Just discovered this Security Checkliston Brian Lovin’s personal site. What a great resource and way to share knowledge.

Deliveroo finally added live activities!

Feeling the urge to watch Mad Men again. Haven’t watched it for ages and I miss the style of it.

The joys of Monday morning click test results not being what you had hoped. Design revision time. But first, coffee.

You have a meeting. You have a meeting. You have a meeting, and you can have a meeting. Meetings for everyone!

Anyone know if the Apple Music improvements in iOS 17 bring sync of the up next queue across devices?

Shut up Thierry Henryโ€ฆ enjoyed Ted Lasso and its fitting end to the final season.

When does the Roy Kent series start?

Where Iโ€™ve been

Iโ€™ve seen a few posts from people sharing where theyโ€™ve been and thought it was interesting. So Iโ€™m sharing the countries Iโ€™ve been too as well: Denmark ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ France ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Switzerland ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Israel ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Italy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Iโ€™ve also stepped foot in Belgium and Luxembourg but they were both on the way to Switzerland so I donโ€™t count them. When I was growing up we had most of our family holidays in the UK and I think Iโ€™ve visited nearly all the counties in England, most of Wales, and a couple in Scotland.

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Editing memories

Iโ€™ve been looking at some of the things Google announced this week. Whilst some of the things are quite interesting โ€“ like the Pixel Tablet and stand โ€“ others are just plain puzzling. I understand that Google was is trying to flex and show off their AI abilities, the new Magic Editor that they announced doesnโ€™t sit well with me. I take photos to preserve memories. I can look back through my photo library and memories are triggered by the visuals, even the ones that are less than perfect.

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I love my Sonos, but starting to want some kind of physical remote to control them. Any recommendations?

Finished reading: Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte ๐Ÿ“š

Went for a walk after work. A bird pooed on me. About sums up my day.

A long time ago I used an app called LittleSnapper to collect images and snap websites I liked. Anyone know of a similar app?

Trying to utilise Hookmark in my workflow more but finding I spend a lot of time making sure things are linkedโ€ฆ seems to create more admin work than I would like.

A thought provoking blog post about the role of software, thinking, and the affect they are having on our abilities.

Finished reading: Laws of UX by Jon Yablonski ๐Ÿ“š

Tried my hand at an Austin Kleon style collage in between Teams calls this morning. Quite fun. ๐ŸŽจ

So engrossed in my book I dropped coffee on the page ๐Ÿ“š

One of the best uses for the HomePod mini on my deskโ€ฆ making hands free phone calls especially when I know I will be on hold.

Iโ€™ve always tried to have a style guide page somewhere on my own websites, but this one takes it to another level. Excellent stuff.