Shane

Also not complaining about it coming a day early. Quite happy for it to be here as I hate the old sofa. Good job DFS.

DFS calls. Can we bring your sofa a day early, in about an hour maybe. Cue Shane. Single handedly wrapping the old sofa in plastic. Ross Gellar pivoting it out of the house to the back entry for council pick up tomorrow. Dragging it down the street. Wrecked.

Another Star Trek legend has passed away. Walter Koenig (also a Babylon 5 legend) ☹️.

According to life expectancy data, people in tech live 7–8 years longer than manual laborers (~82 vs ~73). Sigh.

Very much looking forward to a whole new set of critical security vulnerabilities this week. Can we just shut the agents off now?

Started rewatching The Blacklist. Forgot how amazing James Spader is in it. And also how daft it is at times.

Apple are missing a trick not releasing a 25th anniversary iPod that can connect to and pull music from Apple Music subs as well as storing local music.

Don’t forget to update your PHPs.

I wonder if Elon will commit any more war crimes this week?

I imagine nobody is shocked at this revelation. thehill.com/policy/inter...

Oh goodie. A whole extra hour of regretting my life and career choices this weekend.

James Spader. The best thing about Age of Ultron. Is brilliant in Vision Quest. He’s brilliant in everything tbf.

Putting together AI utilities that some might find useful in this repo: github.com/sohanlon07/a... 1st one is a simple gscripts cron jobs that send google news search results to Gemini (free tier only) which then creates me a daily brief newsletter and a weekly tech newsletter.

Graceland is a top album. Never get bored of it.

BUPA having a wee stroke as I submit yet another expensive dental claim. 🦷

Yesterday, I wrote actual code by hand. Just pure, unpasteurized syntax. It was exhilarating.

Rooster is hilarious. Steve Carrell can do no wrong.

This weeks Strange New Worlds is proper “new life and new civilisations” stuff. Very like a TNG sciencey episode.

It feels like Xbox are doing their own version of The Producers.

ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You www.wired.com/story/zuckof... Very useful app in the era of these ridiculous always on glasses.

You know shit is about to go down when they play “Everything in its right place” over a scene on TV.

Why are all the AI companies adding “pets” to their desktop apps?

Weekend at Bernie’s 3

“The worlds worst author” 😂

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Brock Peters was truly brilliant in Star Trek. Especially as Joseph Sisko.

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Great to see the tradition of Jim Kirk disobeying orders continue.

iPhone duo has a good spec but I’m just not sold on foldable phones yet. I think this is a wait for vduo type of product.

People in charge in being corrupt shocker.

I’m older than The Legend of Zelda series. Very depressing.

Hermes with @openai GPT plus is now my PA. And I have it doing completely useless things for fun.

Strange New Worlds has had some ok stories this season but the gimmicks have been too much. One or two episodes is fine. But every episode being a gimmick is ridiculous.

State of Play was interesting. Not sure about that massive Crimson Desert DLC. That game is overwhelming enough.

All the AI tools right now.

Just finishing up season 2 of Succession. Would I like to be this filthy rich? Yes. Would it turn me into a ruthless, horrible sociopath? Also yes.

We don’t take the time to celebrate the little wins these days. It’s always about major project achievements or massive milestones. Today, for example, I didn’t wake up with the immediate urge to slam my head against my desk at the thought of 23 more years of labor. A small win.

I wish Google would implement projects instead of gems. I prefer that level of organisation.

Watch Widows Bay.

I wouldn’t be a big horror fan but The Wickerman is one of those disturbing films I love. Really looking forward to seeing this: Wicker Man director's sons complete their late father's film trilogy

The Puppets episode was indeed awful.

The voicenote must be eradicated.

I forgot how hilarious Modern Family is.

Lanterns was very good.

GitHub broken again. www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zk...

Pluto on Netflix is amazing. One episode in and I’m hooked.

There was an eclipse?

#Alleycats is actually quite sad.

Thus ends another weekend and a brand new week of drudgery begins.