Fortnightnote, Sunday 28th September

  • Been a really busy fortnight. Work full on and very little time to myself…thankfully got the next week off which will let me finish off setting up the new Unraid NAS and also finish off a post on iOS26 and the new hardware from Apple.
  • This years Ryder Cup has been epic. Europe smashed the first two days but fair play to the USA for responding to make the final day a total butt clencher.
  • The Bermuda Triangle of Leading – another astute post from John Cutler and something I’m guilty of doing.
  • I regret to inform you Meta’s new smart glasses are the best I’ve ever tried – while the fails at the launch were pretty funny, the reviews point to a pretty amazing set of smart glasses. Meta making real strides in this market – where are you Apple?
  • AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity – timely read after speaking with some new graduates at work and we spent 15 minutes on AI and its pro’s and con’s. I still have a fear of sitting in workshops and having a AI chatbot battle with people as they generate questions and answers that aren’t their own.
  • Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News – nice write up on getting the best out of hacker news, like Techmeme, still a daily driver for me
  • A platform jumping prince – Jordan Mechner is the author of Prince of Persia so who better to write about how it jumped between platforms.
  • Messenger – a quite beautiful webgl game that runs so well in the browser.
  • Tree of the year – great to see that the Argyle Street Ash in Glasgow is the Woodlands Trust tree of the year. I grew up three closes down from that tree and for thirty years I’d see it almost every day. Was really nice to hear from a couple of people that remember that tree in Glasgow but are now many miles away but saw the picture in papers or websites through the week. Hope it stays for many a year to come.

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