Tag: Technology
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When Code Eats Creativity: Discovering My Works in the Anthropic Compensation List
✍️ Ever wondered whether your books could end up as fuel for an AI — without you ever knowing? I discovered two of mine did. Now Anthropic has agreed to pay US $1.5 billion to authors in what may be the first major AI-copyright settlement. This post explores what that means — not just for…
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Keeping Podcasts Playing on Apple TV
There are certain moments in life when technology promises serenity and delivers chaos. You sit down, ready for an evening of podcast-fuelled pottering about, and your Apple TV decides—rather unilaterally—that you’ve had quite enough stimulation for one episode. The screen goes black, the sound stops, and the whole thing curls up for a nap like…
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Railway 200 & Beyond – Joining the RSA Panel
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been invited to join the Review Panel for the RSA Spark Programme, contributing to Brief Two: Railway 200 & Beyond. As someone who works at the intersection of innovation, systems thinking, and future-facing design, this opportunity feels like the perfect convergence of past inspiration and forward momentum. Honouring Two Centuries of…
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Apple macOS Sequoia and Security Updates
Apple has unveiled macOS Sequoia (version 15), the latest update to its Mac operating system, which includes over 70 critical security patches. These patches address a range of vulnerabilities, from kernel issues to the risk of unauthorised access to sensitive data in applications such as Siri, Maps, and Shortcuts. The update resolves potential exploits including…
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Kanban in Apple’s Reminders
Apple has added a view to Reminders which shows you tasks in the Kanban column style. Here’s how to use it on the Mac, and also the iPad, plus why not to bother on the iPhone. Kanban – a popular scheduling system for lean manufacturing – has come to Reminders in macOS Sonoma, iPadOS 17,…
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Exchange Calendar Colours in WatchOS
I have been experiencing a minor but annoying issue with my Exchange Calendar in my Apple Watch. Actually it is also in my iPhone, but at lease there I can do something about it. Let me explain: I have several calendars, some from different accounts and I colour code them to enable me to determine…
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Hearing Accessibility in iOS
Hearing is an important part of the way we experience the world and perhaps it is one of those things we leave unchecked when an issue arises. We may put it off as not being too bad or wishing it will go away on its own. Further to that, there may be the stigma of…
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Setting up Xcode Cloud
Creating a great app for the Apple ecosystem has evolved over the last few years from using Objective-C, to Swift and with the advent of SwiftUI things are getting easier and better. The tasks that developers need to consider around the actual development of the app are well-known: create a suitable build for the app,…
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Sci-Advent – Flexible and powerful electronics
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have created a new carbon-based electrical device, π-ion gel transistors (PIGTs), by using an ionic gel made of a conductive polymer. This work may lead to cheaper and more reliable flexible printable electronics. Organic conductors, which are carbon-based polymers that can carry electrical currents, have the potential to radically…
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File Encoding with the Command Line – Determining and Converting
With the changes that Python 3 has brought to bear in terms of dealing with character encodings, I have written before some tips that I use on my day to day work. It is sometimes useful to determine the character encoding of a files at a much earlier stage. The command line is a perfect…