Consoles, and the PlayStation 3

Long-time Twitter and now Mastodon friend @Franksting has a new blog, and he’s started with a topic near and dear to me: If a product team has done a good job, users will clearly understand a new feature’s value and they can turn it on whenever they choose. And this, which should be stapled to the forehead of every manager and decision maker...

One thing I didn’t do in my twenty-year anniversary post was thank the specific projects and software that make this blog possible. I apologise for this massive oversight! The Hugo static site generator is the first one I want to call out. I’ve bounced around almost a dozen CMSs here since 2004, but I’ve been on Hugo since 2016. I first moved to...

I should be more thankful that the systems surrounding me work as well as they do. There is so much that happens behind the scenes that make our lives possible and pleasant, from the power grid and water systems, to telephony wiring and mobile reception. I take it for granted that I plug stuff in, or connect to something, and it just works. Good...

Today’s Music Monday is something really special. 💙💚 I was saving this from last week, but my oshi Pavolia Reine from Hololive Indonesia did a send-off with Ceres Fauna in a cover of Invincible Rainbow Arrow, and it’s everything fans of both them could have hoped for! For context, Reine and Fauna bonded early over their love of AI: The Somnium...

Today we have a quote from Philip K. Dick, via the imitable Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski on Mastodon. Ubik has made the reading list! “The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay...