I’ve been playing with GarageBand on iPadOS and I’m surprised at how buggy it is.
Our pilot run of six shows will cover everything Panic. (Which is a lot.)
This is a great podcast.
Apple needs to recognize they have made profound conceptual mistakes in the iPad user interface, mistakes that need to be scrapped and replaced, not polished and refined. I worry that iPadOS 13 suggests the opposite — that Apple is steering the iPad full speed ahead down a blind alley.
I’ve been using iPadOS since launch and found learning multitasking a clunky and dark art indeed.
But there’s also a great deal of freedom in realizing, as an individual, that whatever you’re doing on the internet is primarily valuable because you are doing it. Once it’s done, that value declines rapidly. Let it be regulated to memory…Where it can become less like a ledger and more like a dream.
Jason Sutter on Jeff Huang’s This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web.
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
This was a super enjoyable game to play. A similar remake of A Link to the Past would be fantastic.
★★★★½☆
The simple joy of f***ing up in the kitchen
I had a notion the other day. This happens from time to time — I get something into my head, and I just have to see it through, whether it’s a good idea or not.
I had a notion about making soup dumplings.
/via jk
Fish and prawn stew
Serve with bread, potatoes or rice.
Ingredients
- Fresh prawns, 500g, shelled
- Cod loin, 250g, cut into chunks
- Fresh lime, 2 juicy, juiced
- Coriander, small handful, chopped fine
- Parsley, small handful, chopped fine
- Large onion, diced
- Cumin, 1 tsp
- Paprika, 1 tsp
- Garlic, 4 cloves, minced
- Bay leaf, 1
- Spring onion, 3, chopped
- Mild chilli powder, 1 tsp
- Gammon stock, 500ml
- Large tomatoes, 2, diced
- Chopped tomatoes, 1 tin
- Salt + pepper
Instructions
- Shell your prawns and chop the fish into 1 inch cubes (maybe slightly bigger), stick them in the fridge for later.
- Add the onion and garlic to a medium-large pan and fry until starting to get soft.
- Add the cumin, paprika and chilli powder, fry until the mixture gets a bit tacky.
- Add the chopped tomatoes, gammon stock, lime juice, coriander, parsley, spring onion, bay leaf and salt + pepper and give it a good stir.
- Let that simmer for about 15/20 minutes, your nose will tell you when it’s done.
- Take out the bay leaf!
- Blend until smooth. If at this point it looks a bit thick, add some vegetable stock.
- Put the the bay leaf back in and bring back to simmer for another 10 minutes.
- Add the fish and prawns.
- Simmer until the fish and prawns have cooked.
Put bacon on everything.
I still want a dingus that only does email (with a QWERTY keyboard!)
The Basecamp Guide to Internal Communication
The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here.
Cracking read.
Great to see upcoming.org is alive and kicking — all it needs is folk to start using it for event planning. As I write this there are four upcoming events listed in London.
I didn’t want to fly – so I took a cargo ship from Germany to Canada
Sustainable travel within Europe often involves trading a plane for a train, but getting to Canada from Europe is more complex. A cargo ship became the obvious low-carbon choice.
We started Grimgrains to teach ourselves how to cook. This blog, which now doubles as a travel diary, helps track our habits as we adapt to the localy available produce.
The illustrations are 😙👌
/thx Lord Will
A Twitter client that just lets you post Twitter updates and direct messages — no timeline!
Also, that day/night toggle on the Twizzle website is sublime.
/via @craigmod
As an update to The Experiment: I woke up this morning and promptly left the house, iPhone in pocket. I wonder if that’s all the insight I was looking for.
The Experiment
For one week, starting tomorrow, I’ll be temporarily parking my iPhone 8 and instead using a Nokia 130 feature phone.
I’m not sure what to expect, but in preparation I’ve charged my Kindle and I’m eyeballing the London A-Z sitting on the bookshelf.
I’m hoping the experience will be somewhat more insightful than a lesson in inconvenience — join me on this incredible journey!
Systems, Mistakes, and the Sea
I’ve found this article to be food for thought, especially this passage:
My hunch is this: folks can’t talk about real design systems problems because it will show their company as being dysfunctional and broken in some way. This looks bad for their company and hence looks bad for them. But hiding those mistakes and shortcomings by glossing over everything doesn’t just make it harder for us personally, it hinders progress within the field itself.
/via Jeremy Keith
IKEA sell a portable induction hob.