🔗 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.

When Finalist first appeared - of course, I tried it out. Couldn’t get into it. I blame muscle memory. Meanwhile Gruber has talked about it a lot and I happened to actually listen to one of his shows recently - the one with MG - and in it he gave a link to 6 months free - so I am trying again.

Still got the muscle memory problem - but now I have 6 months to make it work.

This post - and others that I have read by Slaven (he that is Finalist) really resonated and sticking with it. (It helps that back in the day was a really big user and advocate of Filofax.)

Once notes are inside a planner, they stop feeling like notes; they become the glue that gets you through the week.

💬 Slaven - he of Finalist

Time will tell.

🔗 The Missing Half of a Daily Planner

"Woke Up This Morning" by A3

Listen on Apple Music

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.

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Listen to my Apple Music playlist

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.

🔗 Terry Godier’s Byline

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?

🔗 Cry me a river - Andy Sylvester

OUCH

🔗 Thoughts on Leaving GitHub - Kev Quirk

… and here I am thinking about moving John.Philpin.com to Github. 🤯

🔗 Several people write posts on Sourcefeed saying “I have no idea if anyone reads this” - which I consider to be a feature not a bug."

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.