Still can’t quite believe that I turned down the chance to work on this beauty - but it was the right decision at that time of my life.

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The Zuckerberg Obfuscation

News that will fill my daughters with joy in the morning - but which is filling me with dread, because I’m going to end up watching it 9,732 times: The Frozen 2 teaser trailer is here.

And I will not let it go.

Optimism is cool:

Optimism is our instinct to inhale while suffocating. Our need to declare what “needs to be” in the face of what is. Optimism is not uncool; it is rebellious and daring and vital.

The Freelancer Mindset: it's a trap!

The Psychological Trap of Freelancing

People who attach dollar signs to their time — or “value time like money” — tend to be overwhelmingly less happy than those who don’t, because their nonworking hours suddenly seem less important. “Free” time gets tainted with guilt because there’s a cost associated with it.

I suffer from this, and have to talk myself down from it on a periodic basis. Comforting (in a way) to know I’m not alone.

Dangerous shop.

Wow, Blogger really is being neglected isn’t it? The last substantive update I can find is from nearly a year ago - and it’s mainly about removing features. Even Movable Type has had a major new version since then.

Productivity in the home office this morning: could be better.

First signs of spring. (Which means it’ll be snowing within the month…)

Fin.

Late night London.

Scenes from a beach walk.

On the Shoreham Beach boardwalk. Stormy Shoreham BeachWaves on Shoreham Beach

TIL: Apple proposed the forthcoming set of emoji covering people in wheelchairs, with service dogs, etc. Cool. (via Download)

The victorious defeat of the open web

It just occurred to me that the prevalent idea that apps killed the open web is completely and utterly wrong. The open web is still there, it still works, and it still needs no-one’s permission before you can publish there. Sure, the vast majority of the attention is elsewhere, in siloed apps, but then it was in the glory days of the web, too.

Maybe that’s OK. Maybe that’s how it should be. And that’s maybe where those of us who enjoy something different, something alternative, something fun can build new and interesting things. We need new mechanisms to help people navigate these alleyways, and to connect with each other, as most of the old ones are gone or transformed. But that can be done.

Maybe, just maybe, the victory of the apps has handed us the blessing of being counter-cultural again. And that’s exciting.

Just tried to explain 70s/80s linear TV to my children, in all its pre-daytime TV, pre-streaming “glory”. They can’t get past the idea it was impossible to pause TV, let alone the rest of it.

God, I feel old.

This is totally bodacious: Captain Marvel: Official Movie Site

To give you some sense of how unwell I’ve been - it’s now 60 hours since I had a coffee.

60 hours.

And here’s your depressing reminder that Brits using .eu domain names will probably lose them.

For UK Residents Facing Brexit: Alternatives to the .EU Domain Name

The problem with being a one-man band is that you handle your own DNS faff. Back when I had a Real Job (TM) there were people to handle that for me (but forms to fill in before they would.)