John Philpin

Demeans himself❓That’s his modus operandi.

🔗📼 David Lynch on TM

In case you were wondering where this came from ….

🔗 Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

🔗 Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links - Ars Technica

💬 John Philpin ✅ The good news is that I got FreshRSS working - proven - downloading - very happy with myself in all honesty. ❌ The bad news - the maintenance and set up side is definitely not for the amateur. Kinda up there with running your own mail server. Back to iCloud for now - and then eventually back to Feedbin I think. Unless the cognoscenti has other thoughts?

✅ The good news is that I got FreshRSS working - proven - downloading - very happy with myself in all honesty.

❌ The bad news - the maintenance and set up side is definitely not for the amateur. Kinda up there with running your own ... https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/21/the-good-news-is-that.html

"at anthropic we are starting to see accounts spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per month on tokens."

🤯

💬 John Philpin Here’s a funny thing … now there’s a funny thing 💬 Max Miller Did a back up of my micro blog and I am told that the oldest post in the back up is from 2017 … I open the blog in Mars Edit and I see posts going back to 2005. Thoughts as to why the discrepancy? // @manton @danielpunkass - is the Mars Edit view simply reflecting what is ‘up there’ - or is there a copy on my drive somewhere?

"Here’s a funny thing … now there’s a funny thing"

💬 Max Miller

Did a back up of my micro blog and I am told that the oldest post in the back up is from 2017 … I open the blog in Mars Edit and I see posts going back to 2005.

Thou... https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/20/heres-a-funny-thing-now.html

Well look at that - time flies when you are having fun.

💬 John Philpin

This seems to be on pace with my recent conclusions following reading that (I paraphrase - my bold) ..

"The market intelligence market was valued at USD 12.1 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach USD 21.4 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 8.... https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/19/132150.html

💬 John Philpin ‘First’ there was Today … and then there was ‘Current’ .. and downloaded both today - despite already using Reeder and NetNewsWire from @brentsimmons and Feedland from @dave and Readwise (though not quite the same I agree.) - and let’s not forget the next one coming in from @manton Exporting and importing OPML files twixt them all is a fun way to spend an afternoon - but wouldn’t it be so much easier if I just had a single OPML file that all the apps talked to?

‘First’ there was Today … and then there was ‘Current’ .. and downloaded both today - despite already using Reeder and NetNewsWire from @brentsimmons and Feedland from @dave and Readwise (though not quite the same I agree.) - and ... https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/19/first-there-was-today-and.html

Anybody exploring Birdy Chat?

🔗 Expert Generalists

"We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”."

💬 Martin Fowler

Not a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before... https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/19/expert-generalists-we-are-thus.html

🔗 App Review: Current

@canion has written one of handful of posts reviewing two new RSS reeders out in the past week.

Downloaded both today and it is clear that they are very different to the usual.

Muscle memory - and even how I think about my news feed is going to have to be flat-earthed.

💬 John Philpin 🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring that you have to compete for views for every single article, instead of building a direct relationship with a recurring member who is buying your product because they think it’s worth it overall.

🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks

"If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring... https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/19/subscriptions-are-rising-at-big.html

I can just about understand why you would choose to keep an old Twitter account going … but why anyone would start a new one is beyond me,

Anyone who has ideas … LMK.

I can just about understand why you would choose to keep an old Twitter account going … but why anyone would start a new one is beyond me,

Anyone who has ideas … LMK.

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A spectacular event to look forward to (my take) - or “artsy navel gazing on his part?” (the take of a friend of mine who is also a fan.)

If I were to look at the feeds of the people I follow - we are all

concerned about the fuck up we call Tяump
playing around with AI
‘finishing’ a lot of books and/or watching movies

and ‘Nobody’ seems that bothered about The Winter Olympics

All sounds about right to me.

A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom New Siri gets delayed but while Apple's set to deliver new hardware, are iPhones still selling well?

🔗 A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom

"Not an “event”. An “experience.” An “event” is jejune. Basic. Lowbrow. An “experience” is elevated. Refined. Possibly confusing or even a little terrifying."

😂😂

💬 John Philpin 🔗 CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician Colbert says he was also told by network lawyers that he also couldn’t mention he was told by CBS to not have him on, a request he proceeded to immediately ignore in a … rant about Brendan Carr and the censorial, authoritarian, and pathetic Trump FCC. ➕ Let’s just call this what it is: Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV, OK?

🔗 CBS Pulls Colbert Interview With Dem Politician

"Colbert says he was also told by network lawyers that he also couldn’t mention he was told by CBS to not have him on, a request he proceeded to immediately ignore in a … r... https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/18/cbs-pulls-colbert-interview-with.html

🪦 Robert❗️As if the world wasn’t bad enough already 😢 So sorry.

💬 John Philpin [🔗 Be Kind]weidok.al/2026/02/1… Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right. 💬 Haruki Murakami Have to say - we all know that some people need ‘their’ reality broken down. Pain? Least of their problems - which reminds me of Ricky G .

[🔗 Be Kind]weidok.al/2026/02/1…

"Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right."

💬 Haruki Murakami

Have to say - w... https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/17/072812.html

Meanwhile, over on Marginal Revolution …

🔗 Minimum Wages for Gig Workers Can’t Work

.. which supports this claim from Dana a while ago.

💬 John Philpin 🔗 Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI – On my Om So what is ClawMan being paid to be OpenAI’s coding superhero? My guess is that his compensation is probably nine figures. That is the going rate for someone who can single-handedly shift the trajectory of your most important product bet. I mean, Zuck has been paying a lot more for far less sexy hires. Sam must have had to match whatever Zuck was dangling, right?

🔗 Sam “Claws” Attention Back OpenAI – On my Om

"So what is ClawMan being paid to be OpenAI’s coding superhero? My guess is that his compensation is probably nine figures. That is the going rate for someone who can single-ha... https://john.philpin.com/2026/02/17/sam-claws-attention-back-openai.html

A conversation thread about RSS clients and technology preferences is displayed on a blogging platform.

🔗 Scripting News: New RSS feature from Manton

Brilliant .. and just tested … it works for us all .. I feel a new mod to my blog navigation coming on.


Thankyou for the heads up @dave

Thankyou for doing the work @manton

Pretty sure I have shared this before - but it does bear repeating …

🔗 Dancing with Your Default Mode

NiftyMenu Tahoe Edition - BrettTerpstra.com NiftyMenu is the little tool I use to dump a macOS app’s menu bar into an HTML page so I can search it, click through to items, and add callouts for screencasts and product documentation. The…

🔗 NiftyMenu Tahoe Edition - BrettTerpstra.com

"It’s a tool specifically for people documenting or blogging about apps (though anybody might get a kick out of it)."

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