Photo-a-day for the month of Mar 2025. The post Mar 2025 | Photo 365 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I don't think I've ever shared a full poem I've written on my blog? I would like to take steps to change that. It is the time for it. The post Without Ceremony | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
The Ghibli image crisis isn't really about copyright or ethics. It's about who gets to make images? and what gives them meaning. The post Information Age Iconoclasm | 2506 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Some quick thoughts on the current state of Jetpack's New Social Notes feature. The post A Note on Jetpack Social Notes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Just testing social notes again. Don’t mind me. Here’s a picture of a bronze statue of a rabbit eating a watermelon slice The post appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I am going to try jetpacks social notes functionality out again in about 6 months. too many broken / rough edges right now. weird unexpected things. Great idea tho. The post appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
What if I try again TEST 2 do you think it’s better with or without the link? The post appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
What if I just post this? TEST The post appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Ok that worked on some sites and not others lets try with a full permalink URL and see how that looks? This whole rigamarole might be better if I just set up a new blog category called ‘notes’. and posted short form blog posts there and used the custom message field in normal jet … | Continue reading
Well that short URL didn’t work and it didn’t post the image lets try again. this attempt is using the indieweb Permashortcitation standard. Hopefully you should see an image of my laptop in at my fav coffee shop? The post appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
This is my second attempt at posting a social note on my blog and I hope that these notes will post out to all my social media accounts. the first one worked fine but it did not update my RSS feed or put a link back to this post in the post on the social […] The post appeared fir … | Continue reading
I am testing social notes. Posting short text posts directly from my blog to social media sites so I never have to log in to social media again. I wonder how many characters I get and if this image will appear? Will this post show up in my RSS feed? The post appeared first on the … | Continue reading
I went away last week. 5 nights in Gran Canaria. We went to a huge hotel, ate loads of buffet food and sat by the pool. AND we watched a lot of sunsets from the bar... The post Week Away appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I went to see Flowers at the Saatchi Gallery. Rebecca Louise Law's la fLEUR MORTE is a sculpture that uses flowers and time as a medium. The post Flowers at Saatchi | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Tutorial engines are coming. And they’ll run atop local AI models embedded in our devices at the OS level.. The post Helpful LLocal Models | 2505 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Photo-a-day for the month of Feb 2025. The post Feb 2025 | Photo 365 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
The UK’s creative tech funding is stuck in sticky bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Europe backed Flow—and it won an Oscar. The post A Future Funded Elsewhere | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
If you find it hard to distinguish between content slop written by AI or content written by a human, don’t worry. The post Human Gunk and the AI Slopocalypse | 2504 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I went to see Green Lung at the Kentish Town Forum last night, there’s something deeply comforting about being in a room full of metalheads. The post Green Lung | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I can’t remember the last time I heard anyone seriously use the phrase ‘Desktop Publishing.’ Maybe the mid-2000s? The post Desktop Publishing | 2503 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
People collect and arrange all sorts of things they find meaningful. Pinterest represents an aspirational self, the meme stash an ironic one. The post Meme Stash as a Folk Archive appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
When I was 16 I saw someone get glassed in a pub over something they’d said on the local phpBB punk forum. The post Email is a Destination | 2502 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Rather than focusing on 'Games', Laas instead focuses on their definition and how *they* work in different ways to achieve certain ends. The post Game Definitions appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Survive Until 2025. 2024 is leaning over into this year in a way that makes everything feel very precarious. The post Survive Until 2025 | 2501 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Photo-a-day for the month of Jan 2025. Start of YEAR 4! The post Jan 2025 | Photo 365 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I've had a really full week. It was Eve's Birthday on Wednesday and have been doing lots of things with her. The post Full Week appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
OpenAI’s Operator, an AI agent that browses the web, and Deepseek R1, a powerful local model running on my own machine—both have dropped in the same week and they have left me with a touch of Future Shock. The post A Touch of The Future Shock appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
This issue is a double feature, exploring two intertwined challenges: Shadow Boxing and my move to long form essay writing. The post Start Select Reset Zine #012 | Shadow Boxing x Long Form Leap appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Trump Coin has sort of got lost in the noise in UK media due to the Tiktok shut down. But its way more insane and way more significant news. The post Hold On | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I am really struggling to get 2025 started. I’ve been pulling the starter cord over and over, but nothing is turning. The post Discipline Doesn’t Arrive On Its Own | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
The idea that we can avoid a future where social networks are populated by AI-generated profiles? That ship has sailed. The post Living Alongside Computer People appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Photo-a-day for the month of Dec 2024. End of year 3! The post Dec 2024 | Photo 365 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
This half-decade has felt like a protracted liminal state: sclerotic stagnation atop a decade of pointless austerity. The post HNY 2025 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I got back from The Chalk yesterday evening after a wonderful week back home at my parents house. The post Xmas 2024 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I spent most of last week wrapping things up for Christmas. Both literally and figuratively. The post Wrapping Things Up | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I thought I’d do a quick post rounding up top 5 podcast series that were new to me this year. The post Podcast Recommendations (2024) appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I got Apple Intelligence on my MacBook today. It works—right-click to summarise, rewrite, or proofread text. But this once-magical tech is already mundane, baked seamlessly into workflows. The post Apple Intelligence Is Fine appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
In 1980, Frank Herbert envisioned the ‘author’s computer’ as a tool for organizing creativity and storytelling. Decades later, Patchwork, a collaborative worldbuilding app, brings us closer to realizing his dream. The post Without You, Patchwork is Nothing appeared first on theja … | Continue reading
So I'm done with Permanently Moved for the year. I'm also nearly done with 2024 in general. The post Nearly Done | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Permanently Moved will be evolving next year. 301, 301 second long episodes, is enough. The post EOY 2024 | 2430 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Last week was wrapped week, because it wasn’t just Spotify—I’ve had lots of apps deliver year-in-review summaries. The post Wrapped Reactions | Weeknotes appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I was recently interviewed by Dirk Songuer for his book: Fieldnotes from the Metaverse which "documents the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse" and the interview is now online. The post Fieldnotes from the Metaverse | Interview appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
Photo-a-day for the month of Nov 2024 The post Nov 2024 | Photo 365 appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I’m considering another “word diet”. The post Retreat to Recalibrate appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
In the Storm, a Fire: A Solarpunk short story by Jay Springett and Andrew Dana Hudson. The post In the Storm, a Fire | A Solarpunk Short Story appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
I think routine and repetition are scaffolds we build around ourselves to climb higher. The post Repetition appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
It’s surprising how quickly “You copied me” appears in a child’s vocabulary. The post You Copied Me appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
The artist Yaelokre released a new song recently, and the buzz around it online prompted me to write about their work—or rather, their world—as a medium. The post Yaelokre’s Meadowlark | World Running appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading