🖇️ HUB
Links to posts and pages that are within the philpin.com domains
Historically I have had a lot of blogs and for whatever reason it is only (relatively) recently that I started using this 27 year old domain to host one.
Before that I always felt that I needed another URL. Many of them over the years it turns out.
Thanks to @manton and micro.blog the challenge of amalgamation is easily fixed. And as I close various URLs down - and let the domains go - that is what I have done. (Thats one reason why there are quite as many posts on here than you might normally expect. (Though I am no 🔗 Dave Winer❗️)
Not so easily fixed is how the blogs all look in their new home. But since I am pretty much the only person that reads new posts on this blog - much less posts from 10 years ago - I don’t spend time much time sorting it out - life is too short. Instead I fix them one by one on a very ad hoc basis.
🖇️ Like this one about the sister of a long time friend who won the Nobel Prize .. just done. The. images weren’t there and despite a thorough ‘PHI⑊PINian’ and new Siri search could not find anything locally.
And so back to my original source (referenced in the original (newly fixed) post - and pictures provided. (Thanks Ros). My world is once more complete - other than whatever is on my new task tracker over in Craft.
Finally - where it all started with @dogcow
🖇️🔎Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 1 - Tuesday March 6th, 208 - Palo. Alto, CA, USA
…and then in 2019 … again for posterity … ‘The @Devilgate MeetUp.
🖇️🔎Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 2 - Wednesday June 5th, 2019 - London, England
BTW … Number 4?
Indeed. Pretty sure I posted about these earlier - but for posterity … ‘The @Miraz MeetUp - over 6 years ago now!
🖇️🔎Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 3 - Sunday March 22nd, 2020 - Kapiti Coast, New Zealand
I thought I’d let 🔗 Leon’s settle in before I threw in mine. It was indeed a bundle of fun and totally serendipitous. Enjoy the rest of your trip @lmika - I will be checking out that music soon.
🖇️🔎Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 4 - Tuesday October 6th - Wellington, New Zealand
🖋️ Obsidian Vaults - Three seems to be optimal. For now.
Three Obsidian vaults should be enough - let me tell you why.
🔗 It’s not illegal if you buy new laws
Exactly why these companies remain on my shit list - because their shit list of shitty things they have done over the years is long and they get way with it ALL THE TIME.
Protecting ‘customers’ at the cost of ‘punishing people’.
Needs to be reshaped so it can transition to a 🖇️ Johnism.
🔗 Be Hungry, Not Thirsty — Gapingvoid
if you are following along - you will l know that Hugh and his team often resonate with my thinking.
This one reminds me of an old 🖇️ Johnism …
Who put the ‘con’ into content.
🔗 Apparently I Was Born in the Wrong Country
With him - even down to being born ‘abroad’ but still being English and NOT an immigrant.
And it is fucking ridiculous that, in 2026, I still have to explain the difference …
It’s time we English celebrated a little more.
My Earlier Posts That Relate
I just watched 🎥 The Gentlemen 🖇️ again - and it is still worth★★★★
🔗 Gut Feel Decision Making cartoon - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne
I did not know that Jim had ‘Barksdales’:
One of the Barksdaleisms that I always liked: “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine."
Have you met my 🖇️ Johnisms? Unique ones 🖇️ pop up all over this domain.
Watched it a while back and just watched it 🎥🔗 Crazy Rich Asians again. Because it was so good? No. Because I was over-ruled by others on this wet Wellington afternoon so in all honesty just kept an eye on it while I got on with tweaking My Wiki. It remains at ★★
★★★★ for 🎥 Mayday that I watched last night. Excellent - as I typically expect when ‘Ryan’ plays ‘Ryan’. This time round we had Sir Kenneth Branagh playing the part of Hugh Jackman.
🏗️ The ‘Forty’ Template in Blot is very very opinionated. It provided a good foundation to my 🖇️ wiki - but ‘I’ have now over written so much of it that I am no longer sure that ‘using Forty’ is entirely accurate.
GAH - not been adding ratings to the movie reviews. 🖇️ Fixed
Revisited this morning and Siri happily reduced the 30,000 into a more manageable set of docs that I was actually after.
In the 30,000 we found some 2,367 Markdown files that had meaningful information that MIGHT be useful in my newly emerging 🖇️wiki.
Analysis seemed out of Siri reach - so zipped it up and sent to ChatGPT.
The accompanying analysis now sits in the Obsidian Notes vault.
As highlighted:
The objective was not to tidy the Vault. It is to make the thinking inside it visible.
💬 ChatGPT
Claude will likely take over now.
🖋️ Hi Claude. Have you met Siri?
Organizing a collection of nearly 30,000 Markdown notes locally in Obsidian, using Siri and Python scripts for assistance - working so far - like a charm.
🏗️ I am using Claude to co-build my Wiki and have now got a nice flow to it. Claude has access to a specific folder on my drive - we edit together and Claude does things like cleaning up my tags and other YAML - as well as pushing the local folder contents up to Git. Blot picks it up from there and pushes it out to 🖇️ https://wiki.philpin.com … like all good web properties it is an eternal WIP. Not ready from prime time - BUT as I say on the Wiki:
“we have leaned into the design philosophy of ‘build in public’ and not wait for perfect”
I also use the whole thing locally with Obsidian.
‘The Creator Economy’ is over and ‘The Affinity Economy’ is here.
I don’t live in the ‘xyz economy’ worlds - 🖇️ far too many to keep track of. BUT for a while now I have been talking and writing about the global movement from ‘Systems of Record’ to ‘Systems of Engagement’ - and the need for people and businesses to not throw away all of their systems and ‘drop in a new stack’ - but rather to start to think differently about what they already have and how to use that to ‘engage for the future’ and not ‘broadcast history’.
On that we seem to be aligned.