OMG: On TikTok, kids are making Christmas wish list PowerPoint decks

My girls will use Keynote, or it’ll a disappointing Christmas. 😉


Started reading: Flourish by Antonia Case 📚


It’s beginning to look a lot like…

Christmas decorations on Clerkenwell Green in London.

”’Was your world once wild?’ a distant intelligence might ask. Yes, we’d say. Till it went under our ploughs and the hooves of our cattle. Under the weight of our stuff.”

Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie 📚


WordPress themes that are dependent on multiple plugins to function are a crime against all that is good and holy in web publishing.


The problem with WordPress’s 100 year plan.

I would absolutely pay for a service to keep my work online after my death. This is not the service for me — and the fact that they haven’t sold a single account in three months makes it clear I’m not alone.


OpenAI’s interim boss seems… nice. 🤦🏼‍♂️


Started reading: Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie 📚

It’s this month’s Adventurous Ink book.


Interesting update from Bluesky:

  • They’ve hit 2m users, despite still being invite-only
  • A web view of posts and timelines coming this year
  • Federation should be working early next year

I’m really happy with this little quality of life improvement from the Ghost folks. As a habitual emoji user, anything that makes it easier gets a 👍🏻 from me!