Jamie Lee Curtis in The Bear is an absolute force of nature. What a performance.
Discovered the lightweight blogging platform Bear Blog. Love the speed and simplicity of the interface.
Created a new page on my list of annoyances. Somehow I think I will be adding to this for some considerable time.
Read the headline Google Photos Gets Conversational Editing and almost had the urge to check the article wasn’t dated April 1st.
I see iPadOS26 still hasn’t fixed the keyboard issues with an external keyboard.
I like the idea of both Now and Then pages on a blog. Makes sense.
Daring Fireball: Woz: ‘I Am the Happiest Person Ever’
Better to live rich than to die rich
Hard to disagree with that sentiment.
Spotted another example of comparisons made which show a future state / new product (left) and the current state / current product on the right. At what point this become the norm? It’s completely alien to me. I can’t see beyond before/after or now/later, today/tomorrow. The reverse is perverse.
New resolution for 2nd half of 2025 is to care, but not care quite so much about things which don’t matter.
Surprisingly, for the first time in years I have opted to install beta OS from Apple. In this case it’s the iPadOS public beta of iPadOS26. The lure of the windowing on iPad was just too much.
Whole bag airport scanners. What a breath of fresh air. Incredibley easy
Checked in for my flight and in selecting a seat was informed that these are preallocated. Seriously? What’s the point of airlines offering online check-in and seat selection if seats are determined without any consideration of customer preference
Apple’s classy new iPhone ringtone is available to try right now
Ok but who actually has a ring tone on their phone anymore
Only today did I hear about the More Space option on ipadOS Display settings. Toggling it on has a dramatic impact on the relationship between window size and text size on ipadOS18. I can only hope it’s usable on ipadOS26.
Considering buying a parasol for the decking. That’s a sure fire of guaranteeing miserable weather for the rest of the year.
I honestly think I need to concede bankruptcy in both the Shortcuts and Drafts apps, and simply start again.
On 512 pixels
at no point does Dye show any emotion about the work
or any consideration of design is how it works. Usability must be the primary consideration above everything else.
I never thought it would happen. But Donald has finally said something most people can agree with.
I am now, and will forever be ensorcelled. I’m so amazed and grateful to be with her.
Sunset this evening is to be after 10 pm. Ok, I know it’s the summer solstice but witnessing that amount of daily that time of night still seems abnormal.
Absolutely incredible acceleration and downforce on this Top Gear lap
And it feels like it. We’re not cut out for these temperatures in the part of the world
Still my favourite mug.
Funny to look back at On This Day and feel that noting has changed in 6 years.
Since installing AutoSleep and wearing my watch to bed I’ve been able to my “Sleep Bank” but this has rarely been out of debt. I’m actually thinking it’s just not possible to consistently be in credit.
Not finding the need for LLMs
I’ve been watching The Talk Show interview from last week’s WWDC and heard Nilay Patel say that people are using LLM’s “100’s of times a day”.
Really? That must be a massive exaggeration, driven by the hype.
Personally, I’ve got installed the chatGPT app in December and Google’s relentless advertising wore me down to point where I gave in and installed Gemini in April…
And now what?…
In 6-7 months I think I’ve used them 10-12 times. Not 10-12 times a day, just 10-12 times across both apps. Despite the all podcasts, the advertising and hubbub around the LLM bubble I’ve not yet found WTF I’m supposed to be using these apps for.
If I want to research content then I’m looking for product reviews or articles from real people who’ve done the work and present the content.
I guess I don’t see the appeal of an instant message type response from an LLM which is 20-80% accurate, and I’ve possibly no way to determine what’s correct without the repeat work myself, i.e. looking for content from real people who’ve done the work, then comparing it to LLM on LSD.
One the keys to any successful product or service is that the benefits should be obvious, to the point where the product almost sells itself. There shouldn’t be the need to conduct your own research to determine this benefits.