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Ramin Djawadi’s cover of Heart-Shaped Box is all I can listen to right now. Oh, also, the new trailer for Westworld has me ready to go for season 2. Like, now. 🎶📺
Do I Wanna Know? is a particularly good song late into the night. 🎶
ZTE Tempo Go is the US’s first Android Go phone, on sale today for $80
Could be: a back-up device, a first-time device for children, an emergency device when without your daily.
… Glitch has delivered an easier way for coders to create on the web right from the start, with things like real-time collaborative editing, instant deployment and automatic secure hosting.
If you get tired of just looking at the Internet, the Chromebook Tab 10 can also run Android apps.
Adventurous wit aside, this is a decent summary of the new Chrome OS tablet.
Looks like we need a MB support group for flakey CMS users. I’m definitely in this boat and try not to think about the amount of time I spend on looking at alternatives that I know won’t even last long for me. 😬
At first glance micro.blog is like Twitter — a micro blogging service (clever name, eh?). But that isn’t all.
– How-to micro.blog, a micro.guide from @eli
A blog post greatly inspiring my thoughts for a blog post, à la the web.
I made a ‘faves’ playlist on Pocket Casts (incidentally, Shifty Jelly just released a Windows app) and it turns out I uh… well, there are 28 podcasts in the filter. Too much podcast? 🤔 Or not enough podcasts???? 🤔🤔🤔
Last year, Elon Musk personally urged workers not to unionize, and promised to provide them with free frozen yogurt if they listened to him.
But yay rockets amirite.
In an excellent Twitter thread, Seanan McGuire talks about fanfic, gender, power in society, and some of the connecting threads therein. It’s a shame this isn’t a blog post.
Messages in iCloud appears to be vapourware.
Tonight’s fun involves seeing Labyrinth at the British Music Experience, along with a display of items from the film including Bowie’s costumes! 😍
Open Live Writer looks like the only genuine piece of software that can provide Windows users with an app for both writing and publishing. At least, I hope it works with minimal maintenance needed. 🤞
I’m currently catching up on my podcasts, having been out of the loop for six weeks, and especially enjoying Presentable by Jeff Veen. Recent highlights:
- VR with Shahid Kahn
- The open web with Jeremy Keith
- Accessibility with Laura Kalbag
Astonishing selection of photographs from this year’s Sony World Photography Awards Open competition. I’m especially keen on the winner of the Landscape and Nature section, from Veselin Atanasov.
Watched Atomic Blonde a couple of nights ago. Was a lot of fun, and refreshing to see an action woman. Another highlight was the music; currently enjoying it via a playlist. 🎶🎞️
This is a branch of the British emergency services. We should be both ashamed and committed to change.
It’s struck me that tech bloggers and podcasters spend so much energy and resources on talking about the amount of money in tech and yet are unwilling to talk about their own. Ashley Ford talks about the taboo.