Essay
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The iPhone Desktop Mode That Never Was, Thankfully
Saw this Reddit post today about people getting iPhone desktop mode working in iOS 26.1 through an exploit. Reminded me of all the hype before iOS 26 launched. Everyone was convinced it was coming. Leakers had code …
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Clacton-On-Sea, November 2025
In between a busy week filming for a documentary I managed to get out at sun rise with mY A7CR. The freezing cold weather was worth the short walk to the Pier.
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Jam Tomorrow
“For purposiveness means that we are more concerned with the remote future results of our actions than with their own quality or their immediate effects on our own environment.” — Oliver Burkeman quoting John Maynard …
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The Geography of Thought
I spend an inordinate amount of time searching for things I know I have written down. My digital notes are a vast, searchable repository of everything I have thought over the last few years, yet I often feel completely …
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Building On Shaky Ground
There is something fundamentally sad about watching a product push forward with new features instead of fixing the issues it already has. It feels like watching someone add a second story to a house when the basement is …
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Sitting In The Mud
I love doing hard things. Always have. There’s something about pushing yourself through something difficult that makes everything else easier. When I’ve slogged away for more than 3 hours running, the rest of my day …
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Connecting No One
Nick Heer writing about Meta prevailing in the U.S. antitrust case: Meta is now fully an entertainment company There is a lot to dig into regarding the legal ruling, but this single line struck me as the perfect summary …
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Simple, Local, TXT
Steph Ango on Mastodon: oops I missed the outage, I was too busy writing in Obsidian The internet broke again. Cloudflare had a wobble, taking down a massive chunk of the web, and everyone panicked. Unless you were …
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A Good Life
I have a huge issue with overcomplicating the rules I live by. I look for productivity systems to manage my work or philosophies to explain my feelings. I want a scorecard. I want to know that if I tick the right boxes, …
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The Weight Is Optional
From the first episode of Galaxy brain when Hank Green is asked about how the internet feels to him: it feels so heavy. It feels, we have a government run by the discourse, and so it feels like the discourse matters so …
