🔗 WWW
🎵📼 🔗 Tom Petty does ‘The Mac’ - and his ‘Welllllll’ must be the best ‘Wellllll’ I have heard in any other cover. It might also be better than the original.
The Irish tale of Oisín describes the warrior’s journey to Tir na nÓg, the land of youth. He spends three years there but when he returns to Éire to see his old fighting comrades from the Fianna, 300 years have passed.
And for a related 🎵 interlude …
Tír na nÓg are an Irish folk duo formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969 by Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell.[^cite_ref-LarkinGE_1-0][1] They are often considered one of the first progressive folk bands with other artists like Nick Drake or groups like Pentangle.
💬 Wikipedia
Not to be confused with Horslips - who along with Tír na nÓg were in constant circulation on ‘young John’s’ turntable back in the day. Almost certainly arrived at them via Pentangle and Fairport - but most definitely stood on their own. Still listen to Horslips to this day - not so much Tír na nÓg.
🔗 Software Eats Its Own – On my Om
The people who build software are busy wiring up the machines that will build software in their place. Call it automation. Call it augmentation. Call it whatever makes you sleep. What it actually is, is software industrialization, happening right in front of our eyes.
🔗 Rosabeth Moss Kanter is decribed by Wikipedia as
“The Thinking Woman’s Michael Porter".
Maybe more accurately Michael Porter is
“The Thinking Man’s “Rosabeth Moss Kanter”.
I mean Rosabeth was born 4 years before Michael.
SAAS - or 'Sitting As A Service' as I call what happens on Oneroa Beach on Waiheke.
Waiheke rersidents and visitors enjoy the ability to site along Oneroa beach thanks to one person’s initiative to create casual seating for beachgoers.
👁️ Interesting view of tenure - and great trivial pursuit question … 🔗 Daring Fireball: Eight for Eight
👁️ Whilst 15 years is certainly ‘over a decade’ - I find this quote a little disingenuous and would expect more from Jim.
Tim Cook stepping down as CEO of Apple after over a decade at the helm of the company.
🔗 The Dalrymple Report: John Ternus
(Sept 1 is over 15 years - not even counting his two ‘acting’ stints in the oughts.)
🖥️ This explains so much.
🔗 An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
On March 26, we shipped a change to clear Claude’s older thinking from sessions that had been idle for over an hour, to reduce latency when users resumed those sessions. A bug caused this to keep happening every turn for the rest of the session instead of just once, which made Claude seem forgetful and repetitive.
👁️ Gotta say - I am liking this thought …
Thanks for the link @numericcitizen
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I checked to confirm that the model (ChatGPT Images 2.0) added the “WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS”.
💬 Simon Willison
👁️ If you are an organisation or person that seeks to widen your audience - why would you block RSS❓Limiting what you put in the feed .. I understand … but completely blocking I do not. Thoughts from the cognoscenti welcome.
🔗 The Other Reasons Why Podcasting is Hot – Doc Searls Weblog
RSS—really simple syndication—gives all of us scale. This is, as Kurt Vonnegut once said, a miracle on the order of loaves and fish. It’s foundational.
👁️🚧 Experiment.
👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution
A parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.
👁️🏢 🔗 MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution
A parody I believe - but just like with satire - I have this nervous feeling that parody might not be able to keep up with reality.
🏢 Clever image included in this LinkedIN 🔗 post.
My comment:
The only change to the image I would make is to put the rust bucket at the back … to extend your metaphor how many corporate drivers look back … they have declared their shiny new strategy and off they go .. without a clue that the organisation behind them is not what they think it is.
👁️ A couple of YouTube Shorts
📼🔗 A VERY different kind of drum solo 🤯 - take that 📼🔗 El Estepario Siberiano though to be fair - still 🤯.
👁️ I remember when the ‘people line item’ was the largest on a typical PandL.
AI … “Hold my beer” …
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.
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.