Jon Hicks

Diary today

CSS-Tricks has a new owner! Yes, I've got the keys to the castle, so to speak. And, even after 12 years of working on the site, I'll admit I'm a little overwhelmed and nervous about that. https://css-tricks.com/css-tricks-has-a-new-owner/

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Besnard Lakes are playing Oxford tonight! Wheeee!!

Advert for Copilot: a guy is jealous his workmate is getting praise, he asks the AI 'make my work look as good as his', it does, then *he* basks in the praise. What a sorry old life they must think people have.

Another weekend where this meme is appropriate

"Go ahead, add another day to your 1 day streak" - says the sarky Wordle bot

Kirby 6.0.0-beta.1 is here, and it's packed with new features: getkirby.com/releases/6/ 🚀 🧑‍💻 A new live editor 🎨 Simplified blueprints 🔐 Passkey support 🥞 Template stacks 🎛️ A new buttons field 🏎️ Faster Panel performance … and so much more. The final release is planned for later this year 🎆

Would love to hear his Musique concrete/ industrial side project

‘Common Primitives’ – the new album by Andy Bell & Masal – is out now. It’s available on all digital platforms, CD and three vinyl variants, which all come with the trio’s first collab, ‘Tidal Love Numbers’, on vinyl for the first time. Buy or listen to it here: linktr.ee/commonprimit... 🩷🩵🩷

It's all going "Vengeance on Varos" isn't it

I’ve never ever seen a pie on a windowsill

Noted M&S. Noted.

*takes off smoking jacket sadly*

Today's @bandcamp.com Friday haul 🥰

Today is Bandcamp Friday! For 24 hours, we waive our revenue share, so even more of every purchase goes to the artists and labels behind the music. Go forth. The music is waiting: https://bit.ly/4hW8Snx

"Have a Scotch Egg"

Why compete with Hollywood studios though? Can't we focus on good stories says man yelling at cloud

Fans have paid artists $171.8 million on Bandcamp Fridays. On Bandcamp Friday, we waive our revenue share for 24 hours so more money from every purchase goes directly to artists and labels. The next one is October 2. Start building your wishlist now: https://bit.ly/4dGMHQE

I know it's late in his career but I'd like to see Tom Jones release a follow-up song called 'It IS Unusual', which focuses on rare but documented phenomena like Halley's Comet.

A lovely warm sunny afternoon at Farmoor Reservoir, with really close views of Little Stint and Ringed Plover = the best photos I've managed to take with an iPhone through my scope.

I’ve always liked Michael. The news that he’d had a stroke at 38 was heartbreaking—as is this interview—but it’s good to hear more from him and get a sense of his hope and recovery. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse

I have three tickets to see Death Cab for Cutie at the Troxy in London this Friday (show is sold out) that I can no longer use. Unreserved standing, to sell at face value £. Let me know if you're interested!

I met Isha at my nephews birthday party a few weeks ago. That conversation is now starting to feel like Hugh Boneville's character in Notting Hill. "Oh you do music?! Oh well done you…"

INDUSTRIAL GROWTH: The new Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan album. Released 30 October 2026. Available to pre-order from Bandcamp now! youtu.be/w8LIkEWVtT8

Now that I'm looking at this screenshot on my iPhone instead of my Studio Display - I don't see any of the gradients that made me think of Aqua. Weird!

Quite relieved with Mac/iOS27's design changes. Feels a much more mature approach than 26, especially on Mac. Not just transparency - things like the shiny highlights being top/bottom, rather than opposite corners (where they made icons look lopsided). Some elements looking a bit…dare I say… Aqua?

Quite relieved with Mac/iOS27's design changes. Feels a much more mature approach than 26, especially on Mac. Not just transparency - things like the shiny highlights being top/bottom, rather than opposite corners (where they made icons look lopsided). Some elements looking a bit…dare I say… Aqua?

Ugh.

Tidal have finally raised their collection max limit from 10k to 20k. That was my big deal breaker with the service - 20k is still an arbitrary limit, but its a better limit

Screw the narrative. Don’t believe the scare. The Web will never die. Love seeing you all sharing and publishing content on here – and on your personal sites and newsletters! 💚✊

OMG, this is fantastic. New Ghosts trailer. Cannot wait. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLKG...

I'm a 99p Kindle weekly deal. Tell all your non dead friends! www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Ahead-Be...

Back home from Porto. Loved Porto, but coming back to HMRC demands for tax I've already paid, and messages from Hover that my main domain name has expired, even though it's set to auto-renew and they've taken my money. Want to go straight back to Porto.

If true, good grief. They did the special. People liked the special. Just do… more of that?

Had a dream last night that I'd helped Matt Berry in uncovering, and foiling, a plot against him. He was very pleased with me, and said "If the Archbishop had found out, I'd be fuuuucccckkkkkeeedddd"

Even though most Swifts left the UK a couple of weeks ago, I'm now in Porto, and have caught them up! So many screaming overhead, it's always a bit emotional (and good for the soul) to hear them 🥰

I appear to have melted my Airpods in the tumbledryer, beyond the point at which they can charge properly 🫤

I have multiple sets of boxers that are various colours with a dark band on top - they look like original series Star Trek uniforms. Surprised myself how superstitious I am - NEVER wear the red ones.