🔗 The Human Story of the Open Web - Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
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🔗 Wrong Way, Right Direction — Gapingvoid
This one also relates to a Johnism …
No decision is still a decision.
🔗 Mercury’s CEO on their Principles of Writing (and AI Usage) | Hunter Walk
Always enjoy hunter - only recently discovered Mercury - saved this one to my Readwise.
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Give or take that’s still 24 million people
7 percent of Americans trust Trump’s leadership in regulating AI.
🔗📼🎵 Wilson 2 dropped over the weekend.
Quite apart from the sounds - this video is superb - not to say the pre-launch marketing campaign that he is running in advance of the album release in November.
🔗 Apple Announces Plan to Impose New Full Disk Access Controls on Mac Developers - MacStories
A lot of developers seem to be very unhappy with this call. I definitely do not understand all the pros and cons - but as someone who lives in the Apple Ecosystem - this is why I do.
Sorry developers - unless there is an argument why this is going to be a bad idea that I haven’t yet read.
🔗 Six Years of Building Things - Ewan’s Blog
Scratch was probably my first real exposure to the idea that I could tell a computer what to do rather than simply use whatever someone else had made.
Mine wasn’t - but that encapsulation of the idea came to me reading Kernighan and Ritchie back in the day. Not that I became a coder - but it definitely inspired me to get into tech properly.
Amazon says it will spend more than $1 billion over five years in the U.S. communities where it builds and operates data centers, responding to a growing backlash across the country against the tech industry’s massive AI infrastructure buildout.
Sounds a lot. It is not.
🔗 Scripting News: Saturday, October 3, 2026 #truth
If you’re psyched about what the polls say about the midterms, remember that Hillary Clinton was the overwhelming favorite to win in 2016, based on polling.
For the longest time I have used Alinya’s imagery in the PHI⑊PIN domain.
Looks like the same installation - with a different photographer. Spotted on Colossal:
🔗 Tomás Saraceno Returns to the Past to Envision a More Just Future
[🔗 For our 13 apps - we have 8 code bases.](www.manton.org/2026/10/0…
[🔗 13 apps] (https://help.micro.blog/t/latest-app-versions/4415)
I was wondering which apps I was missing .. problem solved .. and I count
- 6 Apps
- 3 Platforms
- I do not know enough about the underlying code base to know what’s what.
All this to say how do we define an app?
BUT - Definitely
Overwhelming
however you count it.
Dave does come across as very angry at times. I know nothing of this history - but if half true - you can understand why.
🔗 It’s not illegal if you buy new laws
Exactly why these companies remain on my shit list - because their shit list of shitty things they have done over the years is long and they get way with it ALL THE TIME.
Protecting ‘customers’ at the cost of ‘punishing people’.
Needs to be reshaped so it can transition to a 🖇️ Johnism.
🔗 what-does-my-dream-os-ui-look-like - its good - but BOY is it detailed.
🔗 Super Intelligence Is Not Right, Either by Andrew Sharp - arguing that ‘Artificial’ is not the right word … which I have noted in the past with a lot less words.
🔗 Be Hungry, Not Thirsty — Gapingvoid
if you are following along - you will l know that Hugh and his team often resonate with my thinking.
This one reminds me of an old 🖇️ Johnism …
< Who put the ‘con’ into content.
🔗 United States of Oligarchy Exposes Trump Regime Corruption
The book exposes the staggering corruption of the Trump regime and how dictators and oligarchs around the world are betting on Trump–and betting against democracy.
🔗 Apparently I Was Born in the Wrong Country
With him - even down to being born ‘abroad’ but still being English and NOT an immigrant.
And it is fucking ridiculous that, in 2026, I still have to explain the difference …
It’s time we English celebrated a little more.
My Earlier Posts That Relate
💬 Read it twice.
💬 Kevin wrote this in 2022. In 2026 it seems that all 7 phases are happening ‘everywhere - all at once’.
👁️ Dear CitiBank your voice enablement software that works as a front end to get to talk to a human totally sucks. Change it. Please.
🪦 Farewell Esther .. it’s been a ‘minute’ since seeing your name in ‘print’ … but remember you I do .. thank you for ‘fighting the good fight’.
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Spit Balling … how long before Apple launches a Vision Pro package including device and say 3, 5 .. ‘Sphere events’ of your choice … with ability to buy more on demand when available?
Somewhere in the range of 2027 to never for certain .. but I am thinking later not sooner is a missed opportunity.
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