I posted my end of year blog roundup -- my most popular posts of 2024 and my fave ones too (the lists are non identical). Plus some stats
Weekly streak is now 249 weeks, so 2025 will bring up five years of the posting streak AND my blog's 25th birthday
I wrote about staying up late and watching list songs on YouTube while wallowing in the impending end of the world
New blog post! https://interconnected.org/home/2024/11/29/end
The BBC In Our Time podcast started 20 years ago this week, making the BBC the first national broadcaster to have a podcast (the show had been on the radio for 6 years by that point)
It launched just a few months after podcasting was bootstrapped by Dave Winer and Adam Curry in early 2004, and 6 months before Apple added support for podcasts to iTunes.
Here’s my happy birthday to the In Our Time podcast, including a link to the original announcement post on my own blog
I wrote up the epiphany about the universe I had while at the dentist (2020)
If I were sending a spaceship on a mission to the Sun vital for the continued existence of humanity, I would simply not name it Icarus
some thoughts about Nintendo, their new alarm clock, radar and extrapolated music
new blog post!
colophon time
here's the tech I use to publish my blog
sorry.
I may or may not be implying that the Internet Archive is down because a time travelling AI came back from the future to plant fake history to hide its true origins
New blog post!
Nice selection of episodes to listen to "nearby" Robert Graves (broadcast this week)
(Colours distinguish top-level topics: orange is literature, pink is history, tan is technology, etc)
Tickled to see my Unoffice Hours calls on Hacker News, and being discussed so kindly!
An experiment 4 years old and ongoing... ~360 calls arranged (300+ happened), always surprising, still the highlight of my week
@cubicgarden didn't get a chance to say hi at Monique's yesterday -- hullo! are you at the conf today? Would be great to catch up
this economics paper on the stagnation of the UK is a must-read
just... stacks of evidence on how housing, infrastructure, and energy have gone wrong and are letting everyone down compared to other countries
no suggested remedies! i feel like that's the next step, having the debate about how the incentives are broken and how to fix them
in the meantime, we should all know what's going on
Now my fury is abating, I’ll be more specific: this is for connecting to a particular PCB to upload firmware. Cables and chargers are behaving differently, I have a big matrix of what’s working and not working, so I’m already off spec. I didn’t expect to confound it with ports behaving differently
But the very idea that things can look physically identical but vary in behaviour (cables, ports)… I honestly don’t get that design decision
the 2 identical USB-C ports
on a MacBook Air M2
are not identical.
the port closest to the MagSafe supports data over a USB-C 3 cable. the other does not
both ports support data over a USB-C 2 cable
identical looking cables. identical looking ports
just
USB-C delenda est.
Two pieces of advice for living and a story from when I went have my Tarot read (and what the cards told me)
I’ve also pulled together the press Galactic Compass has received since I shipped it — for a fun, simple toy, it has been a joy to see it in Ars Technica, Fast Co, recommended by Kevin Kelly and more
All here, with a download link too
🧭💫
Oh, Always On mode?
Tap the compass to make your phone full brightness and prevent it from sleeping (interact in any way again to return to normal)
It's how I made this time-lapse over 24 hours... The arrow points to the centre of the galaxy 26,000 light years away. Over 24 hours we turn and turn and turn 💫
Galactic Compass now has new dark and tinted icons for #iOS18 plus a new “Always On” mode
Free on the App Store today!
ok I am now convinced that ALL multiplayer cursors need little eyes that point where you're going. you can actually look at other people
I just... feel like I caught the end of something special... on my own blog?
