The 1927 Solvay Conference — perhaps the greatest ever meeting of minds
I think the group photo from the 1927 Solvay Conference is iconic and possibly the most brainpower the world's even seen in one picture.

I think the group photo from the 1927 Solvay Conference is iconic and possibly the most brainpower the world's even seen in one picture.
I'm not a big fan of Python but it has been so long since I've used it that I wanted to refresh my memory about the language. This is how I went about installing Python and Django on macOS 10.14 via Homebrew and pip.
Why are many sites' privacy policies so long? Laws have changed regarding online privacy recently (GDPR, for example) but I'm not sure your typical user is any better informed and I think complexity prevents many people from asserting their rights and options.
I was doing some thinking, which is always dangerous, and decided the insurance industry needs reform. If you exclude nonsense like 'peace of mind', most people get very little for their premiums.
Having been unimpressed with a lot of Apple's announcements in the last year or so, WWDC 2019 has much more I like. I take a look at some of my favourites here.
OmniFocus has been my task manager of choice for a number of years now and, with the release of OmniFocus 3 for macOS, I thought I'd jot down how I think things have improved.
I've always like Panic's software and I was amazed to fine out that they plan to break into the hardware market too. They're making a handheld games console called Playdate and I quite like what I see.
I've had a strange problem with Safari's 'Inspect Element' for a while now and noticed it would be accompanied by a "This webpage is using significant energy" message at the top of the Safari screen.. I finally got around to fixing it today.
Just a weekend rant here, this time about a Macallan Whiskey advert that suffered a ludicrous ban at the hands of the Advertising Standards Authority.
I love PHP's built-in web server. It saves me having to install a MAMP stack just to view my test and development websites. Here's how I use it.
Having watched a few underwhelming horror movies recently, I was pleasantly surprised by Bird Box. This sort of thing is more to my taste when it comes to horror. This review contains some minor spoilers but nothing that's likely to ruin your viewing.
I've been thinking about whether I prefer title case or sentence case for titles on my blog. I find the decision difficult.
Armed with more knowledge about how it works I've recently revised the way I use schema on this blog. In this article I explain how I reflect both the physical and logical structure of my website via schema.
I've recently got a grip of how to use schema IDs and I thought I'd write a quick blog about it in case anyone else is struggling with them.
As most of the TV channels had decided not to bother marking Easter Sunday with any special programmes I watched a film called Serpent, which I'd recorded from Sky about a week ago. This was something I soon regretted.
I've created what I think are a reasonable set of rules to create difficult to crack passwords.
The Freshies released one of my favourite songs of all time and I decided to have a Sunday ramble about them in this article.
It's astonishing that we now have a picture of a black hole. It's a triumph of science and technology but I think what it represents is even more significant.
The UK government has written a white paper that suggests how it plans to go about regulating internet companies to prevent 'online harm'. I summarise the white paper in this article.
I love the Stieg Larsson 'Millennium' books. Following Larsson's death, David Lagercrantz took over the storytelling and 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' is the first Millennium book of his to be made into a film. I review that film in this article.
Gizmodo reports on a study that appears to show cats recognise their own names, although not all scientists are convinced.