👁️ The good news is that my drafts count continues to go down. A few weeks ago just shy of 300 - today below 60. And yes - I know that people keep thousands of drafts in that world - but I am not one of those. To me it is the first stage of any text that will pass through any number of workflows. If it is in Drafts - it’s in my ‘inbox’ and needs to be dealt with. Like the next one.


Google Sucks

🔗 Daring Fireball: Remember When Chrome Went Bad on MacOS?

🔗 Daring Fireball: Google’s Gemini Mac App Is Native, in a Distinctly Google Way, But Annoyingly Presumptuous

I experienced this about 9 months ago - cant recall how I fixed it - but Google was definitely not on my ‘things to check’ list


👁️ via @dave .. interesting 🔗 Tweeter Feeder - Stream Spigot - tried it out - not for me.


🔗 The Underworld Market to Remove the Recording Indicator Light on Meta Glasses

Using a Meta platform to find people to hack a Meta device so you can surreptitiously record strangers. So perfectly Meta.

💬 John Gruber


🔗 Transparency and trust

Part of the problem is that we measure what’s easy, not what’s relevant. And part of the problem is that we have trouble explaining trust, while it’s easy to pursue ever more transparency.

💬 Seth Godin


🖋️ Sometimes 'Non Obvious' comes disguised as 'Obvious'

Manton suggests that Apple rarely builds anything now … ‘except the most obvious products’. I disagree, because that statement depends on two things … what is meant by ‘obvious’ and what is meant by ‘product’.


👁️ Have to say when I look around at other services in film, shows, music and books - Letterboxd (sadly only film) seem to have it more right than the others.

🔗 The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd


👁️ The end of an era. When I first arrived in SF they were the bedrock of support for places like KQED and related programming. They did - and do - a lot more beside. I hope the ‘kids’ get the future right.

The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, one of San Francisco’s largest philanthropic foundations, is closing at the end of 2028 as younger generations of the Haas family transition to new giving initiatives.


🎛️ A Snicklecast: How Many Seconds of Audio does it take?


📸 Some places have ‘Street Art’ .. we have ‘Beach Art’

The beach is no Oneroa - but makes up with proximity.

The coast is taking a toll - eventually, the fight will be lost.