Crucial Track 🎵 June 5, 2026
"Andmoreagain" by Love
WEIRD - I wrote this most yesterday - and posted it - yet nowhere to be found. So here we go again.
Back in 'my day' there were three 'Lees' - Albert, Alvin and Arthur. This music is from Arthur, the image below is one of the others.
👁️ 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?
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
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’.
Pink Floyd has Nick’s ‘Saucerful’
Genesis has Steve’s ‘Genesis Revisited’
🔗📼🎵 Not Voyage 35 - and yet is.
It was announced a while back - but seems to beginning to take shape ….
Porcupine Tree now has Colin’s ‘Voyage 35’
👁️ 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 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.
Every nobody is a somebody to somebody
No decision is a decision
🔗📼 The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum has been circulating around a number of places I tend to go, so gave it a whirl. So should you.
Of course it is about curiosity, discovery, history, inaccuracies, putting things right, timelines, typesetting, layout, design .. and more .. and you might think ‘l’m not that interested - yeah nah’. Which would be sad because it would be your loss and you would never know what a lovely man 🔗 Richard McClintock is.
Not only that, but you’d miss out on how just one dedicated person can have impact, no matter how seemingly small.
(Stick to the end to discover the deets.)
👁️🏗️ One step forward - two steps back. I hope the design will be back soon.
I’ve decided that it’s time to end the “Soft Opening” era of my new site/blog. Lots of folks discovered it on their own. I incorrectly supposed that by hiding it behind a mysterious URL identical to my last name, I’d be able to live-test the CMS and my customizations in secrecy.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
I have zero expectations that this is going to be my story - other than - ‘developing in plain site’ - now that I have been 🔗🔎 doing off and on for a while (recategorisation on going) - it’s just nobody notices because only I am there!
👁️ So with him.
🔗 The Enification of Enification
When there’s a change to a thing and you don’t like it or approve of it, you need to consider a frightening alternative possibility. Maybe it isn’t enshittification. Maybe it’s just change.
💬 Andy Ihnatko
🔗 Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’
A lot of stuff covering the ongoing CBS dumpster fire - I think this @gruber post is a good summary - with links - so you don’t need to go anywhere else.
