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Listening To Tranceport by Paul Oakenfold. The legal version keeps coming on and off streaming services, so I bought the second-hand CD. I still have CDs. This, and the original Trance Nation compilation are the best late 90s dance albums. I bet Romy has the Tranceport and Trance Nation CDs. She has the best music taste. My favourite Boiler Room is Romy’s , but this Radio 1 Essential Mix is just…
Listening To Lost Boys . If you don’t know already, I should have been listening to Phoebe Bridgers as she’s the best thing about the 2020s. The new song is great and has a video that could have been from late 90s MTV. Even better is the live version she did with a backing band of kids. Glorious. Be a leader like Phoebe. The second-best thing about the 2020s is Maggie Rogers. Surrender and Don’t…
I am biased, but I still think Net-A-Porter make some of the best fashion images. I love every picture from their Penélope Cruz shoot .
My favourite photographer is Peter Lindbergh . Among the many things I love about his pictures is that he didn’t try to make his subjects look younger than they were. He just photographed people in the most natural and beautiful way (see his 2017 Pirelli Calendar for example). Greg Williams’ pictures of Gillian Anderson are different, but they still remind me of Lindbergh.
Listening To There’s a lot of 2000s music nostalgia in 2026. Maybe if you do something for long enough, you get this good. Eve’s Tiny Desk is flawless. Naming is hard. Ronaldo and Ronaldo being two of the best footballers in recent years means that people generally use R9 for the original Ronaldo. But if you also like pop music, R9 is the Rihanna album everyone is waiting for. I’m still living in…
As soon as I saw the email from Phoebe Bridgers I knew the picture was by Gregory Crewdson . It’s a perfect collaboration. The BTS video on Instagram gives a glimpse of how much goes into his shoots. I’m here for any Phoebe Bridgers content. I loved her old Net-A-Porter shoot . Nobody has ever sold wellies so well.
AI I work at Autotrader , where we have a great delivery platform and a set of AI tools both driven by Karl. The team I work in is getting a lot from Copilot and ATAI, but we’ve been struggling to figure out how to help junior developers with them. Nobody has the answer, but Rethinking Growing Engineers in the Age of AI has some good advice. AI and Jobs was interesting, but I then read Benedict…
This is the second Vogue Australia / Lachlan Bailey shoot I’ve loved this year. Bailey shoots like I wish I could.
AI Things that make software development easier for AI are the same things that make it easier for humans. Stop Using/init for AGENTS.md sounds like advice developers have been giving each other for years (don’t write comments for things that the code already expresses). Well-structured, clean code makes it easier for AI or humans to make changes, or at least understand them. Good tests give AI or…
Technology I think this is a losing battle, but I’m on Henry’s side . AI What Developers Actually Need to Know Right Now . This will date by April. Nobody knows if any of this stuff will be correct, but I enjoy reading Chris Loy’s writing on AI. Start with The AI coding trap and finish with The rise of industrial software . Other Margot Robbie x Kylie Minogue for Chanel. I’m glad some brands are…