Welcome to the smartsized brutalist website!

This is -for now - the smartsizing personal blog. The SWOP communications twitter - rarely used has been deleted. Frankly it was always a big waste of time, but recently actually a PITA.

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*** Here is the general rant blog ***

Thought of the day: Coffeeshops are PAYG low-rent offices except you don't get to control the music played

News links

End of an era for Pret coffee lovers...

BBC, BA and Boots staff among cyber attack victims Staff at multiple organisations are warned of a payroll data breach after an IT supplier is hacked.

German military leak British battlefield secrets to Russia via shoddy apps

Meta (Facebook, Instagram , WhatsApp etc) another huge fine over privacy violations of EU citizens. The company has also been ordered to stop transferring the Facebook data of EU citizens to the US...

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You will no doubt be pleased to know that the person who writes this is not a professional web designer, developer or the person who will manage your website. His background is psychology with a dash of journalism. However SWOP's principles of web design run along the same lines of smarsizing:

Simple/Brutalist/direct
Fast as a feature
No spyware,tracking, annoying popups

So, forget WordPress ;) and learn how to code brutally yourself - HTML and CSS