I joined Twitter in 2007 and my brain slowly morphed over the next 15 years from hopelessly verbose to nihilistically pithy. I've kicked the Twitter habit, but the takes keep flowing. That's why I post them here and format them as a social network of one. You're welcome to bookmark any of these takes, though I'm not sure why you would.
By the way, the hearts and like counts are fake. They're just there to make you feel safe.
I need a new blog to subscribe to. Know any you think I'd like? E-mail me: justin@searls.co
Barely a month goes by where I can check the news without being reminded of the Cracked skit about two comedy writers who were hired to run a fake Donald Trump campaign and then accidentally got him elected youtu.be/8qIQbydyHwc?si=COq7K0HLng3LHI1R
For the extremely narrow Venn diagram of people who love both I Think You Should Leave and Disco Elysium, this is amazing youtu.be/6OKgdTXLWIg?si=RyS95BqxFBSEVwyQ
If Nothing releases a folding phone, they should absolutely name it the Nothing Burger pcmag.com/news/hands-on-nothing-4a-series-midrange-phones
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You can't pay me to say nice things about you, but you CAN pay me to not say mean things about you. Please send inquiries to sponsorship@searls.co theverge.com/news/889595/tim-sweeney-signed-away-his-right-to-criticize-google-until-2032
"$599 is a fucking statement." daringfireball.net/2026/03/599_not_a_piece_of_junk_macbook_neo
Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool, but if you actually use it for more than a few minutes it'll bring any Mac to its knees. Entire system becomes unresponsive eventually. github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22543
The M4 iPad Air is notable, because it will set Apple apart as the only company to release a product in 2026 sporting more RAM for the same price as the outgoing model. (8GB to 12GB) macrumors.com/2026/03/02/apple-announces-ipad-air-with-m4-chip/
Was always so inspired by that speech where JFK said "we will go to the moon... or do some other stuff instead" theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/27/nasa-changes-delays-moon-missions
If you've posted an issue to any of my repos and I never responded: GitHub apparently disabled automatic watching for new repositories last year and nobody noticed. Issues are now graveyards from Day 1.
No wonder my inbox has been so peaceful! github.com/orgs/community/discussions/157470
My coding agent harnesses are designed to enable parallel serial work—multiple agents running in multiple tabs, all committing to main instead of worktrees.
turbocommit does this by linking each session's commits: github.com/searlsco/turbocommit?tab=readme-ov-file#continuity-across-workstreams
Ever hear of the Cart of Thesius? It's when every single item you ordered from Instacart has been replaced with something else. It's a thought experiment: are the bags on your porch still your order?
Their customer support contends that it is. I feel pretty strongly that it's not.
Speaking of me nailing predictions, I feel like this one from 2023 is aging like wine. Not least of which because the decades-long debate over "10x developers" has been rendered moot by agents. testdouble.com/insights/the-looming-demise-of-the-10x-developer
Are they sure it was the Citrini Research sci-fi substack that caused the crash and not my much tighter, more grounded "Brace for the Fuckening" post written three days prior?
Who's to say. apple.news/AaV5OdPkJR12OiHpdMqOdYQ