Dave Winer has a real point here - and I’d love to see Mastodon fix it: Why Mastodon isn’t the one
http://scripting.com/2023/10/11/131337.html?title=whyMastodonIsntTheOne
Time is different when you work on The Spectator, it seems.
Turns out that if you go to bed super early on Saturday night, because you’re exhausted thanks to the first teaching week of term, a train strike, and working Saturday, that the 6.30am start for your daughter’s swimming lesson is much easier.
Who knew?
John Gruber:
"X itself now feels like a third-rate Twitter knock-off."
Fair point.
I feel judged by my iPad.
Sometimes, you prompt Midjourney, look at the results, and think “I’m going to have nightmares about that image”.
Images from Hamburg and the Reeperbahn Festival.
Deploying my camera on my annual working trip to Germany…
https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/09/images-of-hamburg-the-reeperbahn-festival-2023/
Why saving Harvard’s blog history matters — and why I’m sad I was unable to save the early work I led.
https://onemanandhisblog.com/2023/10/saving-harvards-blog-history/
A lot of character in this old, partially ruined house.
It has begun. 🎄
Dave Winer:
"There is no good outcome possible from arguing on social media."
Started reading: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons Book) 📚 🎲
I just accidentally connected via VPN, through a connection already going via a VPN.
And that pretty much sums up my day.
I’m doing it – but only on one Mac.
Gen X erasure is real.
Started reading: Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght 📚
Spectacular views over London en route to Heathrow.
Podcast insertion ads are still so laughably primitive. All the British podcasts I downloaded while in Hamburg are full of German ads.