I wrote this a while ago. I'm not sure I ended up happy with it. But I posted anyway.
"I recently read an excellent long-form article on enshittification that made me feel like quite the rebel being the person that actively avoids crappy free/cheap stuff. (And yes, I acknowledge my privilege) I can't stop thinking about it though. I want… I NEED… a simple, succinct version of some of it to send to people to TELL THEM that this is what's happening.”
Here. This is fascinating.
“Thousands of people in our comments like ‘What app is this? Where did people come from?’… We should keep TikTok shut down so teens can make friends in our comments.”
Just remembering the bit of the Vergecast where they talk about how teens found the TikTok-is-dead article and were commenting on saying “What app is this?”… gotta find that. It was funny and interesting.
My little Christmas treat gift to myself arrived today. The lack of backlight is annoying, but the PlayDate is as charming, beautiful, quirky and fun as everyone says it is.
I see more and more WordPress devs diversifying.
As someone who is deep in WordPress but familiar with much more (and especially Laravel) I’m happy to help people level up!
I’ll probably try to resurrect https://beyond-wp.com/ soon.
And while it’s WAY out of date, https://wptolaravel.com/ might still be useful.
This is a weird ask, but I’m kinda missing creative collaboration and social chat.
Maybe I could stream some recreational development stuff?
Or arrange some short out-of-hours co-coding sessions? I’m happy to teach and be taught.
Would ANYONE be interested in this?
Can’t remember where I saw this, but it's a cool visualisation of the biomass and human-made mass on earth and how it has changed.
Also kinda scary.
Today I was reminded of this old Eliza-like “AI" psychotherapist guy that you could get on a disk with your SoundBlaster Pro back in the day.
Who else remembers…
"Hello Ross.
My name is doctorsbaitso”
Just paid my bill for healthcare, roads, emergency services, social care, education, public transport, public utilities, overseas aid for those in need and business investment.
I really don't mind. I can afford it anparthelpmpy to pay my parthelpm kinda glad I get to do it because it makes society better and help others as much as it helps me.
The birds were singing loudly in my garden today.
When discussing this with my wife I realised that I’d not put any seed in the feeder for a few days.
Perhaps they were being noisy because they were…
Hangry Birds!
(Someone has made this game, right?)
Can we just rename “mid life crisis” as “perfectly reasonable attempts to escape from peak life responsibility”?
This trend for angular car fronts that will really frickin hurt any pedestrians they hit needs to stop.
Do I follow someone that was looking for a fitness tracker + watch that was simple and just looked like a watch.
If that's you, does the leather version of this with the analogue face count?
https://us.amazfit.com/products/active-2-round?variant=46799536521468
Just finished our rewatch of Severance season 1 in preparation for season 2. What extraordinarily good TV. Can’t wait for the new episodes.
We have been on a repairing spree!! Yay!
I bought and installed a new battery for the iPod I use for music in the office.
I bought new feet for our kitchen mixer.
And I have a speaker that blew a diode in for repair too.
Fixing things is GOOD!!!
I saw people saying lots of good things about the local multiplayer game goodness that is Towerfall. How have I never heard of this? It’s EXCELLENT!!!
Chatting with friends about productivity and managing work and tasks and I’m realising that I’ve settled on a really good system (for me).
Must write about that.
It involves Rocketbooks. Which I was initially very skeptical of.
Back to work… might take a while to get warmed up!!
(Seems I didn’t shut down properly!!)
Related to All The Other Thoughts I’m having, I’m loving having unconnected devices again.
I have an Analogue Pocket and an Anbernic retro game handheld. I can play complete games with no monetisation, leaderboards or upgrades.
I’m listening to MY music on an iPod. Just mine. Anywhere I like. No interruptions.
My Kobo IS connected, but I just read books on it. That’s all!
I’m longing to get a BluRay player (we’re still on DVD!) and buy some actual movies.
I’ll be buying a road atlas next! 😃
I can't stop thinking about this… I want… I NEED… a simple, succinct version of some of it to send to people to TELL THEM that this is what's happening.
https://fosstodon.org/@ross/113736031375268562