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🎛️ My second ever ‘Snicklecast’ was in 🖇️ March, 2019 and in it I defined a Snicklecast - and explained how 30 seconds came to be the maximum length of a Snicklecast.
Last night, the YouTube ‘algo’ served me 🔗📼 this last night … a short video of the street known as The Shambles in York … England.
I set the start of the video at 2 minutes and 5 seconds - just before the narrator referenced the ‘many’ Snickleways just around The Shambles.
The Coffee Yard - referenced in the Snicklecast in 2019 is not one of them. The map shows their relative positions.
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.
📺 Finished watching 🔗 Lawmen: Bass Reeves last night. I like a great Western - but this was only good - though made more interesting by the fact it was based on a true story. ★★
📺 Finished 🔗 Your Friends & Neighbors Season 2 last night .. and every bit as good as Season 1. Everything all nearly wrapped up .. with lots of new hanging chads for Series 3 to pickup on. Great job. Well worth ★★★★
🔗 Content that scales. Experiences that convert. | Contentful
You might guess that 🖇️🔎 I’m not a fan of Contentful (and likely what they do if their name is a clue ), but clearly SalesForce is, because they just bought them.
I missed them buying Informatica at the end of 2025 so adding them both to a long list including Slack, Tableau and Mulesoft - which as you all know is software fundamental to all sales.
📺 Finally got a show I could watch from beginning to end - not the best - but compared to some others I have been trying out, 🔗 The Beast in Me is worth ★★★
🔗 Honestly, Stop Saying Honestly
We already killed the slop in our writing . The em dash, “delve,” “tapestry,” “in today’s fast-paced world” - the measured lexicon of words that spiked in published text the moment the models got loose on it. “Delve” alone rose about 1,500 percent in scientific abstracts between 2022 and 2024. These words are not wrong. They are tells. A reader sees three of them and stops trusting the page, even when the substance is fine.
💬 Adventures in Claude
Two Thoughts
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Very self aware 😂 and interesting to see how anyone can control the LLM’s output if they spend time on the problem - something which we don’t typically do - used as we are to our world of ‘instant gratification’.
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Just a couple of months ago 🖇️ I wrote: “but no one can deny that we have seen a bucket load more of them ( (em dashes) ) since LLMs turned up.
In case you were wondering where 🖇️ this quote came from …. the answer is 🔗🎵📼 Ren - he is just so good. This one is a kind of 🔗📼 Musical Gary
If you are reading this post on my site, you will see that this link is rendered as an embedded video at the bottom of the post. (THANKYOU @rknightuk]. It will render just fine - unless the video owner wants you to watch it over on YouTube (and to be fair - there are very good reasons for that). If that happens, click on the link above and you will be taken to YouTube. The 'error' is only because the creator wants you to got to YouTube to watch it. That said - on rare occasions, it might actually be broken. If it is - sorry about that - try sending me an email and I will check if I made an error.Unclear if for the long haul - but while I am rebuilding my blog - before I finish rebuilding my site - before I revamp my wiki, I have been adding occasional comments about the ‘trials and tribulations’ of same.
🖇️🔎 🏗️BlogBuild category is live.
Will retrospectively update over time.
🎥 On The Waterfront ★★★★
In a nutshell - if you havent seen it - watch it. If you have seen it - watch it again.
📺 Resident Alien ★★★
It’s quirky and different. Wont be everyone’s cup of tea - but definitely worth a try out. I loved it.
📺 Just finished Legends .. based on a true story it says - and seemingly not wrong according to 🔗The Radio Times Not half bad - with ‘Alan Partridge’ playing the boss - straight down the middle. That said - a lot of the full story definitely not in the show. Future series?
★★★
A paywalled Atlantic piece - but not paywalled on the Wayback machine: 🔗 The Lure of a Fully Randomized Life
When I first learned about Max’s experiment, I thought he had found a convenient way to dodge taking responsibility for his decisions. Sorry, the computer made me do it. But I came to see that no matter where the algorithm sent him, Max had cultivated an admirable equanimity about where he ended up. He’d traded the security of knowing exactly where he was going for the serenity of being present wherever he arrived.
💬 Simone Stolzoff
The whole piece reminded me of 🖇️ The Diceman
Meanwhile as we 🖇️ seek to spend trillions in getting to Mars - we barely understand our own backyard.
🔗📸 In a Single Year, Ocean Census Scientists Discovered More than 1,100 New Marine Species.
📺 Finished Imperfect Women last night. Really rather good. Seem to be more and more of these ‘secrets wrapped up in Russian Dolls’ stories. They aren’t always great.
★★★
👁️ Turns out when I wrote - “🖇️ We are back” - we weren’t quite. Just learned another little thing about Micro.Blog that I had never completely absorbed. Thank you @sod - we are now back .. at least functionally - css and layout remains a WIP.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 24, 2026
"iFiesta Fatal! (Album Edit)" by B-Tribe
I was on a work trip in Finland. My hosts decided to expose me to some Helsinki night life. I can still picture it all - but sadly no pictures to share. At one point we were in a bar/restaurant/nightclub - which it was dependant on the time of day - and this music like no other swept through the whole place and I just disappeared into it.
This was the track. Got back to the UK - bought the album - and it turns also out their second - clearly wasn't in the vanguard on this one. I also bought 3, 4 and 5 as they came out - they never failied to suck me in.
There is a sixth - do not own it - but of course in my online library - though a little different to its predecessors.
And all of this came to mind yesterday as I was wrestling with 🖇️ my blog issues - to pick one random post that didnt arrive until today.
BUT - iFiesta Fatal! kept me sane.
👁️ And we are back - normal service has been resumed.
Special shout outs to @sod and @AndySylvester who were on the end of email helping me bottom out my problems (I have many) and unknowingly @danielpunkass who I was not in contact with - but is the brains behind Mars Edit - without which some of what Sven and Andy asked of me in problem solving would not have been possible.
And when I say ‘normal’ - that is with respect to the MB feed.
Life is not so normal on the 🖇️ website which is
- using sumo - not my theme
- only two plugins - not 11
- a confused mashup of CSS -
But all fixable. Right?
Good to be home.