💬 John Philpin

Finally ….

🔗 Manton Reece

developers will need to focus even more on polish and making an app feel like a finished product

Hopefully that will not only be about Design and Interface, but also navigation and simplicity and all else that drives me nuts with too many apps. (Most if I am honest - some I stick with.)

In December 🔗🎙️Lenny talked with Elena Verna - head of growth at Lovable - and on the way through commented that ‘Minimum Viable Product’ is now table stakes - we need to be building Minimum Loveable Products.

Ok - self serving naming - but it is the same kind of thinking.

🔗 National Transport & Toy Museum in Wanaka | Atlas Obscura

It’s impossible to describe everything that’s here: cars spanning the Morris Minor to a Ferrari 400I, Air New Zealand airplanes, almost every type of Lego set, a Barbie section, and vintage items like cast-iron banks and typewriters.

Not sure I understand how typewriters fit into the museums theme … but it continues to amaze how much stuff like this floats around New Zealand.

🔗 UK ETA Strict Enforcement Begins 25 February

When you submit your application - you should always ask

What is the ETA for my ETA.

🔗 Ranking CFO Compensation: The Top Earners

Click through and you read

What a CFO’s Hour is Worth

It’s not the first time I have had cause to highlight the langauge problem … the graphic reveals what they are being paid.

That does NOT equate to what they are worth.

🔗 Scripting News: Tuesday, February 3, 2026

I don’t understand the connection, other than RSS is always useful, as a way of formalizing the output of an app so other apps can use it as input.

I understand - it forms the foundation of one if my new modules in the Engagement Platform we are building.

A Public Service Announcement

🔗 Microsoft is Giving the FBI BitLocker Keys - Schneier on Security

Microsoft gives the FBI the ability to decrypt BitLocker in response to court orders: about twenty times per year

When Emu rambles on about his SciFi vision for remember it’s a vision … and it’s SciFi (often bad SciFi) … oh and that it’s Emu. #Bollocks #AllOfIt

Aaah yes …

Moltbook is built on a simple open source database software that wasn’t configured correctly and left the API keys of every agent registered on the site exposed in a public database.

Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ 6 years ago it looks like I discovered my test blog.

🖇️🔎 Other Surprises

It’s a long shot - but if anybody is interested in a 2012 well cared for Mercedes 250 as an extra car for their ‘family fleet’ - I have a deal for you. It is located in Palm Desert.