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Apple TV has some great stuff on it:

Slow Horses
TV version of Mick Herron's spy series with Gary Olman in the lead role.

Shrinking
A darker take on the Scrubs comedy formula with How I Met Your Mother's Jason Segel and Harrison Ford.

Pluribus
A (not really an) alien invasion series with the style and pace of Breaking Bad. Rhea Seehorn from Better Call Saul stars.

I'm looking for a website that offers automated PageSpeed Insights and speed reporting. I'd like to be able to:

• generate reports showing performance over time
• compare a handful of key pages on a few different sites
• show the impact of bandwidth throttling
• be able to run the reports from different locations (UK, US, mainland Europe etc.)
• (ideally) be able to access the testing location IPs, so I can whitelist them for testing local/dev sites and blacklist them for analytics

There's an awful lot of choice - https://www.uptrends.com/ , https://www.webpagetest.org/ , https://gtmetrix.com/ etc. Has anyone done the legwork already? Any recommendations?

I still love my RSS, but take a different approach. rss2email (https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email) runs on my mail server and (as its name suggests) converts RSS items to emails, and drops them in a dedicated email account. A corresponding Sieve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)) script moves each feed to a specified folder.

It's a bit old school, and I don't have any filtering, but it serves my purpose, which is to keep up with the output of 30ish tech websites in a channel I already use.

Excellent UK single-season series from the last few months:

I May Destroy You (Michaela Coel)
It's A Sin (Russell T Davies)
Time (Jimmy McGovern with Sean Bean, Stephen Graham)

Favourite films from this year:

Pieces Of A Woman
Nomadland
The Father
Nobody
I Care A Lot
Supernova
Moxie!
Palm Springs
A Quiet Place Part II
Archive
Creation Stories
Synchronic
Another Round
Apples [subtitled]

We've only just discovered drug drama Snowfall, so are catching up on that, along with revisiting St Elsewhere.

@Drastic: We loved the first season on For All Mankind. Less thrilled with the second.

Time to dust off this thread...

Samantha Crain - Bloomsday

https://youtu.be/38mbq59PJDk

It's just come out, and gets better on each listen.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/5/22368488/yahoo-answers-shutdown-may-4-internet-era-over-rip

QuoteThe summer of 69, Bryan Adams is a must at a party.  That was from 1984.

I'm now 50, but I listen to new music like an obsessive teenager. Bryan Adams' Reckless would still make my top 50.

It's the same thing as the App+Web property that they've been touting for a while. I'd written it off because I don't have native apps. My mistake. It's Google adjusting to a world of browsers and European law making cookies unreliable for analytics. They're also throwing in unsampled reports and export to BigQuery for free. You used to have to have GA 360 for those. The real killer is the new server-side Google Tag Manager functionality, which has also just come out of beta: One snippet of GA or GTM code on your website which fires events to a cloud-based GTM container. That in turn passes the events on to GA, Facebook, Bing etc., without need any more client-side code. The whole lot's hidden behind your own subdomain so the cookies are first-party, the client-side snippet can be served first-party and nothing gets blocked by browsers. None of this is feature complete yet, but it's already very impressive.

One film? Gremlins.

Cool  Mulan would be on the list now. I didn't get on with Tenet or The New Mutants.

It wasn't that long ago that the Airlander was floating around Bedford.

Favourite movies of the year so far, with the caveat that it's been far from a vintage one:

1917
Hamilton
Come As You Are
Richard Jewell
Dark Waters
The Gentlemen
Just Mercy
The Platform [subtitled]
The Rhythm Section
Les Miserables [subtitled]
7500
Bombshell
Stage Mother
Why Don't You Just Die! [subtitled]
The Vigil
Beastie Boys Story [documentary]
JoJo Rabbit
Days Of The Bagnold Summer
Proxima
Alice [subtitled]

Some good stuff in there. These are all from the last few years, and fit the original brief:

Yesterday [2019]
Wild Rose [2019]
Where'd You Go, Bernadette [2019]
Blinded By The Light [2019]
Fighting With My Family [2019]
The Shiny Shrimps [Subtitled, 2019]
Love, Simon [2018]
Christopher Robin [2018]
Lion [2017]
Hidden Figures [2017]
Wonder [2017]
American Made [2017]
Gifted [2017]
Midnight Special [2016]
Sing Street [2016]
Finding Dory [2016]
The Lady In The Van [2015]

It's so easy to become that person as you get older, and lose stuff that used to make you happy. I'd agree that the charts are mostly shit though, but that's more the change in the way music's consumed than any drop in quality. There's still great stuff out there. My evidence, all released in the last 14 months:

Big Thief - Cattails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUR-Ad8QcmA

The Black Keys - Shine A Little Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jknn7MMszNo

Blake Shelton - God's Country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEWGyyLiqY4

Bodega - Bookmarks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ah4jZjy9c8

Bruce Springsteen - Hitch Hikin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCs8U5wwPJ8

Cage The Elephant - House Of Glass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1ZYRfK2v3E

Eminem feat. Royce Da 5'9", Black Thought, Q-Tip & Denaun - Yah Yah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ09A39xECk

Eyesore & The Jinx - On An Island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1GpW1SllE

Judah & The Lion - Quarter-Life Crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWdni-JLR8k

Mark Lanegan Band - Radio Silence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bTsIbzFbLs

Ride - Repetition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTDRL2OCqHQ

Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkk9gvTmCXY

Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlkTVMMkCP4

Yungblud feat. Dan Reynolds - Original Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP-zl8ruUKE

QuoteThis sounds like a web designer pretending to be a SEO.

Or a muppet pretending to be a web designer pretending to be a SEO.