Phil Nickinson

@philnickinson
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Former print journalist. Ex-AndroidCentral. Onetime Modern Dad. Husband. Father of daughters.
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Phil Nickinson3d ago
Fun fact: The Amazon Fire Phone lived longer than the Samsung Galaxy Tri-Fold.
Phil NickinsonMar 12
They … weren’t already?
Phil NickinsonMar 3
Kinda wild how differently I’m using Claude since last summer. https://blog.nickinson.net/out-of-the-gui-and-into-the-cli/
Out of the GUI and into the CLI

The biggest change over the past six months or so has been my shift from using the Claude app (desktop or web, really) and relying heavily on Claude Code in a command line interface.

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Phil NickinsonMar 3
Went to bed with the moon shining brightly through my window. Woke up to most of it missing on the drive to the gym. Briefly concerned that the age of Seveneves was upon us.
Phil NickinsonFeb 27
Thank you, Amazon, for the product safety alert for the grill brush I bought more than a decade ago. … That was a close call.
Phil NickinsonFeb 19
Oooooo. This might get me to finally kill the legacy blogblogblog cruft that’s still in my feeds. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/current-is-a-new-rss-reader-thats-more-like-a-river-than-an-inbox/
Current is a new RSS reader that's more like a river than an inbox | TechCrunch

Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.

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Phil NickinsonFeb 15
Wait … wut?
Phil NickinsonFeb 8
Time to pause our YoutubeTV subscription and try to go antenna-only for a while. Just can’t justify $83 a month when we’re only home for maybe 5 hours a day in which we might watch.
Phil NickinsonFeb 2
The irony of quitting drinking on Groundhog Day is not lost of me. Kinda poetic, actually. Anyway, six years down. One day at a time to go.
Phil NickinsonJan 31

The soccer in Shrinking is better than the soccer in Ted Lasso.

I will not be taking questions at this time.