🔗 Nobody is destined for greatness.
There’s a version of you that keeps waiting to feel chosen, and a version that goes down into the hole and gets to work. The first one keeps waiting. Nobody is born holding greatness. People build it in the dark, with pebbles in the mouth, long before anyone arrives to applaud.
💬 Joan Westenberg
# A small want list for Sourcefeed (with my comments in bold.)
- Some sort of draft system (Nah)
- A reference to what markdown markup works on Sourcefeed (YES PLEASE)
- A way to share posts to other blogs and social media (✅ Already DONE)
- A nice little iOS app? (Nah)
🔗The Last macOS Tahoe Review … we can only hope!
With macOS Tahoe, you do know that the chief new thing is the Liquid Glass redesign. It seems as if there are more critics of the design than there are proponents, but it’s probably more that most users don’t care enough to comment.
💬 William Gallagher
Put me in that last category - and where a lot of the critics should also be.
I definitely understand the issues that ‘the pros’ have - and interesting reads - but most of the 👎🏼 I read are just piling on and would do better to going back analysing Iran or Covid Data.
First there was 🔗🎥 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - so so good.
Then there was 🔗🎥 Jay Kelly - which was alright - but in proportion to what I expected.
So I approached 🔗🎥 Outcome with high anticipation.
I have now started and stopped it three times - best was getting through 25 minutes. Should I give up? I mean this is Keanu we are talking about.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 24, 2026
"iFiesta Fatal! (Album Edit)" by B-Tribe
I was on a work trip in Finland. My hosts decided to expose me to some Helsinki night life. I can still picture it all - but sadly no pictures to share. At one point we were in a bar/restaurant/nightclub - which it was dependant on the time of day - and this music like no other swept through the whole place and I just disappeared into it.
This was the track. Got back to the UK - bought the album - and it turns also out their second - clearly wasn't in the vanguard on this one. I also bought 3, 4 and 5 as they came out - they never failied to suck me in.
There is a sixth - do not own it - but of course in my online library - though a little different to its predecessors.
And all of this came to mind yesterday as I was wrestling with 🖇️ my blog issues - to pick one random post that didnt arrive until today.
BUT - iFiesta Fatal! kept me sane.
👁️ **And we are back - normal service has been resumed. **
Special shout outs to @sod and @AndySylvester who were on the end of email helping me bottom out my problems (I have many) and unknowingly @danielpunkass who I was not in contact with - but is the brains behind Mars Edit - without which some of what Sven and Andy asked of me in problem solving would not have been possible.
And when I say ‘normal’ - that is with respect to the MB feed.
Life is not so normal on the 🖇️ website which is
- using sumo - not my theme
- only two plugins - not 11
- a confused mashup of CSS -
But all fixable. Right?
Good to be home.
An experiment combined with a real alert.
Serious issues with John.Philpin.com that some great people are helping me with. Site is down and none of yesterday's posts arrived in the MB stream. Maybe this one will? (That is the experiment part).
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 23, 2026
"Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode
The live one in particular I think nails why I love Depeche Mode - 'electronica sensibility rocks out'.
Also adding this live cover by Depeche Mode of Depeche Mode - Berlin.
‘nuff said
Just a vote - lt of background work going on on Chez PHI⑊PIN this weekend - sure would be helpful to give me an idea of where this is occuring. Or can I search all the files to find it? Disabling plugins right now.
🔗 The Rocket That Runs on Broadband
Most of that money will come from existing holdings. Passive funds will be forced buyers the moment these names enter the indexes, which index rules now accelerate. That means mechanical selling pressure on the same large-cap technology stocks everyone else already owns.
Our 401(k) plans are in for a rude awakening.
💬 Om
👁️ The only surprise is that it took this long.
🔗 Largest North American bitcoin ATM operator, Bitcoin Depot, files for bankruptcy.
Abba - Meet Pink Floyd
I don’t really understand the concept of listening within a genre or making music within a set of stylistic limitations.
🪦 Farewell Dick - you will always remind me that just one ‘small’ contribution can change everything.
I have had various incantations of Marked on my machine for a while - so naturally when it came out - moved along to Marked 3.
I just read Lou’s review:
Marked 3 Is the Markdown Companion a Lot of Mac Writers Have Been Waiting For
That means it fits alongside Scrivener, Word, MarsEdit, Bear, Ulysses, Obsidian, and other writing apps. In v3, Scrivener rendering with live preview is new, and Bear and Obsidian callouts are now fully supported.
💬 Lou Plummer
🤯 Now you know why I read Lou - he regularly demonstrates that though I think I know my apps - I clearly do not. Thank you sir.
📸 Ton // @zylstra.org will know exactly what I am talking about.
Waving from the other side of the bay.
(To make sense - 🔗 click here and scroll down to the last photograph. See that big building top left? That is where this was taken just under three years ago.)