🔗 You Only Think They Work For You

Steve is talking PR Agencies. Not wrong. But they aren’t the only sinners. I am looking at you ‘Recruiters’.

Key rule: ‘who’s paying them /// now and in the future.

🔗 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.

🔗 The Guestbook Is Back

Funny, 🔗 I have a guestbook (thankyou Pika) which I forget about .. so much so that when I recently rejigged my site navigation, it was no where to be found.

🔗 Tread carefully, because you tread on my fucks.

On any given day, I have roughly 5 or so fucks to give.

When you breakit down - that’s a lot.

🔗 Mapped: Each State’s Share of Total U.S. Exports

I guess ‘software’ and ‘services’ are not included in ‘exports’?

🔗 Revamping Post Stats - Amit Gawande

@amit - thank you for reminding me and thank you for doing it.

Although the insights are a little scary ….

🔗 Seeker – On my Om

I have always struggled to describe myself. Not sure how others see me versus how I see myself. This is not the first time I have had to confront this question. As a child and as a young man, I dealt with this same challenge.

I have the same problem. Hell I can write pages and get nowhere close to the right summary - and Jax just nails it when she introduces me. Then again - I am better and introducing her than she is introducing herself.

🔗 We know that Macs last longer in use. How much longer? – Asymco

But the really shocking revelation from the report is that more than half of Windows PCs used in big business get replaced within a year.

For most of my life of living in the Mac world - I have never worked out why Total Cost of Ownership is rarely used as a metric to make decisions around ‘which computer should I buy’.

🔗 Scripting News: Friday, April 3, 2026

Feature request for WordPress. If an item doesn’t have a title, you can do better than (no title) in the Posts list. Grab the first N chars of the body, or add a tool tip with the same text. I write a lot of “singular” posts, ie posts without titles.

Don’t we all❓It has been like this - forever - and oft’ flagged by others - and yet it remains never fixed. No idea why🤷🏻‍♂️. I (ok. Claude) fixed my importer that had this problem in less than a minute.

🔗 Explore Art UK’s Digital Database of More Than 6,600 Street Art Murals — Colossal

Just a little more than two years after launching the initiative, Art UK has added more than 6,600 new works to its database, bringing the total number of public artworks to well over 21,000.

Wonderful stuff. Just wonderful.

🔗 The other day I … | Alan Jacobs

Several people — surprisingly many — have asked me to expand on that.

“I dunno” - wrote Alan

With him - you only have to read a couple of posts either side of the original to get what he is talking about

🔗 Before I go: People like it when other people make things - daverupert.com

I’ve been watching the same guy make a musical marble machine for ten years.

Never heard of it until now.

Subscribed.

🔗 Why Trump Didn’t Predict the Gas-Price Spike - The Atlantic

How did Trump get Hormuz so wrong? The answer reveals one of Trump’s most characteristic and most fateful mistakes: his steadfast refusal to acknowledge that Americans live in a world economy.

🔗 Toesday .. from Doc

Sam Altman just went on record saying intelligence will soon be sold on a meter, “like electricity or water."

If you don’t understand what he just said, let me tell you.

He is not building a chat interface. He is building the grid for human cognition. And he intends to charge you for your own relevance.

They stole all this data from us, the people. Our life’s work, our creativity, our art. They devoured the open internet and blew through every copyright law on Earth.

And now they want to “sell it back to us” in the form of a utility?!

🔗 Daring Fireball: Jensen Huang Doesn’t Smell Anything

His answer, after taking a moment to think, “America’s unique advantage that no country could possibly have is President Trump.”

Opinion of Jensen drops off the bottom of my chart.

🔗 Decompiled the White House’s New App

Thereallo, after spelunking inside the APK bundle for the Android version:

Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal’s servers.

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Loads JavaScript from a random person’s GitHub Pages site (lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app’s WebView. […]

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Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you’d expect from an official government app? Probably not either.

🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 30, 2026

I had to say this to Claude just now. “this is exhausting. you’re driving me around in circles and saying over and over ‘this is it!’ and it never is. us humans have protections built in to avoid that kind of wasted effort.”

You know sometimes I think it’s me - but if it happens to someone like @Dave - I can rest more easily. That said - friggin’ annoying.