizon like he's reached a mountain peak.
A screenshot from the Mac OS Settings app showing the Apple iCloud sign in view. It says "One account for everything Apple", and below is an input box for email or phone number. Weirdly, that input box has an active cursor at the far right, despite the rest of the view being English (a left-to-right language).
A screenshot from a docker-compose build that is currently in the process of installing a bunch of python dependencies. It's showing a build time exceeding 2400 seconds so far - and it's on step 6 of 10.
A meme shows two rocket engines. The top one looks like a prototype, with lots of little pipes and extrusions in a spaghettified mess. It looks like it would work, but it's not elegant. Below is a picture of another engine. It's smoother, more elegant, and has fewer pipes and extrusions. It's clearly a superior, more refined product, that probably does the same thing. Text reads "just make it exist first" (illustrated with a scrappy circle where the line doesn't meet itself, drawn around a blob that doesn't fit) and "you can make it good later" (illustrated with a perfect circle coloured in up to the line)
A slightly worn black metal statuette of a stick figure sitting at a seat, looking at an old-style CRT monitor. One hand is on the keyboard, the other is scratching its head.
I'm smiling at the camera, a filter has blurred my background, and another has put large 3D bunny ears over my head. Because I shave my hair (no points for noting my receding hairline, sorry!) the ears appear to float over the top of me. What's missing? I'm wearing a t-shirt hoodie, and I'd like to be able to project the illusion of wearing a shirt and tie.
The cover from book one of the divine series, City of Stairs, by Robert Jackson Bennett. It's a blue sky with a white silhouette of a city with domes and spires.
A screenshot of a single line of code from Visual Studio code. It contains a reference to static method JsonSerializer.SerializeToDocument, with the ToDo portion of characters in the middle of it highlighted - because it has matched a search for "TODO".
A screenshot from a customer support chat. It says "Transferring you to our next available Colleague" and "Hang in there. You're number 1 in the line."