📺 I watched the first 1 1/2 episodes of 🔗 Cold Call a long while back and forgot all about it. This weekend as I was poking around - redesicovered and finished it. (The whole thing is only 4 episodes - so an easy piece of homework) - and my goodness - maybe they spent a little bit too much time setting it all up - but somewhere in the middle - it just turns … you might know the lead - Sally Lindsay from 🖇️The Madame Blanc Mysteries that she created, co wrote and stars in. Nice gentle little show with a 🖇️🎵 great theme song.
Cold Call is nothing like that.
★★★
📺🔗 Dublin Murders over on Acorn is a few years old now (2019) but really rather good. Going to give it ★★★ - but - no spoilers now - that last episode might be require me to come back and knock it up to 4.
👁️🏗️💡Running some very large OPML imports into NetNewsWire recently as we are doing some testing - gotta say that the synching improvements that @brentsimmons recently added are definitely making a difference.
One More thing please: Nested folders and/or tags (as @dave uses in Feedland) 💗
🔗 Andy Graham - Nebula · Sourcefeed
An electric stringed digeridoo solo.
Who knew that there was such a thing?
Spoiler alert - there wasn’t until he invented hit.
Mesmerising.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Yours Truly on The Vergecast: ‘the Epic Story of Markdown’
That’s it. So what I find gratifying isn’t that my “language” continues to thrive, because it’s not a language. It’s that the way I like to format plain text when I’m writing, and the way I like to see plain text formatted when I’m reading, has so thoroughly won the world’s mindshare battle. “Ha-ha”, I say, to people who want this to mean bold, not italic. (And to Slack and WhatsApp, I say “Fuck you.”)
Quick 30 minutes - nicely done.
🔗 Can someone who’s more green fingered than me tell me is this is giant hogweed please? asks Kevin Quirk.
No idea - but the danger was described over 50 years ago.
Turn and run!
Nothing can stop them
Around every river and canal their power is growing
Stamp them out!
We must destroy them
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour They are invincible
They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering
Mathew Ingram: 🔗The light - reminded me of an old limerick.
Things that go bump in the night.
Shouldn’t really give one a fright.
It’s the hole in each ear,
That lets in the fear.
That and the absence of light.
💬 Spike Milligan
📺 (Not) watched Widow’s Bay and have been holding off on the final opinion.
No more.
This morning I read Bob Lefsetz on 🔗📺 Widow’s Bay.
So totally with them and him.
I too restarted a couple of times - and have plodded along whenever i think - ‘well it cant get much worse’. And then it does. Which is why
★
One of many similar comments.
I tried 3 viewings and it just seemed dumb.
LATER: 🖇️ Apparently I gave it one star when I did the first review last weekend. At least I am consistent.
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.
➕
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 🚧
