Want to read: Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright 📚
Want to read: Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright 📚
Catching up on ATP. You know, I’ve been on and off with that and The Talk Show but I think it was less to do with anything happening with the shows and more to do with myself. I made the mistake of assuming that the time listening involved was poorly spent. Now I’m glad to be back on board.
Listening to No Cars Go, by Maxence Cyrin 🎶
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Glorious walk with Hogan today. Bumped into some of his best friends for an impromptu play-date accompanied by the Spring sun. It has remained into the evening.
Moving close to the countryside has done wonders for us in so many ways, and that fact is never clearer than during seasonal change.
That is two and a half times as much as Covent Garden and English National Opera put together.
Meanwhile, in London, Arts Council England is sticking to its opera cuts.
— Norman Lebrecht, Paris pays its Opéra’s energy bills
Strong and stable; prosperity for miles. All going well. 👍
If you use an iPhone and care about these things for your music:
… then Doppler 3 is for you. I have been so happy with Doppler everywhere that I bought the upgrade sight unseen. 🎵
Substack making their move into social networking. Yikes.
In a couple of hours we’re taking Hogan on his first evening run of the year. And so our Spring has well and truly begun.
ERB said it best:
You pulled out of Paris
Should of pulled out of Stormy Daniels
Listening to Dreaming by Mr. Heiwa, via BLNDR. 🎶
The more I think about, the more annoyed I am that the new music app from Apple is not as good as it should be.
“We love music”, “Music is at the heart of Apple”, etc. Great. As a maker of software and services, with plenty of resources to hand, your one job with this app is to make it good.
… the data is badly entered and there’s no way for listeners to edit it, even locally. You can do that in Apple Music, but not in Apple Classical Music. So you’re stuck with whatever the label gives you and sometimes that’s just not the way it needs to be.
— Gregory Pittman, on Apple’s Classical Music app.
This sounds awful and yet more reason to focus on locally owned and managed music for anybody who cares even a little bit about having a good experience.
Music is too important to me that l would continue to allow Apple’s terrible efforts to dictate the role it plays in my life.
After updating to 16.4 on the iPhone I was being presented with a heavily emphasised option to auto-install.
This is some Microsoft legendary shitty Windows Updates behaviour. Literal, actual junk being shipped from Cupertino.
A pun made in latin about latin concerning cats, in a reply is probably one of the ways I’d define Micro.blog tbh.
Posting to @TIL without posting to TIL is a strange feeling.
Years later and I’m still in love with Bear McCreary’s theme for Black Sails. 🎶
I was just prompted to remember that Micro.blog doesn’t have a category editor for posts. Huh, you can import and host thousands of posts but the categories are still only accessible by going into each post individually… That’s rough.
When you upload a picture, it will remain hidden until you add a description (this ensures that every picture has accessible alt text). With a description in place, the picture will appear on the some.pics landing page and on your personal page (which you can access by clicking your omg.lol address wherever it shows up on the site).
— Adam Newbold, Picture Sharing and Discourse
Not only another cool feature for omg.lol but a great way to actually support accessibility. It would be great if other platforms, including Micro.blog, used a similar system.
Does Mac OS Venture finally let you remove that stupid default clock in the menu bar? Asking for a friend.
Pixelmator Pro now includes device mockups… The value added in this version alone is ridiculous. That’s literally a thing I’m going to use for @TIL!
TIL the term “material weakness”. God we’re good at creating utter bullshit.
It’s weird when, you’re working on something new, and no matter how many times you do this kind of thing The Voice is always there. “Nobody wants this.” Every. Single. Time.
I just watched a trailer for a new video-based publication and one of the selling points they included was “no more long articles”.
Why, as people, do we so often feel the need to create “Us vs. Them” scenarios. It is maddening to see that we often lack the capacity for an alternative approach.
There’s a Speedmaster in the local jewellers… First time I’ve ever seen one.