John PHI⑊PIN

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:45:13 +1300

🔗 How LEGO Engineered the Perfect Plaything

Yes it is - and yet great as it is - and flexible as it is - it does teach us that everything has a place and that there is a place for everything … which I am not sure is a good lesson.

It has a sense that ‘all’ is preordained.

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:38:03 +1300

I’d just finished building a dashboard that does what I want. Then I read this.

She is not wrong, but continue I will;

learning a lot

and what I built

reveals where best to focus, because it is based on what I want - not what I have.

Some things just aren’t being captured.

Onto phase two.

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:28:14 +1300

💬 via John Naughton

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:27:20 +1300

I keep on hearing that there is no bubble. And as one wag pointed out bubbles don’t only pop - sometimes they slowly deflate. Either way - bubble or no bubble - this is the problem. If you don’t look under the hood - you might be lulled into a sense of false security.

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:23:12 +1300

🔗 The man hiking the world in search of rare cheeses

🖇️ Not this man .. who has literally walked around the world.

I think ‘cheese guy’ is more figuratively speaking.

Îs ‘speaking’ the right word?

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:16:54 +1300

🔗 In Defence of Process - you know that boring stuff that everyone pooh poos?

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:15:40 +1300

🔗 Scripting News: Monday, October 19, 2026

I would like to have one day when Claude Code doesn’t fuck everything up by doing things it is explicitly prohibited from doing. I find things that were changed in critical parts of the program, that were indefensible.

Yeah - me too. Except - I don’t really get it every day - but a couple of days ago - oh boy - a doozy. I spotted it before it happened - so disaster averted - but if proof was ever needed … this is why you don’t run Claude on auto pilot.

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:13:14 +1300

I shared 🔗🎬📼 this clip in a comment earlier this week - but pushing it out again because;

it is a good clip
it is a good movie
it is an iconic line that gets left off lists (get to the end).

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:10:42 +1300

Read the whole thing - but if no time … three - count them - three - quotes from a very short post.

🔗 The age of initiative | Seth’s Blog

For those indoctrinated to comply, this is stressful. The stress is due to a desire to get things back to normal, to give them a chance to comply again, but right here, right now, is as normal as things are ever going to get. “Good jobs” are no longer sinecures where success comes from following instructions.

One reason AI got such a fast start is that it gave people seeking compliance a chance to wait for the AI to tell them what to do next. Quick, cheap answers.

No matter what you do for a living, there’s a machine standing by, waiting for instructions. Instructions from you, if you choose, or from your overlords if you don’t.

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:08:16 +1300

Daring Fireball:

🔗 Barack Obama on the Trump Administration’s Intimidation Campaign Against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

… less about Ilhan Omar and more about doubling down on why so many people I follow seem to be wrong.

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:46:55 +1300

🔗 Daring Fireball: Netflix Shitcanned Film Chief Dan Lin Too

Netflix’s movies are worse than their series, which also mostly stink. (As opposed to Apple TV, which somehow makes terrible movies while making the best series in the business.)

It is interesting Apple observation. I can’t think of a good film that they produced off the top of my head - but so many of their series are absolute bangers.

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:44:54 +1300

🔗 Daring Fireball: Verizon Is Going to Charge $10/Month for iPhone Handoff

Second, we all know Verizon is the most expensive competent carrier in the U.S. (Maybe AT&T is just as expensive, but I said “competent”.) It feels like a rip that T-Mobile is charging $5/month. Verizon charging double is on-brand but irritating.

My better half insists on Verizon and her bill is always twice - sometimes three times mine.

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:18:16 +1300

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Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:50:54 +1300

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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:25:09 +1300

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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:24:14 +1300

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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:22:56 +1300

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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:20:52 +1300

💬 these words are what … 30 years old❓ … and even now so many organisations confuse them … even use them interchangeably.

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:17:10 +1300

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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:15:55 +1300

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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:12:50 +1300

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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:11:33 +1300

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The secondary .. maybe primary … challenge is that we still look at organisations through a hierarchical lens using ‘Systems of Record’ designed to manage a world that is fast moving on.

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:03:57 +1300

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Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:12:43 +1300

🔗 Richard Felix

and to your surprise, the last four digits of the phone number of the owner are yours.

Or to put it another way …. I found my glasses on my head - taken to ’11’

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:11:19 +1300

🔗 X’s reverse eternal September

Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse.

… I think he means ‘frathouse’ - and we know how those are working out.