🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
On Bluesky: I can’t tell you how tired I am of copying and pasting the same text into five different silos. When will this ridiculous system that claims to be the web, get its shit together and start acting like the web (ie interop). #
This is one reason I use 🔗 Micro.Blog for 🖇️John.Philpin.com
Straight from the presidential playbook : When in trouble, distract the voters away from your own performance by an act of war. This time it’s the people of Venezuela who are paying the price.
🔗 Scripting News: I’m never too old to make a young developer’s mistake.
Do it myself … and I’m not a developer.
I don’t particularly bother myself about the word of the year … nor the colour (Pantone … please take note).
But ~ interesting to see the narrative over the ‘20s
🔗 Every Word of the Year; According to Dictionaries (2020-2025)
🔗 Way Yuhl - Is Trump purpsefully trying to crash the US economy?
Hard to disagree with the logic.
Originally on TikTok … arrived via Substack
🔗 The wonderful life of Santos=Dumont and his Aerial Dinner Parties
This takes High Tops to a whole new level.
Pun intended.
(Unless at a bar - ‘high tops’ are not places that Jax and I frequent)
🔗 The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
It’s McSweeney, so …
I am one of those ‘em dash’ - AI pundits.
‘BA’ - I rarely saw an em dash in the words that I read - and I read a lot.
‘AA’ era - em dashes are everywhere
Either
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a lot of people recently attended writing courses OR
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they are using AI
Is there a third option?
look to your left, then to your right. A hundred percent of those people are slathering me across sentences like adding more cheese to a risotto that’s already drowning in parmesan—without tasting, without thinking, without remorse.
What Om Said
🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
And Then What Ben Said
🔗 What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
Reminds me - I should export my Instagram feed into John.philpin.com
🔗 What if Ed Zitron is an optimist?
Transformative innovation is priced in to the Big Tech stocks including their legacy businesses, and there’s only so much remaining crime that they can use to fill in the gaps between investor expectations and what they can realistically deliver. Yes, buying a gilded ballroom for the President of the USA will help them get away with more crime for longer, but in the absence of newly created value they can’t keep extracting more and more. The disruption from the coming AI crash could result in a decline in some other revenue streams previously considered safe.
💬 Don Marti
🔗 Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds - Schneier on Security
And they say AI reduces human creativity❗️
🔗 The Receipt That Sparked A Resolution
Lovely. Have a better 2026 than 2025.
Manager: “Today, I need the caffeine more than I need the dignity.”
🔗 Daring Fireball: Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG
Only a fool dismisses the collective knowledge passed down by those who came before us.
💬 John Gruber
It would be hard to disagree. AND it isn’t just in tech … and design - there do seem to be an increasing number of ‘fools’ in the world across all disciplines. AND they are given louder and louder megaphones.
Maybe the real FOOLS are the enablers.
I like Ben’s approach to ‘Resolutions’ : 🔗 A 2026 checklist - not least because 🔗 the usual approach is more often than not going to fail.
Might try it along side of my 🖇️ 3Words approach.
🔗 ExtraBar - Custom Menu Bar for macOS
Apps like Bartender and Ice help hide icons, but they don’t help you actually do things faster. I wanted deep links, custom actions, and keyboard shortcuts without installing a dozen helper apps.
I appreciate the 14 day money back gurantee - but no real clues as to how this is going to generally work - let alone specfically for me …
I know about it because of @ameripie - who clearly likes it. $9.99 - what can go wrong?
Not yet finished the series - which is telling even of itself - but my review is likely going to lean towards 🎬🔗 Andrei’s
Sometimes the 2025 reviews seem to be so heavy with bad news:
🔗 12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell the Story of Earth in 2025
But sometimes - the good news does just pushes through.
Have a better year than 2025
I’ve been doing this every year since 2019 - which means tonight is my 8th rodeo.
Previous Years
📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different
📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend
📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend
📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice
📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous
📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic - see 2021)
📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
Everything can change on a new years day
And everything changed on a New Year’s Day
💬 Rage Against The Machine
