Comfortable with the uncomfortable

There’s a tendency for me to start off a post like this with a bit of backstory. Perhaps some very surface level reasoning and almost explain myself before starting off the real post. Writing a few words that gets people interested in an age of reducing attention spans and constant need for entertainment. This dear reader is the issue at hand, and it’s time we got uncomfortable. Without going into too much detail, for the past few weeks I have been both intentionally, and non intentionally, making myself uncomfortable.

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20 Jun 2025

The Console For Family Time

Yes another Switch 2 post. I am sure you are sick of reading them by now. The new generation of Nintendo consoles hit this week and I really wasn’t going to buy one. But I did on a whim and for once no buyer remorse — all of us have been playing it all weekend. There’s no review here. You can find specs and professional opinions everywhere on the web by now.

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09 Jun 2025

Another "Reimagining" of the Computer, This Time With OpenAI and Jony Ive

So, the worst kept tech newe in history after what the next Pixel phone looks like, is out: Sam Altman’s OpenAI and Jony Ive’s design firm, LoveFrom are formally combining efforts with a hardware group called “io.” Their stated aim? To “completely reimagine what it means to use a computer”.It’s a bold claim, the kind the tech industry loves to make. We’ve heard variations of it before. And yet, the names involved already gives me reason to believe.

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22 May 2025

Slow Running

A mere three weeks ago, I ran the Manchester Marathon. Thank you to all those that supported me aging the way, but I crossed the line very disappointed. The conditions were torturously hot and humid, meaning I was 30+minutes slower than what I wanted. So here I am training again, this time on a structured plan for a half-marathon in September and then another full one in April 2026, but I’m struggling to slow down.

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13 May 2025

London Street Photography Vlog

It’s been a while. In fact, it’s been about four years since I last made a video. For ages, I told myself I’d get back to it, but I kept putting it off. The excuse? My life wasn’t interesting enough. I wasn’t jetting off to far-flung places or capturing glamorous moments — just regular life, with the odd photo when I remembered. But I’ve started thinking differently. Rather than waiting for something “exciting” to happen, I thought: why not treat this like a kind of video gratitude journal?

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14 Apr 2025

OpenAI reportedly mulls buying Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s AI hardware startup | TechCrunch

OpenAI is said to have discussed acquiring the AI hardware startup that former Apple design lead Jony Ive is building with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Running out of companies to buy and ruin, billionaires are now acquiring themselves….

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08 Apr 2025

Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules - BBC News

judge has sided with a coalition of civil liberties groups and news organisations - including the BBC - and ruled a legal row between the UK government and Apple over data privacy cannot be held in secret.

This is fantastic news. Now if we can actually get the public interested in this!

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08 Apr 2025

European Commission Orders Apple To Improve Third-Party Device Integration

Today’s decisions wrap us in red tape, slowing down Apple’s ability to innovate for users in Europe and forcing us to give away our new features for free to companies who don’t have to play by the same rules.

Apple crying that they have to allow other things work with their devices, other than more of their devices. Yep more proof of it were need they care about the bottom line not users.

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20 Mar 2025

Just slap an LLM on the front end—how hard can it be?

You can’t get there just by LLM-ing harder and faster.

The realisation that you can’t just slap an hallucination machine on something and it power you tech is fast approaching.

Imagine hiring someone and they just make stuff up at the level LLMs do. I get it, they’re useful, I use them loads but I don’t want them powering my device, I wouldn’t trust one to even set my alarm.

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17 Mar 2025

Becoming That Guy

There’s a strange thing that happens to people when they become known to do something. It could be a certain position at a company, a hobby, or even a topic they are particularly passionate about. Once they reach a certain point, they lose themselves and become ‘that guy’ and it becomes difficult to shake. Unfortunately, that’s been me for quite a while. I’ve spoken to people about this before, for example, Daryl Baxter, for a while, was ‘the iPad guy,’ and it took years for him to shake it.

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05 Mar 2025