{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "💬 John Philpin", "icon": "https://avatars.micro.blog/avatars/2025/50/4165.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://john.philpin.com/", "feed_url": "https://john.philpin.com/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://johnphilpin.micro.blog/2026/03/11/dave-winer-on-mantons-inkwell.html", "content_html": "

🔗 Dave Winer on Manton’s Inkwell

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I could import my feeds into Inkwell, it supports OPML import, but the subs would not stay in sync. Something for Manton to worry about in a few months.

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IMHO - something for the world of RSS to think about. Like mail clients - there is not even a ‘one size fits one’ - thats why I have multiple apps - but as more recently appeared importing and exporting OPML is very tedious.

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And don’t even get me started on where I put new discoveries.

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🔗 Don’t worry, Apple isn’t going all practical.

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For years, Apple was told it absolutely had to make a netbook, and the company looked at netbooks and said, “Ew, David,”, which is weird because “Schitt’s Creek” would not come out for like six more years.

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The Macalope does have a way with words.

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🔗 The most brilliant move in corporate history? – Asymco

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Apple didn’t miss the AI revolution. It just bet that the winners won’t be the ones who build the infrastructure. They’ll be the ones who own the customer and no one else on Earth owns the best customers.

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And to keep it all balanced …

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🔗 Apple is Writing Product Checks That Siri Can’t Cash - Siegler

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Because Apple so badly bungled their AI strategy in 2023 and 2024, they’re missing shipping targets for actual products in 2025 and 2026.

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Seth: 🔗 Small changes to big systems

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What doesn’t scale? Trust, attention and belonging.

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AI is making relatively small changes to very big systems, everywhere we look. But if those systems are built on the desires of humans, we will need to earn trust, attention and belonging more than ever before.

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Text Expander unilaterally cancelled my account after god knows how many years.
\nI wrote and asked why. No reply.
\nI went to SetApp and found Rocket Typist - a Text Expander replacement.
\nSo far so good (iOS aside) - but for the 4 shortcuts I use there, it shouldn’t be hard.

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You seek to effect regime change by kidnapping the President of the country - turns out there’s a new leader - but the regime is still in place.

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You seek to effect regime change by bombing the shit out of a country and assassinating the leader - turns out there’s a new leader - but the regime is still in place.

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Pointing this out to those that say eventually all will be ok in the good ol’ US of A - because Tяump will be gone.\nIndeed - but his Аппаратчик in the form of the Республиканцы will still be in place.

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That world is far more dangerous than a sick senile orange octogenerian.

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Uou know that thing that Dario had about Claude not being allowed to control bombs and stuff?

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I agree. This morning has been a total waste due to ‘Claude farts’ - it is definitely not ready for bombs. Had I known I would have modified the CSS myself!

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I think Claude got ‘upgraded’ over the weekend

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Seriously - ‘compacting’ again - twice in as many minutes❗️

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You’re right to call me out.

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💬 Claude

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… too right buster❗️

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“Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia’s principled stance in favour of an immediate ​cessation of hostilities, the rejection of force ​as a method to solve any issues surrounding Iran or ‌arising ⁠in the Middle East, and a swift return to the path of diplomatic resolution," the Kremlin said.

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… got it.

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‘They’ (there ‘they’ are again) always say that “we should look for the things that we have in common” ….

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📸

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🔗 Just in from Scott Brinker

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I’ve been hypothesizing that the next iteration of great SaaS platforms could evolve toward context-as-a-service (CaaS)

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Whilst I find that we seem to be on a similar journey with thought … on this we differ

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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.

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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.

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… and we wonder why it’s not working?

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Do Nazis and White Supremacists use MS Word?

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Asking for a friend. (Who is wondering if it is ok to continue to use Word … even if they are.)

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Over the holidays I spent time really sorting out my Structured Thought Wiki - which is actually an Obsidian Vault on iCloud - that David Merfield’s Blot translates in to a living breathing web site. Claude helped me with a lot of the CSS - but also refining some of the cross linking between entries - the site now has 193 pages. (The nature of wikis of course - mention it once - out comes a page.)

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Sorted - I now have YAML front matter including ‘pstatus’ = empty, claude, curated . and a few others besides and now bu using Desktop Commander - Claude is filling in the spaces.

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This means that when you came to my wiki a week ago - basically you got a LOT of ‘stubs’

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Now you typically get a page with words and images and links and cross references. All thanks to Claude - and when I have Claude do the writing - I change the pstatus from ‘empty’ to ‘claude’ - and as I go forward - as time allows - and I fix the page - well then the page status is changed to ‘curated’.

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This is the kind of stuff that adds real value to what I do … I have tried to build wikis in the past - and they are HARD. ➕ I wouldn’t have anyone else do it.

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I call that a #WinWin

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🔗 How far back in time can you understand English?

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F A S C I N A T I N G

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(Later - as was my misspelling until fixed)

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🔗 Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica

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… another public service.

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🔗 Nicholas Carr: What is it … | Alan Jacobs

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What fills the pattern at any given instant –what we call content– is fungible and disposable. It’s not important. It’s the pattern, the form the content fits and replicates, that’s important.

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“fungible and disposable” - 🖇️ been writing about this for years - eventually the term will disappear - once all the juice has been extracted.

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🔗 Apple’s strategy is actually genius if you think about it …

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Horace replays a post from 3 years ago.

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One question - intentional or accidental?

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🔗 MacBook Neo: Apple Makes A Bacon, Egg And Cheese Sandwich

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To explain it in breakfast terms: Apple can’t get itself excited about making and selling a $6 takeout bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich on an English muffin. But it’ll apply an almost terrifying amount of institutional energy towards the development of a $60 hotel restaurant breakfast.

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💬 Andy Ihnatko

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In amongst the endless posts about Apple this week - quite simply the best post and even includees the Apple video - which is the only other standout piece of media this week.

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Just leaving this here .. noting that if the US was buying at the same per capita rate as New Zealand they’d be up around the Israel level .. a country that the The Tяump Аппаратчик most self identifies with .. so would seem more appropriate❓

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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye

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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu

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So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night

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I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye - goodbye!

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Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu

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Take your pick and good riddance

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🔗 I’ve never had the experience of parenting a 6-year-old child. But I’ve dealt with MacOS system.

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To just choose one from the post …

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💬 Andy Ihnatko

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🔗 Ryan Barrett

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It’s VCs’ job to predict the future in all sorts of directions, and be extremely confident about those predictions, and also be wrong 9 out of 10 times. Remember that next time you hear a VC say…anything.

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Not choosing any particular VC over any other - but you know who I am talking about. Right❓

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