Mark Philpot

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

The news that Ubisoft is canceling the Prince of Persia - Sands of Time remake amid more layoffs just plain sucks. I've been a huge fan of the franchise, going all the way back to the original I played on my Apple IIgs. I have fond memories of core trilogy reboot (The Sands o...

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one thing that's useful to remember in product development is if you move a mountain, then everyone is recontextualized to the mountain having never been there, and the next biggest problem is a comparative pebble, but seems very big to those that never saw the mountain.

macOS 26 (Tahoe) was forcibly installed on my work laptop and I have to say… it's just not great. I knew that would probably be my reaction, but to have it confirmed is another thing entirely.

The menus are particularly awful — Everything looks mis...

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Rock wa Lady no Tashinami Deshite

The music in shows like this (Bocchi the Rock, Ya Boy Kongming, etc) really elevate them far beyond the original source material. These are made to be anime, and the fact that they gained a successful audience as a ...

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I used the React TUI library ink for the first time to build a simple TUI for cross posting these micro posts to Mastodon and Bluesky and loved the experience. The one gap in the framework is the lack of a multi-line editor (a vim-like experience is...

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I've taken some time over the holiday break get my last 2025 update of anilime out to the store. There was quite a bit of scope creep in this one:


Expo Upgrade with a bunch of iOS 26 updates
Moving the navigation stack to @react-navigation's nativ...

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Sometimes I forget about the way Micro.blog archives any web page you link to or bookmark, including images and styling. I just checked the database and there are hundreds of thousands of web pages and millions of resources. Slowly turning into a personal, miniature Internet Archive.

Screenshot from Tumblr that says devpalmer military recruiter: so what got you guys interested in the marine corps enormous horde of hagfish, ispods and bottom-feeding crustaceans: oh. uh. is that how you pronounce it devpalmer whale fall side of tumblr you understand me 87,491 notes

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The Majority AI View - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

New JavaScript Set Methods const set1 = new Set(['wes', 'kait']); const set2 = new Set(['wes', 'scott']); Difference Elements in set2 but not in set1 set2.difference(set1) > ['scott'] Intersection Elements that exist in both sets set1.intersection(set2) > ['wes'] Symmetric Difference Elements in either set, but not both set1.symmetricDifference(set2) > ['kait', 'scott'] Union All elements from both sets set1.union(set2) > ['wes', 'kait', 'scott'] Is Disjoint From True if sets share no elements set1.isDisjointFrom(set2) > false Is Subset Of True if all elements are in other set set1.isSubsetOf(set2) > false Is Superset Of True if it contains all other's elements set1.isSupersetOf(set2) > false

You should be using JavaScript sets more often

Now in all browsers and Node - these 7 new set methods are key for when trying to compare two arrays or sets of data.

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Fate/strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn (https://anilist.co/anime/154966/Fatestrange-Fake-Whispers-of-Dawn/)

A Fate production not done by ufotable? Call me skeptical but A1 is probably one of the studios that might be able to do it justice. This is just "Episode 0" and very much a shotgun...

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Neva lets you pet, play, scratch, cuddle, and fight with the dog (and tears were definitely shed in the process). Gris is a better game and I prefer the puzzle platforming versus the combat in Neva, but the mechanics are tight and ultimately satisfying.

8/10

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Metaphor: ReFantazio (https://metaphor.atlus.com/index.html?lang=en)

Improved Persona-esque mechanics with a more complex and flexible combat/upgrade system. The story didn't quite resonate with me (felt very one note) and while the OST is good, it's not Persona.

7/10

Staffel 2 Neue Allianzen, Zerwürfnisse und neue Gefahren führen im Kampf zwischen Piltover und Zhaun zu Ruhm und Leiden.

Arcane - Season 2 (https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/94605-arcane/season/2)

An immense visual spectacle, banger OST, and a story that felt like it could have used two more episodes. I’m not complaining! They took their time and delivered on the promise of season 1.

10/10

Arcane - Season 2 An immens

Hazbin Hotel

Masterpiece! I can’t believe I’m so late to this… This is everything I could ever want in a show. The music is out of this world, the voice acting is better than most Broadway A-list shows, the art is pitch perfect! Now, to dive into Helluva Boss.

10/10

Unfortunately, there is one aspect of Zen/Firefox that doesn’t look to be configurable (that will probably be a deal breaker without a lot of retraining my brain) – The Location Bar won’t autocomplete to browsing hist... https://micro.markphilpot.com/2025/01/06/unfortunately-there-is-one-aspect.html

As a precautionary measure, running an experiment with Zen Browser as an Arc replacement. Given a bit of customization, I was fairly happy with the result. The recent Arc updates are essentially Chromium upgrades whi... https://micro.markphilpot.com/2025/01/05/as-a-precautionary-measure-running.html

Oshi no Ko 2nd Season

Doga Kobo is on an absolute tear. While this season may not have the punch of the first (and I missed the OP & ED) I loved every aspect (and very glad I waited until the end of the season to binge it)

10/10

明けましておめでとうございます！今年も宜しくお願い致します♪
#リコリス・リコイル #リコリコ #錦木千束 #井ノ上たきな

I loved “This is How You Lose…” and “Priory…”

Took out my trumpet to record a bit. Can only do about 15 minutes before lips get too tired, but was nice to get it oiled up and making sound again. Still frustrated that I can’t seem to find my SM57s after the remodel. Was holding off on getting new mics thinking they might turn up, but no dice.

Righteous indignation

#medusa #art

Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria

None of the charm of Dungeon but with all the production values (trailed off at the end - You could tell they ran out of money in the last third as every action shot was matched with one or two stills) The ... https://micro.markphilpot.com/2024/10/30/tsue-to-tsurugi.html

#janeyuan #janedoe #zhuyuan Tummy kisses

I'm in Love with the Villainess
#gl #yuri #manga #wlw

Interesting that again there was a huge spike but no long tail in artist accounts moving from Twitter/X to Bluesky. I was expecting a longer tail as what seemed to be a critical mass took action, but maybe it has to do the venn diagram of communities.

Heading to OT!!