I proved a very well known hypothesis in UX/UI design this morning. Users don’t read. I also proved that primary buttons need to be very carefully chosen, especially when they don’t do what the user thinks they will do. On a somewhat related note, Bitbucket’s commenting system is very poorly designed.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

From For the Fallen By Laurence Binyon

An interesting thread from Jessica Hische about the new Affinity.

I’ve been using the Affinity suite for a few years and looking forward to kicking the tyres on this new version. Some of my fears of free have been dispelled by threads like this and the elsewhere. They aren’t using any of the IP created in it to train AI.

Matthew Smith is sharing the photos he took on his recent trip to Japan and there are some lovely shots that capture both the people and the place. Well worth a scroll if you’ve any interest in Japan and it’s culture.

Finished reading: Always Remember by Charlie Mackesy 📚

We always like to imagine mastery as a kind of arrival. You work and work and work, you practice something for 10,000 hours or – in the case of the violin – even longer, and then, one day, you’re there. You’ve reached the peak, the struggle is over. You can lean back and enjoy. But it’s not really like that, is it? And wouldn’t it be a bit boring as well? The gift of mastery is that it sharpens your senses. The cost is that you never again hear things the same. Because you care.

Matthias Ott writing about the true meaning of mastery and its impact on your life. I would add one thing, true masters require great humility. The ability to understand their current limits and to honestly look at themselves and figure out where they can get better.

Apple renamed Apple TV+ to Apple TV and everyone is up in arms. They’re just reflecting reality, no one outside of the Apple nerds calls it Apple TV+ it’s just Apple TV to them. The new F1 Movie is coming to Apple TV in December is much simpler.

Manu hits on something that I often struggle with, rating books. I rarely do, and most of the books I rate are 4/4.5 stars, I agree with him when he says

I think Netflix got it right with its thumbs-up, thumbs-down system, with the extra option to give something two thumbs up if you really liked it. Anything more complex than that feels a bit like overkill to me because what’s the difference between 3-star and 3.5-star books?

I also don’t know the difference between a 3 and 3.5 star or 3 and 2 star book. If I didn’t like a book enough to give it a low rating, chances are I haven’t finished it and never will. That says enough to me. I either liked it and finished it, or I didn’t and I abandoned it.

Started to write a blog post about my frustrations with the current Prime Minister and his government. Unfortunately I can not see the point in finishing it, it will make no difference and I will end up more frustrated by their inane decisions than anything else. I’ve never felt so unrepresented.

Oh wow, Charlie Kirk shot and killed. Very sad.