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 26 posts in its archive and 4 readers following along on Blogs Are Back. This blog was submitted by the community.
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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
One of those days when seeing your name featured in an article published by a major UK music magazine is rather disconcerting. 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 f...
Feeding
Noticing how less meaningful I've been finding my RSS reading habit, I went on the lookout for possible reasons. First, I really dislike the idea of reducing a sizeable part of my internet usage to a standardised homogenous experience. Imagine going to a bookshop and see all the books printed with the same style, size, type of paper, colours, typeface. Doesn’t make much sense, does it? Well, why are we accepting it with websites and blogs via RSS? I don’t mind reducing news sites to a...
Plateau
Things are still in suspension mode. World and private events clash and overlap, creating this sense of disbelief, mixed with slivers of hope. Lately, I’ve been exchanging long (and sometimes short) emails with several people, which is good. I still don’t get how common the idea is that if you’re not participating in the modern dystopian web, you’re just an outcast, all alone, lost in the woods, not knowing what everyone else is up to. Did you all have lives before all this? Don’t people have f...
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