John PHI⑊PIN

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:39:11 +1200

👁️ Its decided. Farewell Reeder … Hello (again) NetNewsWire old friend.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:27:22 +1200

To add someone as a friend on the new Friendster iOS app, the two of you have to physically tap your phones together.

Nice idea - downloaded - now we just need to work out where to meet - we are only 8,000 miles / 13,000 kilometres apart.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:10:38 +1200

💬 👁️🏢 People First - All Else Follows.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:07:48 +1200

🔗 Colorless, Shapeless Orb - Gapingvoid

We call it The Void. It’s where most work lives now. Transactional. Comfortable. Manageable. Forgettable. If you’ve ever wondered why our name is so weird, that’s it. We made it our business to kill it.

👁️ Yes. Seperately - love their new home page.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:04:22 +1200

👁️ RSS really seems to be coming back into vogue.

when you build on open standards like RSS and OPML, you’re building on freedom. Freedom to use the tools that work best for you. Freedom to own your experience. And freedom to support a healthier, more independent web.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:03:21 +1200

🔗 On wintering.

Productivity is a recent invention; wintering is not.

Superb piece. Readwised - so I can keep coming back.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:02:10 +1200

I don’t use Ubuntu. I have zero interest in resetting ICON themes. I toggle dark mode manually every blue moon or so.

None of that stopped me from reading;

🔗 Stop Ubuntu Resetting Your Icon Theme When Toggling Dark Mode

I didn’t understand a word of it.

This all around 4am.

Life Needed.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:58:28 +1200

🔗 A quote from Matthew Yglesias

Five months in, I think I’ve decided that I don’t want to vibecode – I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.

💬 Matthew Yglesias

🖇️ It all connects to sandwiches.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:54:28 +1200

MacGyver gardens.

🔗 Allotment engineering

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:50:13 +1200

Taco Trivia …

After avoiding trivia for a long time, we stumbled into the wrong (right?) bar

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:48:27 +1200

Police - take out the ‘Pol’ - and you are left with ‘ICE’.

Origins of ‘Pol’ … public order, civil administration

Sounds about right to me - and a useful counter argument to this kind of idiocy.

🔗 Donald Tяump endorses changing ICE to NICE

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:21:47 +1200

🔗 Gratitude, honor, and anger — Terry Godier

.. still thinking how this delightful little ‘billy do’ might fit on to my daily routine.

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:20:11 +1200

After reading 🔗 this from Colossal - it got me to thinking if these ….

Might be used 🖇️ here:

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:00:08 +1200

💬 A selection from my morning’s ‘Readwise’. I see a theme - despite the source variations. Is that just me?

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:54:12 +1200

👁️😂 You have to click through for the full story …

🔗 Turing Test 2.0 - Existential Comics

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:01:57 +1200

👁️ A new - to me - error on my Micro.blog timeline …

// @manton @sod

Still seems to work though.

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:58:50 +1200

👁️ So pleased not to be an American. My bold…

The new design shows the president’s image superimposed over the Declaration of Independence and an American flag and features Trump’s signature in gold lettering.

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:21:31 +1200

Experimenting with the new RSS thingy from @terrygodier.com .. ❤️LOVE IT❤️

Subscribe if you care to … 🔗 here

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:47:46 +1200

💬 Not just coding.

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:46:05 +1200

💬 published in 1953

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:35:47 +1200

😂😂😂😂 - Spanish speakers … true? 🔗 Language is hard

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:31:33 +1200

#Doomed❗️

🔗 Apple’s new AI problems have nothing to do with Siri

But let the Macalope get this straight: Apple is being sued for being not being callous enough about AI while also being sued for being insufficiently careful about AI?! It’s like you can’t win!

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:19:04 +1200

👺Interesting that in ‘olden days’ these kind of companies lurked in the shadows. Not any more. 🔗 Palantir Wants To Be The Government

I hear Thiel has buggered off to Argentina - so Karp has free rein to carp.

Getting banned from Elon Musk’s X for pointing out Palantir’s fascism has created more interest in my work.

Gil

And why not. Another One.

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:40:20 +1200

🚧 Please - just ignore me - you know what this is …

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💬 the dude

yet another test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test .. just give me a little more echo.

💬 not the dude

test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test.

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:59:32 +1200

👁️ Story of my life:

Just waiting for the cache to catch up.

Seems to be worse on Micro.Blog than anywhere else - and yes I have a bigger than average site and yes this version of Hugo moves like molasses - but when I move to upgrade to a better version - my site breaks - #BecausePlugIns - how to work out which? Uninstall them all and reintroduce one by one.

My plugin list:

… so no.

Then again - there is also this …

What IS a boy to do?