That felt good. I did something that I thought other people might find interesting - and blogged about it straight well. As I used to teach: “Connect the ‘that’s interesting' observation with posting as soon as you can”. I should listen to myself more.
A reminder that Amazon often isn’t nearly as cheap as other options. (And a gentle plug for what looks like a great book.)
Thought for the day: if you rely on Facebook to communicate with your friends, you are literally outsourcing relationship management to an uncaring algorithm. That, my friends, is not friendship.
iOS’s in-built screen recorder is an absolute Godsend for supporting family members.
A long and unusually personal blogpost, which explains why I’ve been absent here, amongst other things.
Why do I find it easier to network to find my former students work, than to get myself more gigs? 🤔
Gah. The result of being with my children for pretty much all of the last 10 days is that I don’t have my Earpods on me, and I am now annoyed.
I’m really happy with that WWDC keynote. Nothing that costs me money, and lots of quality of life improvements to my existing devices.
I’m enjoying the not-so-subtle shade being thrown at Facebook and its products in the screenshots here. #wwdc18
Astonishing to think this space tech is 19 years old now…
Not sure this is a great message for the future of the journalism business…
Just when you thought you were safe from GDPR - the app updates begin.
Happy GDPR day!
RIP StumbleUpon. Once you were a great way of finding stuff to read in a lunch break.
Bitcoin is a massive environmental threat - really
Astonishing. Bitcoin may be undoing decades of progress on renewable energy:
By late next year, bitcoin could be consuming more electricity than all the world’s solar panels currently produce — about 1.8 percent of global electricity, according to a simple extrapolation of the study’s predictions. That would effectively erase decades of progress on renewable energy.
Alas, Livejournal. Even George RR Martin has quit you now.
Lord, this makes me nostalgic: 1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls - Flashbak
Reading this post by a former colleague makes me realise that I’ve really lost the skill of personal blogging over the last decade.
I have to confess, I paid basically zero attention to the royal wedding in the build up to it. But seeing the royals give a hearty two fingers to the racists we’ve seen rise post-Brexit?
Pitch of the day:
I am writing because I would like to write an article reviewing the best fleshlights on the market and then discuss whether they are worth it. I feel the readers of onemanandhisblog.com may find this of interest.
🤔👌🏻
Finishing the day right: wine, iPad and RSS feeds
So, it turns out that Storyful journalists could see which videos their newsroom clients were watching… Not the social media verification company’s smartest move.
“I am about to lecture you about…” is always a more accurate description of articles headlined “We need to talk about…”
I’m ready for the flood defence works to be finished now. (I’m grateful and all, but…)
I’m up to date on my invoicing. This is an unfamiliar feeling for me.