Another day, another pub. 🍺

Started reading: Late Light by Michael Malay 📚

https://micro.blog/books/9781786581426

Started reading: Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham 📚

https://micro.blog/books/9781399401043

Morning from a Kentish pub.

Brits: Adventurous Ink, a great book club that sends you books on nature, adventure - and reconnecting with each other and reclaiming our attention — has a relaunch Kickstarter that’s struggling to meet its target.

Please do check it out, and consider backing.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/217171643/adventurous-re-think/

Here’s a secret: Fritz Kola is one of the main reasons I love going to Hamburg…

I sometimes wish I had made photography a bigger part of my professional life. The only time I really get to do it is when I’m doing event liveblogging. And sometimes that turns into gig photography.

I have blogs. I should do more photography projects.

https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/alli-neumann-opening-next24/

What the hell is happening at Automattic?

It looks like the war for the profits of WordPress has begun…

https://onemanandhisblog.com/2024/09/what-the-hell-is-happening-at-automattic-part-2/?utm_source=Fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=first-share

Beardy Guy

"Appreciate and take care of your devices. Take pleasure in their longevity. If they get the job done, keep using them. This is the way."

Still happily rocking an iPhone 13 Pro. Not feeling any urgency to upgrade.

https://beardystarstuff.net/linked/2024-09-25.html

The Bell, the first Mill Media local journalism site to be powered by Ghost, is live.

Glasgow is getting Ghosted…

https://www.glasgowbell.co.uk

Good news, chums! Coffee is good for you!

(Yes, I am avoiding reading the details, lest they undermine the news I want.)

☕️☕️

https://boingboing.net/2024/09/25/study-finds-drinking-plenty-of-coffee-is-good-for-you.html

This Automattic / WP Engine story

is absolutely wild.

If those texts are genuine, I’m going to need a lot of popcorn as this plays out.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/23/wp-engine-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-automattic-over-mullenwegs-comments/

One of the lovely things about NEXT Conference is that, thanks to it happening alongside the Reeperbahn Festival, we get some great musical opening acts.

This year it was Alli Neumann.

https://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/alli-neumann-opening-next24/?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=photos

Liking the aesthetic of this coffee shop.

Saying goodbye to Hamburg again. Greta trip this year, even if BA seemed reluctant to actually fly any of us home…

That’s how you start a conference…

#next24

https://adders.blog/2024/09/19/thats-how-you.html

Good morning from Hamburg and #next24 on Reeperbahn. Busy day ahead…

This tribute to David is touching but a little surreal:

"In Ottawa, Canada, anti-war protestors put up pictures of Knowles on what’s called the Freedom Pole, which sits outside the Russian embassy, with the message “eternal memory”"

I’m used to my students breaking news. Becoming it is something entirely different.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/obituaries/david-knowles-telegraph-journalist-who-made-huge-impact-in-a-short-life/

Lovely autumnal moment in the churchyard.

This is interesting: one of the most interesting news startups in the UK is leaving Substack and heading to Ghost: Mill Media titles to depart newsletter platform Substack.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/mill-media-leaves-substack-ghost/