I can’t quite bring myself to delete my last copy of Twitterific. I’ll do it soon, but it still saddens me. The final end of an era that once brought me great joy.

iOS, macOS and watchOS updates all ready for you in Software Update.

The tide was far enough out today that we actually had something approximating sand! -

The beach, late afternoon on a winters day

Touching.

Interesting set of links from Alex Roddie.

“We need somehow to press the reset button, and completely rethink how we see our relationship with the earth. We need to reinvent ourselves as collaborators rather than conquerors.”

— from The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚

Started reading: The Circling Sky by Neil Ansell 📚

Cold and icy up at Lancing College this morning.

Trees and college vans just pre-dawn at Lancing College.

Finished reading: Failure is an Option by Matt Whyman 📚

On a doorway in the Brighton Lanes.

Harsh, but fair.

A sign on a door reading "no stupid people".

Quite a show.

Somewhere in all that is my eldest, preparing to sing her heart out.

The Young Voices choir at the O2 Arena

I first came here 23 years ago, and saw Peter Gabriel’s OVO as part of the millennium dome exhibition.

My first time back at the Dome in maybe 15 years. Last time I was here, it was to see Pink as a birthday treat for my wife.

The approach to the O2.

Wow. The new micro.blog homepage is a massive improvement.

It’s official. Third party Twitter apps are dead.

Not a surprise given the events of the last week — but still a spectacularly shitty way to treat developers, some of whom have been working with you for 15 years.

Oxford Street is looking a lot more down market than I remember, but parts of it still impress.

Oxford Street at night

A moody, frosty bridge on my way to London this morning,

The Adur Ferry Bridge covered in frost.

Yikes. Currently 166 tabs open on my iPad.

Lovely, frosty morning on the beach this morning.

Shoreham Beach on a frosty morning.

I just don’t understand why people think £250 for Airpods Pro - single user devices, with a lifespan of a few years - is fine, but £299 for a HomePod, a whole household device that will last half a decade or more, is not.