Hacking your SIM card to hack your Instagram. There’s Bitcoin in them there account names.
Reasons I’m glad I cleared up my study before starting work: I was able to grab my macro lens for a blog post photo in seconds. This is… rare.
The new Doctor Who writing and directing team. It’s a lot more diverse than in the past.
Doing tab archeology. The current wave of tabs I’m working through seem to be from May(!).
@adders on Instagram
The web shouldn’t all be about recency - we stand to lose too much valuable information if we think that way.
This talk by @kevinmarks nearly five years ago is still painfully relevant now.
“sports luxe”? 🤔
After the rain…
Poked at Mastadon for the first time in a while. Great idea, but the UX still needs work. I’m quite good at this stuff and still found it confusing.
Twitter from the outside now looks like a massive world-wide frenzy for no reason. It’s the illusion of something valuable.
Calm Technology knows it is useful – but also knows its place
Thanks for that, Netflix.
I’m getting more verbose as I age. Set out to write 600 to 700 words. Currently sitting at 1,200.
Do you what I like about smart speakers? They just sit quietly, waiting to be called upon, while mobile phones behave like noisy, annoying insecure devices, constantly demanding your attention. Grow the heck up, phone.
Heavyweight reading.
Coffee and the latest issue of Standart. Perfect.
Enjoying my copy of @standartmag #nobodybuysbooks and my @aero.press winner collectors card
Exploring the babychino options in town. This one, from Ginger & Dobschütz, got full marks from Hazel.
Um, OK.
This is a sobering read about the dehumanisation deep in the psychology of some Silicon Valley coders. History repeats itself - this mirror the abuses of the early industrial age.
Maybe we can learn from that.
Maybe writing about CMSes isn’t a path to viral content success - but it matters to me. 😎 Content Management Systems: could Vox Media make build a software business alongside its content operation?
I love “less is more" journalism models. This one is from India: The Ken raises $1.5M in its Series A Round
Some rather curious - and possibly co-ordinated - Instagram hacking going on. Worth watching.
I just realised what you get if you spell my youngest’s name backwards. Hey, Iris…