I love that, on Touch Bar MacBooks, you can set things up so that you use your fingerprint to authorise sudo in the Terminal.

Happy New Year from firework-drenched London Town.

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Luke’s diminished circumstances make for a far richer character, one whom Hamill portrays with mournful energy and depth. For the first time, Hamill’s performance is one of the best parts of a “Star Wars” movie.

I can’t really agree with this article more. Except maybe the bit about the wink.

At the cinema. What for, you say? Oh, nothing special: just Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

You’ll be pleased to know that we got the battery cover off the Fire TV Stick remote. Got Netflix and iPlayer installed, watched Person of Interest.

In the end we just had to be persistent. And firm.

It would be weird if Tony Blair turned out to be the hero of the Brexit hour. But we need all the support we can get.

Just saw this winter’s first flurry of snow. Well, hardly flurry: just a few flakes drifting past the window. And it’s stopped now.

I’m glad Scrivener 3 is out, but could they have picked a worse month for it? The end of November, when a crazy percentage of users are crazily last-minute-typing into the app.

Not a good time to upgrade.

On the other hand, when November is over we can reward ourselves.

Look at that, I’ve crossed the line. I’m now above the NaNoWriMo average daily word count.

Screenshot of NaNoWriMo status page

The trees are afire in Clapton Square. (OK, with a little bit of help from Photos.)