A packed week at work, always struggle the week after a holiday – no time to catch up on the mails from the previous week and a back to back diary. Can’t quite believe Starmer has held on – a caretaker PM now. What I really enjoyed this week was the morning walks – glorious. Not so glorious – some micro power outages at home. Had a handful over two days, not unique to me but happening to others in the area too. Glad I picked up a UPS for the NAS.
Also enjoyed a cracking brunch at Sunny Acre, the southside of Glasgow has some great places to eat.
Finished watching Season 2 of Daredevil which was pretty good, and The Cage on BBC was excellent. All caught up on The Assembly which is such a special programme – Nicola Sturgeons episode was funny, emotional and ended with a great version of Dignity.
🔗 Links
- Rain, Pubs, A Home Away From Home: Inside the ‘People Make Glasgow’ Editorial – The Star Bar looking better than ever
- Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 – still an amazing looking handheld thats 22 years old!
- I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went – another PSP post that didn’t lead me to eBay. Honest.
- How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe – some great alternatives to the usual US based tech firms.
- Yellowkey – some of the cyber vulnerabilities being disclosed right now are amazing. This one could lead to real breaches of personal and corporate data.
- Muslim socialist destroys New York by taxing the rich, eliminating the deficit and improving public services – I’ve seen a couple of posts saying Burnham won’t make a difference, UK is toast, economy is bust. There’s always a different way as Zohran Mamdani is demonstrating.
- You can make an app for that – Claude and Codex really do make app building pretty straightforward. How much waste is there though from people running almost identical apps but built and deployed independantly.
- AI psychosis – this is a thing.
- Halt and Catch Fire – a wonderful TV drama (if you haven’t watched it then find and watch it immediately) but I never thought much about the title – this post explains it all.
- The Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter : Cross Section Artwork Process – seeing early reactions, this might be my favourite outcome of the Mandalorian movie