Top level apples: Cox’s Orange Pippin, Belle De Boskoop, Bramley
In the process of buying a dressing gown on the internet, I notice that the checkout flow uses Adyen. I start telling A, who had never heard of them, that they're essentially the same as Stripe but mysteriously hyped. We wonder why no one talks about them. Then the payment repeatedly fails and I am unable to buy a dressing gown.
At least now we get to find out how exactly a government goes about halving car insurance rates
Moby Dick is the name of his sledge
After a few years thinking that having a favourite colour is weird, I'm forced to admit that 8 year old John was right and that orange is actually best.
How do Claude projects work? Do they just append all the files to your prompt? Or is it putting stuff in a vector DB?
I used to write drafts with pen and paper and they would often turn out good. Maybe time to start doing that again. Why did I stop? I don’t know. Probably because I was tricked into doing “PKM”
Now when I post on https://johnwhiles.com/notes it gets automatically syndicated to Bluesky. This was really easy to set up. Thanks for being cool Bluesky.
I guess I'm someone who uses Safari to browse the web now
When a new generative AI tool comes out - all the ai influencers race to use it and post the result on social media for clout. And then does anyone use the product?
(Yes I’m talking about the podcasts)
The VSCode UI is so painful that I’m finding myself using vim in a terminal inside of a GitHub code space to do tasks such as creating new files, or editing anything.
I wish that I had never written the thing about shaving
I have added Cloudflare's turnstile to my comments to deal with the ever increasing amounts of spam comments that are being posted to my site. It was pretty easy to setup, recommend.
A kind reader emailed me to let me know that despite writing an article about how you should RSS to your website, I'd failed to link to my RSS feed anywhere. This situation is now remedied.
I thought Online Ceramics shirts were cool until I saw someone wearing one in real life
Jeff Koons makes Funkopops for rich people
2-step rhythms, digitized kotos, and radio-ready samples cultivated a glittery, utopian atmosphere. A sea of Online Ceramics-clad young professionals smiled.
I’d like to buy a tiny touch ID sensor that I can put near my laptop.
“Oyler clearly wishes to be a person who says brilliant things—the Renata Adler of looking at your phone a lot”
Ouch
Richard Sapper was a genius, but ThinkPads are very ugly
I remember and miss the days when the “Menswear Guy ” wrote an interesting blog rather than fighting people on Twitter.
It’s quite amazing how broken Tumblr is now. I can’t even successfully sign up for a new account.
Jacob Marley: “it feels good to be scrobbling again”
Robert Marley: “it feels good to be doing anything again!”
My Chemical Romance are unusual in that their choruses are often the weakest part of their songs.
Please, just a crumb of capital gains tax on property
Interesting that you only have to say “This is not medical advice” when you’re about to give medical advice
Interesting that you only have to say “This is not investment advice” when you’re about to give investment advice.
I’m like Dune but with a budget of 75 pence
Can’t wait for email providers to start blacklisting senders who don’t take one click unsubscribe seriously
I will soon be publishing a two hour long ambient album on cassette. Prepare yourselves.
My natural eyebrow slit has never received enough respect.
I watched a video tour of the world’s largest cruise ship expecting it to be fun and enlightening. It turned out to just be depressing.
I need to let people format their comments on my blog. People are writing paragraphs, and then I‘m removing all their line-breaks and making it unreadable.
If you put potatoes in bread, you get really good bread
Not sure when it happened, but at some point I stopped saying trousers and started saying pants.
The way that Swift handles errors seems really nice. Well done Swift.
On Firefox you can’t highlight text on a Notion page. So you can’t copy text from Notion pages on Firefox. 😢
I want to recommend Standard Ebooks - it’s a source of endless reading material, but with a bit more curation than Project Gutenberg.
I just downloaded every single Sherlock Holmes story. Pumped.
just setting up my twttr / testing the webmention feature