Happy New Year "Lets hope it’s a good one" 🔗 My Three Words for 2026 What are yours❓

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At first blush, the German heist strikes me as less Oceans 11 and more Sexy Beast.

😂😂😂 "My sense of the “right” way to handle this puzzle is to think of it as a network and use some powerful result from graph theory to solve it in an instant. But since the only thing I know about graph theory is that it exists, I went about it differently." 💬 Dr. Drang

Sometimes the 2025 reviews seem to be so heavy with bad news: 🔗 12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell the Story of Earth in 2025 But sometimes - the good news does just pushes through. 🔗 The Year in Cheer Have a better year than 2025

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12 NASA Satellite Images That Tell the Story of Earth in 2025

From California wildfires to Arctic phytoplankton blooms, explore 12 stunning NASA satellite images that captured the story of Earth in 2025.

Reasons to be Cheerful

The Year in Cheer

97 ways the world got better in 2025.

Not yet finished the series - which is telling even of itself - but my review is likely going to lean towards 🎬🔗 Andrei’s

Pluribus (2025-) - andrei.xyz

In a world overtaken by a mysterious wave of forced happiness, Carol Sturka, one of the immune few, must uncover what’s really going on - and...

🔗 ExtraBar - Custom Menu Bar for macOS "Apps like Bartender and Ice help hide icons, but they don’t help you actually do things faster. I wanted deep links, custom actions, and keyboard shortcuts without installing a dozen helper apps." I appreciate the 14 day money back gurantee - but no real clues as to how this is going to generally work - let alone specfically for me … I know about it because of @ameripie - who clearly likes it. $9.99 - what can go wrong?

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ExtraBar - Custom Menu Bar for macOS

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I like Ben’s approach to ‘Resolutions’ : 🔗 A 2026 checklist - not least because 🔗 the usual approach is more often than not going to fail. Might try it along side of my 🖇️ 3Words approach.

Ben Werdmuller

A 2026 checklist

A way to build a habit out of what's important.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/are-you-ready-for-a-fresh-start-update/

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🔗 Daring Fireball: Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG "Only a fool dismisses the collective knowledge passed down by those who came before us." 💬 John Gruber It would be hard to disagree. AND it isn’t just in tech … and design - there do seem to be an increasing number of ‘fools’ in the world across all disciplines. AND they are given louder and louder megaphones. Maybe the real FOOLS are the enablers.

Daring Fireball

Photoshop 1.0 and the Early Macintosh HIG

Link to: https://mastodon.social/@gruber/115770281204538177

🔗 Glitterally The Worst Idea "Manager: “Today, I need the caffeine more than I need the dignity.”"

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Glitterally The Worst Idea

It's New Year's Eve. A coworker at the store has decided that the break room needs to look more festive to improve the morale of everyone...

🔗 Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds - Schneier on Security And they say AI reduces human creativity❗️

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Using AI-Generated Images to Get Refunds - Schneier on Security

Scammers are generating images of broken merchandise in order to apply for refunds.

🎉 Happy New Year 🎊 to all - and may 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ be a vast improvement over last year. What Are Your 3️⃣ Words❓

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🔗 The Receipt That Sparked A Resolution Lovely. Have a better 2026 than 2025.

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The Receipt That Sparked A Resolution

Customer: "Do you remember me?" Me: "I'm sorry, I don't. I get a lot of customers." The customer smiles and shows me a carefully folded r...

Dear 🍎 Thank you for highlighting that this post was generated by AI. It’s a step. A small step - but nonetheless - a step. Now - for the next act - how about … (click through to see the comments for your starter pack)

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America needs a ‘Country’ boom❓

I’ve been doing this every year since 2019 - which means tonight is my 8th rodeo. Previous Years 📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different 📅 2020 - Believe | Move | Ascend 📅 2021 - Transform | Transition | Transcend 📅 2022 - Clear | Closer | Choice 📅 2023 - Focus | Flexible | Fabulous 📅 2024 - Transform | Transition | Transcend (sic - see 2021) 📅 2025 - Intentional | Inspired | Impactful "Everything can change on a new years day Everything can change on a new years day Everything can change on a new years day And everything changed on a New Year’s Day" 💬 Rage Against The Machine 🔗📼 Rage Against ... john.philpin.com

💬 John Philpin

I’ve been doing this every year since 2019 - which means tonight is my 8th rodeo. Previous Years 📅 2019 - Uncertain | Less | Different �...

🔗 😂 2025 Roundup of Marketoons I particularly liked the one on Channel Attribution …

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My Favorite Marketoons of 2025 - Marketoonist | Tom Fishburne

My friend Ann Handley once described my cartoons as a type of diary, which rings true to me. Since 2002, I've drawn this cartoon series as a k...

"Jevons paradox is coming to knowledge work. By making it far cheaper to take on any type of task that we can possibly imagine, we’re ultimately going to be doing far more. The vast majority of AI tokens in the future will be used on things we don’t even do today as workers: they will be used on the software projects that wouldn’t have been started, the contracts that wouldn’t have been reviewed, the medical research that wouldn’t have been discovered, and the marketing campaign that wouldn’t have been launched otherwise." 💬 Aaron Levie via 🔗Simon Willison

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Jevons paradox is coming to knowledge work. By making it far cheaper to take on any type of task that we can possibly imagine, we’re ultimately g...

🔗 The Future of Software Development is Software Developers "The hard part has always been – and likely will continue to be for many years to come – knowing exactly what to ask for."

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The Future of Software Development is Software Developers

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