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Andrew Doran
@andrewdoran.uk
He/him. Husband, dad of two teenage boys, Technology person working in Financial Services, over-enthusiastic, geek.

🎶 Co-founder of Album Club (https://albumclub.info), meeting every month since 2011.

✍️ Blogging since 2004.

🌐 https://andrewdoran.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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A small software change that delights: holding down a key on my iPad keyboard now brings up a menu of accented variations of that letter. This is a massive improvement over having to bring up the on-screen keyboard and doing a similar thing on the screen.
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Strava seem to have removed their activity map styles of ‘Black Lives Matter’, ‘Pride’ and ‘Support Ukraine’. Presumably this is part of getting ready for their IPO and not wanting to have a potentially damaging narrative about whether the... https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/11/13/12688/
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Finished reading The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979). An epic book in five parts, covering the mid-1950s, the early and late 1960s, and the early and late 1970s. This period is transformational for gay rights, ... https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/11/02/12662/
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October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It’s Album Club #176ref="https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/tag/176/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">#176.
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August 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hosting our online WB-40 Album Club. Snowpoet’s Thought You Knew was a big driver for me to invest in a turntable as I wanted to immerse myself in the music.
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I was thrilled to discover that Deco Audio have moved from Aylesbury to Tring. Getting there from Berkhamsted is now half the journey it used to be. A friend and I popped in on Saturday for a chat about CD players and to scour their second hand music.... https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/08/25/12422/
August 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Finished Reading Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee. I picked this up after hearing Ben Thompson’s interview with the author on Stratechery. It’s a fascinating insight of how Apple’s focus on helping t... https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/08/25/12411/
August 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It’s Album Club #174ref="https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/tag/174/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">#174.
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It’s Album Club #173.

Someone bought me a Look In Television Annual for Christmas 1982, around the time I turned six. I spent ages flipping through the pages over the next couple of years, staring at the pictures and reading about pop stars like ... https://andrewdoran.uk/blog/2025/08/15/12344/
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