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About nine months ago, I ran into Evan Prodromou at an event at Meta. The social media giant was telling an audience of Fediverse and decentralized social veterans about its plans for its social network product Threads – focused primarily on its quite extraordinary plans to integrate it with the wider Fediverse. At the time, I wrote a very long blog post about the whole experience. It was a fascinating …

I mentioned the DJI Osmo Pocket in the "Future's so Dim..." post, and this got a number of responses popping into my email InBox. It's worth deep diving into the problem a bit more, because it's essentially the same problem that the camera makers have been fighting for some time: "good enough" wins. We've seen this "good enough" thing pop up in technology after technology. For example, despite the audio …

I get so annoyed at news reporters and political pundits when they talk about climate change because they invariably get climate confused with weather. All summer long, reporters were warning about how awful the upcoming hurricane season was going to be, and they always blamed anthropogenic-influenced climate change. Then, hurricane activity this year was below average (so far). Few of these same reporters mention this. A hurricane season is weather, …

Today, we’re upending the traditional name order. Names are usually arranged alphabetically by first letters. We’re used to seeing them and evening thinking of them sorted by their beginnings. Try it yourself. What would you guess is the all-time most popular American name starting with the letters ART-? Take a moment right now to think of possibilities, then read on. Maybe you thought of the right answer (Arthur), and maybe …

Whoa – this has been quite the week. We’ve been working with [redacted] to get something ready to launch in time for [redacted] and it is the kind of high profile activity that has a lot of important eyes on it (as well as opinions). It has got ye olde heart pumping but I have to be honest I’ve quite enjoyed it – it is the most I’ve felt like …

Team Lisp is ready to play: I'm entering the RetroChallenge 2024 (RC2024) with a NoteCards project targeting Medley Interlisp. The RC2024 announcement explains the point of the challenge is to do something new, learn, and have fun with retro systems: In a nutshell, the RetroChallenge is a loosely disorganised gathering of RetroComputing enthusiasts who collectively do stuff with old computers for a month. The goal of my RC2024 project, WebCard, …

Agatha All Along (2024) s01e01 “Seekest Thou the Road” D: Jac Schaeffer. S: Kathryn Hahn, Joe Locke, Debra Jo Rupp, Aubrey Plaza, Emma Caulfield Ford, David Payton, David Lengel. Direct(ish) sequel to WANDAVISION has Hahn playing a prestige series detective, except her latest case starts throwing her. There’s Plaza’s FBI agent, come to help, only Hahn can’t quite remember their history. And then suspect Locke is pretty sure he knows …

Happy autumn! Did you find any September Ale yet? Nope, me neither. But as I probably say this time every year – it was a thing! Whatever it was. Defo. A certain thing for a certain time: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples …

Happy "new song by The Cure" day to all those who celebrate. This is like hearing from an old friend again after all these years. I can't wait for the album.

This week, we are giving away the Girologio Leather Zipper Pouch that we reviewed awhile back. This pouch was used for photo purposes only so its darn near brand new. We have just one to giveaway, just so you know. TO ENTER: Leave a comment below and let us know what you’ll store in this lovely pouch if you were to win it.. Play along and type in something. It …

I recently read this short post by Kev Quirk. It’s about removing content from the web. While Manuel Moreale is against deleting content from the web, Kev thinks he would probably delete things if he feels bad about them. Today, I implemented a feature on my blog that lets me easily set posts to unlisted or private with the press of a button, so only people with the link, or …

Everything is kinda shitty and stressful right now, so here's a little look at something that's neither. I wasn't allowed to have videogames when I was a kid, so I chose my friends based in part on who had a game system at home. Alan had an Atari and a pile of games. Geoff had an Apple II and Kareteka. A kid who moved out of town in third grade …

1. Teen Vogue talked to independent bookstore owners about their concerns about book bans, and the books they wish everyone would read instead of banning. 2. Approximately a third of former NFL players surveyed think they may be suffering from CTE. 3. A number of statues in London are getting baby slings (which honestly, why don't we decorate statues more) as folks push to get paternity leave recognized. In addition …

'Chain Letter' invites a sign painter or lettering artist to share a piece of lettering that has influenced or inspired them, before passing the baton to someone else, in a never-ending chain.In the last one, Marie Pressmar nominated Guido de Boer, a visual artist and educator in Utrecht in the Netherlands who works freehand with brush and ink to create large, monumental installations.What have you selected?Published in the 1860s, Hector …