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Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:01:07 +0200

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:56:02 +0200

I’m not sure I need Surf.

I already use and love the app Tapestry to pull my Bluesky, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Tumblr, and Threads feeds into one place. I also have micro.blog for publishing my stuff to one canonical place and sending it out to all those social networks (POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere).

If you don’t have something like micro.blog, I can see the benefit of the reverse approach (PESOS: Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate to your Own Site). It means you can publish on the various platforms and Surf will pull it into a destination that you can share with new audiences. Likewise, if you don’t use Tapestry, I can see the benefit of using Surf to aggregate your feeds.

The publisher case is less clear to me, though.

The Surf beta has launched with outlets like 404 Media and The Verge on board. For them, it could make sense as an audience consolidation tool. But if readers stay inside Surf browsing snippets, will it drive traffic back to their sites where the ads/subscriptions are? Publishers have been burned by that trade before on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Flipboard itself. I am not clear how this new approach will be any different.

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:58:58 +0200

“… there is no damnation greater than spending our allotted days in the catatonia of comfort and certainty, our inner lives automated by habit and halogen lit by convenience.”

www.themarginalian.org/2026/04/0…

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:11:00 +0200

Another Star Trek prediction coming true thanks to research at Microsoft… Star Trek’s Isolinear Optical Chips: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Isol… Microsoft’s Project Silica: www.microsoft.com/en-us/res…

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:54:00 +0200

I did not know Tagesschau had a version of their news in simple German. This is fantastic! www.tagesschau.de/tagesscha…

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:46:00 +0200

Possibly the most sycophantic article from a podcast news site ever written about corporate interests in podcasting!

TLDR: Apple is introducing video to its Podcasts app, but only if you host with one of four large provider/ad networks: podnews.net/article/v…

From (apparently highly-regarded) Podnews' article:

“Whether it’s truly “open” or not, it follows the ethos of podcasting - that creators should be responsible for distribution and for monetisation."

The word “responsible” is doing serious concealment work here. If Apple had opened this to all podcast providers, it would follow the ethos of podcasting. Instead they’ve launched with four big players, which increases (or even incentivises) lock-in in an industry that is meant to put creators in the driving seat. Podcasting started with RSS precisely so creators controlled distribution. Restricting access to a handful of corporate partners inverts that original promise.

Much of the industry is drifting toward the legacy media model with big corporations extracting value from creators and listeners. Podnews.net seems happy to be along for the ride.

I hope Apple moves quickly to open its API to all podcast providers, especially independent networks like Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett’s Relay.

I think UKIP's proposed logo is much more like an iron cross variant than a cross pattée variant

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:57:00 +0200

I think UKIP’s proposed logo is much more like an iron cross variant than a cross pattée variant. And that’s fine: let ‘The New Right’ be honest about who they are through their logo.

A decent party would take the feedback and redesign the cross to avoid this terrible association. The fact that they choose instead the call the criticism ‘Christophobia’ tells you everything you need to know about their populist, authoritarian ambitions.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p…

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:33:00 +0200

“When I showed up with a camera, nobody was surprised, because they knew I was a photographer,” she said. “They knew so much about me and they were just charmed to meet me, finally.” Bill had been showing them pictures of his kids for decades.

A Photographer’s Portraits of Her Dad

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:18:00 +0200

Very excited for this! Order placed 😊 - This is the new Clicks Communicator… and BlackBerry fans, we need to talk! | CrackBerry

Tech, Design, and Leadership - perfect news story for me!

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:40:00 +0200

It’s interesting when three domains of my interest coincide. Last week (or was it the week before?) it was the tech/leadership/design news that (now former) Apple Human Interface Design chief, Alan Dye, was leaving Apple for Meta. I drafted this post when the news was announced, but I forgot to post it… so here it is.

My first thought was not about Dye’s competence as a designer (those more competent to judge than I suggest it was limited), but rather the strange move from the perspective of Leadership.

One of the things you learn if you want to succeed as a leader is how to adapt your leadership to the organisation in which you’re leading. Or to leave and find an organisation more aligned with your values and principles. If Dye has done the latter, it is remarkable that he spent so long at Apple. While both Apple and Meta are corporate behemoths, they do seem fundamentally different when it comes to the expression of specific values. If Meta is Dye’s ‘value home’, then Apple certainly cannot have been. If Apple is Dye’s ‘value home’, then Meta is going to be hard for him. Time will tell, I suppose.

For more on the story (if you somehow missed it), John Gruber has a nice write-up on how this news was received at Apple: daringfireball.net/2025/12/b…

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:58:27 +0200

The Paper Pro Move from reMarkable looks like a really interesting format, but I don’t think it’s for me. Great exploration of the device from My Deep Guide, highlighting both the good and the bad, which helped me come to my conclusion: www.youtube.com/watch

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:53:08 +0200

I have a custom timeline in Tapestry (https://usetapestry.com/) that is an oasis of photography, insight, stories, and kindness. It’s a wonderful place to immerse myself. I still take a deep breath and wade into the unfiltered stream daily, but the oasis reminds me how joyous social media can be.

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:09:02 +0200

I signed up with Kagi (https://kagi.com/) for paid personalised search. I’m having to retrain my muscle memory that the links are the top of the page ARE actually Kagi’s genuine top hits, not some paid-for links. I realise I’m so used to skipping down the page on Google to find the proper results.

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:48:21 +0200

“For the Torment Nexus to get built it needs to convince you that your only option for survival is to build the Torment Nexus”

buttondown.com/monteiro/…

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:19:10 +0200

“If your prompt is about something that’s common and the majority of online-text is right, you’ll most likely get a right answer out of the LLM. But if you’re asking something that not a lot of real people had interactions on… it might be complete nonsense.“

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:16:03 +0200

Dean Cain (who I loved as Superman in Superman and Lois, and who was born Dean George Tanaka, which gives you a sense of his own immigrant roots) managing to set up a straw man argument about immigrants and seem kinda racist in a single quote. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/dean-cain-superman-woke-maga-backlash-immigrant-1236451732/

Why centrist politics is failing to live up to the moment

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:53:42 +0200

This article is persuasive and powerful about the failure of centrist politicians to counter the far right. Historically, I’m guilty of the same thinking as Starmer and have mostly thought of myself as a centrist, and have mostly focused on trying to identify policy compromises to bring people into the fold. In the last couple of years, though, it has become clear to me that I am really quite far to the left of centre, and especially at the level of core values

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:04:10 +0200

Seems like the amazing folks at The Onion have been reading the same reports I read on SUVs: Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident.

Hat tip to Jason Kottke for bringing to my notice.

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:16:03 +0200

“Our study found that, in the case of a crash, being hit by an SUV or LTV increased the odds of a pedestrian or cyclist being killed or seriously injured by around a quarter. The odds of a pedestrian or cyclist being killed increased by 44% for adult/all-age samples and increased by 82% for children."

At this point, you basically have to be a pretty special kind of person to own an SUV (in fact we’ve known how lethal they are for at least 10 years). A good summary on Forbes of this and the other reasons why SUV owners really ought to rethink their ownership.

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:04:59 +0200

Denis Villeneuve Directing Next James Bond Film

This is excellent news!

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:12:24 +0200

Proper consumer protection would force either HP or Humane, I don’t care which, to refund customers the cost of their now-useless hardware. And that should probably come out of the enormous amount that is going to otherwise go to the shareholders/owners in this deal:

daringfireball.net/linked/20…

#tech #consumerprotection #customerrights

Sat, 04 Jan 2025 16:11:28 +0200

If you haven’t seen this story yet somehow (WaPo nixing a cartoon critical of Bezos and Trump), the blog post from the cartoonist, Ann Telnaes, is very much worth reading: anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-… #politics

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:44:29 +0200

This heartfelt speech from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems worth boosting as we move toward January 20th. #politics www.youtube.com/watch

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:49:37 +0200

Just came across this joyous Dr. Who parody of ‘I’m just Ken’ from the Barbie movie: www.youtube.com/watch