(Country) walking to grow your subscriptions, radicalised on Reddit, and more good reads from the audience engagement mines.

Fascinating interview with a Mastadon founder.

A little glimpse of how the internet could have been if the social platforms had stuck to open web ideals.

There are many fine advantages to working from home. Dealing with my wife in her full-on procrastination mode is not one of them.

Autumn mist.

Lovely Autumn day in Shoreham-by-Sea - between the rain, at least.

Listen to the original, slower, better (!) version of Men at Work’s “Down Under”

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Toy justice is swift and brutal in these parts.

A well-used semicolon can be a thing of beauty.

Wow.

Flashback five years to when Hazel and I appeared in a software advert.

I am happy to say I appear to have lost weight since then…

(This was all @tibz’s doing…)

This week I learnt that the Opera browser is now owned by a Chinese investor, that Opera News is huge - and might well be part of a Chinese propaganda campaign.

Yikes.

opens Twitter reads for 2 minutes goes to bed despairing of humanity

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It’s probably a sign that I’m over-tired and need some sack time, but I’m bloody convinced that this is the most important post on my blog in ages - and that nearly nobody will read it…

Having used both WordPress’s Gutenberg editor and Ghost’s block editor, I have to say, I made the right choice to use Ghost for OM&HBg. It make construction of rich features so much more fluid. The WordPress version emphasises the block, the Ghost version the whole feature.

This may be the most perfect Star Wars image ever.

Do you want Hulks, universe? Because this is how you get Hulks: Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded Are Illuminating the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions

Honestly, the British retro gaming scene appears to be one big old cesspool.

New iOS and iPadOS bug fix update hit last night, if you missed it: MacUser, Jason Cross: Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 13.2.3 with fixes for system search, Messages, and background apps

Fingers crossed that I am on the final stage of a difficult evening, and will be home for a whisky and bed within the hour. Literally my entire evening wasted on queuing and travelling.

The number 2 bus from Shoreham to Steyning.

Memex 1.1, John Naughton: Foresight, ignored — the founders of Google foresaw the possiblity of surveillance capitalism - but went ahead anyway.

I was initially excited when I found this site for Sussex bloggers, because it felt very like the sort of thing we did in the early 2000s. And then I saw this:

“Join our directory of bloggers based in Sussex, through which we’ll connect bloggers with brands.”

Oh, dear. 🙄