It’s getting to that time of year already when there’s a hint of light in the sky when leaving work, still a while to go yet before I see anything light in the mornings. It makes the walking at the weekends all the more precious although the weather being cold, damp and breezy hasn’t helped over the last few days.
The Govan-Partick bridge really opens up bits of the city that previously would have been a car or underground journey. Yesterday’s walk finished with a snap of the new (last May!) Mary Barbour mural at Govan. Still enjoying Project Indigo.
Work has been focussed on three main topics – budgets, goals and recruitment – AKA fun, fun, fun. Joking. There’s also been some news that puts everything into perspective. Enjoy life, work to live not live to work. Something I still struggle with myself but hit home hard in the last two weeks. I’ve managed to survive January with no weekend work. Small steps.
📺 Media
Let’s start with Traitors and if you aren’t up to date then move on as there’s some spoilers coming. The latest series has just finished in the UK and the first two weeks were fire, there was a slight dip and then it finished strong with a cracking final. Couple of thoughts on the format and the players:
- Rachael dominated the show – such a great traitor and was pleased she won even with some luck along the way. Her and Stephen made a formidable pairing.
- Harriet – played a great game until she blew it at breakfast. Will never know if the desire to sell more books or just the pressure of the game got to her. The takedown of Hugo though was chefs kiss.
- Format means strong players do drop out quickly and the final is always weakest + traitors. However some of the players in this season were pretty poor at spotting what seemed to be right in front of them. Easy to say as a viewer I guess.
- Secret Traitor and the Dagger worked well – kept it interesting especially at the start when with so many players you are unlikely to catch a traitor.
- Claudia is THE perfect host for this show. Ed Gamble also great on Uncloaked.
- Clearly jumpers and cardigans are necessary to be on the show.
- Still love the format and if they can keep the current production team there’s plenty life in the format still.
The Pitt is back and picked up nicely from season 1. Industry season 4 is also back with a bang – really hitting their stride. Watched Tron:Areas – terrible film. The Ballad of Wallis Island is well worth catching though as is The Rip.
🔗 Links
- Health board admits fatal infections probably caused by water system – The lies told by NHS Glasgow and likely supported by the Scottish Government in some shape or form is disgusting. For the board to fight for years, pay for investigators to look into complainants and then a few days before the inquiry publishes do a 180 on their position is a disgrace. People should be forced out for this.
- There’s a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape – disgusting devices but fascinating to understand how they work and what kind of tech they pack…thats then thrown away!
- 25 years of Wikipedia – nice way to celebrate a huge milestone. One of the better corners of the web.
- Getting off US tech: a guide – given the politics of the USA right now this is a great resource to help find safer/better options.
- 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents – great insight into the appeal and danger of vibe coding. Claude is such a great helper – I’m a couple of days into playing with Claude Code – just couldn’t resist.
- Your App Subscription Is Now My Weekend Project – this shows the danger that SAAS and App developers could face. See also Matt Birchler’s Quick Stuff.
- A Lament For Aperture, The App We’ll Never Get Over Losing – Given Apple just launched Creator Studio this post looking back at Aperture is timely. I’m still on Lightroom and paying Adobe some £££ each year that I really should drop.
- Rockstar Games Gives GTA 6 Early Access to Terminally ill Fan With 6–12 Months to Live – GTA VI should drop this year and Rockstar does (deservedly) get quite the bad press but fair play for doing this.