John PHI⑊PIN - A Public Journal

👁️ The Hugo thing started to make me wonder a few weeks ago .. and now the social cards .. with @sod pointing out to me that my theme has been untouched for four years.

Is it time to bite the bullet?

🪦 and so farewell Dave .. Trusting that the Traffic you’re in to reach your destination is near perfect .. it always was.

👁️❓ No RSS on a site.

Good or Bad … for the reader?

Good or Bad … for the author?

👁️ JSON files are finicky mothers aren’t they.

💬 🔗 Going Electric

Which is why we all, as people who design culture whether we realize it or not, need to keep thinking about where we’ve been, where we’re going, and perhaps most importantly, how not to get too comfortable with where we currently are. 

💬 On the packaging front:

Apple completed the transition to 100 percent fiber-based packaging last year, fulfilling its pledge to remove plastic from packaging by 2025. Over the past 10 years, Apple engineers and designers have developed alternatives to common packaging components, replacing plastic screen protectors and trays with versions made with recycled or responsibly sourced paper. They also innovated to make packaging more recyclable, designing the largest boxes, like for the new Studio Display XDR, to collapse into smaller pieces that fit into a home recycling bin. Apple avoided more than 15,000 metric tons of plastic in the past five years alone – the equivalent of about 500 million plastic water bottles.

MG Siegler: “Search or Ask”. Why on Earth would these be two different options?

Because they are. Search for ‘Aphantasia’ is a very different request to asking about ‘Aphantasia’.

In the old world - we had dictionaries and encyclopaedias. In the new world - we have search and ask.

Siri pops out of the Dynamic Island with a prompt: “Search or Ask”. Why on Earth would these be two different options? I assume to replace Spotlight, but it’s 2026, the system should just be smart enough to do that initial routing for you.

🔗 Jensen Roars

💬 I just checked hell .. it still seems to be the usual inferno .. so I guess he sees what is coming and starting his pivot spin. You’ll see a lot of it this year.

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