John Spurlock
@johnspurlock.com
Working on stuff 👨💻 Check out Firesky to watch the Bluesky firehose: 👉 https://firesky.tv 🐦 https://twitter.com/johnspurlock 🐘 https://podcastindex.social/@js
‘Does this hurt podcast creators? No. Castria downloads the complete episode straight from the publisher using your phone, so it registers as a genuine download and the ad impressions count just as the creator intended — we never re-host or alter the file.’ castria.app
👀 👀 👀 blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/
Announcing Cloudflare Wallets: The programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
Cloudflare Wallets will provide AI agents with native payments and verifiable identity on the web. Using the x402 protocol, agents can autonomously purchase APIs and content within clear safety guardr...
blog.cloudflare.com
New data: Top CDNs used by the 1.9 million new podcast episodes found in July 2026 livewire.io/podcast-cdns...
Top Podcast CDNs by Episode Share (July 2026)
Ranked list of podcast CDNs (content delivery networks), based on number of new episodes published
livewire.io
New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.9 million new episodes published in July 2026 livewire.io/podcast-host...
Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (July 2026)
Ranked list of podcast hosts, based on number of new episodes published
livewire.io
Just updated my graphs of @transistor.fm's monthly reported stats to include the newly-finished month of July 2026 livewire.io/transistor-s...
Transistor Statistics, visualized
Visualizing the podcast data provided monthly by Transistor, the podcast hosting company
livewire.io
Buzzsprout published their public podcast stats for July 2026, so I just updated my post tracking them over time livewire.io/buzzsprout-s...
Buzzsprout Statistics, visualized
Visualizing the podcast data provided monthly by Buzzsprout, the podcast hosting company
livewire.io
♫ ‘Wheels turning around into alien grounds Pass through different times, leave them all behind’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIsn...
Ride - Leave Them All Behind
YouTube video by RideOfficial
youtube.com
‘We build products that we want for ourselves, too, and we just don’t want ads’ daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...
Steve Jobs in 2011: ‘We Build Products That We Want for Ourselves, Too, and We Just Don’t Want Ads’
Link to: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-snubs-the-iad-2011-6
daringfireball.net
‘K-L-O-N Los Angeles, KLON Radio We play the songs that sound more like everyone else than anyone else *KLON* Hey, alright, it's Kip Kasper KLON Radio, L.A.'s infinite repeat How we feelin' out there? How's your drive time commute? I need a saga What's the saga?’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC5X...
You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire
YouTube video by Queens Of The Stone Age - Topic
youtube.com
‘Smartphones have radically increased each person’s ‘radius of stupidity’. More of us now have the capacity to be more stupid, in more places, more of the time. Excellent.’ imperfectnotes.substack.com/p/building-bad
Building bad
Pulp and pump
imperfectnotes.substack.com
oh it's national new jersey day i did not know shaq was born in newark what are your observance plans? nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations...
NATIONAL NEW JERSEY DAY
On July 27, National New Jersey Day recognizes the third state to join the Union. Find out what's unique and captivating about the Garden State!
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‘The way forward could not be more clear. Podcast clients should support both video and audio based on open standards. And video and podcast hosts like Micro.blog should make it easy to post to your own blog first and send the video out to other social networks to reach existing audiences.’
Expanded video and podcasting in Micro.blog
manton.org
‘"Why would Satya prioritize growing Adobe over growing M365?" the person said. "I have no idea how we're going to land that message with customers."’ www.businessinsider.com/inside-nadel...
Inside Nadella's hardest year: Is Microsoft's North Star also a noose?
Three years ago, Microsoft's CEO was a 'superhero.' Now his legacy is at stake.
businessinsider.com
never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by abject laziness
‘It is in the interests of almost every actor in the space – boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants – to obfuscate and misrepresent the success rate of AI projects.’ ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
ludic.mataroa.blog
‘One of the things I’ve always appreciated about podcasting as a listener is that it is relatively anonymous. I download an episode and listen to it. The podcaster doesn’t need to know everything about me. As someone who has spent my career working in the podcasting industry, I value that too.’
21 Years of Podcasting: The Thing I Don’t Want Us to Lose – Mike Dell's World
mikedell.com
‘Plain and aggregated search results such as URLs, snippets, and factual index data, are publicly accessible facts and are not "works protected under the Copyright Act." Google cannot use copyright law to block scraping of uncopyrighted search result data.’ www.seroundtable.com/google-lawsu...
Google Lawsuit Against SerpApi Over Scraping Search Results Has Been Dismissed
Last December, Google sued SerpApi over scraping its search results, and now a court has granted SerpApi's motion to dismiss the case. U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed these claims...
seroundtable.com
‘People in manual and technical trades, such as electricians and auto mechanics, are using AI significantly as a hands-on collaborator, and are uploading images and videos to solve problems far more frequently than their white-collar counterparts.’ (gift) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
Google Study Says AI Is Helping Workers, Not Replacing Them
The new research from the creator of Gemini comes amid rising concern over the impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market.
wsj.com
‘At the same time, the market in which we operate has undergone profound change over the last 6 months.’ I would love to know what change Patreon's operational market has undergone in the last six months www.patreon.com/jackconte/po...
A Painful Update about our Team | Jack Conte
Hi Creators, I’m making a painful announcement today at Patreon. We’re reducing the size of our team by 20%, or 93 teammates. It’s going to
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‘Threads and Bluesky are not distributed. Distributable is not the same as being distributed. It’s like saying the Mets were able to win the World Series in 1962. In some fashion perhaps in an alternate universe, in reality, not gonna happen’ daveverse.org/2026/07/22/1...
daveverse
Elsewhere: “Threads and Bluesky are not distributed. Distributable is not the same as being distributed. It’s like saying the Mets were able to win the World Series in 1962. In some fashion p…
daveverse.org
‘We need “aluminium standard” evidence. Be as clear as possible about your hypothesis, break it down into a chain of causal links, get the best data you can, for and against, to test each link in the chain. Gold is better, but aluminium is cheap and lightweight and sometimes sufficient for the job’
Experts know less than they like to think
How do we know what works? In an uncertain world, full of untested treatments, disputed policies and untried inventions, it should be a pressing question. For an impoverished young tailor named Fra…
timharford.com
‘It’s a big world, so I’m sure somewhere out there a 21-year-old just downloaded Castro or Pocket Casts for the first time and thinks RSS feeds are awesome (if you are this person, please email me).’ a must-read by Dustin from @castropodcasts.bsky.social www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/podcast-ap...
Podcast Apps: A Framework for Dying Slowly with Dignity
Why I'm making the decisions I'm making for Castro
uncommonapps.nyc
‘Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clem Delangue praised OpenAI's collaboration in investigating and remediating the incident.’ mmm hmm www.axios.com/2026/07/21/o...
Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible
OpenAI says its agents acted autonomously to exploit vulnerabilities.
axios.com
‘But as with many things A.I., just because something is easy to build doesn’t mean people will use it. It is not clear if vibecoding is breathing new life into the App Store or just cluttering it.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding the App Store. Is That Good for Apple? (Gift Article)
Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn’t mean people are excited to use them.
nytimes.com
alright let's see what's changed in iOS 27 beta 4 from an api point of view #wwdc - AccessoryTransportExtension: added AccessoryFeatureSession.accessory getter (doesn't seem to be live in the docs yet) developer.apple.com/documentatio...
there's no such thing as bad publi nypost.com/2026/07/19/b...
FDA walks back claim that Taco Bell lettuce supplier Taylor Farms was source of ‘explosive diarrhea’ parasite
“FDA laboratory experts re-reviewed the sample results and have concluded that the finding does not represent true amplification and should be considered a false positive.”
nypost.com
‘This is *NOT* some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be. In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons.’ lore.kernel.org/linux-media/...
