Might order a standing desk today. Narrowed it down to one manufacturer, now it’s just the desk size 🤔
Read moreRewatching a bit of the Apollo 11 documentary before work - liftoff 🚀
Read more“Missions” season 2 is now available on iPlayer in the UK. Season 1 was brilliant, can’t wait to watch this 🚀
Read moreFind of the week - RunJS. It’s like Tinkerwell but for JavaScript. No brainer purchase 😎
Read moreJust realised I can add new website feeds directly to NetNewsWire using the share sheet from the browser on iOS. That simplifies things, but it’s also a “well, duh” moment.
Read moreFinally fixed the PHP highlighting issue with Sublime text 4 by removing the ES6 package. Happy highlights again 😎
Read morePlan for the week: try and build an AppGyver MongoDB demo app. Should be fun 😎
Read moreI’ve decided to give micro.blog another try. I’ve been reading a lot more indie web recently and I’m wondering if I just didn’t “get it” first time round.
Read moreStarting season 2 of SeaQuest DSV 📺
Read moreWatching an episode of The X Files season one (“Fallen Angel”) with a brew. Just like lunchtime in high school 📺
Read moreGot to say, I’m really enjoying watching seaQuest DSV on the Horror Channel. I don’t think I’ve seen it since the original run 📺
Read morePicked up a Kirby CMS license yesterday for my new domain (fancied a change from WordPress). 20% off until today too, bonus 😎
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The photo above is when I met William Gibson during his “Idoru” book tour, at Andromeda in Birmingham, 1997. Loved Ulysses 31 as a kid (can’t remember the ending though). Nice little find via Facebook The History of Ulysses 31: A Worldwide Hit Barely Registered in the US. I’ve had the MP3 of this for years, but of course somebody would have uploaded it to YouTube. William Gibson’s epicNeuromancer, dramatised by the BBC.
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The Bond themes that could have been. Michael Hawley has died. I hadn’t heard his name before (not that I can recollect anyway) but wow, what a life: A man of manifold interests, his achievements ranged from developing ideas behind the so-called Internet of Things to publishing the world’s biggest book. A lot of the expected Apple Silicon articles doing the rounds, but I particularly enjoyed reading this one.
Read moreFinally bought myself a Raspberry Pi Cortec Rover from Pimoroni (sale on, 20% off!) 🤖
Read more20 minutes or so left of Space Force. Really enjoyed it, hope it gets a season 2
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The Project Behind a Front Page Full of Names “Putting 100,000 dots or stick figures on a page “doesn’t really tell you very much about who these people were, the lives that they lived, what it means for us as a country,” Ms. Landon said. So, she came up with the idea of compiling obituaries and death notices of Covid-19 victims from newspapers large and small across the country, and culling vivid passages from them.
Read moreMISSIONS, SEASON 2
I watched season 1 of this on BBC Four in 2018. I didn’t know season 2 had been released, and both are on Prime! It’s French with subtitles, and I highly recommend it. The Prime synopsis isn’t great, Wikipedia is better: In the near future, the first manned space mission to Mars, Ulysses 1, is a European mission funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and William Meyer, a billionaire Swiss philanthropist.
Read moreAnother day, another domain bought. Wonder if I’ll get round to building anything on this one, or if it’s just another “good idea I’ll get to” 😄
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Cozy Lego I’ve never heard the term before I listened to the tested.com “This Is A Test” podcast but wow these photos look amazing. Words don’t do it justice, go and check out Architeclego over on Instagram. The Five Deeps Great article over at The New Yorker about the expedition to visit the 5 deepest points of the 5 oceans. They also stopped at Titanic. The real Lord Of The Flies For his new book, Humankind: A Hopeful History, Rutger Bregman uncovered the real-life story of 6 schoolboys who were stranded on a Pacific island for 15 months in 1965-66.
Read moreJust noticed season 3 of Somebody Feed Phil | Netflix Official Site lands on the 29th of May. Real feel good 📺
Read moreQUICK LINK TO SOME USEFUL DEV TOOLS
Fayaz Ahmed has posted a great list over on dev.to “I am surprised more people are not using these tools!!”. Some really nice inclusions for API, HTML email, image optimisation… Well worth a coffee and some digging into.
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CleanShot X for Mac This screenshot/video capture tool is great - even lets you capture scrolling regions intelligently. Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’ Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us.
Read moreDog walking in the rain
Read moreNASA AND THE OPEN SOURCE ROVER
This made me smile so much last night. NASA JPL has created a website where you can drive a rover in 3D (works perfectly on mobile too), plus it also has a “build your own rover” section. This not only lists the parts but it also lets you drive that rover in the browser too - it’s brilliant! If nothing else you can enjoy some stress-free driving on another planet for a while 🚀
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