Gradually the days are getting lighter and longer. The difference starting and leaving work in the light, even if its just the sun setting, is massive. I blame the office I’m in which is windowless although very very bright. Something I need to take care off.
I’ve loved the Winter Olympics from Italy over the last two weeks. So many great performances, so much drama and it always feels a little bit cooler than the summer Olympics. The curling was a highlight and it’s a shame the men were pipped to Gold – there’s always France in 2030. Also, the Scottish Premiership this year is delivering in spades.
BAFTA’s tonight – always enjoy skipping through the award ceremonies. So good to see I Swear and the actor Robert Aramayo pick up awards. An amazing film about the life of John Davidson who has spent most of his life dealing with Tourette’s – you could hear him occasionally through the awards as well. Great to see Jessie Buckley get her award too – richly deserved.
🔗 Links
- Something big is happening – shared everywhere but it’s important. AI is overhyped and some of the results are shit but when you look at the rapid improvements in coding using Claude or Codex then there’s no doubt its going to bring some major changes to employment across the glove in the coming years.
- I gave Claude access to my pen plotter – this is getting weird…but others have done the same and got similar results. You can replicate it without the plotter by asking it to create the image and write to an svg.
- Xbox chief Phil Spencer retires from Microsoft – Xbox as a brand is cooked. Too much focus on being the Netflix of games, too many AAA games that didn’t deliver and now thanks to AI any new hardware will be super expensive. And going with everything is an Xbox and bringing their exclusives to PC and PlayStation means you don’t have a console business anymore.
- Paged Out – Stumbled on this – great webzines full of geeky content. Number 8 is just out.
- TV is most popular way to watch YouTube – Never thought we’d see the day that in the UK most folk are watching YouTube via their televisions and not mobile devices. YouTube is the big threat to Netflix.
- One of the highlights of the Olympics has been the use of drones. They need to do something about the high pitched noise but from skiing to skeleton and even speed skating they’ve really added to the action. The sense of speed you got from them reminded me of switching to bumper view in racing games. So good.