According to ‘Integrity’ my blog @ https://john.philpin.com has 123,014 links across 12,604 pages and 8,602 are ‘bad’. Double checked because 123,014 seemed a lot - but that is what it says. I didn’t check the 12,604 pages - that seemed about right. But the implication is that there are an average of 123014/12604=9.76 links per page. AVERAGE. That would also mean that only 0.699 % of my blog links (which spread over nearly 20 years mind you) are broken.

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My Drafts Inbox below 200 for the first time - in a loooong time - mainly thanks to an action I just discovered for Raindrop. Side Note - it didn’t work on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd …. Who knows how many times I tried❓ I gave up and decided to ask the Drafts Community - I wasn’t holding my breath - the action is over two years old. BUT - almost by return @agiletortoise responded and in no time at all - I was working.

AI is changing things we take for granted: the relationship between effort and reach. For years, the implicit promise of the internet was straightforward. Put in the work, create something valuable, and you’d find your audience. Maybe not millions, but someone. The effort you invested had a reasonable correlation to the impact you could achieve. A thoughtful blog post might get shared. A well-crafted tutorial could help thousands of developers. The work mattered because it reached people who needed it.

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Datacenters in space, merger, IPO, pivot to the Moon... All are happening at the same time. Why? They're connected in unexpected ways.

New York is contemplating a bill that adds surveillance to 3D printers: New York’s 2026­2027 executive budget bill (S.9005 / A.10005) includes language that should alarm every maker, educator, and small manufacturer in the state. Buried in Part C is a provision requiring all 3D printers sold or delivered in New York to include “blocking technology.” This is defined as software or firmware that scans every print file through a “firearms blueprint detection algorithm” and refuses to print anything it flags as a potential firearm or firearm component...

Horace again … 🔗 Does Apple’s AI Opportunity Outweigh Component Cost Inflation? Unlike many of its peers, Apple isn’t in the race to win AI benchmarks or translate those gains into tangible financial gains. It just needs those features to change behavior and pave the way for healthier services revenue. Again - 🍎 is not playing out game - BUT - except they clearly do not know how to manage announcements of upcoming products and services.

Market that was down 23% overall Every major Chinese mobile maker, from Huawei Technologies to Xiaomi, saw major declines in a market that was down 23% overall, largely due to reduced subsidies and…

🔗 Communities are not fungible Economists have a word for assets that can be swapped one-for-one without loss of value: fungible. A dollar is fungible. A barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude is fungible. Just like ‘content’. Dont like that idea? Stop calling your work content. Make IP Great Again

Gil Duran speaks with Quinn Slobodian about Network States and tech billionaire ideologies of exit on The Nerd Reich podcast

Not the most connected to my body. The piano is an attempt to remedy part of that. I'm trying to set up a working feedback loop: Fingers to keys; keys to sound;

The measure's passage is largely symbolic as it's likely to be vetoed by the president if it survives a Senate vote.

"While everyone else is racing to bolt more AI onto fragmented organisations, the winners are making their thinking explicit. Building coherence. Scaling without breaking." ...