Essay
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Un-doomscrolling
Tonight I felt flat. My wife’s been ill for what feels like an age, Lucie’s been really poorly, and I’ve been doing everything. The washing, the cooking, the school runs, the worry. There’s no easy way to say it. I’m …
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The Best Camera Has A Habit
Lee Peterson on iPhone photography. With an iPhone I have a choice of lenses, it’s blends in more, I have filters I can use in real time and I can edit on the device itself if I want to edit there and then. I completely …
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No Brain Space
One of my favourite writers, Craig Mod in his Ridgeline Newsletter: The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” …
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Always Verbing, Never Me
My life is so busy at the moment I’m not really living. Merely existing. I’m so busy that I’m always doing something – caring, running, eating, working, designing – I’m always ‘verbing’ but never Gregging. There is no …
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Car Makers Can’t Make Software
Patrick George writing for The Atlantic About GMs decision to drop CarPlay going forward: Last month, General Motors CEO Mary Barra announced that new cars made by the auto giant won’t support CarPlay and its …
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Siri's Gemini Future
Reports this week suggest Apple is planning to use Google’s Gemini to power the next version of Siri. I’ve been spending time with an Oppo Find X9 Pro recently, and the gap between what Gemini can do and what Siri …
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Autumn Walk With My Dog
Snapped a few pictures whilst walking my faithful friend this morning. It is the first time in a long time I have reached for my camera. Perhaps it was the autumn colours mixed with the misty conditions. All taken on …
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Blogging For More Than A Decade
This website, and also gr36.com, has taken on many forms over the years. I often look back at the internet archive and marvel at how undecided I have been about it. It has been a business website, a personal blog, and at …
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My New App: Micro Shelf
I blame Matt Birchler for numerous things in my life, but this time it’s something very positive. By writing about his new app, Quick Notes, he kicked me in to top gear to get mine in a better shape. It is Micro Shelf. …
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Power Adapters And Markets
Serial EU moaner John Gruber, responding to a measured approach from Nick Heer: I suspect there are going to be a lot of Europeans who buy a new M5 MacBook Pro and wind up charging it with inexpensive low-watt power …
