Rui Carmo is, rightly, a little less optimistic than most of the Apple-focused commentariat about the notion that Apple forking iOS to create an iPad-specific variant marks a new era for the iPad: I have a profoundly different take on what “work” means than Federico-like one of my friends said the other day, there is… Continue reading iPadOS
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Spomeniks
Owen Hatherley reminds us that the Spomeniks weren’t created just to be concrete clickbait: remembering what they were commemorating matters too: What Spomenik and the like forgets, Pupovac insists, is not only the scale of what happened here – “Yugoslavia was the fourth highest country in Europe in terms of civilian casualties” during the Second… Continue reading Spomeniks
ASCII art in code
I’m more than a little in awe of some of the pieces of work laid out in Explaining Code using ASCII Art. Fine work by all involved. [Via Accidental Tech Podcast]
On the bright side…
Positively the only good thing about recent political developments in the UK is that they’re going to give Marina Hyde tons of new material: […] Arguably this morning’s most amusing development was Helen Grant resigning as Tory vice-chair to openly support Dominic Raab. Is this the same Dominic Raab who resigned in protest at a… Continue reading On the bright side…
Ask and ye shall receive…
It’s almost as if they heard me: trailers for the three episodes of the forthcoming series of Black Mirror are out. So, not much sign of a turn towards the upbeat so far. I live in hope…
Black Mirror trailer
The trailer for Black Mirror season 5 seems mainly to exist to remind us that having access to some of Netflix’s money allows the show to cast bigger names and keep the standard of special effects up to scratch: no attempt to let us in on what any of the stories are about. Charlie Brooker… Continue reading Black Mirror trailer
Cap’s PR
Somewhere down the line I do hope Disney find the time – in between building up whichever cosmic-scale threat is going to close out Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – to fill in some of the gaps in the story they’ve shown us so far. Tell me this fanfic about life as Steve… Continue reading Cap’s PR
40 years of Aliens
Just before 20th Century Fox was swallowed up by Disney, they celebrated the 40th anniversary of one of their own greatest franchises with six Alien 40th Anniversary Short Films. I doubt the Xenomorphs are going to be showing up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe any time soon, but that’s OK: they’ve done a fine job… Continue reading 40 years of Aliens
Killing IE6
Settle down and enjoy a little bit of history: The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill… Continue reading Killing IE6
ArchiveBox
ArchiveBox looks like something I’m going to have to find the time to look into: ArchiveBox takes a list of website URLs you want to archive, and creates a local, static, browsable HTML clone of the content from those websites (it saves HTML, JS, media files, PDFs, images and more) You can use it to… Continue reading ArchiveBox