2019-11-27 (Wednesday)
Tweets
@eliothill Is it called a CHOCOBULLET?
@matlock Yeah - I had that “jump to today” issue again only this morning. Keep my place, dammit! I’ve no idea how it works out when to download an edition or not - I haven’t manually done it and some of mine are, some aren’t.
@matlock It’s painful isn’t it. And although they’re fixing some issues in updates the fundamental layout feels like more *work* than the old version to use.
@adrianhon @guardian The worst thing is that the previous version was fine. There was some room for improvement but it wasn’t aggravating, which seems a good baseline achievement. So to rewrite it all and make it worse…
Three weeks on from that lengthy review, a briefer update: The @guardian’s updated Daily Edition app is a shoddy piece of work that should never have launched in this state and it makes me angry and sad every day. Morning! twitter.com/philgyford/sta…
I wrote a very brief* review of the new version of the Guardian’s Daily Edition app for iOS and Android devices. gyford.com/phil/writing/2…
* I’m joking. It’s 4,500 words.
Liked tweets
"When did you ever see
So much sweet beauty as when fine rain falls
On that small tree"
Thank you, Clive James, for writing so wisely and movingly about your own mortality, particularly in this beautiful poem 🍁💛
Later I discovered that the adviser had been doing the call on a busy train, where the only quiet spot was a toilet with no lock. He waa repeatedly apologising to people wanting to use the loo and thought he was on mute.