Phil Ruppert

@ruppert
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Hobbyist programmer. Baseball fan. Incredibly lucky husband/father.
LocationMidwest
Phil Ruppert2d ago
matt sephton2d ago

My app PaperTrail, in development since August 2025, has received a lot of great feedback in TestFlight. It’s a TaskPaper-compatible outliner with additional features.

Today, I added the final feature request and fixed the final bug, making it ready for launch.

Phil RuppertFeb 13
HéliographeFeb 13
A handy guide for designers working at Apple
Phil RuppertNov 21
Waxy.orgNov 21
Stonking News: unrelated to meme stocks, this is a link aggregator built on Bluesky's firehose in the style of Hacker News https://news.stonking.com/
Stonking News

View the most popular and latest trending stonking news from popular social networks. Updated in real-time.

Phil RuppertNov 6
Marco ArmentNov 6
Thank you for your purchase, we will now email you literally every day, somehow, because there is so much news in the world of our shirts that you need a daily briefing
Phil RuppertSep 13, 2025
The VergeSep 12, 2025
The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation https://www.theverge.com/politics/777630/wsj-trans-misinformation-charlie-kirk
The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation

The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

The Verge
Phil RuppertSep 7, 2025
sam henri goldSep 6, 2025

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor

Phil RuppertSep 2, 2025
kottke.orgSep 2, 2025
The Network of Time. “Every photo you take with someone else links you into the vast network of people caught together in images.” For example: “A connection between LeBron James and Joseph Stalin can be made in 5 photos.” https://kottke.org/25/09/were-all-in-the-network-of-time
We’re All in the Network of Time

The Network of Time is a project that links people together, in the style of six degrees of separation, by appearance together in

kottke.org
Phil RuppertSep 1, 2025
Dare ObasanjoAug 31, 2025
Billionaire AI founders when they invent AGI and ask it the solution to humanity’s problems, and it responds tax them at higher rates.
Phil RuppertAug 28, 2025
Show threadRichard LittlerAug 28, 2025

"AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry."

Win win.
I just registered my name & book details with the appropriate law firm.

Check if your book/article/paper is on the list here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If it is, go here:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_social-type=owned

#authors #books #AI

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

The Atlantic
Phil RuppertAug 14, 2025
kottke.orgAug 14, 2025
From the inbox: “ldial is a website for listening to a curated list of community radio stations from across the US. I took efforts to make it super fast. To me, the random button feels like magic.” https://www.ldial.org/
ldial - Independent & Community Radio Stations

Listen to the best independent and community radio stations in the US. Curated collection of stations streaming 24/7.