🔗🎵 ”The most influential prog band", according to Geddy Lee
Not wrong IMHO. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/most-influential-prog-band-according-to-geddy-lee/
I am sure this was meant to be motivating - and I don’t know who the author is - but not true - and definitely does a massive disservice to those that did fight back. They did - in a world when it was a lot harder to do so. If just a few of those people were around today - not sure we would be where we are. 
🪦 Weir all sorry to see you move on to the great gig in the sky Bob. Thank you for your earthly contributions.
Laura Karen Ingram is upset by protestors wearing masks - but seems to have no problem with ICE doing the same. 🤷🏻♂️
Today’s Surprise From History - 🔗 Back in 2018 I wrote a series of ‘true life’ stories about people I randomly met - this is Benjamin’s
🖇️🔎 Other Surprises https://john.philpin.com/2018/12/11/people-benjamin.html https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=Today%27s+Surprise+From+History
Just pulling some history to day after reading 🔗 Room temperature from Seth.
"Stable systems regress to the mean. Things level out on their way to average, which maintains the stability of the system.
The same pressures are put on any individual in our culture.
Sooner or later, unless you push back, you’ll end up at room temperature."
🖇️ Me - July 2024 - We Are Being Forced To Conform
[🖇️ Me - March 2025 - A post responding to @manton / @devilgate](https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html)
🖇️ Manton’s Original Post https://seths.blog/2026/01/room-temperature/ https://john.philpin.com/2024/07/29/we-are-being.html https://micro.blog/manton https://micro.blog/devilgate https://john.philpin.com/2025/03/05/the-butterfly-effect-is-real.html https://www.manton.org/2025/03/04/i-like-this-post-from.html
🔗 Thought Shrapnel
"I have no idea if I’m neurodivergent. I don’t think I’ve got ADHD, and all men are probably on the spectrum somewhere. Who’d want to be neuro_typical_ anyway?"
My bold - but would surely explain a lot in this household 😂 https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2026/01/10/bottomup-systems-thinking.html
🔗 Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards – Pixel Envy
Hard to disagree as to how rules are not being applied consistently …. Quelle surprise❗️ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/cook-pichai-cowards/
Guilty? Surely Not? A Quick Chat With Claude. https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/11/guilty-surely-not-a-quick.html
Just thinking about Masto again - which took me to Tapestry - and I see a familiar icon and so I think … closer look? Again ? 
[🔗 My morning’s peruse of my RSS feeds was ‘chokka’ with great @gruber words](https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/john-gruber-at-daring-fireball.html) … and then ‘other people’ writing about ‘great @gruber’
This is the latter from 🔗 Anil Dash
Not about Gruber per se - all about Markdown - but in so many ways written as a dedication to JG and a really great primer/history on it. Well worth a read.
Final paragraph
"The trillion-dollar AI industry’s system for controlling their most advanced platforms is a plain text format one guy made up for his blog and then bounced off of a 17-year-old kid befor... john.philpin.com https://john.philpin.com/2026/01/10/my-mornings-peruse-of-my.html
Today’s Surprise From History - 🔗 From 8 years ago - you say complacent - I say complicit
🖇️🔎 Other Surprises https://john.philpin.com/2018/10/29/i-live-in.html https://john.philpin.com/search-space/?q=Today%27s+Surprise+From+History
🔗 The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us From Shame at the Gas Station - WSJ Paywall … but am sure it is on Apple News … if you have that access.
Sharing because I was driving with my friend Cliff a few months ago - stopping for gas - and couldn’t recall what side my filler cap was.
"What does the arrow say"
.. asked Cliff … 🤯
In all my years of driving I had never known this. https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ford-gas-arrow-inventor-jim-moylan-6b2ef066
Regifting the Nobel Peace Prize 
John @gruber (at Daring Fireball) seems to have taken over my RSS this morning ….
🔗 How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch (another increasingly important PSA)
🔗 The New York Times Profiles John Ternus
🔗 Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
🔗 Let’s Call a Murder a Murder https://micro.blog/gruber https://daringfireball.net/2022/06/require_a_passcode_to_unlock_your_iphone https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/08/nyt-ternus https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/08/grok-x-app-stores https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/lets_call_a_murder_a_murder
Claude
The good: 🔗 The project that turned me into a Claude Code believer
… and the bad: 🔗 Claude Code and What Comes Next https://www.platformer.news/claude-code-review-web-design/ https://open.substack.com/pub/oneusefulthing/p/claude-code-and-what-comes-next
Small Hit | Matt Mullenweg
"Goodness! I would love to have a hit someday as the small as the ones Apple has had under Cook. Apple Watch sells more than the entire Swiss watch industry. Airpods are the most popular headphones in the world. Their market cap is bigger than the GDP of all but four countries in the world" https://ma.tt/2026/01/small-hit/ https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21125565/apple-watch-sales-2019-swiss-watch-market-estimates-outsold https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-richer-4-countries-164523140.html
🔗📼 365 Daily Words
Via 🔗 Flowing Data
Not yet decided if this is meaningful or just ‘lightly meta’. https://youtu.be/xqmGWgk4vok https://flowingdata.com/2026/01/09/a-word-with-a-videoclip-every-day/
Here we are ten years later .. what would you made of it all David❓I know you wouldn’t have been quiet.
