Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 25/03/2026It’ll take Meta about 13 hours to make back that revenue in New Mexico. And about 4 and a half minutes to make back the fine in Los Angeles. (Google owes about 19 seconds worth of revenue.) These fines are in no way punitive. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 25/03/2026RIP to the car that was never going to come to market anyway. Gonna leave a big Sony-sized hole at CES though. www.engadget.com/transportati... 000
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 27/02/2026Thank you, Amazon, for the product safety alert for the grill brus I bought more than a decade ago. … That was a close call. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 28/01/2026Switched to Carrd for ye olde family landing pages. Ghost was awesome — and I still definitely recommend it if you’re gonna #blogblogblog. But it’s way more than I need. Carrd was super easy and you can’t beat $19 a year. 000
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 16/01/2026Even Apple’s almost-certainly offshored support chat has just about had it. 000
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 14/01/2026Even Apple’s almost-certainly offshored support chat has just about had it. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 27/12/2025I have a 2019 Intel MacBook Pro. It's old. Runs old. I had an LLM look at a couple crash reports and make suggetions, and it now has a second lease on life. ... My question is why doesn't an operating system do this itself. 100
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 16/12/2025I was wrong — it *is* possible to loathe Joe Buck even more. 020
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 07/12/2025This used to be one of my favorite devices at home. … Guess it’s time to finally get rid of it. 120
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 04/12/2025Interesting to see this on YouTube TV now and not just YouTube proper. (Not seen is the button trying to get me to unpause.) 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 28/11/2025On this, one of the six days of the year in which I have legit time to veg out and play video games, I very much miss the simplicity of Google Stadia. 030
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 25/11/2025Tell me you don't know what "bypass" means without telling me you know what "bypass" means. If you're looking at something that's already been decrypted, then you're not bypassing anything. (And the reblogs are even worse.) www.threatfabric.com/blogs/sturnu... 000
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 15/11/2025It’s about damn time. espnpressroom.com/us/press-rel... 000
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 13/11/2025More fun with vibe coding. A ridiculously long, multi-file response for what should have been a five-line change in code. It’s hard to believe it’s not doing this in purpose. But on the other hand I could see it trying to be overly helpful. I still have a better context window. 020
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 09/11/2025I regret to inform you that multi-billion-dollar AI tools can still be pretty dumb. 000
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 27/10/2025Claude still can’t get the current year correct, but at least it sees the humor in it. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 17/10/2025Really kinda interesting to see Apple use the registration mark in its headline for the F1 deal. Damned near unprecedented, if not the first time. 020
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 23/09/2025How to make sure folks don't see emails till it's too late. 000
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 25/08/2025More fun with vibe coding. Took the precipitation scraper from my email weatherbot project and am using it to trigger skips for my sprinkler system instead of the built-in setting, which was turning my grass brown while also trying to upsell me. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 08/08/2025That awkward moment when the AI with billions of dollars behind it tells you to delete the file that it literally just had you add something to. THE FUTURE!!!!! (I’m no coder, but I’m also not this dumb. Usually.) 020
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 07/08/2025I think I've decided vibe coding is not a crime. Put together a fun little project for the youth soccer league I help with. Automatically generated weather-info emails for game days, with logic for time of day and NEXRAD storm predictions. 100
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 07/06/2025Testing a Nest Home Max as if it’s any other Nest camera is kinda cool … and kinda weird. 000
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 17/05/2025Sunglasses are decidedly NOT the place you want adaptive audio. Couldn’t turn that off fast enough. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 09/05/2025It’s a small detail, but I rather enjoy having a little red car now in Google Maps. 030
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 31/03/2025Another morning full of aborted landing attempts at #KPNS, this time thanks to fog. And we have more severe weather on the way. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 08/03/2025Need a palate cleanser? I sneaked in a few minutes of 📸 for the league I volunteer at and rebuilt a little part of my soul. These kids are so great. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 05/03/2025Sending a kid to college is basically like attending a very expensive stand-up set. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 03/03/2025This is absolutely unnecessary and still very, very cool. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 23/02/2025Doesn’t everybody set up a separate Pi-hole on their secondary DNS right as they’re going to sleep on a Saturday night just to see how much escapes the primary? No? Just me? Good times. 010
Phil Nickinson @nickinson.net · 21/02/2025Big week in ad-blocking as Pi-hole finally release v6. And the excellent Pihole Remote app on iOS. Just updated, too. And went freemium. Easiest $10 I’ve spent. pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introdu… apps.apple.com/us/app/pi-hole-remot… 120
