🔗 Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’
.. and again (because this is the 🖇️second rant of this ilk today) - I don’t think about this kind of stuff - I just get annoyed because I see it - and complain about it to the long suffering Jax - but I did not even know this was a conscious decision.
🏢 I will fold this into a large piece soon - but the threads within reminded me of my thinking around ‘the gaps between the boxes’ - which I touched on in 🖇️ this newsletter but starting to think that it needs its own post.
📸 Tonight’s sunset is very different to 🖇️ last night’s - probably a lot to do with the cyclone hitting tomorrow.
Unless you have been asleep at the wheel, living under a rock or only born yesterday - you know this graphic.
You might not know this one
Then again it would not surprise me at all if I have it backwards - and it is I that resides under said rock ( 🖇️ it happens a lot ) … by not recognising the ‘cube matrix’.
This all came to mind when I was chatting with Andrew Mayfield a couple of weeks ago who at one point in the conversation compared software to sandwiches - in someways redefining SAAS❓
Software As A Sandwich
.. he said 🔗 and then wrote about in a post. It’s a good post .. and very true - but my next job was to merge these two ideas - because as we all know 🖇️ Life Is A Remix.
First Job - define the three by three grid and decide on the axes.
Where I am so far …
And of course were I to classify what kind of ‘sandwich’ drove the development of this particular graphic - I would say ‘The Garden’.
It is clearly not right - but neither is it wrong. I will continue to noodle and welcome any and all insights and contributions.
BTW - it was writing this post that brought up 🖇️ this joke - because I have this thought that ‘the demo’ industry will benefit enormously from vibe coding.
The software and products we are building definitely utilises AI - but the AI is being managed by real developers. Unlike say my web site at 🖇️ Philpin.com - which is all me vibing with Claude and is way better than I have ever achieved in the past using Wordpress - but even before being finished it is on its third iteration as I learn and unpack what Claude is actually doing when left to its own devices.
Bottom line - it clearly believes that more lines of code than less is the metric!
I had been meaning to write up a longer piece about Simon Willison’s appearance with Lenny 🖇️other than this one - and now no need - Simon did it himself.
🔗 Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny’s Podcast
🔗 Rebuilding My Micro Blog - a little over 4 Years ago apparently.
Maybe it is time to do it again❓
Then again - pretty much in the mode of finally fixing 🖇️ PHI⑊PIN - and one thing at a time … except …
NO
ONE. THING. AT. TIME.
Inspired by @derekpeden I recently started to rate movies, shows and books on a consistent scale - with real rules and bit by bit visiting the archives and updating accordingly. Posted my 🎬🖇️ Peaky Blinders review this morning and even I was shocked how low it came out - in the old days it would have hit 3 1/2 for sure.
📸 What Victoria Market was before it was Victoria Market - where that 🖇️ Indian Restaurant is.
🖇️ When I wrote this earlier today - i hadn’t received my daily Readwise … that somehow seems to connect ….
I’ve been hypothesizing that the next iteration of great SaaS platforms could evolve toward context-as-a-service (CaaS)
Whilst I find that we seem to be on a similar journey with thought … on this we differ
Meanwhile - one of my ‘graphics under development’ .. this one talking about ‘forgetting’ the 4Ps and start thinking 4Es - that I most recently talked about 🖇️ here.
Bottom line - we keep talking about change - radical change - and yet for some reason - our thinking is not radical - witness that we keep building ‘systems of experience’ on ‘systems of record’ infrastructure.
… and we wonder why it’s not working?