Nat Buckley 🏳️⚧️
@natbuckley.bsky.social
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YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@natbuckley
Old school website: https://natbuckley.co.uk
YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@natbuckley
Old school website: https://natbuckley.co.uk
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Nat Buckley 🏳️⚧️
@natbuckley.bsky.social
· Nov 20
I'd be a fool not to (again) share page 236 from @undermanager.bsky.social's book as printed evidence that I am, in fact, very funny
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good open letter about knitting & tradition www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/news/letter-...
LETTER: ‘You’ve misrepresented an entire culture’ - Open letter calls for TV show to apologise for its “blatant disregard” of Fair Isle knitting
Shetland Stitch Club’s Helen Barwick has asked Channel 4 to apologise for “misrepresenting an entire culture” in Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter
www.shetlandtimes.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
good open letter about knitting & tradition www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/news/letter-...
there was a joy to logging on. What a time!
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
there was a joy to logging on. What a time!
The first 1000 words natbuckley.co.uk/2025/09/16/t...
The first 1000 words — Nat Buckley
I started learning Japanese just over three months ago, I don’t really know why. Suddenly it seemed like it would be fun to do, and I got excited about the i...
natbuckley.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The first 1000 words natbuckley.co.uk/2025/09/16/t...
I got asked how I made the testing rig for my recent experiments with Apple’s on-device LLM.
Instead of explaining, I made an app you can download for macOS Tahoe that lets you test your own prompts.
natbuckley.co.uk/2025/07/02/i...
Instead of explaining, I made an app you can download for macOS Tahoe that lets you test your own prompts.
natbuckley.co.uk/2025/07/02/i...
July 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I got asked how I made the testing rig for my recent experiments with Apple’s on-device LLM.
Instead of explaining, I made an app you can download for macOS Tahoe that lets you test your own prompts.
natbuckley.co.uk/2025/07/02/i...
Instead of explaining, I made an app you can download for macOS Tahoe that lets you test your own prompts.
natbuckley.co.uk/2025/07/02/i...
A week-ish ago I wrote about my experiments with an on-device LLM Apple released for use by apps on the latest beta OSes. A local LLM might be useful in places where you would never use a hosted LLM like ChatGPT, so I wanted to see what’s possible to do with it. natbuckley.co.uk/2025/06/20/d...
June 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A week-ish ago I wrote about my experiments with an on-device LLM Apple released for use by apps on the latest beta OSes. A local LLM might be useful in places where you would never use a hosted LLM like ChatGPT, so I wanted to see what’s possible to do with it. natbuckley.co.uk/2025/06/20/d...
Glad you think so! Appreciate it
May 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Glad you think so! Appreciate it
I made some changes to readability and contrast based on your feedback. If there’s anything else you picked up on I would love to know!
May 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I made some changes to readability and contrast based on your feedback. If there’s anything else you picked up on I would love to know!
Hello 👋 I’d love to make it better if I can, so any pointers appreciated
May 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Hello 👋 I’d love to make it better if I can, so any pointers appreciated
I asked for a reply on what actions my MP is taking to uphold the manifesto commitment to “remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance”.
May 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I asked for a reply on what actions my MP is taking to uphold the manifesto commitment to “remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance”.
I sent a paper letter to my Lab MP about my experiences of being harassed in toilets for using “the wrong one” by (presumably cis) women—something which began 10+ yrs ago when I started presenting more androgynously. I argued that the ruling will embolden the bigots, in addition to being unworkable.
May 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I sent a paper letter to my Lab MP about my experiences of being harassed in toilets for using “the wrong one” by (presumably cis) women—something which began 10+ yrs ago when I started presenting more androgynously. I argued that the ruling will embolden the bigots, in addition to being unworkable.
Thank you for this.
May 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Thank you for this.
That’s good to hear. And thank you for engaging with your MP on this. I hope that hearing pushback from real people makes a difference.
May 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
That’s good to hear. And thank you for engaging with your MP on this. I hope that hearing pushback from real people makes a difference.
Very moved by Paul’s clear, evidenced and well articulated letter to his MP about trans rights. I’m especially grateful because the issue is too emotional for me to bring this degree of thoughtfulness to the table po-ru.com/2025/04/26/a...
A letter to my MP about trans rights
After seeing the way that politicians and organisations have overreacted to the recent Supreme Court judgment and interpreted it the most anti-trans light possible, I decided to send a letter (a real ...
po-ru.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Very moved by Paul’s clear, evidenced and well articulated letter to his MP about trans rights. I’m especially grateful because the issue is too emotional for me to bring this degree of thoughtfulness to the table po-ru.com/2025/04/26/a...
Happy Ed Balls day to those who celebrate. Here’s something I made 12 years ago to commemorate the occasion ntlk.github.io/edballsipsum/
Ed Balls Ipsum
ntlk.github.io
April 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Happy Ed Balls day to those who celebrate. Here’s something I made 12 years ago to commemorate the occasion ntlk.github.io/edballsipsum/
Saved for future reference for project. Love the way you showed the value of each idea through images and animations. Stellar stuff.
April 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Saved for future reference for project. Love the way you showed the value of each idea through images and animations. Stellar stuff.
Fantastic work. So many great design ideas for transforming relationships through design and technology.
we've written up some work exploring what grants might look like if power between grantseeker:grantmaker got slightly reshuffled, and if the technology UK gov used to give out £46bn of grants was an enabler rather than a constraint. grab a brew, enjoy
www.ff.studio/projects/gra...
www.ff.studio/projects/gra...
FF Studio - Why public sector grantmaking needs better tools
FF Studio - Don’t take grants for granted: why public sector funding needs better tools
www.ff.studio
April 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Fantastic work. So many great design ideas for transforming relationships through design and technology.
Absolutely brilliant.
March 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Absolutely brilliant.
This is absolutely fantastic. Such a simple idea, but it’s mind blowing to me that the current crop of presentation software is not capable of presenting interactive prototypes anywhere near this well
Made a slides / prototype mashup for a talk us at @dxw.com did recently.
Avoids the clunkiness of leaving and returning to slides to demo a prototype.
Avoids the clunkiness of leaving and returning to slides to demo a prototype.
March 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This is absolutely fantastic. Such a simple idea, but it’s mind blowing to me that the current crop of presentation software is not capable of presenting interactive prototypes anywhere near this well
I do my best thinking on paper, or playing with the material directly. When I work on my own stuff I skip the Figma mockups step entirely
March 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I do my best thinking on paper, or playing with the material directly. When I work on my own stuff I skip the Figma mockups step entirely
Working on interaction design experiments in Swift UI
March 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Working on interaction design experiments in Swift UI
Haven't laugh-cried this much in a while
Google Slides is Actually Hilarious
Perhaps like you, I naively started out thinking that Google Slides was just a poorly maintained product suffering from some questionable…
medium.com
January 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Haven't laugh-cried this much in a while
A damn fine cup of coffee
January 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A damn fine cup of coffee
Thank you! I tried the fix. Hopefully it will work.
January 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Thank you! I tried the fix. Hopefully it will work.
A meta question: any idea why this post isn’t showing a nice preview? Or is it just me? Other YouTube links on bsky get nice thumbs etc bsky.app/profile/natb...
I wrote a love letter to a cool, but underused chart type from the 90's, designed to help avoid one of the most common mistakes people make when analysing time-series data
YouTube
www.youtube.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A meta question: any idea why this post isn’t showing a nice preview? Or is it just me? Other YouTube links on bsky get nice thumbs etc bsky.app/profile/natb...