Minutes to Midnight
Web design, sound production, and reflections on technology and creativity.
minutestomidnight.co.ukMinutes to Midnight is an independent blog covering web development, design, and music. It publishes on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, with 28 posts in its archive and 5 readers following along on Blogs Are Back. This blog was submitted by the community.
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The root of all evil today
I watched two impressive videos over the past few days. I believe they effectively sum up a great deal of what have been impacting the UK and beyond, over the last decade or so. Firstly, Patrick Boyle provides a clear explanation of the effects of Brexit since 2016, as well as the underlying significance of both the original attempt, and the recent flirting with the idea of “rejoining” the EU. From the description of the second video: Former Silicon Valley insider Dex Hunter-Torrick...
End of an Era
I just came back from an extended stay in Italy. My dad was in hospital, but while I initially underestimated the problem, this time it turned serious. As his health was quickly deteriorating, I got on the first flight and rushed to see him. For the last four decades, I have been convinced he would go with a heart attack, because that is our weakness: it runs in the family line. Fate had it differently. While everybody scrambled to hear a different explanation every day from doctors, I remained...
More Feeding
A few weeks ago I wrote about RSS, talking about Terry Godier’s posts and arguing about the need for a different experience with reading feeds. My initial thought was that his new RSS client, Current, was incapable of doing what Fraidycat does — show the original website instead of a sanitised read mode that strips out any creativity. I was wrong. I purchased Current last week, and it’s been a great journey so far. Not entirely bug-free, but incredibly refreshing and satisfying. Unlike Fraidyc...
The Day After
As a quintessential Cold War child, still fixated on it, I periodically revisit films and documentaries about its most prickly moments. For years, I’ve observed, and occasionally joined, debates surrounding the two key films that managed to capture the 1980s collective paranoia: nuclear annihilation. The first, in 1983, was the American The Day After. A year later, the British Threads emerged. The debate has historically crystallised on a rigid duality in interpreting the two films. The America...
To The Rescue
While going through my feeds the other day, I came across an article about a Cambridge-based music band I previously collaborated with, Ember Rev. Their third album, From The Country to the City to the Sea, which I mixed in 2019, has recently undergone a rework. The band’s leader is quite experienced in these matters and, in fairness, he approached me first a few months ago. I declined for personal reasons. What is somewhat disconcerting is that, although the project proceeded with the engineer...
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