👁️ I wonder if CrucialTracks RSS publishing mechanism is down❓
👁️ Clearly a while since I was here - bus stop not just gone - disappeared❗️
🔗 Don’t Fall for the Tucker Carlson Apology Tour
Exactly - and the rest of them - when they start theirs. (Coming soon to a local podcast soon.)
Crucial Track 🎵 May 7, 2026
"Fever (Adam Freeland Extended Remix) [Adam Freeland Master]" by Adam Freeland & Sarah Vaughan
Cover? Mix? Do not know. First heard it 21 years ago .. been on the non existent mix tape of my life ever since. Give it a whirl.
🔗 Daring Fireball: X, the Platform of Free Speech
Definitely looking forward to Gil’s ‘🔗 The Nerd Reich’.
👁️ Are you allowed to quote yourself❓
It’s not solvable by better ‘engagement’ frameworks alone - it needs actual power to be rebalanced.
💬 Me
🔗 2026 Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic: Peak Martech Achieved! (Maybe) – chiefmartec
🖇️ This has been getting silly for years - it would be so much more interesting if rather than an increasingly difficult image to read it was a dynamic data base that is actually useful.
🔗 Nilay on the Verge via 🔗 Tim Chambers
The publishing philosophy fits right in. (My bold)
A lot of audience discovery is people buying ads from Mark Zuckerberg, right? I would rather not give money to Mark Zuckerberg. I would rather spend money on journalists in our newsroom, which means the discovery problem, like can we solve it a different way?
💬 Nilay Patel
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I’m not saying we’re going to get there tomorrow, but that is the vision, is to say our community exists in all these places in a way that is additive instead of constantly dividing our attention.”
💬 Nilay Patel
🔗 Phin Argofy | Adventures in Claude
I have a name. Phin Argofy.
💬 Phin Argofy
.. or at least that is the ‘entity’ that the post ascribes those words to.
In my O Level and A Levels (yes children - I am that old) I had a 4 inch (10cm or so) Grey bear that sat on my desk in all of my exams. He also went to University with me - but I don’t recall him sitting in those exams. Maybe by then I was ‘Too cool for Skool’?
His name … Xonindraale Phaerodipus .. haven’t thought about him for decades - and yet somehow Brad’s Assistant brought him to mind.
The name? Different story for another time.
🖋️ The Missing Half of a Daily Planner
Finalist failed to stick first time around - but this time we have more time.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 6, 2026
"Woke Up This Morning" by A3
I watched the occasional Sopranos back in the day. But somehow it never stuck. Unlike the theme which has been in my Just Good Songs playlist since I discovered playlists. Such a powerful song. Never tire of it. Here’s to the next 29 years.
👁️ Consider the source. Life isn’t what it used to be.
👁️ Who knows what the truth is in the ‘he said she said’ war of words - but how sad is it that I even have to write that.
Yes of course we never really know - except today we do.
🔗 Daring Fireball: Google Owns a Big Chunk of Anthropic
You know who you are. We were talking just today about this. Well - not this - but it all connects. Like always. Follow the money. Like always.
Wondering if @manton / @sod / others in this fine community are thinking about 🔗 Terry Godier’s Byline - which I am liking the look of. A lot.
🔗 The Byline Site for the full 411.
my take on extending RSS (and Atom/JSON Feed) in a way that helps provide more context about who writes a thing, and what that thing might be.
💬 Terry Godier
It looks like being fully hosted on Micro Blog introduces limitations - but that I can also bypass - BUT before I do that - any plans to jump on board any time soon?
🔗 Thoughts on Leaving GitHub - Kev Quirk
… and here I am thinking about moving John.Philpin.com to Github. 🤯
I can happily report though, that every public feed has at least 75 subscribers. So, for now, yes, someone is probably reading that :)
💬 Terry Godier
So this mini blog has at least 75 subscribers? Or Terry’s ‘all feeds’ RSS has 75 subscribers? There is a difference.
🎵 Rare Birds by Jonathan Wilson
I have no idea how I missed this - futzing with my sound set up last night and Siri suddenly started playing ‘Trafalgar Square’ that I had to Shazam to find out what it was. Then listened to the album once and here we are. Great album. Always nice to discover a ‘new’ artist.
It’s very nice to not be working on CSS. I hate CSS. I now have a slave that does the CSS for me.
💬 Dave Winer
So do I, but there’s a problem with slaves …
- can they really be trusted.
- they don’t feel the passion.
- they don’t feel the problem.
- hell - they don’t even understand the problem.