Psst. The first one of these in months is going out this evening…
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Sad times: Canon formally discontinues the last EOS-M cameras, saying goodbye to EF-M
I used EOS M cameras for much of the last decade, and will miss them. But I switched to EOS R earlier this year. The direction of travel was clear. The M series is becoming my daughter’s starter camera.
Wind really starting to pick up now, as Storm Ciarán hits the south coast. Glad I don’t need to travel in the morning.
Me: I don’t know why everyone thinks I’m a geek; I’m a journalist!
Also Me: Just finished updating nodejs on two VPSes so I can update my self-hosted Ghost installs. Very satisfying.
Great to see Ghost building its new recommendations feature on open standards: it’s basically Webmentions under the hood.
I was one of the test group - and it’s great to see it out there.
Huh. Movable Type 8 is out. Once upon a time I’d have been really excited by that - but at $499 a licence, not much chance I’d ever go back…
They seem to have obseleted xml-rpc too, which mighty be of concern to @danielpunkass.
I posted to my Substack for the first time in, um, two years, 10 months and 28 days.
Hell of a posting frequency there, huh?
Some thoughts on mortality and over-sharing former students.
I’ve just bought my youngest the dry robe reviewed in this article. It’s great for our 7.30 am Sunday swim lessons run. In the spring, it’ll be sea swimming time again, and she’s all prepared.
The first would-be competitor to X/Twitter to fail? Stand up, Pebble (formerly t2). Maxed out at about 3000 daily activity users, so funders weren’t interested.
Currently reading: SOLO by Jenny Tough 📚
I know Ahsoka has not gone down well with a lot of adult Star Wars fans, but watching it with two pre-teen girls who are absolutely rapt — and seeing a version of Star Wars where the major protagonists are largely female — makes me give it a lot of leeway.
Yes, teenagers are spending a lot more time on social media — just not as much on what we old-timers call social media. The big takeaway from this survey is that both Facebook and Twitter have aged out. They are as relevant to this generation as Fox and CBS are to the youth.
The nice thing about X (formerly known as Twitter) being in a death spiral is I feel so much freer to mute, block and unfollow people there who have decided that the horror in the Middle East is an excuse to play internet virtue team sports.