Adam Tinworth

A sunny, cold morning in Windsor. A very enjoyable micro-break, with the girls away on a Guides trip.

This is genius.

Took half an hour off this afternoon to get stuck into the first of the major autumn garden chores.

It isn’t you, SEO. It’s me. Or why my focus on editorial SEO is not what it once was…

exquisite

Crypto “gurusl worried that AI will crack their wallets. If that happens, I’ll need to get the electronic microscope out to find my tiny, tiny violin.

AI Agent deletes entire unaired series of a reality TV show. They need to go back and start editing again from the original footage, apparently.

The verdict? In the 7149 posts on adders.blog, there are: 787 broken links 910 missing images 2270 images without alt text 50 inbound links not matching a post Some work to do!

Running @manton’s new Blog Audit tool for micro.blog. Plenty for it to crunch through here…

Flip. When did Boing Boing become completely ad-riddled?

Having a full-on “dad dancing” moment at the TikTok News: Next Generation event at Soho House.

Oh, nuts. Sounds awfully like the drive I’m using for Time Machine has just died.

Re-Xing?: https://adders.blog/2026/10/12/rexing.html

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

I think it’s fair to say that Autumn is properly here.

Found a piece of beakandsqueak street art on my commute yesterday.

Just discovered that Movable Type removed xml-rpc in its latest update. (I’m still on their mailing list for MT professionals.) Briefly wondered if it would impact @danielpunkass - but how many @marsedit@mastodon.social users are actually using the latest versions of MT these days anyway?

I could not agree with this gaming grognard less: "Woke garbage. Per Gary Gygax DND belongs to men and should appeal to us first." It’s this sort of prehistoric attitude that gives tablteop gamers a bad name.

D&D moves beyond the boob window. That only took nearly 40 years.

"Ban scraping and you’ll put everyone who scrapes for good—to record corporate policies and promises, to record the news before it is censored, to archive the internet—out of business. Google will be the last search engine we ever get... https://adders.blog/2026/09/21/ban-scraping-and-youll-put.html

"I think AI bros are waging war against creative labor in order to create outrage, because the louder we all shout about how AI can replace workers, the more money they can raise from the capital markets and the more credulous, worker-hating... https://adders.blog/2026/09/20/i-think-ai-bros-are.html

"The industry upon which the entire global stock market currently depends – and which is developing the most significant new technology in decades – is largely run by members of a nerdy doomsday sex cult" It's true, but you sound pretty crazy saying it out loud.

I’m spending the day at a Future of Investigative Journalism conference. Much to be positive about – but it’s hard to ignore the reality that governments and politicians are trying to make it harder to hold them to account. Troubling times.

"When a tech company tells a fanciful story about the terrible things its products can do, they do so in anticipation of some advantage from convincing the public of their fearsome capabilities." — The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow 📚

Social media is, and has always been, really good at showing you who would turn informer the moment an authoritarian government of their preferred political flavour rose to power.

"The future isn’t predictable, which is a damned good thing, because if the future were predictable, it would be foreordained, which would mean that the actions taken by people don’t matter." — The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow 📚

Strategy, innit?

Started reading: The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow 📚 Loved his blog posts on this subject - looking forward to reading them at book length.

When your daughter discovers the photo of her you posted 14 years ago to celebrate her birth…

Half-caff thought: Content creation is spending a lot work making things you then have to exhort people to take, even though those things are free to them. And for the great majority, the payoff is $0. What a hobby.

So, who is taking the iOS27 plunge this evening? (Also MacOS and iPadOS 27)

The inevitable fate of a work PC you haven’t used for some weeks…

We may be heading toward the autumn term, but spotted summer persisting on my commute this morning.

Family game afternoon.

Farewell, old comrade. You and I spent many conferences together, and also enjoyed many long walks.We even made a few movies together. Whomever replaces you will undoubtedly be more expensive.

Oh, this is good: Again, again. (It’s not about what it sounds like it’s about at the beginning)

Dragged myself out of the house, to the beach, and actually enjoyed the blustery weather. I’m on the mend, I think. I took the time to do a #2minutebeachclean

The web never forgets, yet it can be incredibly fragile, too. 14 years of my work just vanished from the web.

Today should be an exciting day of “new beginnings”, with the girls off to school aftre the summer hols – including the youngest starting secondary – and new challenges on my plate. Instead, I’m struggling with the ‘flu. Lovely.

Nice memento to take home from the Isle of Wight. One to save for a dreary October evening, when work is piling up, and a Benedictine ale will bring blessed relief.

The Needles

I think my daughter’s painting is pretty much at my standard already. She’ll surpass me soon enough.

.just when I thought I couldn’t love Strange New Worlds any more…

Quick translation of the UK alert that just went out: https://adders.blog/2026/08/14/quick-translation-of-the-uk.html

Wow. The UK Government just used the phone alert system to warn about the risk of wildfires. #climatecrisis

Swallows drinking (or bathing on the wing) using the pool. https://adders.blog/2026/08/09/swallows-drinking-or-bathing-on.html

Chilling at my brother’s gaff.

My old home office in the process of becoming my younger daughter’s bedroom…