David Hughes
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Stranger Things The Mixtape by DJ Yoda is great fun. Loving the mashup of Tangerine Dream and Rush's epic Tom Sawyer synth blast 🤘
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Stranger Things The Mixtape (DJ Mix) by DJ Yoda on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 31 Songs
music.apple.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Stranger Things The Mixtape by DJ Yoda is great fun. Loving the mashup of Tangerine Dream and Rush's epic Tom Sawyer synth blast 🤘
music.apple.com/gb/album/str...
music.apple.com/gb/album/str...
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After curling in Stirling the Prince and Princess of Wales could try:
-Walking in Dorking
-Shooting in Tooting
-Squash near the Wash
-Chess in Skegness
-Painting in Paignton
-Lettering in Kettering
-Parking in Barking
-Bickering in Pickering
What else?
-Walking in Dorking
-Shooting in Tooting
-Squash near the Wash
-Chess in Skegness
-Painting in Paignton
-Lettering in Kettering
-Parking in Barking
-Bickering in Pickering
What else?
Catherine and William try curling in Stirling
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620lvz95pvo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620lvz95pvo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
January 20, 2026 at 11:00 PM
After curling in Stirling the Prince and Princess of Wales could try:
-Walking in Dorking
-Shooting in Tooting
-Squash near the Wash
-Chess in Skegness
-Painting in Paignton
-Lettering in Kettering
-Parking in Barking
-Bickering in Pickering
What else?
-Walking in Dorking
-Shooting in Tooting
-Squash near the Wash
-Chess in Skegness
-Painting in Paignton
-Lettering in Kettering
-Parking in Barking
-Bickering in Pickering
What else?
January 21, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Everybody Hates the New Microsoft Office
YouTube video by SAMTIME
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January 20, 2026 at 4:25 PM
January 20, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing
January 19, 2026 at 8:10 AM
in the plus side, watching the president of the United States destroy the entire geopolitical order because he didn't get a shiny award has successfully cured all my hangups about subtle character motivation in writing
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’ www.theguardian.com/technology/202…
January 19, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’ www.theguardian.com/technology/202…
Updated my reading page with the first three books of 2026, very much taking the rough with the smooth...
www.davidhughes.org/reading/
www.davidhughes.org/reading/
Reading – David Hughes
A list of the books I’ve read over the last decade or so, cunningly arranged in the order I read them. Starred titles are those I highly recommend ☆
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January 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Updated my reading page with the first three books of 2026, very much taking the rough with the smooth...
www.davidhughes.org/reading/
www.davidhughes.org/reading/
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I started to download and re-upload older photos I shared on Flickr before 2019. Enjoy the memories these might bring back to you. This time: New Adventures in Webdesign 2011 by @colly.com on 20 January 2011. marcthiele.com/notes/re-upl...
Photos of “New Adventures in Web Design” from 2011
Photos taken during the first #naconf in 2011 on 20 January 2011. Re-upload from Flickr.
marcthiele.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I started to download and re-upload older photos I shared on Flickr before 2019. Enjoy the memories these might bring back to you. This time: New Adventures in Webdesign 2011 by @colly.com on 20 January 2011. marcthiele.com/notes/re-upl...
@obsidian.md I have Liquid Glass set to tinted, but the new note etc. buttons need more opacity imho. The text behind is too visible and distracting.
Thanks
Thanks
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
@obsidian.md I have Liquid Glass set to tinted, but the new note etc. buttons need more opacity imho. The text behind is too visible and distracting.
Thanks
Thanks
Be Wary of Digital Deskilling - Cal Newport
Be Wary of Digital Deskilling - Cal Newport
Last week, Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Anthropic’s popular Claude Code programming agent, posted a thread on X about how he personally used ... Read more
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January 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Be Wary of Digital Deskilling - Cal Newport
AI is quietly breaking the internet — and most people don’t even realize it yet
AI is quietly breaking the internet — and most people don’t even realize it yet
The ‘Zero-Click’ future is here
www.tomsguide.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:13 AM
AI is quietly breaking the internet — and most people don’t even realize it yet
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Imagine breaking a core feature of macOS that has worked for 40 years just because iPhones have screens with rounded corners.
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Karbon Based — Grabbing Air
Karbon Based is the internet home of Garrett Murray. Garrett is the Founder & Managing Director of Karbon, a mobile apps design and development agency. His current interests include mechanical keyboards, video games, technology and photography.
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January 12, 2026 at 6:34 AM
Imagine breaking a core feature of macOS that has worked for 40 years just because iPhones have screens with rounded corners.
karbonbased.io/posts/2026/01/...
karbonbased.io/posts/2026/01/...
An AI fridge? Oh do fuck off.
CES 2026 worst-in-show
: There's a lot of bad ideas set to create literal waste and be a waste of money
www.theregister.com
January 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM
An AI fridge? Oh do fuck off.
Post a picture of the venue where you attended your first concert and the band...
January 11, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Post a picture of the venue where you attended your first concert and the band...
The world might be rushing towards hell in a Trump-branded handcart, but at least we have a new album from Dry Cleaning and a new single from BIG SPECIAL to entertain us on our journey...
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Secret Love by Dry Cleaning on Apple Music
Album · 2026 · 11 Songs
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January 9, 2026 at 9:28 AM
The world might be rushing towards hell in a Trump-branded handcart, but at least we have a new album from Dry Cleaning and a new single from BIG SPECIAL to entertain us on our journey...
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Let’s Call a Murder a Murder daringfireball.net/2026/01/lets_c…
January 9, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Let’s Call a Murder a Murder daringfireball.net/2026/01/lets_c…
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I quit Twitter (X) in 2024 when snuff videos appeared in my feed.
Watching what it has become, I find it hard to believe that people still choose to remain.
Continuing to participate now feels like active consent to what it's become.
GTFO
Watching what it has become, I find it hard to believe that people still choose to remain.
Continuing to participate now feels like active consent to what it's become.
GTFO
a man in a wig is standing in front of a dumpster that is on fire
ALT: a man in a wig is standing in front of a dumpster that is on fire
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM
I quit Twitter (X) in 2024 when snuff videos appeared in my feed.
Watching what it has become, I find it hard to believe that people still choose to remain.
Continuing to participate now feels like active consent to what it's become.
GTFO
Watching what it has become, I find it hard to believe that people still choose to remain.
Continuing to participate now feels like active consent to what it's become.
GTFO
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If you work somewhere that still communicates via X, this week is a good one to petition comms folks to stop using it
(generates thousands of sexually abusive images per hour while its owner laughs, FT calls it a “deepfake porn site” www.ft.com/content/ad94...).
(generates thousands of sexually abusive images per hour while its owner laughs, FT calls it a “deepfake porn site” www.ft.com/content/ad94...).
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
If you work somewhere that still communicates via X, this week is a good one to petition comms folks to stop using it
(generates thousands of sexually abusive images per hour while its owner laughs, FT calls it a “deepfake porn site” www.ft.com/content/ad94...).
(generates thousands of sexually abusive images per hour while its owner laughs, FT calls it a “deepfake porn site” www.ft.com/content/ad94...).
So Logitech is having a 'backend' issue because of which my mouse doesn't work properly...?
Really?
Modern life is rubbish 😕
Really?
Modern life is rubbish 😕
January 7, 2026 at 9:22 AM
So Logitech is having a 'backend' issue because of which my mouse doesn't work properly...?
Really?
Modern life is rubbish 😕
Really?
Modern life is rubbish 😕
Enjoying my new todo manager
January 6, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Enjoying my new todo manager
Today is long and lacking mince pies...
January 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Today is long and lacking mince pies...
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well; and if they cannot think well others will do their thinking for them.
— George Orwell
— George Orwell
January 5, 2026 at 9:04 AM
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well; and if they cannot think well others will do their thinking for them.
— George Orwell
— George Orwell
