Paul Taylor

This is just above the equivalent of the nominal GDP of Latvia. Like the Microsoft-Blizzard acquisition, this is obscene.

I’m still confused and unsure about which social platforms should get my attention. I go through this thought of “I should post more” every so often, a bit like the “I should buy a boat” cat, but none stick.

And that’s fine. We can’t expect every client to know it all. Part of our job is to work with them, help them make sense of those thoughts and ideas, and put them into something tangible that makes sense for them. Into something that we can then build.

Sometimes I wonder if people have the wrong attitude when saying “the client doesn’t know what they want.” Oftentimes they do know what they want, they just don’t have the knowledge or awareness to articulate it to a degree that developers are happy with.

Another image from our GamePro press CDs, this is named W3E3BANN.JPG, so we presume this Designers Republic-authored Wip3out image was used on a hanging banner at E3 1999. (Disc: https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/01605cd3-aa0f-4d98-bcf2-a64024f21492 )

I ended up with a free copy of Forza Horizon 6 because of Steam Controller delays. Installed it last night, only to find I couldn’t play or even change the settings until I logged into a Microsoft account. What kind of bullshit decisions went into that…

Quiche is just an omelette pie.

You were Yoda, Admiral Ackbar, Captain Rottingham and Prof. Utonium among many voices. But I’ll always remember you as Marquis Halim Ondore IV. RIP Tom Kane.

Sawe’s record breaking run is absolutely incredible and no-one can take that from him. The numbers are there, the effort and feat is undeniable. But I won’t stand by and listen to the erasure of Kipchoge’s sub-2 hour marathon.

Ed Balls

I obviously don’t know the full picture, butThe Works closing down their online store to focus only on their bricks and mortar shops is an unexpected decision.

I have an old 27” iMac (mid-2011) that I’m thinking of breathing life back into with Linux. Not sure which distro would work best for it though. Does anyone have any suggestions?

As old as it is, Half-Life might be the only game series I find amazing that I wouldn’t recommend anyone play right now.

Not sure what radio station it was, but my Uber driver just changed station to a discussion about what the presenters wanted for 2026. The top request was a USB cable “that can be used any way without the faff.” Like, uhhh… mate…

Given what Grok has been up to lately I’m glad I made the decision to not allow anyone to put photos of my kids on social media.

Invasion, eau de parfum by Exxon and APA.

Frank Gehry was always a creative inspiration to me. Seeing photos of the Guggenheim museum led me, in part, on a journey to art college. I owe much to that. What a life he had.

I've not played it but Choral Chambers by Christopher Larkin for the Hollow Knight: Silksong soundtrack is lovely. music.apple.com/gb/album/cho...

I honestly love a lot of the changes to iPad OS, but I can't believe this in  Music still isn't actionable with mouse/trackpad and I still have to finger swipe/pull. Frustrating.

The next big thing in music, film and gaming will come after their fall to AI slop, when going back non-ai is hailed as a massive breakthrough.

Sad that to hear D’Angelo has passed away after a battle with cancer. I’ll be listening to Voodoo for the foreseeable.

And not a single person with an ounce of sense is surprised after OSA. Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

The continuous overreach by our Governments for our privacy over the past 2 decades is infuriating. Conservatives were doing it, and Labour were doing it before that and have continued now they're in again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Left and right, no room for nuance.

Seeing more people get upset about the Digital ID thing than the Online Safety Act doesn’t sit right with me. Lots of hypotheticals around IDs when the OSA was clear and had an immediate impact to daily lives. Seems very sus.

The right might have hold of the flag but rather than shouting about what it symbolises, this is the best approach. Remove its power from the right, reclaim it. I hope this is an approach that other parties and people adopt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I blame all my woes on this arsehole growing legs.

Hate begets hate. Violence begets violence.

Having a DOOM-like running in SQL is incredible as it is, but a multi-player DOOM-like in SQL? 🤯 cedardb.com/blog/doomql/

Not sure there’s anything here to make me want to upgrade from a 14 Pro. Again.

Interesting read on creating the refracted "liquid glass" we're seeing in upcoming Apple OSs, built with CSS and SVGs. kube.io/blog/liquid-...

Saturdays are my favourite days. I get to spend one on one time with the family, and get some exercise. I take my daughter for a walk in the morning. My boy goes for a bike ride and I tag along. It’s date night with my partner, and I rarely touch a computer. A simple day, but one I need.

"However, M365 Copilot users completed Excel data analysis more slowly and to a worse quality and accuracy than non-users, conflicting time savings reported in the diary study for data analysis.” Does this really come as a shock or unexpected to anyone?

This isn't a recent realisation but after years (decades?) of listening to K-pop on-and-off, I find artists are at their best when they lean right into pop and away from the rap/hip-hop vibes. Few pull it off. Those that do, do it well. Its a formula that should have been left in the early 2010s.

Oh wow, Buffer absolutely mangled that image with over compression.

I never knew this feature existed in  Music - if you hold down the option key it changes the back button to "Genius Shuffle." It's supposed to line up songs that "go great together." (They often don't go great together and there's little variety between each shuffle)

It took me nearly 40 years to realise that the little piggy who went to market wasn’t going shopping.

What an absolute fucking mess.

No matter how much I want to see aspects of the Online Safety Act gone, I will NOT give my vote to Farage.

Various methods including custom adblock filter rules: Bluesky's UK age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2... "It remains unclear whether UK regulators would consider Bluesky's client-side implementation sufficient for OSA compliance." #OnlineSafetyAct

Just at the time the U.K. government is telling us to send personal data to unreliable U.S. companies for spurious age verification systems.