John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com
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John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com
· Nov 9
for new #rss people coming in:
you can follow any #bluesky profile in your feed reader, just tack on "/rss" to the end of the profile url
e.g. bsky.app/profile/john...
you can follow any #bluesky profile in your feed reader, just tack on "/rss" to the end of the profile url
e.g. bsky.app/profile/john...
‘http2 error: connection error received: not a result of an error’
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December 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
‘http2 error: connection error received: not a result of an error’
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Does anyone in iOS land know which app sends these exact user agents? Observed requesting podcast episode audio files.
Naming convention would imply the Apple "Watch" app itself, yea? Is there some new on-device api/proxy or something that 3p apps can use?
Naming convention would imply the Apple "Watch" app itself, yea? Is there some new on-device api/proxy or something that 3p apps can use?
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Does anyone in iOS land know which app sends these exact user agents? Observed requesting podcast episode audio files.
Naming convention would imply the Apple "Watch" app itself, yea? Is there some new on-device api/proxy or something that 3p apps can use?
Naming convention would imply the Apple "Watch" app itself, yea? Is there some new on-device api/proxy or something that 3p apps can use?
Reposted by John Spurlock
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.
‘I’m not sure whom the bottom interface helps. It’s a puzzle, an art object, but it doesn’t work for you. It’s not here to make your life easier.’
grumpy.website/1723
grumpy.website/1723
December 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
‘I’m not sure whom the bottom interface helps. It’s a puzzle, an art object, but it doesn’t work for you. It’s not here to make your life easier.’
grumpy.website/1723
grumpy.website/1723
‘if a piece of software is revolutionary and will make workers' jobs easier, they will use it’
birchtree.me/blog/generat...
birchtree.me/blog/generat...
Generative AI use continues to rise
I recently discovered the Generative AI Adoption Tracker and it's a really interesting look at the data on how often Americans specifically are using AI tools such as ChatGPT both at work and in their...
birchtree.me
December 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
‘if a piece of software is revolutionary and will make workers' jobs easier, they will use it’
birchtree.me/blog/generat...
birchtree.me/blog/generat...
Reposted by John Spurlock
Periodically I’m like, “we should all restart nice simple blogs and RSS feeds and start again and do it better this time”.
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Periodically I’m like, “we should all restart nice simple blogs and RSS feeds and start again and do it better this time”.
‘Every day, another major corporation or elected official or distant family member is choosing to speak to you in this particular voice. This is just what the world sounds like now. This is how everything has chosen to speak. Mixed metaphors and empty sincerity.’
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
‘Every day, another major corporation or elected official or distant family member is choosing to speak to you in this particular voice. This is just what the world sounds like now. This is how everything has chosen to speak. Mixed metaphors and empty sincerity.’
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
‘Everyone is freaking out about this Warner Bros news as if it's totally out of the blue for one of these studios to be bought. They are bought _all the time_. And often by far more problematic buyers than Netflix.’
spyglass.org/netflix-warn...
spyglass.org/netflix-warn...
Oh No, a Tech Company is Buying a Movie Studio
This is the end of Hollywood? Come on.
spyglass.org
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
‘Everyone is freaking out about this Warner Bros news as if it's totally out of the blue for one of these studios to be bought. They are bought _all the time_. And often by far more problematic buyers than Netflix.’
spyglass.org/netflix-warn...
spyglass.org/netflix-warn...
New data: Top CDNs used by the 1.6 million new podcast episodes found in November 2025
livewire.io/podcast-cdns...
livewire.io/podcast-cdns...
Top Podcast CDNs by Episode Share (November 2025)
Ranked list of podcast CDNs (content delivery networks), based on number of new episodes published
livewire.io
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New data: Top CDNs used by the 1.6 million new podcast episodes found in November 2025
livewire.io/podcast-cdns...
livewire.io/podcast-cdns...
New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.6 million new eps published in November 2025
- Share of new episodes measured by #1 Podtrac down, due mainly to my better filtering of TTS podcasts
livewire.io/podcast-trac...
- Share of new episodes measured by #1 Podtrac down, due mainly to my better filtering of TTS podcasts
livewire.io/podcast-trac...
Top Podcast Tracking Services by Episode Share (November 2025)
Ranked list of podcast trackers (third-party analytics services), based on number of new episodes published
livewire.io
December 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.6 million new eps published in November 2025
- Share of new episodes measured by #1 Podtrac down, due mainly to my better filtering of TTS podcasts
livewire.io/podcast-trac...
- Share of new episodes measured by #1 Podtrac down, due mainly to my better filtering of TTS podcasts
livewire.io/podcast-trac...
New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.6 million new episodes published in November 2025
livewire.io/podcast-host...
livewire.io/podcast-host...
Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (November 2025)
Ranked list of podcast hosts, based on number of new episodes published
livewire.io
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.6 million new episodes published in November 2025
livewire.io/podcast-host...
livewire.io/podcast-host...
Reposted by John Spurlock
Happy 30th birthday JavaScript web.archive.org/web/20070916...
Press Release
web.archive.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Happy 30th birthday JavaScript web.archive.org/web/20070916...
Reposted by John Spurlock
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
‘Currently, cops in California can’t cite a car without a driver.’
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Suddenly Behaving Like New York Cabbies
Autonomous vehicles are adopting humanlike qualities, making illegal U-turns and flooring it the second the light goes green.
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
‘Currently, cops in California can’t cite a car without a driver.’
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
(gift link)
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
‘Podcasts are a tone, I say. Intimate, conversational, informal, I add, whether that’s audio or video. Podcasts are no longer a medium; they’re a style.’
futureproofnews.substack.com/p/how-produc...
futureproofnews.substack.com/p/how-produc...
How Product Replaced Art (or 'A Recipe for the Great Entertainment Soup')
About 18 years ago, locked away (like Rapunzel) in a British boarding school, I downloaded my first podcast.
futureproofnews.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
‘Podcasts are a tone, I say. Intimate, conversational, informal, I add, whether that’s audio or video. Podcasts are no longer a medium; they’re a style.’
futureproofnews.substack.com/p/how-produc...
futureproofnews.substack.com/p/how-produc...
‘Instead of putting our users & community through "Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetization" – thanks to Anthropic, we can skip that chapter entirely and focus on building the best JavaScript tooling.’
bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
Bun is joining Anthropic
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
bun.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
‘Instead of putting our users & community through "Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetization" – thanks to Anthropic, we can skip that chapter entirely and focus on building the best JavaScript tooling.’
bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
Buzzsprout just published their public stats for November 2025, so I just updated my post tracking them over time
- notable increase in Overcast's share of downloads
(recently I've been seeing new Overcast whales in OP3 as well, and exclude them from stats 🐳)
livewire.io/buzzsprout-s...
- notable increase in Overcast's share of downloads
(recently I've been seeing new Overcast whales in OP3 as well, and exclude them from stats 🐳)
livewire.io/buzzsprout-s...
Buzzsprout Statistics, visualized
Visualizing the podcast data provided monthly by Buzzsprout, the podcast hosting company
livewire.io
December 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Buzzsprout just published their public stats for November 2025, so I just updated my post tracking them over time
- notable increase in Overcast's share of downloads
(recently I've been seeing new Overcast whales in OP3 as well, and exclude them from stats 🐳)
livewire.io/buzzsprout-s...
- notable increase in Overcast's share of downloads
(recently I've been seeing new Overcast whales in OP3 as well, and exclude them from stats 🐳)
livewire.io/buzzsprout-s...
Just updated my graphs of @transistor.fm's monthly reported podcast stats to include the newly-finished month of November 2025.
livewire.io/transistor-s...
livewire.io/transistor-s...
Transistor Statistics, visualized
Visualizing the podcast data provided monthly by Transistor, the podcast hosting company
livewire.io
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Just updated my graphs of @transistor.fm's monthly reported podcast stats to include the newly-finished month of November 2025.
livewire.io/transistor-s...
livewire.io/transistor-s...
‘But if soon after the late summer of 1991 the internet killed radio, everyone forgot to tell the student stations’
(unlocked just for you)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
(unlocked just for you)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
College Radio Keeps Its Cool
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
‘But if soon after the late summer of 1991 the internet killed radio, everyone forgot to tell the student stations’
(unlocked just for you)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
(unlocked just for you)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
‘We argued then that “systems matter more than microarchitecture,” and the past two years have reinforced that view. Anthropic’s massive Google TPU orders are a direct validation of the platform’s technical strength’
newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-goog...
newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-goog...
Google TPUv7: The 900lb Gorilla In the Room
Anthropic’s 1GW+ TPUs, New customers Meta/SSI/xAI/OAI, Full Stack Review of v7 Ironwood, CUDA Moat at risk, Next Generation TPUv8AX and TPUv8X versus Vera Rubin
newsletter.semianalysis.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
‘We argued then that “systems matter more than microarchitecture,” and the past two years have reinforced that view. Anthropic’s massive Google TPU orders are a direct validation of the platform’s technical strength’
newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-goog...
newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/tpuv7-goog...
‘The City Cast podcast episodes that tend to perform best, Plotz said, are its biweekly news roundups, structured as a conversation about three different topics in the city’
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/at-f...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/at-f...
At five, City Cast makes some changes — and reconsiders its markets
"We no longer begin with the idea that we're a local podcast network, even though that is the most familiar thing to most people.”
www.niemanlab.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
‘The City Cast podcast episodes that tend to perform best, Plotz said, are its biweekly news roundups, structured as a conversation about three different topics in the city’
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/at-f...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/at-f...
New record $GOOGL eod price today: 323.44
New record $GOOGL eod price today: 318.58
New record $GOOGL eod price today: 299.66
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
New record $GOOGL eod price today: 323.44