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Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - Is no more...
I've decided to stop doing this weekly digest. I don't think it adds anything to what I already post on Twitter, Instagram, my blog, and soon, Hey World. I plan to use the latter and my blog for anything Longford I want to share. With Twitter for short-form p…
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 12th September 2021
Cybersecurity: BAD PRACTICES - CISA - LinkThe US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added single-factor authentication to its list of bad cybersecurity practices. I quote: The use of single-factor authentication for remote or administrative acce…
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 5th September 2021
Data Protection: The UK thinks it can fix GDPR. It’s wrong - Wired UK - LinkMore pie in the sky nonsense from what passes as a Government in the UK.
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 29th August 2021
Expert Systems: A New Way to Ask Wolfram|Alpha Questions with Math Input - Wolfram Alpha - LinkI love Wolfram Alpha. It's the closest thing we have to the AI systems that sci-fi stories set in the future often have. You can ask it almost anything in natural l…
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 22nd August 2021
Propaganda: China’s propaganda firehose is going after the BBC - Wired - LinkChina is alledging the BBC uses gloom filters to make China look bad in news reports and other videos. Flip sake 🤦🏻♂️ Article by Matt Burgess from Wired UK.
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 15th August 2021
Privacy: Interview: Apple’s head of Privacy details child abuse detection and Messages safety features - Techcrunch - Link Apple botched their announcement of new child protection measures two weeks ago. They have been in reassurance mode ever since. I still …
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 8th August 2021
Privacy: Apple’s New ‘Child Safety’ Initiatives, and the Slippery Slope - Daring Fireball - LinkThere has been a lot of electrons sacrificed this week in discussions of the forthcoming Apple CSAM protections. Including some by me on Twitter. I didn't see any …
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 1st August 2021
Tech Regulation: How France tamed Google - Wired UK - LinkA French regulator hit Google with two fines totalling €720 M. Surprisingly, Google didn't appeal but agreed with their findings and said they would change how they operate to prevent the activities th…
Ian Robinson's New Music Digest - 25th July 2021
New music I discovered this week (listed in the order I added them to Apple Music)Beebe - Vacation - (Single) - Apple Music - Spotify - TwitterLorde - Stoned at the Nail Salon - (Single) - Apple Music - Spotify - TwitterTom McLoughlin - If The Wanted To, They…
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 18th July 2021
Physics: A Video Tour of the Standard Model - Quanta Magazine - LinkAnother excellent video from Quanta Magazine. This one outlines the particles in the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 11th July 2021
Spaceflight: Space Billionaires, Please Read the Room - The Atlantic - LinkSo Richard Branson went into space today (barely - call me when you are staying in orbit!) Next week it'll be Jeff Bezos's turn for a few minutes. Meh. The only good thing about these …
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 4th July 2021
Data Analysis: Cricket is having its Moneyball moment - Wired UK - LinkA good long read by Mike Jakeman about how the data analysis by CricViz is changing cricket.
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 27th June 2021
Programming: Modern, Visual Basic For Your Mac - Xojo - LinkDo you remember Visual Basic? It allowed a lot of people to start programming back in the day. It had a drag and drop visual interface designer, that you then added code snippets to in order to bring…
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - June 20th 2021
Apps: HEY turns 1, Happy Birthday HEY! - Jason Fried - LinkI was an early adopter of HEY email (I also recently switched to the paid version of Basecamp for tracking writing work with clients). I moved all my email to HEY when HEY for Domains was released (it…
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 13th June 2021
Apple Music: Eddy Cue's Honesty on Apple Music Lossless - M.G. Siegler - LinkApple Music Dolby Atmos (Spatial Audio) and Lossless music downloads arrived this week. It's good to have Lossless. I'll be using the CD-quality versions for downloading. I'm not sur…
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 6th June 2021
Astrophotography: 40 Megapixel Image of the Sun - Andrew McCarthy - LinkDon't look directly at the Sun they say. Good advice. Look at this image instead!
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 30th May 2021
Mapping: Lights at Sea - Geodienst RUG - LinkAn animated map of lighthouses around the world. The data is very rich for the British Isles and Europe.
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 23rd May 2021
Cloud Computing: Special Report on The Cloud - Financial Times - LinkThere is a good selection of articles on the FT site on the topic of Cloud Computing.
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 16th May 2021
Web Design: We Analyzed 229K Webpages. Here's What We Learned About Core Web Vitals and UX - Backlinko - LinkHave a website? If you want to make it better for readers and engagement, then this study might help.
Ian Robinson's Weekly Digest - 9th May 2021
Nuclear Power: Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl - AAAS Science - LinkJoy. Thirty-five years later, and Chernobyl is still smouldering.