Into the new year with a bang – full work week and it was packed. Good to catch up with the team and colleagues alongside looking back at 2025 and what we delivered while looking to this year and where we can improve. Lots to do.
As tradition there’s no resolutions as they’d be broken within a couple of weeks but there is a theme and a few areas to focus on.
Really enjoyed Predator: Badlands – some bonkers sci-fi and hopefully there will be more of the same in a follow up. Night Manager is ok but feels just another spy thriller in amongst healthy competition from a number of streamers whereas 10 years ago it really stood out. What is pretty special is The Traitors. I wondered if the changes this season would be a tweak too far but it’s been glorious – a programme at the top of its game. To round off this first post, a few links:
- Kent Hendricks things I learned posts are also a great read and 2025’s is no exception. I’d missed the Louvre password 🤦🏻♂️
- Interesting read around 21 lessons from working at Google.
- Nikita Prokopov’s post on Tahoe, It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons, is a terrific takedown on what’s going wrong on the Mac. Liquid Glass is such a step back and the OS is so buggy but it’s the attention to detail on interface design that’s highlighted by Prokopov that used to be prided upon and now seems abandoned. Shame.
- Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards – this post is stinging and can’t disagree with a word of it. If you are still using X its time to leave.
- 2025: The year in LLMs – Simon Willison covers in great detail just how much has changed in 2025.
- Claude Code and What Comes Next – I could have posted four or five links just this week on what people have been using Claude Code for and it’s damned impressive. I need to start dabbling.