Peter Bihr on the death of the search and social web:

“That means two major driving forces of the contemporary internet are… basically useless now? Or at least unenjoyable? They feel dead, or maybe undead. At the very least, these areas need to be reinvented.”

Google has given up on subtlety in reminding us that Universal Analytics is less than two months away from its demise…

May the Fourth be with you.

These are real buildings, but they look like architects’ CAD renderings photoshopped in, don’t they?

Up on the Downs as the rain hits.

Good piece on what Mastodon needs to embrace to have a significant role in the post-Twitter world.

[via @baldur]

micro.blog is ending Twitter cross-posting in July. Here’s @manton from the announcement post:

“It’s all another reminder that centralized platforms with closed APIs can’t last. While it’s easy to blame Elon Musk, the writing has been on the wall for a decade.”

This is a useful round-up of Bluesky, Mastodon et al: Six Months In: Thoughts On The Current Post-Twitter Diaspora Options

This is the way.

I needed this.

The pond at Woods Mill, Henfield, Sussex

Turns out that a bardcore cover of the Mando theme is basically just… The Mandalorian theme.

This is the (medieval) way.

Started reading: In The Shadow of the Mountain by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado 📚

“But if there is no risk in my writing, no fear, there is no pleasure. I have to make myself fed uncomfortable, take chances in the way a mountaineer does calculating and recalculating, pitching their frail body against the wind. In risk, we feel most alive.”

— from A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚

Currently reading: A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort 📚

Never really got into Picard Series 1 & 2, but I have loved every moment of series 3. My Friday evenings won’t be quite the same.

Earning some Dad points for myself by installing Minecraft Legends on the Xbox, ready for post-school play tomorrow.

Scenes from a commute.

Some notes on Substack Notes.

I’ve been called “Tim” twice in emails already today, and it’s not even 10am on Monday.

Why?

Do I seem like a “Tim” so much it overrides my actual name?

I’m beginning to get the hang of keeping my Mastodon instance updated. Not as easy as, say, Ghost. But not as bad as I feared.