Wow. The new micro.blog homepage is a massive improvement.
It’s official. Third party Twitter apps are dead.
Not a surprise given the events of the last week — but still a spectacularly shitty way to treat developers, some of whom have been working with you for 15 years.
Oxford Street is looking a lot more down market than I remember, but parts of it still impress.
A moody, frosty bridge on my way to London this morning,
Yikes. Currently 166 tabs open on my iPad.
Lovely, frosty morning on the beach this morning.
I just don’t understand why people think £250 for Airpods Pro - single user devices, with a lifespan of a few years - is fine, but £299 for a HomePod, a whole household device that will last half a decade or more, is not.
That’s it. Revue is gone, killed off by the new “management” of Twitter.
Once a great service, it never really kept up with the accelerating pace of newsletter evolution.
RIP Revue. 🫡
Feeling slightly guilty that our internet is fine, while the internet from the same provider is down for most people across the Beach.
Frost on the roof, sun on the river.
Ah, it’s Winterwatch week. That’s a pleasant surprise.
Quite the sunset this evening.
Well, it may be sub-zero in the garden this morning, but spring is still a’coming…
“It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline. That notion excites me like the first time I posted XML status to an endpoint.”
In other words, it’s time to build ActivityPub clients, not just Mastodon ones.
Universities are already rethinking teaching and assessment in the light of AI tools.
Home, from the bridge.
If a book is called Silence, but isn’t really about the absence of audible noise, what is it really about? The answer is in the rediscovery of something we’ve lost.
Finished reading: Silence by Erling Kagge 📚
Nice to get the Apple Fitness “Ring in the New Year” challenge in the bag.
”I had to use my legs to go far away in order to discover this, but I now know it is possible to reach silence anywhere. One only need subtract.”
— From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚
Every Sunday, I tell myself the early starts are worth it.
And sometimes it’s really true.
Complex clapping game in progress. 🤷🏼
My weekend reading has arrived. 📚
It turns out that glass-sided bridges require more maintenance than you’d think.
Some fun weekend reading for you from my soon-to-be-defunct Revue newsletter.
Metal cover of the A-Team theme.
Perfect Friday fodder for those of us of a certain age.