Alasdair McCall
@alasda.ir
There a dude have a literal gym sesh on the train today 😂 #londoncommute
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
There a dude have a literal gym sesh on the train today 😂 #londoncommute
"Liquid Glass [..] a new way while letting content shine through underneath it."
Generally I like LG on iOS26, but it makes the lock screen ugly and unusable. The notifications _are_ the content, yet LG makes them look dark, bland and, worst of all, unreadable.
#liquidGlass #iOS26
Generally I like LG on iOS26, but it makes the lock screen ugly and unusable. The notifications _are_ the content, yet LG makes them look dark, bland and, worst of all, unreadable.
#liquidGlass #iOS26
September 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
"Liquid Glass [..] a new way while letting content shine through underneath it."
Generally I like LG on iOS26, but it makes the lock screen ugly and unusable. The notifications _are_ the content, yet LG makes them look dark, bland and, worst of all, unreadable.
#liquidGlass #iOS26
Generally I like LG on iOS26, but it makes the lock screen ugly and unusable. The notifications _are_ the content, yet LG makes them look dark, bland and, worst of all, unreadable.
#liquidGlass #iOS26
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what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
September 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
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This matches with my understanding of where LLMs are likely to impact science quickest – bringing techniques that are well-understood to one set of experts, and applying them to questions raised by a different set of experts www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine
Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”
www.quantamagazine.org
July 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This matches with my understanding of where LLMs are likely to impact science quickest – bringing techniques that are well-understood to one set of experts, and applying them to questions raised by a different set of experts www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...
Still invested in KMP, but I would much prefer writing apps in Swift. Swift Android working group is exciting even if it’s too early to tell #kmp #swift
swift.org/android-work...
swift.org/android-work...
swift.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Still invested in KMP, but I would much prefer writing apps in Swift. Swift Android working group is exciting even if it’s too early to tell #kmp #swift
swift.org/android-work...
swift.org/android-work...
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Please, please, Will I Am is so formal. My friends call me Bill I'm.
June 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Please, please, Will I Am is so formal. My friends call me Bill I'm.
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📢 I built a free, open source analytics backend for Sparkle because all existing solutions are ancient. I'll take over hosting cost for other oss Mac apps who value simple, minimal and privacy-first analytics. No login, no tracking, no cookies, no bs. steipete.me/posts/2025/s...
stats.store: Privacy-First Sparkle Analytics | Peter Steinberger
How curiosity about VibeTunnel users led me to build stats.store - a free, open source analytics backend for Sparkle using AI tools, all while cooking dinner.
steipete.me
June 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
📢 I built a free, open source analytics backend for Sparkle because all existing solutions are ancient. I'll take over hosting cost for other oss Mac apps who value simple, minimal and privacy-first analytics. No login, no tracking, no cookies, no bs. steipete.me/posts/2025/s...
Never thought I see “pavement pizza” in a serious newspaper @economist.com. Not sure how I feel about it 😂 🤢
economist.com/china/2025/0...
economist.com/china/2025/0...
June 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Never thought I see “pavement pizza” in a serious newspaper @economist.com. Not sure how I feel about it 😂 🤢
economist.com/china/2025/0...
economist.com/china/2025/0...
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Help to re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hel...
Fancy taking a hammer and smashing a prehistoric monument — and doing so with permission?
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hel...
Fancy taking a hammer and smashing a prehistoric monument — and doing so with permission?
Help to re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
Fancy taking a hammer and smashing a prehistoric monument — and doing so with permission?
www.ianvisits.co.uk
June 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Help to re-chalk the Uffington White Horse
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hel...
Fancy taking a hammer and smashing a prehistoric monument — and doing so with permission?
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/hel...
Fancy taking a hammer and smashing a prehistoric monument — and doing so with permission?
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Row upon row of purple lavender fill the fields near Croydon, and you will be able to walk through them later this month.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/may...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/may...
Mayfield lavender farm reopens this month
Row upon row of purple lavender fill the fields near Croydon, and you will be able to walk through them later this month.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Row upon row of purple lavender fill the fields near Croydon, and you will be able to walk through them later this month.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/may...
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/may...
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If you open @smashingmagazine.com, you might (or might not) recognize the name on the latest article. 😁
Apologies in advance, it’s a long read, and there’s not a single line of code. But I’m a little bit proud of this one! ☺️
What you think?! #accessibility
www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/fost...
Apologies in advance, it’s a long read, and there’s not a single line of code. But I’m a little bit proud of this one! ☺️
What you think?! #accessibility
www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/fost...
Fostering An Accessibility Culture — Smashing Magazine
While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.
www.smashingmagazine.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
If you open @smashingmagazine.com, you might (or might not) recognize the name on the latest article. 😁
Apologies in advance, it’s a long read, and there’s not a single line of code. But I’m a little bit proud of this one! ☺️
What you think?! #accessibility
www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/fost...
Apologies in advance, it’s a long read, and there’s not a single line of code. But I’m a little bit proud of this one! ☺️
What you think?! #accessibility
www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/fost...
Youtube has some great Maths content. The latest find for me (after the OG that is Numberphile - @bradyharan.bsky.social) is @3blue1brown.com - so beautiful and thoughtful. Give this one a watch youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U
Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos | The Distance Ladder Part 1
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Youtube has some great Maths content. The latest find for me (after the OG that is Numberphile - @bradyharan.bsky.social) is @3blue1brown.com - so beautiful and thoughtful. Give this one a watch youtu.be/YdOXS_9_P4U
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Imagine Julian Simon and Paul R Erlich had made their bet about commodity prices at a different time. Decade by decade, who would have won?
Fun, instructive by @hannahritchie.bsky.social ourworldindata.org/simon-ehrlic...
Fun, instructive by @hannahritchie.bsky.social ourworldindata.org/simon-ehrlic...
Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades, and what do long-term prices tell us about resource scarcity?
In the 1980s, economist Julian Simon won his bet with biologist Paul Ehrlich on mineral prices. But what does the long-term data tell us about supply and demand for resources?
ourworldindata.org
January 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Imagine Julian Simon and Paul R Erlich had made their bet about commodity prices at a different time. Decade by decade, who would have won?
Fun, instructive by @hannahritchie.bsky.social ourworldindata.org/simon-ehrlic...
Fun, instructive by @hannahritchie.bsky.social ourworldindata.org/simon-ehrlic...
My favourite part of the season is slowly consuming the Christmas Double Issue of the @economist.com
December 21, 2024 at 12:04 PM
My favourite part of the season is slowly consuming the Christmas Double Issue of the @economist.com
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Oh yeah! This is how the poster was before I fixed the issue! 😁
November 25, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Oh yeah! This is how the poster was before I fixed the issue! 😁
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A slightly surreal sight on Constantia main road: a truck transporting a very dead whale to its final resting place. Traffic backed up for miles behind it, providing a slightly grumpy unwilling funeral procession. That's its mouth at the front, drooping off the truck.
November 17, 2024 at 12:17 PM
A slightly surreal sight on Constantia main road: a truck transporting a very dead whale to its final resting place. Traffic backed up for miles behind it, providing a slightly grumpy unwilling funeral procession. That's its mouth at the front, drooping off the truck.