🪦 Weir all sorry to see you move on to the great gig in the sky Bob. Thank you for your earthly contributions.
I am sure this was meant to be motivating - and I don’t know who the author is - but not true - and definitely does a massive disservice to those that did fight back. They did - in a world when it was a lot harder to do so. If just a few of those people were around today - not sure we would be where we are.
🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band", according to Geddy Lee
Not wrong IMHO.
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ Back in 2018 I wrote a series of ‘true life’ stories about people I randomly met - this is Benjamin’s
Guilty? Surely Not? A Quick Chat With Claude.
🔗 The Redacted Smith Transcript
So I 🔗 asked Claude a simple question …
Please only consider this document and no other information. Bottom line - if you were the judge - would you find the defendant guilty or innocent. If guilty - on what counts. For each of those counts - What SHOULD the punishment be, what would the punishment be and what could the punishment be. Please keep succinct.
🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy
Hard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️
I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?
My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂
Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth.
Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system. The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture. Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature.
🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform
[🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html)
Just thinking about Masto again - which took me to Tapestry - and I see a familiar icon and so I think ⦠closer look? Again ?
Just thinking about Masto again - which took me to Tapestry - and I see a familiar icon and so I think … closer look? Again ?
Spring Cleaning
Still To Do
On the Blog
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Categories: Remove category ‘LongForm’ from Film Review Posts
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CSS: Simple Recent Posts - finish styling
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CSS: On a phone close up ‘spaces’ on home page
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CSS: Sort all home page blog styling
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CSS: Get the bullets back
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Functionality - Add the ‘Replies’ page back ❓
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Functionality - Second Archive Page to pull entire Archive
- going to need JSON/Micro.Blog Help
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Import My Instagram. It is time.
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Import The ‘Quotespace’ Blog. (Troubleshooting)
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Search - resolve PageFind, @sod search, categories, archive et al - way too confusin
Today’s Surprise From History - 🖇️ From 8 years ago - you say complacent - I say complicit
🔗 My morning’s peruse of my RSS feeds was ‘chokka’ with great gruber words … and then ‘other people’ writing about ‘great @gruber’
This is the latter from 🔗 Anil Dash
Not about Gruber per se - all about Markdown - but in so many ways written as a dedication to JG and a really great primer/history on it. Well worth a read.
Final paragraph
The trillion-dollar AI industry’s system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format one guy made up for his blog and then bounced off of a 17-year-old kid before sharing it with the world for free.
Regifting the Nobel Peace Prize
🔗 The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us From Shame at the Gas Station - WSJ Paywall … but am sure it is on Apple News … if you have that access.
Sharing because I was driving with my friend Cliff a few months ago - stopping for gas - and couldn’t recall what side my filler cap was.
What does the arrow say
.. asked Cliff … 🤯
In all my years of driving I had never known this.
John @gruber (at Daring Fireball) seems to have taken over my RSS this morning ….
🔗 How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch (another increasingly important PSA)
🔗 The New York Times Profiles John Ternus
Regifting the Nobel Peace Prize
Goodness! I would love to have a hit someday as the small as the ones Apple has had under Cook. Apple Watch sells more than the entire Swiss watch industry. Airpods are the most popular headphones in the world. Their market cap is bigger than the GDP of all but four countries in the world
Claude
The good: 🔗 The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer
… and the bad: 🔗 Claude Code and What Comes Next