The crazy thing about not-sitting being good for health is that healthcare places are the WORST! Sure, many (maybe most) people waiting for health care need to sit.
But they expect you to sit for hours waiting. They come and take your vitals but there’s zero encouragement to move around.
Normalize standing and anxious pacing around!!
I always feel like such a freak for wanting to stand up.
“Take a seat”
“Can I get you a chair?”
Etc.
Thanks, but I spend all frickin day being sedentary and I’m not at work now and I’d like to stretch out and move around.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/02/sitting-minutes-cancer-death-risk-study
I will never understand how the various search functions work on iOS.
App search is kinda fuzzy? Accidental “ohot” matches “gOogle pHOTos” perhaps?
Spotlight search is just wrong most of the time. There is a built-in app that I use all the time called “weather” and you can’t find it?
Also: I’ve been getting a load of cold, personal upsells recently. More than usual and more direct. Is this product companies that have over-spent on AI trying to correct?
A stupid observation: I’m struggling to see how AI companies get their money back.
The cost/benefit is already too hard to justify. Maybe the benefit is hard to measure. Maybe the benefit is too low.
So either:
– existing models need to get cheaper to stimulate use
– models will need to get better – but better models cost more to train and use – higher costs harder to justify
– more efficient models come along with lower inference costs and higher margins – is anyone perusing this?
I need to sign up with an email address to read this and I have no idea what I should do!!!
In retro-tech news… I have a Soda Stream!!
I’ve been drinking a fair bit of Pepsi Max lately.
A combination of:
– someone saying how bad it was that we ship flavoured water around;
– an annoy amount of recycling;
– my daughter’s persistent nagging,
led us to do the maths and – device aside – it works out 5p/l cheaper than bulk-bought cans. And there’s no cans.
I’ll need to make 1000+l of pop to pay off the cost of the machine (buuuuurrppp), but we’re loving it.
And we have all the cordials!
The Zig programming language guy is smart, considered, articulate and humble.
We need more people in tech like this.
I hope he doesn't lose his focus and values.
(My thoughts on a YouTube interview with him.)
The other day someone asked “What your low-stakes conspiracy theory?”
And I knew I had one but could NOT remember at the time. It’s this:
The famous crop circles of Wiltshire are Swindon’s transport planning dept trying out new roundabout layouts!
Today I am at Bletchley Park. Home of the WWII code breaking effort. Fascinating place.
But I note that geese weren’t even valued in the 1940s!
Content warning:Rant. Minor spoiler for Connections puzzle.
NO Connections. I know you’re in the “New York” Times, but you are WRONG!!!
I saw that Mermaid.js is now mermaid.ai today.
It’s a frickin’ diagram tool!! What?!
I’m wondering if @jessie has seen this? Could be some inspiration for your class!
What’s been super-nice this evening is dropping some emails out to people that reported issues with Turbo Admin. They all get saved and logged and I aim to reply to each one when their issue is fixed.
My customers are so nice and I love interacting with them.
Turbo Admin v1.22.0 is out with the Firefox iframe fixes – amongst some other minor things.
Useful thing… I’ve improved front-end detection of WordPress APIs, so you can pop the palette up on your favourite WP sites to search them!
(This was broken for a while)
I’ve had a couple of reports of my Turbo Admin browser extension injecting its palette code into places it shouldn’t when using Firefox. Seems I was a bit over-enthusiastic with my iframe handling!
Fix is identified and implemented and will be released very soon.
Apologies if this impacted you.
Please sign my petition to institute a temporary and UK-nationwide standard working day of 6am – 10am and 4pm – 8pm.
Everyone gets a long siesta and doesn’t have to work though the hottest part of the day.
Thanks in advance for your vote!
Realising that this is my tokens == fossil fuels analogy from the other day. It works perfectly!
Since cars became a thing, I’ve had zero urge to walk. Something I’ve done my entire adult life.
Just genuinely depressed. How can you get anywhere while watching money leave your bank account for moving? And how can you get that dopamine hit knowing you wasted time when a can could have got you there faster?
The only people left walking will be those with effectively unlimited fuel budgets. End of an era for regular travellers.
So frickin’ weird…
Four years ago I had a letter addressed to my business about someone leaving a legacy in their will – not to my company, but to a charitable organisation with a similar name.
All seemed pretty suspicious. But I contacted the solicitors and they were going to look into it.
Yesterday (!) I get a follow up from a different legal company telling me I need to disclaim my interest under the will.
Seems like a scam, but also seems very real.