Look on the bright side, Apple chose not to ruin Aperture's icon last week. ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

Given that it's just as often programmers who have no clue what to build with the coding capacity offered by AI agents, I WOULD say the issue is that many people are horribly uncreative. simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/24/jasmine-sun/

I played Harvest Moon for the Super Nintendo so you don't have to tell me that it's strawberry season in Japan in January

Jerod Santo, the co-host/co-founder of The Changelog, has joined the POSSE party!

If he can figure out how to set it up, I have faith you can, too. jerodsanto.net/2026/01/i-joined-the-posse-party/

For anyone who wants to see my self-deleting wisps but isn't in the habit of checking a web page every day and doesn't want to follow stories on Instagram (🙋‍♂️), you can catch them in your feed reader! Subscribe to justin.searls.co/wisps.xml

I must admit, Japan's wholesome spin on absurdist nationalism is cuter than what we've got going on in the states. Leading morning news in Tokyo is the "drum diplomacy" between Japan's PM and Korea's President youtu.be/RE6vr_ZpUHM?si=BYzd1Yew43X9JHZw

It is Twenty Fucking Twenty Six and iMessage still thinks that a phone number without a country code and a phone number with a country code belong in the same message thread (good!) but different contacts (bad!). What am I supposed to do? Save +1 and non +1 variants for every US phone number in my contacts?

Here's a direct revenue idea for the airlines: Informed Seat Selection.

Prior to choosing a seat, passengers pay $89 to preview the security photos on file for the passengers booked next to them.

Bonus: dynamic pricing based on historical desirability of each passenger.

I'm a shameless iPhone Air booster, but this is killing me:

iPhone 17 supports DisplayPort over USB-C: apple.com/iphone-17/specs/
iPhone Air doesn't: apple.com/iphone-air/specs/

So much for watching movies on smart glasses on my flight to Tokyo 🤦‍♂️

Back in college during my study abroad in Japan, I met a jackass from the UK who got pissed when me and my friends kept referring to "soccer" when "the rest of the world calls it football."

It was fun to be the one to inform him that in Japan they call it soccer.

Yet again, I finally sit down to tackle something I've been procrastinating for a month because I was afraid it would be a huge pain in the ass, only to be proven right and it really is a huge pain in the ass, which just reinforces that I should procrastinate even more in the future.