Micro.blog - JohnPhilpin mentions

Nova The Machine — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:23:12 +0000

@JohnPhilpin That’s Applesized confidence, or maybe desperation.

Martin McCallion — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:07:50 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Or why not drop the silly cluttering hyphens and just use spaces?

Marnie Webb — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:06:33 +0000

Thomas =:-) — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:32:15 +0000

@fractals but wildly missing the mark. The vastly bigger problem is lazy American frameworks/programmers subjecting innocent phone numbers to whatever. Bah.

Lou Plummer — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:19:23 +0000

@JohnPhilpin The albums survived stacking. It’s so funny how my Mom, Dad, siblings and I have passed vinyl records around for decades now. Everybody wanted to give theirs away when CDs came out and then everyone wanted them back when vinyl became cool again.

Hjalmer Duenow — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:30:39 +0000

@JohnPhilpin My parents had two automatic turntables that would do this. Sometimes it came in handy

The Art Of Not Asking Why — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:19:02 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Good article. The point is well known, but it’s good to have it written out and explained like that. I call it “The Emperor’s New Clothes” syndrome - same idea, based on an old fable with a good moral.

Frank McPherson — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:33:45 +0000

@JohnPhilpin As a fellow person who uses Feedland, John, I think you touched on the important point. Feedland is as much about building and managing RSS subscriptions. For me a simple thing as knowing the last date something was added to a feed is useful. I actual prefer Dave’s earlier RSS aggregator, River5, because it is a simple reverse chronological presentation of the latest feed updates. It works for me because I only use RSS aggregators to triage and find items to read, I do my reading in Readwise Reader.

Mitch Wagner — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:43:52 +0000

@JohnPhilpin I recently switched from Inoreader to Newsblur. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Inoreader for a long time and I’ve tried Newsblur before but it did not stick.

Mitch Wagner — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:18:23 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Do you like Feedland? What is its value over other feed readers?

Holly Honeychurch — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:09:28 +0000

@JohnPhilpin the sun was shining, that was enough to get me in, if my feet weren’t being weirdos.

Martin McCallion — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:48:02 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Thanks. I could, of course, have googled if myself, but I thought it was more fun to speculate.

Holly Honeychurch — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:24:58 +0000

@JohnPhilpin it was a tough one, but ultimately the adult thinking about stones between her toes for the rest of the day won out 😅

Leon Mika — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:48:11 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Yeah, maybe niche is not the correct word here. I took the point to mean applying self-imposed restrictions on what you choose to a single topic. Simon Willison posting about Kakapos is a good example, considering that he also covers AI, Python, quotes, tools, etc. If one were to categorise the whole as a single topic, then yes, I would agree that that is niche.

Leon Mika — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:30:18 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Ah, touché. I suppose as long as you can sustain writing about a particular topic, regardless of how niche it is (depending on how you define niche), then it’ll work out.

Brad Enslen — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:59:44 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Trump is setting up Vance to fail.

Khaled Abou Alfa — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:40:14 +0000

@JohnPhilpin sending these two muppets is a death kiss to the entire process.

Max Slinger — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:26:47 +0000

@JohnPhilpin three hours is generous. I got the posts rendering in 40 minutes and spent the rest of the weekend trying to get the comment indentation to not look unhinged

Logan Land — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:38:00 +0000

@JohnPhilpin If you bought Intel Mac right before they switched, then the upgrade cycle is less and the demand for the old architecture is decreased by a lot.

Dave Winer — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:16:03 +0000

@JohnPhilpin – exactly the point – i could tweak it up in my copy of wordpress, but in general i’d rather have stuff like that go into the core, because there are some features that aren’t really subject to taste, and imho this is one of them.

Dave Winer — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:35:36 +0000

@JohnPhilpin – it’s not hard to fix. ;-)

Frank McPherson — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:30:03 +0000

@JohnPhilpin How would companies make money if everyone used their products for decades?

The Micro Blog — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:03:46 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Hmmm, perhaps I oversimplified things. Electric car prices in Canada & the US are greatly distorted by tariffs, and the situation in Europe seems to be in flux, but China is producing good quality cars at aggressive prices. (We can really get into the weeds on subsidies in China!)

In our experience, our Leaf seemed expensive until we saw not only how inexpensive it was per km to run but also how maintenance costs were almost zero! So far (except for the tiny 12V utility battery) it has been extremely reliable.

John Johnston — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:00:03 +0000

@JohnPhilpin anyone that could edit there functions.php or create a plugin. Do not think you can do that on WordPress.com caveat, I am very much an amateur, there may be many better ways.

The Micro Blog — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:21:11 +0000

@JohnPhilpin TCO should be used when comparing electric, hybrid, and gas-powered cars too. Even the pro electric sites sometimes say things like “the gas car [or truck] is much cheaper”. The cheapest cars these days are electric.

The Micro Blog — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:12:21 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Thanks for posting that. It’s a good article.

Similar questions about who the real customer is apply to a lot of businesses, don’t they? e.g. travel agents and real estate agents (for those that haven’t read it, I recommend Freakonomics).

Logan Land — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:07:37 +0000

@JohnPhilpin tell it dies or apple silicon doesn’t hold up. the CPU should be repasted every 5 years?

John Johnston — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:59:14 +0000

@JohnPhilpin back in the early days of micro.blog a few of us added a wee function that did just that to our functions.php
Mine is number 2 in this gist

Manton Reece — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:41:19 +0000

@JohnPhilpin I used the early betas of the iOS app last year. But I haven’t looked at the new stuff in that much detail.

Lou Plummer — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:51:07 +0000

@JohnPhilpin Well done!