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phil’s masto don

@phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy

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web site I make web sites. Here to talk about #indieweb, #astro, #css, things of that nature. Apple gadget haver. Banjo learner. Yinz sayer. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ front-end.social/@phil, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

After multiple false starts I elected to

“Hire a samurai” still from Bill Wurtz’s History of Japan

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@ablaze the only appropriate reaction

The meme where a guy interrupts a group of people to say something, gets a very dismissive thumbs up, and then the group returns to their engaging discussion

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Now I am at the bluegrass jam down the street, I dare you to stop me

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I am in Greenwich Village at the weekly old time jam, as is my right

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

What exactly are we doing here

A series of “who was” books that includes uncanny portraits on the covers with comically sized heads and whose subjects include Anne of green gables, Shaun white, and Jesus Christ

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

A cat in a necktie saying “hope I don’t have a lot of meetings” in front of a building labeled “lots of meetings factory”

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Woody Guthrie famously had this written on his guitar

A sign on a pinball token machine that says “This machine dispenses tokens”

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Earliest known case of ChatGPT psychosis

A frame from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, showing Grima Wormtongue weakening King Theoden by whispering lies

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

lmao

@KyleTrainEmoji on X:
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we
sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence.
It's not precaution-it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise
shields, and I didn't

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

You would think, wouldn’t you

Detective Amy Santiago in Brooklyn 99, played by Melissa Fumero, who is not the voice of Mirabel Madrigal

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

this popped into my head last night and I needed to make it a reality

An image of Galdalf and Frodo with a famous quote from the movie shown. “‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo”. Gandalf’s response, which is very profound, has been replaced with “lol” and “lmao”

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

My reward for running a corner booth at a React conference

Miami Beach! A turquoise south atlantic oceanscape that meets a sandy beach with ample kelp and some fluffy clouds

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

Man, Old McDonald was quick

A namecheap screenshot showing ie.io registered in 2003

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

RE: front-end.social/@AmeliaBR/11607003…

Opening credits of Monty Python and the Holy Grail reading “We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.”

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

DownDector assed sign

A sign at the pet store that says “due to system treatment, fish are currently unavailable”. Several fish are swimming right behind it

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

@colindean mac gamers:

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Ready for the storm

A partially completed 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle that depicts several colorful mandalas

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

LETS GET READY TO HUNKERRRRRRR

A weather app screenshot showing a door of snowfall on Sunday for the Pittsburgh area

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

We got a new airport and we’re very proud of it

The new Pittsburgh airport terminal, featuring wavy wood ceiling with star lights

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

A turtle is being formed

A child coloring in a turtle drawing at a table

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

They sure are pickin’ up there

The Dirty Grass Players in a comfy venue

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Been nice knowing you all

My new copy of Earl Scruggs and the 5-string banjo, the definitive text on 3-finger bluegrass banjo technique. It’s a meaty tome

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

Can you hear the difference?

An electric car backing up, emitting a soothing noise

A treasure chest from Fortnite, emitting a very similar soothing noise

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

From our family to yours

Lego minifigs of me and my wife and kid

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

Two men enter, one man leaves.

Casey Newton in Platformer predicting that the AI bubble won’t burst in 2026

Ed Zitron enthusiastically predicting the AI bubble will burst in 2026

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

Chaotic bookstore section

A single aisle at a bookstore with the following categories:
Business
Investing
True crime
Law
Computers/internet

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

If you won't listen to me, listen to him.

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

bought a banjo book

A shopping cart that contains Earl Scruggs and the 5 String Banjo

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

Bought a banjo

A banjo

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

MISTER ROGERS WEB SITE

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

A great battle was fought here…

Three disfigured Barbie dolls floating in a bathtub

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

The board is set. The pieces are moving.

Three buckets of trick or treats on some stairs. One with chips, one with oranges and potatoes, one with Reese’s cups

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

Oh, well I guess it’s a good thing they don’t have many users then From www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-psychos…

In a given week, OpenAI estimated that around 0.07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” and 0.15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

I miss NYC

Apple Health telling me I’ve been walking less since my week onsite in Manhattan

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

On my bullshit again

A LinkedIn post that reads:

I was watching Apollo 13 the other day and it really drove home a lesson about leadership and technical practice that I've been thinking about for some time:

Don't go on a spaceship. The spaceship might break and then what do you do

phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Please, step into my office.

The bar at Panera where I have my mobile workstation set up, including a MacBook Pro, a Vision Pro, and some drinks