🔗 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.
🔗 The Receipt That Sparked A Resolution
Lovely. Have a better 2026 than 2025.
Manager: “Today, I need the caffeine more than I need the dignity.”
🔗 Daring Fireball: Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG
Only a fool dismisses the collective knowledge passed down by those who came before us.
💬 John Gruber
It would be hard to disagree. AND it isn’t just in tech … and design - there do seem to be an increasing number of ‘fools’ in the world across all disciplines. AND they are given louder and louder megaphones.
Maybe the real FOOLS are the enablers.
I like Ben’s approach to ‘Resolutions’ : 🔗 A 2026 checklist - not least because 🔗 the usual approach is more often than not going to fail.
Might try it along side of my 🖇️ 3Words approach.
🔗 ExtraBar - Custom Menu Bar for macOS
Apps like Bartender and Ice help hide icons, but they don’t help you actually do things faster. I wanted deep links, custom actions, and keyboard shortcuts without installing a dozen helper apps.
I appreciate the 14 day money back gurantee - but no real clues as to how this is going to generally work - let alone specfically for me …
I know about it because of @ameripie - who clearly likes it. $9.99 - what can go wrong?
Not yet finished the series - which is telling even of itself - but my review is likely going to lean towards 🎬🔗 Andrei’s
Sometimes the 2025 reviews seem to be so heavy with bad news:
🔗 12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell the Story of Earth in 2025
But sometimes - the good news does just pushes through.
Have a better year than 2025
I’ve been doing this every year since 2019 - which means tonight is my 8th rodeo.
Previous Years
📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different
📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend
📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend
📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice
📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous
📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic - see 2021)
📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
And everything changed on a New Year’s Day
💬 Rage Against The Machine
Jevons paradox is coming to knowledge work. By making it far cheaper to take on any type of task that we can possibly imagine, we’re ultimately going to be doing far more. The vast majority of AI tokens in the future will be used on things we don’t even do today as workers: they will be used on the software projects that wouldn’t have been started, the contracts that wouldn’t have been reviewed, the medical research that wouldn’t have been discovered, and the marketing campaign that wouldn’t have been launched otherwise.
💬 Aaron Levie
via 🔗Simon Willison
🔗 Two Nights Playing With Fire At Patrick Mahomes And Travis Kelce’s Steakhouse
Ending with … (my bold)
This is the way of things at 1587, which is ostensibly a mashup of jersey numbers but also a credible restaurant tab. Complaining about the prices at 1587 Prime is like complaining about the wind on Mount Everest: predictable, but hardly the worst part of the experience. All the same, there is no need for anything this mediocre to cost this much.
🔗 The Future of Software Development is Software Developers
The hard part has always been – and likely will continue to be for many years to come – knowing exactly what to ask for.
We should all do the right thing by and for our children ...
Protecting children’s online safety should be a top priority for everyone, as they are vulnerable to harmful influences from companies prioritizing profit over safeguarding. Sharing the ‘Words of Jax’,
Me: “Thanks, man. That was awesome. My powers as a driver are pretty limited to dealing with unruly passengers, so that was great.”
Tank Man: “Meh. I work three years as Walmart cashier. This nothing.”
Trust Requires Trust. Who Do YOU Trust?
If ‘the future’ is trust. Who/what - do you trust? I mean really really trust? And why?
I’ve been doing this every year since 2019.
My 8th for 2026 will be out in a few days time and looking like another alliterative year when reviewing my draft.
🔗📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful
🔗📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic)
🔗📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous
🔗📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice
🔗📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend
🔗📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend
🔗📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different
It all started as a fun and different challenge.
🔗🔎We got there - although some days were pretty difficult - but only 🖇️ one turned out to be a real stretch.
🔗 Russell Brand charged with new rape and sexual-assault crimes. - this link is 🍎 News - just sharing because Brand is - and always has been a total douche.
🖇️🔎 Me in a series of posts in 2023
But most importantly 🔗 the BBC earlier this year
The BBC has apologised to staff who felt they could not speak up with concerns about Russell Brand’s behaviour because he was seen as “too influential” and they felt he “would always get his way and therefore they stayed silent”.
But Robin Ince? Fire🔗 the fucker.
All this comes to mind as I watch the emerging BBC/Trump case.