Alex Magill

@alexmagill
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I work at (and on) my design consultancy, Bold Wise, and I write about exploration, creativity, design and process at alexmagill.com
Personal sitehttps://alexmagill.com
Bold Wisehttps://boldwise.co.uk
Show threadAlex MagillJan 30
It’s been noted that the 2024.x and 2025.x releases included significant regressions. As is traditional, the product manager responsible has been given a promotion so that they no longer have hands on responsibilities.
Alex MagillJan 30

I’ve started writing the date with points - 2026.01.30 - so that I can pretend each day is a new version update.

Today came with “bug fixes and security updates so that you can continue to enjoy your experience.”

Alex MagillJan 29
Garden visitor
Show threadAlex MagillJan 27
The next challenge is trying to see it. From all I’ve read, not only are they well camouflaged, but their call aldo carries a huge distance so is hard to locate
Alex MagillJan 27
We’ve just identified a wonderfully haunting bird call that we’ve been hearing evening and night for the lasts few weeks. We’ve got a south east London-based tawny owl 🦉. It’s a little like a hollow train whistle hoot.
Show threadAlex MagillJan 26
Just seen a headline about just this. I feel like I’m in the wrong timeline 🤦‍♂️
Alex MagillJan 22
Tangles: https://alexmagill.com/writing/2026-01-21-tangles/
Tangles | Writing | Alex Magill

Typically it starts with an innocuous problem. Something isn’t happening fast enough, or at all and, despite suspicions, no one is quite sure why.

Alex Magill
Alex MagillJan 20
Currently imagining a re-telling of Luke Rhinehart’s The Dice Man, but using LLMs and I can’t decide if it’s a Black Mirror episode, or just reality 😬
Alex MagillJan 19
Brent ToderianJan 18

“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“

Read this article by @pluralistic. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

The Guardian
Alex MagillJan 14
Norbert HegerJan 11

Struggling to resize windows on macOS Tahoe? Here’s why.

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/