🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
🔗 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.
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.)
If you are British and someone of ‘a certain age’ you are going to enjoy this trip down memory lane.
📺 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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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!
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Good lessons ….
🔗 ‘Anthropic’s Safety Superpower’
Apple’s is design quality and user-centricism, Microsoft’s is market share with no regard for technical or design elegance, Google’s is market share with high regard for technical elegance, and Meta’s is strip-mining the world’s social graph for profit.
💬 John Gruber
.. he is sometimes very good at getting to the nub very efficiently.