Craig Grannell
@craiggrannell.bsky.social
Writer for hire. Mostly tech, Apple, games, retrogaming, design. Smashes out words for Stuff, Wired, TapSmart and others. He/him. GF/DF. Likes Lego and Mini Schnauzers. Email: hello at craiggrannell dot com // https://linktr.ee/craiggrannell
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'I don't want people thinking I am racist.'
Caller Julie explains why she threw her Union Flag t-shirt in the bin.
Caller Julie explains why she threw her Union Flag t-shirt in the bin.
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
'I don't want people thinking I am racist.'
Caller Julie explains why she threw her Union Flag t-shirt in the bin.
Caller Julie explains why she threw her Union Flag t-shirt in the bin.
Even worse when you go inside and see the magazines all shoved to the back in a tiny little section.
You don’t truly understand how bad it is until you see it in person.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Even worse when you go inside and see the magazines all shoved to the back in a tiny little section.
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
Apple should totally release an actual TV now – and call it Apple TV – just to fuck with everyone.
Not confusing at all. Now you can watch Apple TV on the Apple TV app on Apple TV.
9to5mac.com/2025/10/14/e...
9to5mac.com/2025/10/14/e...
Eddy Cue explains why Apple TV dropped the Plus, and how it's not confusing - 9to5Mac
Apple TV+ is now just Apple TV, and Apple’s senior vice president of Services says the change was simply the...
9to5mac.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Apple should totally release an actual TV now – and call it Apple TV – just to fuck with everyone.
Writing a piece about an app. Current notes have “stupid AI bullshit” as a subhead. Kinda wish I could leave that in as-is.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Writing a piece about an app. Current notes have “stupid AI bullshit” as a subhead. Kinda wish I could leave that in as-is.
Weeknote!
🪫 I want better iPhone batteries
🖥️ Mac icons are now dreadful
🍎 Cook crossing a Jobs red line
📱 App Store now online. Ish
👾 A Vectrex Mini is coming
📱 iOS 26.1 tips and iPhone guide
🪐 Star Trek Lego
🕹️ Retro gaming movies
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/10/w...
🪫 I want better iPhone batteries
🖥️ Mac icons are now dreadful
🍎 Cook crossing a Jobs red line
📱 App Store now online. Ish
👾 A Vectrex Mini is coming
📱 iOS 26.1 tips and iPhone guide
🪐 Star Trek Lego
🕹️ Retro gaming movies
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/10/w...
Weeknote: 10 November 2025 – iPhone batteries, Mac icons, App Store online, crossing a Steve Jobs red line and more | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology
Candid commentary on technology, retro games, Macs and other things, written by Craig Grannell.
reverttosaved.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Weeknote!
🪫 I want better iPhone batteries
🖥️ Mac icons are now dreadful
🍎 Cook crossing a Jobs red line
📱 App Store now online. Ish
👾 A Vectrex Mini is coming
📱 iOS 26.1 tips and iPhone guide
🪐 Star Trek Lego
🕹️ Retro gaming movies
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/10/w...
🪫 I want better iPhone batteries
🖥️ Mac icons are now dreadful
🍎 Cook crossing a Jobs red line
📱 App Store now online. Ish
👾 A Vectrex Mini is coming
📱 iOS 26.1 tips and iPhone guide
🪐 Star Trek Lego
🕹️ Retro gaming movies
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/10/w...
That moment when you’re live-editing a 6,500-word article in a CMS and it crashes and reloads the page just ten seconds after you’d decided to save the code to an external document.
There’s probably a really long German word for that. Although ‘relief’ would probably work in English.
There’s probably a really long German word for that. Although ‘relief’ would probably work in English.
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
That moment when you’re live-editing a 6,500-word article in a CMS and it crashes and reloads the page just ten seconds after you’d decided to save the code to an external document.
There’s probably a really long German word for that. Although ‘relief’ would probably work in English.
There’s probably a really long German word for that. Although ‘relief’ would probably work in English.
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National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
The one lesson the Labour leadership will never learn is PR. Being against PR is one of the few things that’s unified every stripe of Labour leadership, even if Corbyn fans are now trying to rewrite history by saying he was pro-PR for the Commons. (He used a “part of a package” excuse to avoid it.)
what are the odds that the people in Downing Street briefing this out would also break out in hives at the mere mention of proportional representation?
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The one lesson the Labour leadership will never learn is PR. Being against PR is one of the few things that’s unified every stripe of Labour leadership, even if Corbyn fans are now trying to rewrite history by saying he was pro-PR for the Commons. (He used a “part of a package” excuse to avoid it.)
The web version of the App Store is a major improvement in terms of search and accessibility – Apple on Mac flipping to the Mac App Store caused a *massive* vestibular trigger that was never fixed. But why can’t I buy and install from the web? Google Play has allowed this for years!
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The web version of the App Store is a major improvement in terms of search and accessibility – Apple on Mac flipping to the Mac App Store caused a *massive* vestibular trigger that was never fixed. But why can’t I buy and install from the web? Google Play has allowed this for years!
I want Apple to squeeze a OnePlus 15 battery inside my next iPhone, in which I gripe about phone batteries, people who think their eyes are electron microscopes, and Zynga. www.stuff.tv/features/i-w...
www.stuff.tv
November 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I want Apple to squeeze a OnePlus 15 battery inside my next iPhone, in which I gripe about phone batteries, people who think their eyes are electron microscopes, and Zynga. www.stuff.tv/features/i-w...
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a new form of graph crime has been discovered
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
a new form of graph crime has been discovered
A Roblox gardening game getting a movie? Pfft. A couple of years back, I wrote about the *retro* gaming movies we* really want to see. www.stuff.tv/features/ano...
* I and possibly no one else
* I and possibly no one else
Another Mario movie? Put these retro games on the big screen instead | Stuff
From a down-and-out Pac-Man to Tom Cruise as a mole, these are the videogame movies we really need instead of more Mario
www.stuff.tv
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A Roblox gardening game getting a movie? Pfft. A couple of years back, I wrote about the *retro* gaming movies we* really want to see. www.stuff.tv/features/ano...
* I and possibly no one else
* I and possibly no one else
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By me for Stuff:
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before | Stuff
Trekkies rejoice: the new Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise set, complete with nine minifigs, is out of this world
www.stuff.tv
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
By me for Stuff:
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...
By me for Stuff:
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before | Stuff
Trekkies rejoice: the new Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise set, complete with nine minifigs, is out of this world
www.stuff.tv
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
By me for Stuff:
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...
This 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise boldly goes where no Lego set has gone before www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/te...
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I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
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I have many journals and sketch books that I have started…and gone nowhere with.
I’d like to reuse / repurpose these, but I feel silly for the failed start pages. What should I do?
I’d like to reuse / repurpose these, but I feel silly for the failed start pages. What should I do?
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I have many journals and sketch books that I have started…and gone nowhere with.
I’d like to reuse / repurpose these, but I feel silly for the failed start pages. What should I do?
I’d like to reuse / repurpose these, but I feel silly for the failed start pages. What should I do?
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If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
She is telling an accurate story of recent history - the triple punch of austerity, Brexit and covid. It's spot on. But it is terribly strange to say it now in government when you were not prepared to say it in opposition.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
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I didn’t think I needed another mini retro console – until I saw the Vectrex Mini www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/i-...
Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.
Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.
I didn’t think I needed another mini retro console – until I saw the Vectrex Mini | Stuff
The Vectrex Mini revives the weirdest games machine of the 1980s and it might just be the coolest mini console of the lot
www.stuff.tv
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I didn’t think I needed another mini retro console – until I saw the Vectrex Mini www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/i-...
Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.
Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.
I didn’t think I needed another mini retro console – until I saw the Vectrex Mini www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/i-...
Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.
Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.
I didn’t think I needed another mini retro console – until I saw the Vectrex Mini | Stuff
The Vectrex Mini revives the weirdest games machine of the 1980s and it might just be the coolest mini console of the lot
www.stuff.tv
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I didn’t think I needed another mini retro console – until I saw the Vectrex Mini www.stuff.tv/hot-stuff/i-...
Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.
Yes, it’s OLED, not CRT, but I want one anyway. *Love* the clock/weather functionality.
Weeknote:
🎨 Why it’s OK Affinity is now free
🧑🧒🧒 Apple Family Sharing helps keep children safe—until it doesn’t
🔍 Why you should pay for Kagi search
🍎 Apple’s changing values
🕹️ Gamestation Go could be brilliant. (Isn’t. Yet.)
❤️ Simogo’s excellent collection and book
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/02/w...
🎨 Why it’s OK Affinity is now free
🧑🧒🧒 Apple Family Sharing helps keep children safe—until it doesn’t
🔍 Why you should pay for Kagi search
🍎 Apple’s changing values
🕹️ Gamestation Go could be brilliant. (Isn’t. Yet.)
❤️ Simogo’s excellent collection and book
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/02/w...
Weeknote: 2 November 2025 – free Affinity, Apple Family Sharing issues, Kagi search, Gamestation Go, Simogo and more | Revert to Saved: A blog about design, gaming and technology
Candid commentary on technology, retro games, Macs and other things, written by Craig Grannell.
reverttosaved.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Weeknote:
🎨 Why it’s OK Affinity is now free
🧑🧒🧒 Apple Family Sharing helps keep children safe—until it doesn’t
🔍 Why you should pay for Kagi search
🍎 Apple’s changing values
🕹️ Gamestation Go could be brilliant. (Isn’t. Yet.)
❤️ Simogo’s excellent collection and book
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/02/w...
🎨 Why it’s OK Affinity is now free
🧑🧒🧒 Apple Family Sharing helps keep children safe—until it doesn’t
🔍 Why you should pay for Kagi search
🍎 Apple’s changing values
🕹️ Gamestation Go could be brilliant. (Isn’t. Yet.)
❤️ Simogo’s excellent collection and book
reverttosaved.com/2025/11/02/w...
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Douglas Adams was really ahead of his time about this.
I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.
November 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Douglas Adams was really ahead of his time about this.