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.
With any luck this take will be published in the future (my future, your present) automatically, thanks to the diligent efforts of the loyal employees of Searls LLC and as demonstrated in this example repo github.com/searls/static-site-enhancement-concept
To any AI skeptics out there: if you take the time to use the latest tools and find them to be a net negative on your output, I completely respect that. I've been using LLMs for coding since late 2022 and until Copilot Agent landed in VS Code, I definitely think the benefit was a wash at best. Now I can see a real acceleration boost.
If you refuse to use these tools on ethical grounds or simply don't bother to keep up with them, I fear your employment prospects are likely to suffer in the short and medium term.
If Apple announces that visionOS 3 will be able to automatically scroll while you read by following your gaze and doesn't call the feature EyeRoll, I'm going to sell my Vision Pro.
TIL you can (re)set a sleep timer with Siri. Listening to a podcast while falling asleep and my timer paused playback before I nodded off. Clicked the AirPod stem to resume playback and said:
"Siri set a sleep timer for 15 minutes"
This actually worked! I've been getting up and tapping my device like an idiot all these years.
Want to know the only thing worse than worrying a lot? Being really good at worrying.
Most people's worries never come to pass. But when I worry about something, the odds are extraordinarily good it will go exactly as terribly as I feared.
My brother gives me shit because I use my real name on Reddit, but in my mind it's more like I'm playing Reddit with permadeath enabled.
A non-zero number of people assume rotary clubs are full of nerds who are really into assessing the authenticity of signing important documents for some reason.
When I was young and learning how to do my own laundry, I remember always thinking "permanent press" sounded like too much of a commitment.
TIL you can create a new rails app inside the current directory without creating a new one! For example, to build out a rails app around them:
$ rails new .
The app module will be named after the current working directory.
I really hope that for the next Vision hardware release, Apple makes the light shield (functionally) optional. The original is so much more productive and pleasant when you remove the light shield and retain your (human) peripheral vision and airflow over your face's skin.
Been "vibe coding" (ugh) all afternoon, and 3 hours into my agent building an agentic REPL (I know), it decided to just remove all human-facing output because it figured out how to read underlying logs I don't have (apparent) access to.
Was like that scene in Her when the AI just decides to peace out and go do its own thing. Welp.
The pope's death today is absolutely tremendous news for VOD rentals for Conclave. Great movie!
Welp, this is a first. Prepping for v35 of Breaking Change and there's not a single email in the mailbag. Write to podcast@searls.co in the next hour and I'll talk about whatever you want!
Reddit really didn't like my HomeKit post. One of the best things about being me is that I had the privilege to spend half a decade unwinding myself from the soul-crushing responsibility of giving a single flying fuck what randos on the Internet thought. ✌️ reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/1jynr4v/i_made_a_guide_fro_making_homekit_backgrounds/
Feels so good when somebody has already made the exact tool you need. Really easy to confuse multiple VS Code project windows, especially when extracting a library marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.vscode-peacock
Why I love infrared saunas: weighing myself before and after a 60 minute session, I sweat so much that I dropped 1.3 pounds DESPITE drinking 1.68 liters (3.7 lb) of water.
That means in just one hour a 65°C sauna caused me to perspire 2.27 L (5 lb). Holy shit.
My productivity skyrocketed this week. Sleeping better? New AI tool? Nope!
I signed out of iMessage on my Mac. Night and day difference. My computer is for computing again. HUGE difference.
iOS lets you set a default app for 9 different categories, but of course Reminders is not among them. All I want is to be able to funnel everything into Things with minimal shenanigans support.apple.com/en-us/121430