Thoughts and ideas of a dyslexic designer/developer
The last few weeks, I have been beta testing the Drift DJ and its getting a lot more stable. The hardest part I have found is my tunes are from all over, going from Rave stuff from the late 90 s to more recent stuff with decent metadata. Some of it is recorded at as Continue reading " Beta testing the Drift Zero, how is it going? "
The whole video (17.5 mins) is available on Peertube and now legacy media (Youtube). Small enough for a TED talk even I was reading through the Quantified Self newsletter and had a shock when I saw my talk about machine readable wishes from #EMFCamp featured. I shared it on Linkedin quickly but not on my Continue reading " Machine readable wishes + Quantified Self = Digital legacy? "
We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed hearing how Meta s Instagram approving illegal adverts, Claude AI chats appearing in public searches along many others and how did we all let one company break the internet? To quote Buckminster Fuller You never change things by fighting the existing Continue reading " Public Service Internet monthly…
For a long time, I have been known as DJ Digital Italic. However people have gotten very confused and so today I'm changing my DJ name to The Cubicgarden.
If you haven t come across Gary Stevenson of Gary Economics. I would recommend his book, which I have read a while back. I remember meeting Gary in Manchester a long time ago and I honestly thought he was pretty much right in his mindset that equality is one is one of the biggest problems facing Continue reading " Time for a wealth tax in the UK? "
Recently I had the pleasure of talking at EMF Camp about machine readable wishes. The slides are linked here. The proposal originally was a workshop but converted to a 20min talk in the main stage of EMF Camp at 10am. Death is inevitable, yet our digital infrastructure remains woefully unprepared for it. While traditional Letters Continue reading " Have you thought about your digital legacy? at…
I almost fell for the recruitment agency scam I was unsure but just had a some useful interaction with a recruitment agency. Back on 7th July I revived an email on my gmail address, not the one I mainly use for linkedin and lots of sites. Regardless I thought maybe they got it another way. Continue reading " The recruitment agency scam, I almost fell for "
Recently on a conference trip to Amsterdam for the excellent PublicSpaces conference, I took the Eurostar and it was a interesting experience with the whole outbound ride taking 11hours (its a long story but glad I over spent on food at London as it things get real when the food runs out in the eurostar s Continue reading " The in outbound train DJ mixes "
We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed reading the rule of the super rich on hearing about gig working nurses and is W social European and open or not?? To quote Buckminster Fuller You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a Continue reading " Public Service Internet monthly newsletter (July 2026)…
Dare I mention the nightmare I had with my scooter with the ULEZ fine. Which? include the thing I discovered, which is cloned plates, but lets get back to the problem of ANPR. Easily solved by having a human look at the case not a computer. 3% is a lot of people.
For the longest time I have avoided using Meta s Whatsapp. Recently its become more difficult with more and more services using Whatsapp as there default way to communicate. Luckily my partner has become a bit of a human bridge to some Whatsapp groups. To be really clear this is not good! I m very aware of Continue reading " Whatsapp must never be public infrastructure "
Finally the Pebble time 2 came As most of you know I was a big Pebble fan, for many reasons but battery life is a massive plus. The Ticwatch 5 pro was doing my head in, because although it will last a day no problem. Once you add sleep tracking its a very different story. Continue reading " It s Pebble time 2! "
We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing the problems with single sign on, Google chrome forcefully downloading 4gig of a LLM and why on earth is meta smart glasses selling so well, despite privacy worries? To quote Buckminster Fuller You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change Continue reading " Public Service…
I didn t see this session live because it was originally in German and it clashes with another session I wanted to see. There is so much in this session but it was a good reminder of why I was keen to setup making the familiar strange podcast. The nuance of intimacy and the sessions final Continue reading " We really need to talk sensibly about intimacy and AI "
I spent a good amount of time in Berlin, Germany recently for the fantastic Republica conference. This was recorded on a Ryanair flight (I luckily booked my flights over 3 months ago) using a number of even newer tunes. I had to do quite a bit of editing from the different times when my arm Continue reading " Under a solar republica sky mix "