Phil Bowell

Finished reading: The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson 📚 I really enjoyed this and definitely recommend it.

This is a fascinating look into a combination of two of my favourite things.

Ouch, the new Apple TV is expensive.

Wonderful look back at The Dock on Mac, From OS 10 to macOS 27.

Today is a dark mode and headphones kind of day.

I spent some time in Sketch last night refining the design of my read later app for Micro.blog bookmarks.

Some more of my read later app powered by Micro.blog bookmarks.

Jim Nielsen is “Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry” and I’ll add a hearty me too.

I’ve been having fun experimenting with Codex… I’ve had many ideas for apps over the years but never been able to do anything about them.

a humane interface — or a humane system, even a humane technology — is considerate of human frailties.

Today marks my 42nd trip around the sun.

In what can only be classed as a state of wishful thinking, I changed my Mac wallpaper to a more autumnal theme.

Trying out the new Outpost app that Manton linked to.

I’ve integrated the new books feature Manton launched at the end of August into my blog, so now the book details pages feel part of my blog.

To my surprise I really enjoyed it.

I have a problem, that some might call a block.

Catching up on the new Apple stuff over coffee this morning and so far there’s one thing I want from the Duo on my iPad.

Finished reading: Odyssey by Stephen Fry 📚 Very enjoyable.

First day back at work after a very relaxing and enjoyable week and a bit off exploring the North East coast of England.

At last we have some rain down in the south of England.

I’ve set my old MacBook Pro up as a home server and I’m slowly experimenting with various different things I can do with it.

Hello @help When I try to change my AT Protocol domain I get this error.

My attempt at watching and capturing this evenings eclipse.

Filming for Amazon’s Young Sherlock in town today.

This flow: Have a thought.

In Perils of the New Armchair Scholarship Dan Cohen finishes with a summary that hits exactly where I am landing on using AI in design.

Atlas looks like an interesting app for collecting an inspiration library.

Went to see The Odyssey last night.

I’ve been trying to watch Foundation Season 3 but I can’t get in to it.

It’s finally a bearable temperature outside, a cool 23 degrees.

Very sad to hear Om Malik has died.

I like the look of Lettera a new markdown writer app thingy from the folks behind Bear.

A fantastic look at the design of Japen Rail.

An interesting look at the revised Liquid Glass icons in MacOS Golden Gate.

I’m looking for a consumer tech news site that’s like The Verge but not The Verge… any recommendations?

It’s that time of year again when we have the conversation about “The Fold” on the internet… repeat after me… There.

An interesting piece from Om about Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and their Mythos model.

I'm slowly building out a new "professional" site which will become a portfolio and possibly have some kind of design based blog.

Here comes the rain… do do dooo dah… here comes the hail…

This is the best take I’ve read on the Ferrari Luce.

There are bloggers who I admire a great deal.