With the late-May release of 1Password for Safari, we will be increasing the minimum Safari version required to support 1Password for Safari to Safari 18.6.

💬 1Password Announcement

… which got me to wondering. Turns out I am on 26.4 - which despite the numbering is not that much newer. 18.6 was replaced by 18.7 in September 2025 - not even a year ago.

Thats a pretty aggressive upgrade stance. The predecessor to 18.6 - 18.5 was only May last year.

Then again if you are someone who uses a password manager, I guess your propensity to keep your software up to date is going to be high.

🎵📼 🔗 Tom Petty does ‘The Mac’ - and his ‘Welllllll’ must be the best ‘Wellllll’ I have heard in any other cover. It might also be better than the original.

👁️ Stunning art.

🔗 Navid Baraty’s Atmospheric Photos Explore Contrasting Scales of Time - Colossal

🔗 Adactio: Journal—Dilation

The Irish tale of Oisín describes the warrior’s journey to Tir na nÓg, the land of youth. He spends three years there but when he returns to Éire to see his old fighting comrades from the Fianna, 300 years have passed.

And for a related 🎵 interlude …

Tír na nÓg are an Irish folk duo formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 by Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell.[^cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-0][1] They are often considered one of the first progressive folk bands with other artists like Nick Drake or groups like Pentangle.

💬 Wikipedia

Not to be confused with Horslips - who along with Tír na nÓg were in constant circulation on ‘young John’s’ turntable back in the day. Almost certainly arrived at them via Pentangle and Fairport - but most definitely stood on their own. Still listen to Horslips to this day - not so much Tír na nÓg.

🔗 Software Eats Its Own – On my Om

The people who build software are busy wiring up the machines that will build software in their place. Call it automation. Call it augmentation. Call it whatever makes you sleep. What it actually is, is software industrialization, happening right in front of our eyes.

🔗 Rosabeth Moss Kanter is decribed by Wikipedia as

“The Thinking Woman’s Michael Porter".

Maybe more accurately Michael Porter is

“The Thinking Man’s “Rosabeth Moss Kanter”.

I mean Rosabeth was born 4 years before Michael.

We lived on Waiheke for a year and the daily constitutional was along the beach on Oneroa.

I found this a related and interesting read …

🔗 The Disappearance of the Public Bench – Pixel Envy

A bench is one of the few places you can sit and spend time for free. Their absence in so many public places is notable for what it says about who we consider part of the public.

All along one half of the Oneroa beach there are chairs to sit in. On?

They don’t belong to the houses. This is not a council service. This is just the love of a single person who noted that on such a vast and beautiful beach there was no place to casually sit - which particularly affects older / infirm people so took it upon themselves to keep the sitting places well populated and goes down twice a week to keep to add and restock the chairs. Yes I know who it is. No I won’t tell you. They travel under the radar.

Side note - the Rotary Club has placed (to date) 58 Public Access Defibrillation Units across Waiheke - so maybe it’s an ‘island thing’? Though I don’t recall one such machine on Maui when I lived there.

👁️ Interesting view of tenure - and great trivial pursuit question … 🔗 Daring Fireball: Eight for Eight

👁️ Whilst 15 years is certainly ‘over a decade’ - I find this quote a little disingenuous and would expect more from Jim.

Tim Cook stepping down as CEO of Apple after over a decade at the helm of the company.

🔗 The Dalrymple Report: John Ternus

(Sept 1 is over 15 years - not even counting his two ‘acting’ stints in the oughts.)

👁️ Reality …

🔗 The Path to Success Isn’t a Straight Line.