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💬 John Philpin

A Public Journal

📸 Does it still count as ‘Fish and Chips'❓

🖥️ This would go a long way towards solving a lot of the challenges that the non tech world faces with the tech that the tech world delivers …

🔗 Try it in the Car

The collective we that make software don’t seem to check these things anymore, and it shows. Try your software in the world sometime: borrow a friend’s old tablet, go to the library and use the computer there, and give yourself a deadline to finish your task and consequences if you fail. You might be surprised how many problems are made obvious by the experience.

💬 Matthew Lyon

Thank you sir.

🍎 I have no idea if this is anywhere near true / possible. BUT.

A $2billion acquisition is (I think) the second largest Cupertino has ever done? So clearly there’s something going on - and I hate talking to my computer for so many reasons. So this …

Q.ai specialized in one thing: analyzing facial micro-movements and patterns to determine what you’re saying, without any audible speech required.

shall we say peaked my interest and just might solve my issue.

🔗 Apple’s upcoming AirPods Pro 3 variant could debut a groundbreaking new feature

🍎 Not wrong. Of course I know nothing - but he’s still not wrong.

🔗 Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral.

Some of these systems will surely arrive on other platforms eventually, but at the moment, they’re only on the Mac. They’re not on Windows, not on Linux, not on Android, and not on iOS. Just the Mac. That’s because the Mac is, and always has been, the best computer platform in the world. It just is. These systems can’t run on iPhones or iPads because those are baby computers. They just are. So if you to jump in as an early adopter on desktop AI, it needs to be on a Mac. And if you want a headless always-on Mac to do it, the only options are a Mac Mini or Mac Studio.

💬 John Gruber

🏢 I recently posted about ’🔗 Software As A Sandwich’ which I offer as a start to an extended thought on Ton’s post 🔗 Favorited Headless Everything For Personal AI

(Yes - I do need to write more about this and where the connection is.)

Going headless means removing the viewer, and using the output of queries directly programmatically. Combined with how I see the arch of generative AI bending significantly towards deterministic code, I look forward to the type of things people come up with. Not their tools, but what they come up with. Because the path to scale of these things imo is not adopting or buying what someone else made, but adopting what someone else came up with conceptually and creating your own local version.

🔗 The Biggest Thing – Doc Searls

The WordPress plugin I want will provide a way for sites to agree to MyTerms, and then store agreement decisions. We also need browser plugins to proffer terms to sites, and store the same decisions. So this is an appeal for both.

👁️ Hunter adds to my growing list of annoying LinkedIn traits.

  1. Using AI to write posts saying don’t use AI to write posts

  2. Using ‘first image out of hopper’ illustrating argument that doesn’t

  3. 🔗 At AI Dinners - Template Suggestion

LinkedIn could save most VCs a step by adding a post template called “AI Dinner.” You upload a picture of the full table and a picture of the custom menu card with your firm’s logo on it. Then it pre-fills the text of “Still buzzing from bringing together all these AI Builders last night,” while also auto-tagging the attendees.

💬 Hunter Walk

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