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Cabel Sasser, Panic – XOXO Festival (2024)

Such a lovely, thought-provoking, whimsical, touching, tear-inducing, and heart-warming short talk from Cabal Sasser at XOXO. I would have loved to have seen this live. You only need 20 minutes so do give it a watch.

The Long Peace

Speaking of great Youtube documentaries from (nearly) a decade ago, the algorithm recently resurfaced “The Fallen of World War II” to me and so I re-watched it. It’s such a masterclass in using data visualisation to tell a powerful story, the audio is so well done too. It’s one of the most powerful pieces of…

Nor Dog

Noel, who founded Human Made with Joe and I back in 2010, is currently on a mini-sabbatical because he is in Ukraine helping lead Nor Dog, a charity which “exists to evacuate, feed, rehome and rehabilitate animals caught in the crossfire of war in Ukraine”. It’s been quite incredible getting a inside view of what’s…

Open Source Code is a Remix

I recently re-watched Kirby Ferguson‘s excellent Everything is a Remix which, 10 years after it’s original release, he has significantly updated and re-released. If you haven’t watched I really recommend it, it really is delightful and though-provoking watch. The central theory Kirby presents is that all art is created by remixing other work. This got…

Keep your apps up to date with MacUpdater

I love updates, I like to run the latest versions of everything I can and will often run beta versions if they’re available. I typically update to the latest Apple OS betas right after WWDC. New stuff is fun! There’ve been a few useful tools over the years that help you keep everything up-to-date, I…