January done already. Some small changes – more sleep, more water, slightly more exercise and my weight has stabilised and dropped a bit which is a good thing. Heads/migraines that plagued me through November and December have also dropped significantly which is another good thing. Progress.
An ugly week of politics in which Trump has veered more and more into many aspects of project 2025. Many will feel threatened, unwelcome and have lost their jobs thanks to the change in regime. Highlights how lucky I am to be at a company that champions the few.
Pebble is back. I’ve a soft spot for Pebble as I ordered one on Kickstarter back in 2012. At the time I was looking forward to a customisable smart watch but my experience didn’t match expectations. A couple of years later the Apple Watch was launched, and there are now so many smart watch options, the Apple Watch alone is 10 years of constant iteration. I get that the list of features for the new Pebble don’t really exist elsewhere…but there’s a reason for that. Good luck to them but I’ll be passing the time.
There’s a new app at no 1 in the App Store. DeepSeek got all the headlines – is it better than ChatGPT? Did it steal OpenAI’s data (laughable as OpenAI trained its model on everyone else’s data)? Is it safe? Last one needs a bit more unpacking as Wiz found some unsecured information. ChatGPT is more reliable in my testing with DeepSeek often at capacity. There’s also quiet a bit of information suppression in DeepSeek but there’s no doubt it’s shown that AI wars are going to be interesting over the next few years.
The Video Game History Foundation launched its Digital Archive this week. Some great old magazines in there, shame there’s no Edge at the moment. My own cover scans from Edge can be found here.