How this for slow blogging? I just published a post I wrote in 2008. Going online: be brave
Facebook to small publishers: no Instant Articles for you.
21st century communication: not only am I desperately behind on my correspondence, half the time I an’t remember where it is. Is it Twitter DMs or Messenger or Slack or email or…?
That felt good. I did something that I thought other people might find interesting - and blogged about it straight well. As I used to teach: “Connect the ‘that’s interesting' observation with posting as soon as you can”. I should listen to myself more.
A reminder that Amazon often isn’t nearly as cheap as other options. (And a gentle plug for what looks like a great book.)
Thought for the day: if you rely on Facebook to communicate with your friends, you are literally outsourcing relationship management to an uncaring algorithm. That, my friends, is not friendship.
A long and unusually personal blogpost, which explains why I’ve been absent here, amongst other things.
Gah. The result of being with my children for pretty much all of the last 10 days is that I don’t have my Earpods on me, and I am now annoyed.
I’m really happy with that WWDC keynote. Nothing that costs me money, and lots of quality of life improvements to my existing devices.
I’m enjoying the not-so-subtle shade being thrown at Facebook and its products in the screenshots here. #wwdc18
RIP StumbleUpon. Once you were a great way of finding stuff to read in a lunch break.
Bitcoin is a massive environmental threat - really
Astonishing. Bitcoin may be undoing decades of progress on renewable energy:
By late next year, bitcoin could be consuming more electricity than all the world’s solar panels currently produce — about 1.8 percent of global electricity, according to a simple extrapolation of the study’s predictions. That would effectively erase decades of progress on renewable energy.
Alas, Livejournal. Even George RR Martin has quit you now.
Lord, this makes me nostalgic: 1980s Teenagers and Their Bedroom Walls - Flashbak