About 18 months ago, I covered my attempts to replace Evernote. I was surprised by how popular that post was and how much feedback it received. Unsurprisingly, I have adapted and changed my setup since then and in this post, I cover what I now use and how I use…

Welcome to Setapp Month! I have been a user of Setapp for quite a while now, almost ever since the service launched, and I visited Macpaw’s offices in Kyiv, touring their excellent Apple museum and meeting the office cats. Setapp is a macOS and iOS application subscription service, where for…

Podcast version This episode I speak with Ines Akrap at the recent We Are Developers event about how we can make the web greener. Trust me on this one, nothing captured the enthusiasm I felt from her in the room, but I try 😁. Listen here or search for “Chinchilla Squeaks”…

Welcome to Setapp Month! I have been a user of Setapp for quite a while now, almost ever since the service launched, and I visited Macpaw’s offices in Kyiv, touring their awesome Apple museum and meeting the office cats. Setapp is a macOS and iOS application subscription service, where for…

What do American Online, the Apple Newton, DVDs, Tamagochis, MP3, PDF, and Sony Discmans all share in common? They were all products born in (and some dying in) the 1990s. An era I remember vaguely well as I spent most of my mid to late teenage years in it. …

Lots and lots of links and news this issue, which is quite surprising considering it’s August, but there you go. Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of AI-related content, so in my interview this time I focus on some older, and maybe familiar technology, with Elise Bently of Tiugo technologies, who now…

Generative AI tools and platforms are not just the flavour of the month (for now), they’re the flavour of the year, if not the decade. Many of these are web platforms, and I have always been the first to admit that I prefer good old-fashioned, offline-first native desktop applications. As…

In my previous post I covered my creative writing setup and the post proved quite popular, so I thank everyone who read and left comments for that. Next in this series of posts covering my various setups is my setup for technical writing. In this post I use the term…

Or how Google IO made me realise I probably need to find a new job in 2 years Squeezed into the remodelled Google Berlin old medical school theatre I have a lovely glass of wine ready to go as I attempt to live blog a keynote for the first time…