alex jegtnes
london freelance web dev 👨🏼💻 jegtnes.com/work-with-me
thought leader in yak shaving
cheap wine & cheaper shitposts
photography • travel • hiking • gaming • cocktails • weightlifting • kidney transplantee
but first and foremost, silly goose
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- solidarity to my american friends who are having a fascist paramilitary group kidnap their friends and neighbours off the street and in their homes. justice won't be served until every single ghoul involved in this is tried for crimes against humanity
- prime exhibit of websites as art
- I’m really honoured to guest the inimitable @robbowen.digital on Strangers by Spring this morning. It’s been such a joy to make this project with people who are so perceptive, and creative and thoughtful. It might be my favourite yet. strangersbyspring.com/2026-01-20
- Reposted by alex jegtnesThe future of work is changing. And we have to evolve with it or fall behind. That's why we're proud to introduce: Serfdom dot AI. Our platform allows SERFs (solo entrepreneur revenue facilitators) to rent affordable housing that they can subsidize by picking up work with Baron, our AI assistant
- Reposted by alex jegtnesIf you’re generating an image for your article with AI, you didn’t need one in the first place
- Reposted by alex jegtnesmind blowing how cost of therapy has increased in recent years *me nodding seriously* “indeed. shrinkflation.”
- Reposted by alex jegtnesthe anthropic drama (tl;dr they blocked third party tools from using claude code subscriptions) is a useful reminder that you use LLMs at the pleasure of the companies providing them sounds obvious but despite all the AI discourse, i don't see a lot of people talking about the consequences of this
- heathrow is so incredibly sorry to hear that your flight is delayed. truly, a tragedy. but did you know there are many ways in which to spend money at heathrow? heathrow is delighted to announce this. but they're also, like, so sorry your flight is delayed. awful, really
- Reposted by alex jegtnesit’s hella dope that the most optimistic takes on the future of Working With Machine is that we are now expected to do all the bullshit of training 100 junior engineers without any of the dopamine of seeing them grow it owns it rules
- in a lift in my old Lewisham block of flats, a baby in a pram pointed at me and said "wow", and while stalling to figure out if that was a complimentary or a derogative "wow", I simply replied "that's right, kiddo"
- upon leaving Norway the border agent asked if I was going to London for New Year's and I said nah, I just live there. in response I got the most bone dry "so... how's that going these days?" in response s a v a g e
- a decade ago the usual response to hearing I lived here from Norwegians was something along the lines of "wow, that's cool". c'est la vie
- thought it wasn't going to happen but we just managed to eke out a white Christmas here on Norway's south coast. god jul to any and all fellow heathens who celebrate on the best day of Christmas, the Eve 🎄❤️
- Reposted by alex jegtnesMan answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
- had some from the very same chain in Ghent this weekend for €5.95. london, I love you, but
- my man
- 'tis the season for homemade liqueurs and boozes mirabel cherry plum liqueur, 2x sloe gin, 2x quince gin, rhubarb gin, peach liqueur not pictured: mulled sloe gin, sloe "port" with the used berries from the sloe gin, blackberry + sloe + rosehip liqueur, blackberry and bay liqueur
- Reposted by alex jegtnesThis is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
- Reposted by alex jegtnesChristmas hasn't been the same since i noticed Santa has the same handwriting as my wife
- this fucks. very fun spin on the photo gallery format
- Friends fear he has once again made The Computer do his bidding. I built a little site for all my photos away from any social media. Had a little fun with it, yanno? konnai.re/leisuredome
- Reposted by alex jegtnesI wrote an important essay that will improve your holiday travel if you follow its very specific instructions: airportbeer.selfhelpartpublishingempire.com
- Reposted by alex jegtnesIt's wild. We have so many real problems as a country, and instead a large chunk of our political class would rather hallucinate that one of the safest big global cities in the world is actually dangerous.
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- Whammed! At The Chinese Supermarket 😤