(Alternative title: concurrency and queueing is hard) Cold pizzas at 4AM, so many queues, dirty cheats, jumping over seats, a touch of chaos and… some famous blood.
What Apple could learn from Nintendo Switch
Late to the party, I recently bought a Nintendo Switch for my two daughters, aged 14 and 17, to play some “deeper” games than are available on iOS and because frankly they’ve run out of TV to watch in these trying times and they recently had fun playing a friend’s Xbox.
The Switch immediately showed me a glaring hole in Apple’s mobile/home ecosystem experience that I really hope they fix by pivoting the Apple TV experience a bit. Read more →
We’re all worried that voting Green in Stroud we’ll get a Tory MP again
A lot of people in Stroud are telling anybody who wants to vote Green that they are going to result in us having a Tory MP again.
It seems obvious, until you dig into the facts and the current polling numbers. So I made a short video to explain it to anybody who is concerned. Read more →
Overview of the Climate Change hustings in Stroud
I’ve not been to a hustings before, and I thought I’d write up my impressions of it.
The first very significant thing is that in Stroud we have three female candidates and only one male! This is a sign of progress whatever you think of the party policies. Read more →
The Making of Bloop — OMG the logs are too noisy!
The Flint logs in Bloop were too noise, and the fix was easy Read more →