2023s
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.
Ah, it’s Winterwatch week. That’s a pleasant surprise.
“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.
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 📚
”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 📚
My weekend reading has arrived. 📚