John McDowall

Want to come over and watch me eat a loaf of bread?

[John McDowall @jmcd]

“Image Text”, my app for grabbing and using text from camera and images, is now on the App Store.

It uses the new machine learning in iOS13.

This is the most useful program I have written in a while! Give it a go, share (or even review) it if you like.

https://t.co/UY9dcR0pd9

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@charge_negative Originally… https://t.co/Q2wMljBxxl

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@charge_negative Also the Daley Thompson’s Decathlon loader music!

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Guys, these are not normal nuts.

These nuts - you can SNACK on them!

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Classic Lego anniversary Galaxy Explorer in here! 🙌

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UX is hard.

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@GeshGav “Special Team”!

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Another superb video from Technology Connections 🙌

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Ok now do Ocean Loader 5 on the C64, then Pictionary on the NES.

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Paintings evoke such a strange sensation in me.

A time machine to an instant in the past; a portal. Real people - subjects and painter - really alive. Same as us.

Prince Carlos of Viana, Jose Moreno Carbonero, 1881

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Outlook should have a distinct notification sound for “meeting cancelled” – capturing that ecstasy of discovering it’s Saturday and not Monday feeling.

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Ah yes, Optimus Prime, the most iconic of the 1980’s toyline “The Converters”.

If only there were a more catchy synonym for “convert” 🤔

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This does not seem like good byte-per-feature value.

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TIL Nostalgia was used to be considered a psychological disorder - an actual diagnosable medical disease.

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Sometimes I feel optimistic about our ability to offset climate change.

Then other times…

I see a gaggle of people waiting for the green man to cross the road. Nobody has pressed the button. “Not my job to press it!”. We’ve no chance.

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Every paragraph is crafted with the same exacting precision as one of his monologues, which must be an exhausting way to write.

Anyway, it’s a lot of fun.

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Very much enjoyed the audiobook of @frankieboyle’s novel Meantime.

What if Rebus had more drugs and Scotland than Trainspotting, but also taught you communism and Simulation Theory?

The gritty bit isn’t the death and drugs - it’s the always-winning System, and pain of loss.

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A reminder of why the Dreamcast is the GOAT.

“OK an average size!”

[Owen // owenod.bsky.social @MechaGamezilla]

New video! EVERY DREAMCAST FISHING GAME https://t.co/FcktFybrZe Please enjoy 🐟

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If you do not know cricketing jargon you are barred from completing any Guardian crossword.

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Every year or two I’ll have my mind blown as I am reminded how big Kazakhstan is.

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You should get @DailyArtApp (and pay to get rid of ads).

It reminded me that uneducated people like me can enjoy art.

https://t.co/OF9LnJ1Bq1