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.

That’s it. Revue is gone, killed off by the new “management” of Twitter.

Once a great service, it never really kept up with the accelerating pace of newsletter evolution.

RIP Revue. 🫡

The landing page for the shuttered Revue newsletter service.

Feeling slightly guilty that our internet is fine, while the internet from the same provider is down for most people across the Beach.

Frost on the roof, sun on the river.

A frosty roof with the sunlit river Adur in the background.

Ah, it’s Winterwatch week. That’s a pleasant surprise.

Quite the sunset this evening.

Sunset over the Adur.

Well, it may be sub-zero in the garden this morning, but spring is still a’coming…

Shoots pushing through the earth in our back garden.

Craig Hockenberry:

“It feels like the time is right for a truly universal timeline. That notion excites me like the first time I posted XML status to an endpoint.”

In other words, it’s time to build ActivityPub clients, not just Mastodon ones.

Universities are already rethinking teaching and assessment in the light of AI tools.