Chronologically

1. Laptop friendly locations

   A compiled list of locations that welcome digital nomads.

2. Final speaker invited to Research by the Sea

   I’ve just sent an invitation to the last speaker for Research by the Sea. I’m so excited about the 7 talks and group Q&A, 3 workshops, the 12 people (+1 back up) who will help us explore the future of research. The full line-up will be revealed over the coming weeks. Get ready to have your brains learned out! https://researchbythesea.com/

3. I deleted my Twitter account

   Continuing the slow process of Big Tech Exorcism™. 30 days and it’s all gone.

   

4. Texts.app: All of your messages in one inbox

   I’ve been using Texts.app for a few weeks now and really loving the experience. It solves the pain of managing direct messages across all the main messaging services.

5. Little Signals: A series of interaction experiments

   A series of cute physical objects to channel digital notifications into less attention-grabbing interactions.

6. Keisuke Oka’s Arimaston Building in Tokyo, Made Entirely by Hand

   An awe-inspiring entirely hand-crafted concrete building in Tokyo, Japan. It reminds me of a physical manifestation of the IndieWeb. More of this in every aspect of life please!

7. A reminder.

   A reminder that your community, with all of it's shades and beliefs, is the most important thing to focus on right now. Meet with people face to face and talk to them, whether you are part of their culture or not. That’s why I’m so glad to be spending this evening with Ladies That UX Brighton @LadiesthatUX_Br@hci.social 🏳️‍🌈💜

8. The state of this browser!

   My system memory is full thanks to having ~100 browser tabs open. Thinking about creating a collection on my website to dump them all and calling it The state of this browser!

9. The Substance

   🍿🍿🍿🍿📝 Four bags of popcorn and a list of instructions to follow so you don’t mess up like the characters in this film.

10. Halloween 2024: Some monsters are real

    Be afraid! Be very afraid! Some monsters are real. Happy Halloween folks!