Amazing mist up on the Downs this morning.

Mist in the Sussex South Downs near Lancing College.

Updating a self-hosted Ghost site from my iPad. With good coffee, of course. 🤓 ☕️

Usjng ssh to update a Ghost site from my iPad.

Weird.

I just realised that after singing “God save the Queen” every now and then my whole life, next time it’ll be “God save the King”.

And probably will be for the rest of my life.


The Queen is dead.

Long live the King.


The outdoors rescue/location features of the Apple Watch Ultra and the iPhone 14 are an impressive idea that I didn’t expect. Let’s hope they work as advertised. #AppleEvent


Apple killing the physical SIM card in the US… #AppleEvent


I really like the Apple Watch Ultra. But I haven’t seen the price yet… #appleevent


This is a really good defence of RSS as the basis of podcasting

If you’re involved with podcasting, you need to understand this. Without RSS, big companies can start locking up the medium. 


Evening on the beach. 

A low sun


This is a fantastic idea for getting more reading done.


Currently reading: Ditchling Walks: in Eric Gill’s Footsteps by Lorraine Harrison, in search of inspiration for walks to tire out small people. 👧🏼👧🏼🚶🏼‍♀️ 📚


Trying out solar-powered tech. Working well so far.

charging an iphone from solar panels.

Campfire reading.

Currently reading: Coasting by Elise Downing 📚


Night in the woods.

A view of stars through trees.

Currently reading: Mistletoe Winter by Roy Dennis 📚

Such a melancholy book. It’s absolutely bursting with Roy’s joy in nature, and his knowledge of it. But his awareness of the climate crisis ever hovers in the background, like Banquo’s ghost.


Apparently I’m in the mood for photographing sunflowers at the moment.


Lovely light on the Adur this afternoon.


A field near Petworth in the heart of the English summer.


The more we learn about the Warner Bros Discovery / Batgirl mess, the weirder it seems.


A long dive into the current and future fortunes of the tarnished newsletter platform Substack. The easy ride is over. These are the hard yards.