iOS 27 is sure to be a popular update for iPhone, with a big emphasis on boosting device performance, Liquid Glass refinements, significant improvements to Siri with Siri AI and Apple Intelligence, and more. With all of these exciting improvements and features, you might be wondering if your iPhone is capable of running iOS 27, ... The post appeared first on . Read more ›
A serenely colorful, melodic charm shows on “aura incorporealis,” a new track from roenn described as “a dreamy, 8-bit, Vocaloid duet.” The artist’s harmonious vocals meld with the electronic Vocaloid aspects, reflecting with gleeful Avalanches-esque savvy as effervescent synths and steady rhythms drive into a lovely title-bearing refrain. “So open up your heart,” the vocals signal into a riveting expanse, where glistening synth layers frolic with enhanced vibrancy. A fantastic guitar solo ca... Read more ›
I took James' cool little Blogger Archetype Quiz. I expected to get some cheeky reply like: "Your dreams are made of markdown and your laptop has enough s... Read more ›
Today, 21st June 2026, is the 5th International Stereoscopy Day and this year also marks the 100th anniversary of Franke & Heidecke’s stereoscopic film camera, the Rolleidoscope. To celebrate, I’d like to invite you to a unique 3-D tour of the Franke & Heidecke Factory, Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany, in 1938! The 1930s stereoscopic photographs you... The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›
For those who subscribed to my RSS feeds you should, at some point, see a new title. It’s taken me far more tweaking and PHP hacking than I would’ve liked but it’s been irking me and now, I hope, it’s fixed. I’ve also removed some plugins around Webfingers, Webmentions, ActivityPub and the like, largely while […]Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit for more. Read more ›
Musician and writer Drew Daniel discusses the value of criticism, the space between tragedy and comedy, and what it means to be a pleasure wizard. Read more ›
There’s a tradition of bloggers making grand announcements when they change something on their site, such as its visual design. As this strikes me as yet another manifestation of techno-individualism, a kind of PR for the demesne of me, I shall keep this brief. I don’t plan to post any new articles here to . As I’ve mentioned before, I have a distinctive name that’s easy to Google, and I no longer want this identity findable by people like current or potential employers. I will however keep t... Read more ›
Get a few nerds of a certain age talking about the early days of personal computing, and the same machines always come up. The Apple II gets its flowers. So does the Commodore 64. Somebody gets misty about the TRS-80. Nobody mentions the Atari ST. I’d like to fix that, because I owned one, and... → The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›
"GPS is critical to everything from shipping to warfare. Tricking it is ridiculously easy." Read more ›
The central mystery of Ballads is how an album of standards, recorded during one of the most radical periods in jazz history, feels every bit as profound as Coltrane's more adventurous work. In this installment of the Midnite Jazz column, we explore the mystery of John Coltrane’s Ballads, its place in his discography, and the power of restraint. The post first appeared on . Read more ›
A wander down memory lane of America's Bicentennial celebrations in 1976 after seeing all the decorations in this storefront window for the 250th. Read more ›
Cartoonist Jeffrey Brown discusses using the metaphor of mountain climbing to explain why he feels artists shouldn't use AI in their process of creating artwork. Read more ›
Got a whole bunch of little things finished this morning for the next release of Epilogue. Finally showing a checkmark for the current bookshelf, and a new default for the Movies tab to show movies and TV shows people are blogging about. Just submitting to Apple for review. Read more ›
Tracy Hills by Ryan McIntosh and Yogan Muller © 2025 Radius Books, documents the construction of a master-planned community in California’s Central Valley near San Francisco from 2021-2024. Both photographers approach the subject through shared concerns about ecological threat: the loss of farmland and habitat, drought, wildfire, elevated heat, and unchecked development. The photographs reflect View the rest of on <a rel="nofollow" href=" Read more ›
An immersive piece of melodic electronica, the new remix of “odeon” sees Vilnius-based producer Rushkeys reinvent muuju‘s original track. Merging dreamy keys, spacey synths, and a bouncy house groove, Rushkeys (aka, Domas Ruškys) shapes a nocturnal soundscape that flows seamlessly between downtempo introspection and organic, dancefloor-ready movement. A dreamy, subdued twinkling of keys melds with steady rhythmic pulses as the track gets underway, blissfully atmospheric as a subtly soaring vo... Read more ›
Exclusive | Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says WSJApple's Siri AI push drives 12GB DRAM demand for Samsung and SK Hynix digitimesiPhone 18 to Pack 12GB of RAM for Smarter Siri Features, No Price Bump MacRumorsiOS 27’s Best AI Features Won’t Work on the Base iPhone 17 The Mac ObserverBase model iPhone 18 very likely to support all Siri AI features 9to5Mac Read more ›
Last weekend I published the 100th episode of The Cycling Europe Podcast. If you listened to it, you will already know all about this exciting news; the audiobook rights for my four books have been purchased by a publishing company and, all being well, they will be available to streama and download later in the year. I've been asked to record the books myself (Stephen Fry wasn't available...) so I'll be spending quite a few days in an audio studio at some point over the summer doing just that. Read more ›
The first question has to be, how did a girl from Birmingham (in the UK) end up training as a bounty hunter, in the US? It was all in the name of research! Once I knew that Lori Anderson would be a bounty hunter I knew I needed to find out as much as I could about the realities of that job - and about how it felt being a woman in the largely male dominated profession of bounty hunting - in order to make Lori as a character, and the story itself, as authentic as possible. I researched it... Read more ›
Originally recorded back in 2011 alongside 'A+E', this album of pure and simple pop from the Blur guitarist shines with his best The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›
Several months ago I blogged that we wanted to have more integration with WordPress and Ghost in Micro.blog. I’ve now rolled out the first part of that, with an option to add a WordPress blog to Micro.blog’s web interface. New posts and edits sync back and forth between Micro.blog and WordPress. Read more ›