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.

Home, from the bridge.

Emerald Quay, as seen from the Adur Ferry Bridge.

If a book is called Silence, but isn’t really about the absence of audible noise, what is it really about? The answer is in the rediscovery of something we’ve lost.

Finished reading: Silence by Erling Kagge 📚

Nice to get the Apple Fitness “Ring in the New Year” challenge in the bag.

”I had to use my legs to go far away in order to discover this, but I now know it is possible to reach silence anywhere. One only need subtract.”

— From Silence by Erling Kagge 📚

Every Sunday, I tell myself the early starts are worth it.

And sometimes it’s really true.

The sun rising behind trees at Lancing College in Sussex.

Complex clapping game in progress. 🤷🏼

My weekend reading has arrived. 📚

It turns out that glass-sided bridges require more maintenance than you’d think.

Workmen replacing glass on the Adur Ferry Bridge.

Some fun weekend reading for you from my soon-to-be-defunct Revue newsletter.

Metal cover of the A-Team theme.

Perfect Friday fodder for those of us of a certain age.

Twitter’s API appears to be down, breaking any third party client access to the service.

And now we wait to find out if this is intentional, or just a cock-up.

What do you think the chances of the Revue integration on people’s Twitter profiles just frictionlessly disappearing when they shut down the newsletter service next week, as opposed to breaking in new and exciting ways?

Looks like Hasbro is learning that you can create a community, play host to a community, but never, ever own a community.

The D&D community is on the warpath.

Nice to see more EV charging infrastructure going in just around the corner.

A sign warning of roadworks for EV charging infrastructure.

The courage and talent of Laura Price, whom I had the privilege of teaching a few years ago, continues to inspire me, as she prepares to launch the paperback edition of her novel from her post-cancer surgery hospital bed.

D&D’s OGL was a corporate con job

Cory Doctorow on the Hasbo D&D OGL rugpull:

If you’re a game designer who was pissed off because the OGL was getting ganked – and if you’re even more pissed off now that you’ve discovered that the OGL was a piece of shit all along – there’s a lesson there. The OGL tricked a generation of designers into thinking they were building on a commons. They weren’t – but they could.

Source: Pluralistic: John Deere’s repair fake-out; Good riddance to the Open Gaming License (12 Jan 2023)