It’s been too long. It’s funny what a global pandemic does to your idea of spending time in a public theatre - even one as perfectly formed as the Dundee Rep.

If you get a chance to witness And in person, I urge you do so. I certainly plan to return. Which is fine, because the now 28 year old Charlotte plans to perform this show for the rest of her life - each time revised to reflect her greater experience.

But what is it?

A solo contemporary dance show? Performance poetry? A living memoir? Charlotte’s own web page for the work describes it so:

And is an auto-biographical performance about growing up as a woman, and explores culture, identity, nationality and politics.

In the spirit of all performance living in the space between performer and audience, I would add that’s it’s a reflection of the individual impact of a turbulent world on the idea of self, joy, responsibility, and guilt.

It’s deeply personal performance story-telling.

Verdict?

Both fierce and gentle, cutting and comedic, And is an emotional and poignant story of a young woman and womanhood - generationally tied to mothers past and yet cautiously optimistic about future children.

A perfect show for a rainy Wednesday. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

More info: And by Charlotte Mclean

King Taharqa @ The Ashmolean, Oxford

📺 The Sopranos

Finally, I know.

Often lauded as the greatest TV show of time, and I can see why. Very much enjoyed.

And. That. Ending.

I’ve never read Natalie Guest’s blog but this comment on her email subscription page persuaded me to try:

[Her writing] does have a knack of keeping me reading on even when I have better things to do

I always have ‘better’ things to do.

Murdo, with stick

Corrie Fee, Glendoll

Carolyn on Mastodon:

Could you please not denigrate a man by equating him to a woman? There are a lot of asshole men you can draw from.

Amen.

Falls of Unich, Glen Lee

🕹 Casual Birder - Playdate Season 1, Game 1

The first title is a groovy Pokémon-esque throwback for twitchers - gotta snap ’em all! Pokémon games were never my thing, but they might be yours.

But, holy cow, the text is small for my old eyes. Playdate XL, Panic?

Michael Amundsen:

Even the simplest screens in an app should be architected to allow for scrolling.

— Every Screen in Your App Should Be a Scrolling View - Lickability

When developing for iPhone today, if you can set a minimum version of iOS 16.2 then you need to be prepared to support the following phones and their respective screen sizes.

That’s ten different screen sizes from an iPhone 8¹ to an iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Comparing devices for “how much they can show on the screen” you should look at the Logical Dimensions column.

Path to Ethie, Angus

Finished reading: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 📚

A poignant exploration of the fragility of our psyche.

🕹 Playdate - initial impressions: perfectly cute, beautifully engineered

Kudos to Panic for bringing artisanal whimsy back to the world of video games.

Slàinte Mhath 🥃

It’s too late this year, but next… what do you do for hogmanay?

[David Sparks watches] Star Wars, Episode IV, in such a way that the Death Star blows up precisely a the stroke of midnight.

Blowing Up the Death Star at Midnight, Again - MacSparky

Looks like I am on a triennial blog refresh cycle.

New:

• Cards theme by @ericgregorich
• Conversation and Surprise Me plug-ins by @sod
• trialling On This Day page

Regressions:

• direction of next/previous buttons (also missing from posts)
• post category labels

Vaccinated.

Virus: SARS-CoV-2
Vaccine: Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent
Dose number: 4
Superpowers: »tracking disabled»

Truly that is news.

TIL - Xcode can display build time right there in the activity view:

defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode ShowBuildOperationDuration YES

Command line preference settings. Living in the future.