Welcome back, iPad. Your new screen suits you.

An iPad with a keyboard case displaying a home screen full of apps and widgets on a wooden desk next to a wireless keyboard and a coffee mug.

My iPad is in the iPad hospital for the second time in a little over a month.

I hadn’t realised how central it’s become to my workflow. I feel a little lost without it.


Just pressed “go” on something I’ve been contemplating, planning and building for a little while.

Sorry to be vague, but more details will be coming early next week. 🤫


Diesel may start vanishing from forecourts within four years:

A report by the electric vehicle think tank New AutoMotive predicts that some filling stations in London will stop selling diesel by 2030. Nationally, many of the UK’s 8,400 forecourts are expected to scrap it by 2035.


Interesting move. Warhammer-maker Games Workshop has banned its staff from using AI in its products.

This seems like a smart move: a hobby built around creativity (building, modifying and painting models), is likely to be hostile to their raw materials being AI created.

Off to poke at the reaction in the Warhammer subreddits.


Not saying it’s cold up here on the Downs today, but…

A person is bundled up in a hooded jacket and knit cap, appearing to be in a cold environment.

‘orses.

Two people are horseback riding in a fenced area, accompanied by two individuals walking beside them, with a grassy field and house in the background.

I don’t get the phrase “search it up”. It seems more clumsy than “search for it”, yet it seems to have become the default for younger generations.


Elizabeth Spiers, Eating The Chess Pieces:

As a middle-aged adult of sound mind with, incidentally, a degree in public policy studies and political science, I completely understand the impulse to look at what’s happening and find some rational explanation for it that does not involve Donald Trump with a colon full of chess pieces.


I wonder if many people are confusing the idea of “artificial intelligence” with “artificial consciousness”.