rem / Remy Sharp

@remysharp.com

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Smart enough to know he's not smart enough. 🌮 📍Brighton, UK

A photo of a very small eink reader, The size of a large credit card showing a list of 20 book titles and their authors. In the background, a Kindle that's been modded that shows some text peeking behind a cat that is also peeking behind a column on the right of the screen that shows the current book I.e a very custom screensaver
A photo of some pine wood with some brown wood dye on it and very clear banding effect that looks like lines being drawn down the wood
A mostly unstyled page, only applying sans serif fonts and monospace for code.
two browser windows, the top one is grey, with a column of what looks like dumped input elements, and some code output on the right. Below is a clean looking UI, with well styled input, and lots of visual feedback on events (in a log).
3 tall cards under the heading "Top picks for you". Two of the cards are just fancy colours, but the middle card had pictures of artists in circles. The largest of which has two men, in the foreground, the one that looks like Mark Boulton, is white slight build, wearing a plain blue jump, very short hair close to his head, and a pointy face.
Mobile screenshot of an article with a strap that reads: Mostly opinion · 20% fact — The article primarily presents the author's perspective on the implications of AI for software engineering discipline, supported by some factual observations about AI advancements.
FFConf 2026, early bird tickets available now for Friday 13 November. FFConf is a room full of people who still give a damn about the web and its community - with talks meant to be experienced, not bookmarked.
FFConf 2026 - early bird tickets now available
A screenshot of Amazon where the search query is "distilled water", and the results are deionised water. Distilled water destroys bacteria and viruses. Deionised does not.
screenshot of Chrome audio element, where the text in the audio element appears to be aliases (the crunchy version)
Screenshot of the top four posts in my inbox. that shows the line of text from the social text.
A photo of a baby face Remy and Julie, who really doesn't look much different (i.e. still youthful), dressed in wedding attire with big smiles all round.
This is a screenshot of the source code for a blog post entitled Leopard Initial Opinion. The post is from 2007 and for the video to be embedded, there is an object tag with a class ID with something that looks like a UUID4, a code base pointing to a QT plugin.cab, a lot of parameters and a lot of ugly code.
A score of 91 for sleep and previous day activities. It says "bring it on" and even comes with a crown.
Apple software update panel showing a large block of text for Tahoe and much smaller says also available an OS update, nothing about Safari and a blue link saying more info.
The scoring for my news thing: priority, keywords, engagement (bsky and web mentions), recency and personalisation)
A screenshot of a mobile PWA. Top left is an icon of an inbox, but with an offline cloud indicator. Then there's "2 unread / 2110" - and we can see two post on the page. One in the "top picks" and one in "worth a look". Further down is "the long tail" which shows a bar chart with red on the left and green on the right - where green is much higher than red, but it's supposed to suggest there are many more of the "non interesting green posts". Finally, it shows "noisiest" with The Verge, then javascriptweekly and then Simon Willison!
A screenshot of a dark-mode screen showing a large number of titles, but grouped into "top picks", "worth a look" and "maybe layer" - where the titles also have a temperature value on the left to indicate how relevant they would be to my personal interests.
9 Casio F91W watches in the following colours: black, white, dark blue, transparent black, light blue, yellow, green, pink and orange
Screenshot of downforeveryoneorjustme.com showing pinboard.in is down.
A screenshot of part of the pinboard page reading: 3781 of your bookmarks have been archived, representing 100% of your collection. This consumes 14.07 G of disk space. 4246 bookmarks have not been stored due to errors:
I told the AI to "eat shit" to which it said "I'm specifically designed to help you explore TIME content". I can only hope the AI was offended...
A game gear with an adapter in the back and a game boy camera loaded AND working.
Ryan from Barbie Movie, looking over and saying: "So cool"
A screenshot of a tool. The left side shows a list of weeks by week number, and small dots either filled in orange or empty, and calendar icon with a number (to show number of events on this week). On the right side, the bulk of the page, has the newsletter brokened into 3 sections with helpers for highlighting links, bold text and embedded images. It also has buttons for copy as markdown, check grammar and preview (which would show the email render of the newsletter).
Two hamsters in a wheel when suddenly one starts running fast, and the second (the Starmer hamster) is flug out and hanging on for dear life to the rail whilst the wheel spins madly behind it.
All Day Hay hosted 182 talks
Being an introvert & extrovert had nothing to do with confidence, social skills, or personality flaws - Carl Jung
Paper, pens, scissors and tape scribbled on to a sheet with two Fs in a cutout style
A clear box container with a sticker of a Game boy reading game over. Inside the container are multiple consoles. Bits of hardware cartridges all stacked together and squeezing out the box
An original PSP with a clear shell
A honey pot on the news page, that includes a label that reads 'We use the following field to detect spam bots. If you fill this in, your subscription will be ignored. If you're using a voice over assistant make sure to exit the following text field and move to the "name" field.'
A tabby cat rolling onto his back and trying to cuddle up to a cat sized dog
Correct interpretation of a blue sky posting, but a system error trying to deliver
Remy's stupid face in game boy greens broken into tiles with some of the raw tile data seen below the preview.
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The rear view of the cardboard arcade game boy where ribbon cables and wires protrude all over the place. The PCB is screwed into a piece of cardboard. Looks like a box that had dog food delivered in it and poking out. The top is the reverse of the game boy cartridge with Remy's face with a big thumbs up and a stupid expression on it.
A mini arcade hung on the wall in black with red trim, and Remy's Gameboy game loaded with a score attributed to "DAD"
A cardboard arcade chassis with original arcade buttons and joystick with a black custom cartridge poking out the top of the marquee area with the marbles game loaded on a screen
The game menu, with block borders, with fast mode, set seeds and an about.
He didn't smash it at all. The final score was 21 out of 80.
You completed 100 jumps in 272 attempts.
The 100 jumps game with "you survived 98 of 100 jumps"
A wall of code, mostly hex values, which then has a number of square 8x8 tiles inline to the code, with a canvas on the right that let's you draw a zoomed in version of the tile.
Ryan Gosling from Barbie movie, in a pink t-shirt and pink background, cooly saying "So cool".
A screenshot of BBC homepage from Saturday late afternoon, around 4pm, lots of stories including petrol and screen time for under 5s, but nothing about the Together Alliance march.
A photo of a Gameboy showing a grid of different styled blocks, ultimately the "samegame" but my own spin
Screenshot showing network speeds before and after: 58mbps, 1.2.gbps
A screenshot of devtools showing my node selection and the style information is completely wrong - from another un-selected node.
The screen reads: game over, you survived 0 of 100 jumps"
Some boxes in Richard's tool with Ubuntu Mono regular font loaded
Jake's slide reads "Look, this is just some placeholder text. You should be listening to whatever I'm saying rather than reading this. Seriously, stop! I might say something interesting. I mean, I hope I say something interesting. Oh god what if no one finds what I'm saying interesting? I'm going to have a panic attack."
Zack Polanski addressing a full house at Brighton Dome on a stage dressed in green lights
A top mounted flash for a camera with 4 AA batteries and the compartment open showing masses of battery leakage and mega crust. It's kinda gross.
A very old and crushed bug, maybe an earwig, inside the shell of a Gameboy
A very large pile of Gameboy display boards in a messy array
Remy's linked in page, where before his name are the letters R and S in braille.
A screenshot of text from the Good Law project page, that reads: The court said that unless toilets and changing rooms are provided in individual lockable rooms, then employers will be required to offer single-sex facilities – and these must be trans-exclusionary. However, the court was clear that this does not mean additional, inclusive facilities cannot be provided, and that appropriate provision should be made for trans employees to avoid discrimination.
This is a screenshot of Gmail with box around the archive icon. The top archive icon is blurry around the edges and the bottom one is sharp. And there's text splattered across the middle that says "Why so inconsistent Gmail?"
A screenshot of the original digg.com from back in 2006, with a link at the top "How to create a Digg-like spy with no work at all", and my avatar next to it with 125 "diggs". An article explaining how to make an animation effect with jQuery.