Roelof Botha you say … I guess the muskrat is getting the band back together.
And so good night. I’ll just leave this with you all to marinate.
🔗 Daring Fireball: New in the App Store: Personalized Recommendations
Security research critics Mysk, posting on Twitter/X (XCancel link), report that the App Store app seemingly sends analytics usage data to Apple with everything you do in the App Store app, including exactly what you type, character-by-character – and that this isn’t for search suggestions, but for analytics. (Via Michael Tsai.)
That doesn’t strike me as a very ‘Appley’ thing - except maybe it is?
🔗 Is it Coming Home? England, the World Cup, and the Long Shadow of 1966
I don’t really pay much attention .. mainly because Football. Except - on the ’66 World Cup itself I do have a back story, which one day I will tell because for different reasons that year is firmly printed in my mind. But I had never really understood the back story to how much that team had running that made 66 so important.
Of course - after that it all went downhill.
🏗️💡Thinking about my photo page …
🔗 ARM Never Made a Chip. Dolby Never Built a Speaker. | I, Cringely
And the scarce thing in AI isn’t intelligence. It’s trust.
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You don’t sell the trustworthy machine. You license the part that makes the machine trustworthy, and you collect a sliver every time it runs.
Not just AI .. Identity and News are two domains I work in where our approach is exactly this. (Early days.)
Crucial Track 🎵 June 18, 2026
"I Second That Emotion" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Makes me happy. How about you?
If you are British and someone of ‘a certain age’ you are going to enjoy this trip down memory lane.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 17, 2026
"Manifesto" by Roxy Music
So many - you just have to choose one. DONE.
📺 Watched: Cross Season 1 🚧
📺 Watched 🔗 Boomers Season 1 and Boomers Season 2 - over a very protracted period of time - it has to be said.
★★ - though my gut says one - BUT - I did ‘watch’ them all because there were ‘bits’, so it was clearly not a write off …BUT
Caveats … if you are English and ‘of a certain age’ - it might connect. And if you are ‘of a certain age’ - you might remember Russ Abbott? Yeah .. he’s one of the main characters, that’s why it might not.
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Ok - nobody else is going to say anything - so I will.
The conversation thread on my site has always bothered me … the reason is a little but ‘Alice in Wonderlandy’ - but bear with me.
You have a post - and maybe every blue moon or so someone actually comments.
For the vast majority of my posts - ‘Join The Conversation’ has always felt odd. What conversation? It’s a post floating in the wind. Ain’t nothing happening … until there is a comment. Now that’s a conversation. Ok ok - I take the point - but still - it is a step closer to one. Behold as part of my design update - automatically resolved.
Start The Conversation
then one day you get a comment, saying now the next person can now …
Join The Conversation
Your welcome. Thanks to Claude my co-developer on this one. I don’t think this change destroyed too much more of the planet.
👁️ And so farewell - you served me well over the years old friend. Time to reset my muscle memory.
Crucial Track 🎵 June 16, 2026
"Pictured Within (Live)" by Jon Lord
Jon Lord was always one of my favourites. My interest in Deep Purple emerged not from Taliesyn, Fireball or even 'In Rock', but rather their first live album 'In Concert'. He never managed to repeat that within Purple - but as a solo artist - that was Jon. I THINK I have them all - I certainly know them. But out of that library how do you choose a 'track'?
Hence the choice today - and again - NOT in studio from a live album with Steve Balsamo providing the vocals to one of his 'songs' ... extending it to over 10 minutes with Orchestra. Not sure. there is a single track that epitomises Jon's range - though Jazz and Rock doesn't appear in this recording.
Rock - well - you already know that side of him.
Jazz - well a little light fun introduction to Dave Brubeck's 🔗📼 Unsquare Dance
📺 Watched 🔗 Missing You - another forgotten series. That said it is a ‘Harlan’ story and as I have noted before there are some great Harlan’s - just not all of them. I think the other challenge is that they all start to blend in to each other.
★★
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📺 Finished 🔗 The Asset a while back and promptly forgot about it - which in itself tells you something.
★★
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📺 Finished watching the 🔗 Second Season of The Four Seasons, having already checked off Season 1 a while back.
★★ is the best I can do. Nice premise, plenty of Vivaldi - but didn’t keep me coming back and sometimes forgot it for months on end. I never saw the Alan Alda movie - but nice touch to see him pop up in the show from time to time … 89 at the time!
{Over the past few weeks I seem to have been in a ‘there’s nothing on’ mood. As I scrolled around a few ‘started and stopped’ shows popped up whilst others I’d forgotten all about reminded me that there wasn’t a post.}
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