Monday, Jan 1, 0001

Wisps

https://justin.searls.co/wisps/2025-12-24-07h36m19s/ Wisp at 12:36 PM on 12/24 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-24T12:36:19+00:00 2025-12-24T07:39:10-05:00]]> https://justin.searls.co/wisps/2025-12-23-14h16m45s/ Wisp at 7:16 PM on 12/23 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-23T19:16:45+00:00 2025-12-23T14:16:59-05:00]]>

Takes

https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-24-09h13m50s/ Voters don't intuit that bond yields affect currency valuations affect foreign tourism, but Japanese populists now depend on low yields to depress the yen to maintain the supply of obnoxious foreign tourists to buoy their agenda. https://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/japanese-denial-on-debt Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-24T14:13:50+00:00 2025-12-24T14:20:46+00:00 Voters don't intuit that bond yields affect currency valuations affect foreign tourism, but Japanese populists now depend on low yields to depress the yen to maintain the supply of obnoxious foreign tourists to buoy their agenda. https://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/japanese-denial-on-debt

But wait, there's more…

Shots

https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-24-08h21m27s/ Is Apple Shortcuts functional programming? Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-24T13:21:27+00:00 2025-12-24T08:28:45-05:00

I'm working on an inadvisably complex Apple Shortcuts widget for studying Japanese language, and just realized two things that may save you some time in the future: 1. If statements are expressions: the value of the "If Result" is available and evaluates to the final value of whatever branch was traveled at runtime 2. Repeat blocks may say "each" but actually double as map functions: they return a "Repeat Results" value, which evaluates to a List of the final value of each iteration Because Shortcuts exposes such a gobsmackingly-frustrating UI for actually building programs, it's easy to assume that you're hobbled by the conventions of something like BASIC, but there are some surprisingly modern conveniences lying under the surface! See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-24-08h21m27s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-12-16h14m55s/ That's a pretty good Searls impression Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-12T21:14:55+00:00 2025-12-12T16:18:51-05:00

We were gone most of the day so I told Codex CLI to migrate Better with Becky to my searls-auth gem and to commit & push regularly to a PR so I could review remotely. Just noticed that it must have looked through the git history in order to write commit messages that match my own. Seriously thought I wrote half of these before I realized as much. Uncanny, but appreciated. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-12-16h14m55s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-11-06h33m07s/ Seems like nothing interesting happened Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-11T11:33:07+00:00 2025-12-11T06:35:13-05:00

I turned on Ring's new AI description feature for its cameras a couple weeks ago. Opened my event history for the first time since then and was kind of impressed by the honest assessment of what goes on around here. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-11-06h33m07s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-18-08h15m36s/ Downdetector is down Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-18T13:15:36+00:00 2025-11-18T08:20:00-05:00

When half the websites I visited wouldn't load this morning, I figured I'd check downdetector to see if Cloudflare was down, but I couldn't. Because Cloudflare was down. Distributed systems sound great, but the way the industry rushed to crown a handful of winners like AWS and Cloudflare had the net effect of merely increasing the number of single points of failure in the chain. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-18-08h15m36s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-17-10h53m34s/ Live Captions for Audible books in iOS 26 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-17T15:53:34+00:00 2025-11-17T11:13:38-05:00

I've wanted to start listening to books for Japanese practice in addition to just reading them, but the lack of an easy way to quickly understand a particular word always limited my ability to understand and enjoy it. With iOS 26, the Live Captions Accessibility feature can be set to a number of languages (including Japanese) and routed to the system audio instead of the microphone. So while Amazon would be happy to sell you a "Whisper" license for both audiobook and ebook in order to get a less useful version of this functionality, your iOS device can just passively be building a transcript of the book for you to review as you listen. There's even a "Copy Transcript" button in the top right corner of the expanded view! This is a great example of leveraging advancements in OS-level AI features to accomplish language learning objectives that would have been a fantasy just a few years ago. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-17-10h53m34s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-12-14h13m34s/ My lucky day Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-12T19:13:34+00:00 2025-11-12T14:13:47-05:00

What are the odds?* *The odds are 1 in 1.7 million See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-12-14h13m34s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-25-12h35m39s/ The new Developer Strap delivers 20 Gbps to M2 Vision Pro Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-25T16:35:39+00:00 2025-10-25T13:09:22-04:00

Like many other Vision Pro sickos, I was far more excited about this week's announcement of a newly-updated Developer Strap than I was about last week's news of the M5 Vision Pro itself. Why? The original strap allowed you to connect your Vision Pro to a Mac, _but at unacceptably slow USB 2.0 (480 Mbps) speeds_. This still achieved much lower latency connection than WiFi, but the image quality when running Mac Virtual Display over the USB connection was rendered far too blurry to be worthwhile. The new strap, however, offers a massively-upgraded _20 Gbps_ connection speed. I rushed to order one at the news, because, in theory, those speeds ought to offer the absolute best experience possible when using Vision Pro as an immersive Mac display. While Apple's support documentation says both devices "support" connecting to the strap, what wasn't clear was whether the original hardware would be able to actually deliver the increased bandwidth. Well, I'm happy to report after plugging in the new Developer Strap into my original Vision Pro, System Information indicates a 20 Gbps connection! Moreover, I can confirm Mac Virtual Display performs better than ever. Seriously, I don't think I'll be able to go back. The increase in visual sharpness and the lightning-quick latency beat the pants off anything I've experienced, and I've been using Mac Virtual Display daily since the product's initial release. Up to now, others who've tried using Vision Pro for this purpose have reported that the display quality is poor—likely attributable to the need for a carefully-tuned WiFi environment to sustain the connection. That Apple finally offers a wired connection that delivers the definitive experience is a huge win. If you own a Vision Pro and use it as a display for your Mac, you're already a dummy who blew $3500 on this thing—go spend $300 more and treat yourself to a massive upgrade. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-25-12h35m39s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-13-09h09m26s/ ✅ Active on weekends Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-13T13:09:26+00:00 2025-10-13T09:14:45-04:00

A recruiter sent me this screenshot of some kind of GitHub profile scraper. Aside from naming me as a "top 1%" JavaScript developer (which I'm not sure is a compliment or a threat…), I just couldn't get over the "active on weekends" checkmark. Lady, on weekends I charge double. 🤌 See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-13-09h09m26s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-20-13h42m01s/ MagSafe Ice Packs Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-09-20T19:25:14+00:00 2025-09-20T15:27:23-04:00

So here's a neat way to magically cut in half the time it takes to transfer to your new iPhone. Back in 2019, I realized iPhone restores run _much_ faster when the device is kept cold, because thermal throttling—not data transfer rate—is the real bottleneck. The thing is, a fridge isn't quite cold enough and a freezer was way too cold (phones don't work well at below zero temperatures, apparently). So the stopgap solution I initially arrived at was to sandwich the phone between a couple ice packs. Not only did it work great, I was tickled to see a few sites like Cult of Mac publish how-to guides on the technique. Anyway, figuring out how to best cool my iPhones to expedite a direct transfer restore has become something of an annual tradition in the Searls household. This year, I had the foresight to buy small ice packs and then stick MagSafe-compatible receiver magnets onto them. If you're interested, here's what you're looking at: * Ice Packs * Adhesive Magnets Those are affiliate links, which I feel like I should disclose because this website definitely counts as a journalism. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-20-13h42m01s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-18-11h01m43s/ Pro-tip: Dodge The Verge's Paywall Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-09-18T15:01:43+00:00 2025-09-18T15:03:41+00:00

The Verge is included in Apple News+, so if you're an Apple One subscriber (as I imagine, many Verge readers are), whenever you hit the paywall in your browser you can—at least from Safari's Share Sheet—very easily open the same article in the News app and avoid the paywall. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-18-11h01m43s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-17-15h30m24s/ So much for Airplane Mode Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-09-17T19:30:24+00:00 2025-09-17T15:33:41-04:00

My iPhone Air MagSafe Battery came in the mail today, and it was the first time I've ever seen this ridiculous sticker. Does this mean the product can't be taken on passenger planes? Because the only risk factor other than the product the battery itself in the box is a few layers of cardboard. Quick impressions on the product: * It is a battery * It can be charged via USB-C and charge other devices via USB-C * It can connect to phones _other than_ the iPhone Air, but generally only sideways, and iOS 26 handles it in software correctly (meaning whatever software integration Apple built for the product isn't gated to iPhone Air serial numbers) * It will attach to MagSafe chargers but not charge from them * I haven't tried putting my AirPods Pro 2 case on them, but wouldn't be surprised if it charged them See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-17-15h30m24s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-14-15h00m39s/ A simple calculation Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-09-14T19:00:39+00:00 2025-09-14T19:06:16+00:00

Whenever I need to verify a network connection with a remote LLM, I always ask it `1+1`. I'm sure it'll still raise the ocean level by a millimeter, but it seems less bad than a more complex query. I forgot I had unhidden chain-of-thought reasoning, so I chuckled when I got this: > Sure thing! The task is straightforward: I just need to respond to "1+1" with "2." It's a simple calculation, so I won't overthink it. There's no need to use any tools for this, and I know the guidelines about "Destructive Deletions" and "No Comments by Default" don't really apply here. I'll just keep it short and clear, and the answer will simply be "2." At least it didn't overthink it. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-14-15h00m39s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-03-08h12m36s/ You won't believe this Codex fork Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-09-03T12:12:36+00:00 2025-09-03T09:23:56-04:00

Reddit turned me onto this just-every/code fork of OpenAI's Codex CLI last night. Since it uses the binary name `coder` to differentiate it from `code` and `codex`, I guess we should just call this thing Coder. In addition to everything you get with Codex: - A built-in diff viewer (Ctrl+D). If you're like me, you often have Claude Code or Codex open in one window and your preferred Git UI (I use Fork) in a second window, so having it integrated is wonderful. Moreover, while viewing a diff, you can press `e` to request an explanation of the specific change you're looking at - Built-in browser support with ASCII previews (Ctrl+B) Like Playwright, it automates browsers over the very fast CDP, and it takes zero futzing to get started with it (unlike tacking an MCP tool onto Claude) - Multi-agent consensus If you're a real sicko, you can hand the same question or task to all three of GPT, Claude, and Gemini and keep the consensus winner among them Coder also has a themeable, more stable curses-like UI (as opposed to top-level terminal scrollback). It's the rare case of a community taking a heavily-funded corporate open source project and adding a lot of visual flair and spit polish to it. But I'll be damned if this isn't a _much_ nicer experience than either Claude Code or Codex out of the box. (I can't speak to OpenCode, but since it doesn't support ChatGPT subscriptions, I'm not interested in it.) See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-09-03-08h12m36s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-08-10-12h31m46s/ Shout for DANGER Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-08-10T16:31:46+00:00 2025-08-10T12:38:19-04:00

Free idea for anyone who wants it. I've been juggling so many LLM-based editors and CLI tools that I've started collecting them into meta scripts like this shell-completion-aware `edit` dingus that I use for launching into my projects each day. Because many of these CLIs have separate "safe" and "for real though" modes, I've picked up the convention of giving the editor name in ALL CAPS to mean "give me dangerous mode, please." So: ```sh $ edit -e claude posse_party ``` Will open Claude Code in `~/code/searls/posse_party` in normal mode. And: ```sh $ edit -e CLAUDE posse_party ``` Will do the same, while also passing the `--dangerously-skip-permissions` flag, which I refuse to type. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-08-10-12h31m46s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-07-16-15h10m35s/ Invoice for my first Mac (2004) Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-07-16T19:10:35+00:00 2025-07-16T15:26:49-04:00

Thanks to a bug in Apple Mail, my Gmail archive likes to revert to sort by ascending date every now and then. Today, I scanned through some of those early emails and stumbled upon this incredible artifact: the e-mail invoice from Apple.com for my first Mac. It was a build-to-order 12" iBook G4 in July 2004. Besides being set in such carefully-coifed monospace plaintext, the invoice provides an almost hilarious level of detail and verbiage by today's standards. Also, it never gets old to marvel at how much computers have depreciated over time. A whopping $1,362.00 for a mid-tier build of Apple's smallest, cheapest laptop in 2004. That's $2,317.82 in 2025 dollars after inflation. Today, the cheapest laptop Apple.com will sell you is the M4 MacBook Air (in an unusually recommendable configuration), starting at $999. Big thanks to my dad Fred for spoiling me with a second computer literally one year into college (for which he bought me a Dell in June of 2003), because I was so insistent on switching to the Mac. (I sure was an entitled piece of shit.) I really wish I'd managed to hold onto that thing—a lot of fond memories, looking back. The full invoice follows: ```text Apple Computer, Inc. INVOICE RECEIPT Please remit to: FOR YOUR RECORDS ONLY Customer Number Invoice Number 900007 9212467049 Reference Date 07/14/04 Amount Due .00 Please Reference Apple's Invoice Number on Your Remittance Sold To: Ship To: Fred Searls Justin Searls REDACTED REDACTED TRENTON MI 48183 GRAND RAPIDS MI 49504 USA USA ________________________________________________________________________________ Customer Number Customer P.O. Number Sales Order Number 900007 7346758400 7010461968 Invoice Number Invoice Date Terms… See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-07-16-15h10m35s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-23h17m54s/ Tabelogged: ハシゴ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-28T23:17:54+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited ハシゴ on May 29, 2025. I gave it a 3.3 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-23h17m54s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-22h50m55s/ Tabelogged: 串焼き居酒屋ゴバン Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-28T22:50:55+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited 串焼き居酒屋ゴバン on May 29, 2025. I gave it a 3.3 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-22h50m55s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-22h23m04s/ Tabelogged: 米沢牛・焼肉さかの Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-28T22:23:04+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited 米沢牛・焼肉さかの on May 29, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-22h23m04s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-21h31m44s/ Tabelogged: ピッツェリアエオスタリアダヴェッロ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-28T21:31:44+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited ピッツェリアエオスタリアダヴェッロ on May 29, 2025. I gave it a 3.7 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-21h31m44s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-21h12m40s/ Tabelogged: 餃子照井福島駅東口店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-28T21:12:40+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited 餃子照井福島駅東口店 on May 29, 2025. I gave it a 3.7 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-29-21h12m40s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-26-16h02m29s/ My favorite Apple Podcasts bug Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-26T20:02:29+00:00 2025-09-18T17:17:45-04:00

[2025-09-18 UPDATE: When the issue recurred just now on iPhone, it actually _opened Safari_ to the universal URL of the podcast. That indicates this is less likely a bug in the Podcasts app than in some other cross-platform system capable of opening links on a trigger. (And the answer can't be Shortcuts, since it occurs on versions of macOS that predate Shortcuts' support for automation.)] After almost two years of being annoyed by this, I finally submitted the most annoying bug I'm currently dealing with. Filed as feedback `FB18414183` with description: > For like 2 years (ever since Oppenheimer came out)? I listened to ONE EPISODE of Script Notes by manually navigating to it in the Podcasts app and listening to it. Now, across all my devices—iPad, iPhone, and every Mac, as if it's on some kind of bizarre timer, the Podcasts app will launch to the Script Notes page. Sometimes it's once a week, sometimes I go a month without seeing it. Always happens while I'm actively using the device and steals focus. This has been annoying and confusing for years, but it's so erratic that I assumed nobody at Apple would ever look at it and figure it out. Nothing I do changes anything: I've followed/unfollowed and downloaded/removed to try to shake something loose, but nope. Keeps launching to this random podcast I don't listen to > > As of macOS 26, however, this is the first time it actually breaks the app by showing this modal dialog with no views or controls on it. Neat. 💣 See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-26-16h02m29s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-24-23h22m41s/ Tabelogged: さわやか新静岡セノバ店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-23T23:22:41+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited さわやか新静岡セノバ店 on May 24, 2025. I gave it a 3.4 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-24-23h22m41s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-24-21h35m56s/ Tabelogged: 鳥藤 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-23T21:35:56+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited 鳥藤 on May 24, 2025. I gave it a 3.8 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-24-21h35m56s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-24-21h07m46s/ Tabelogged: 多可能 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-23T21:07:46+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited 多可能 on May 24, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-24-21h07m46s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-23-23h32m19s/ Tabelogged: 無庵 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-22T23:32:19+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 無庵 on May 23, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-23-23h32m19s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-22-23h44m45s/ Tabelogged: うなぎやせきの Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-21T23:44:45+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited うなぎやせきの on May 22, 2025. I gave it a 3.9 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-22-23h44m45s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-22-23h08m37s/ Tabelogged: めしのタネ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-21T23:08:37+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited めしのタネ on May 22, 2025. I gave it a 3.3 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-22-23h08m37s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-22-22h42m46s/ Tabelogged: 全国ご当地グルメコート大宮横丁 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-21T22:42:46+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited 全国ご当地グルメコート大宮横丁 on May 22, 2025. I gave it a 3.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-22-22h42m46s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-22-21h52m11s/ Tabelogged: いづみや本店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-21T21:52:11+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited いづみや本店 on May 22, 2025. I gave it a 3.4 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-22-21h52m11s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-21-12h45m14s/ Home Sweet Home Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-21T19:45:14+00:00 2025-06-21T12:45:25-07:00

What my Japanese friends imagined when I told them I was headed back to Florida See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-21-12h45m14s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-21-23h31m32s/ Tabelogged: 熟成和牛ステーキグリルドエイジング・ビーフ横浜店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-20T23:31:32+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited 熟成和牛ステーキグリルドエイジング・ビーフ横浜店 on May 21, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-21-23h31m32s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-21-23h02m29s/ Tabelogged: ラーメン環2家川崎店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-20T23:02:29+00:00 2025-05-29T21:24:06+09:00

I visited ラーメン環2家川崎店 on May 21, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-21-23h02m29s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-21-22h08m22s/ Tabelogged: 伊太利亜のじぇらぁとや Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-20T22:08:22+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 伊太利亜のじぇらぁとや on May 21, 2025. I gave it a 3.1 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-21-22h08m22s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-20-16h47m37s/ Possy's been busy Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-20T07:47:37+00:00 2025-06-20T07:53:38+00:00

Earlier this year, I announced I was working on a Rails app called POSSE Party which allows users to syndicate their website's content to a variety of social platforms simply by reading its RSS/Atom feed. Well, as of today, POSSE Party officially posts to just about everything I could want it to. This week, I locked myself in a tiny Tokyo apartment and didn't let myself out until I'd finished building support for Instagram, Facebook Pages, LinkedIn, and YouTube. That brings the total number of platforms it supports up to 8. I've updated this site's POSSE Pulse accordingly. I'm excited and relieved to have realized the vision of what I set out to build. I'll be discussing what's next… soon-ish. Probably. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-20-16h47m37s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-20-23h20m33s/ Tabelogged: 魚屋あらまさ川崎店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-19T23:20:33+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 魚屋あらまさ川崎店 on May 20, 2025. I gave it a 3.4 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-20-23h20m33s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-20-21h21m18s/ Tabelogged: 串かつでんがな川崎店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-19T21:21:18+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 串かつでんがな川崎店 on May 20, 2025. I gave it a 3.3 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-20-21h21m18s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-19-23h18m33s/ Tabelogged: うさぎや川崎店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-18T23:18:33+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited うさぎや川崎店 on May 19, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-19-23h18m33s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-19-21h42m21s/ Tabelogged: 洋食や三代目たいめいけん Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-18T21:42:21+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 洋食や三代目たいめいけん on May 19, 2025. I gave it a 3.3 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-19-21h42m21s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-18-16h11m15s/ 28 Allergens Not Detected Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-18T07:11:15+00:00 2025-06-18T16:10:23+09:00

Sure this ice cream killed me, but think of all the allergens it didn't have! See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-18-16h11m15s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-17-23h45m12s/ Tabelogged: 新潟古町而今 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-16T23:45:12+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 新潟古町而今 on May 17, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-17-23h45m12s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-17-22h24m28s/ Tabelogged: シャモニー上大川前店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-16T22:24:28+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited シャモニー上大川前店 on May 17, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-17-22h24m28s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-16-22h16m51s/ Tabelogged: らーめん一空 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-15T22:16:51+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited らーめん一空 on May 16, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-16-22h16m51s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-16-22h15m26s/ Tabelogged: 華音 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-15T22:15:26+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 華音 on May 16, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-16-22h15m26s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-16-21h58m54s/ Tabelogged: ニイガタピッツェリアベントエマーレ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-15T21:58:54+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited ニイガタピッツェリアベントエマーレ on May 16, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-16-21h58m54s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-16-21h42m19s/ Tabelogged: 五郎万代店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-15T21:42:19+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 五郎万代店 on May 16, 2025. I gave it a 3.3 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-16-21h42m19s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-15-14h42m44s/ Death to roller bags Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-15T05:42:44+00:00 2025-06-15T14:41:55+09:00

Nearly all Japan's overtourism woes could be solved overnight if the nation simply outlawed roller bags. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-15-14h42m44s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-15-00h50m30s/ Tabelogged: 鳥焼処鳥ぼん本店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-15T00:50:30+00:00 2025-06-15T00:50:33+00:00

I visited 鳥焼処鳥ぼん本店 on June 15, 2025. I gave it a 3.7 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-15-00h50m30s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-14-10h11m07s/ I'm edge cases all the way down Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-14T01:11:07+00:00 2025-06-14T01:45:16+00:00

I feel like everything I try to do is so weird that when it doesn't work, I'm very often the first person to run into the bugs I discover, and I just ran into a pretty good example. Pretty sure Cursor ships with system prompts designed to prevent it from inserting smart quotes into code listings, because that would normally be a bug… but it also means the agent is constitutionally incapable of writing a script that searches for and replaces smart quotes. It has been confused about why it can't type smart quotes for quite a while now. Neat. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-14-10h11m07s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-13-10h37m42s/ Tabelogged: 丸万焼鳥本店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-13T10:37:42+00:00 2025-06-13T10:37:47+00:00

I visited 丸万焼鳥本店 on June 13, 2025. I gave it a 3.8 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-13-10h37m42s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-13-23h39m39s/ Tabelogged: しらす丼と海鮮の店次郎丸 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-12T23:39:39+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited しらす丼と海鮮の店次郎丸 on May 13, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-13-23h39m39s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-13-22h43m14s/ Tabelogged: 焼肉うしなり Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-12T22:43:14+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 焼肉うしなり on May 13, 2025. I gave it a 3.7 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-13-22h43m14s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-13-21h33m40s/ Tabelogged: Cherry Beans P Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-12T21:33:40+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited Cherry Beans P on May 13, 2025. I gave it a 3.8 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-13-21h33m40s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-11-21h07m06s/ Tabelogged: 12 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-10T21:07:06+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 12 on May 11, 2025. I gave it a 3.7 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-11-21h07m06s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-10-12h24m07s/ Tabelogged: 鳥雅 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-10T12:24:07+00:00 2025-06-10T12:24:12+00:00

I visited 鳥雅 on June 10, 2025. I gave it a 4.1 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-10-12h24m07s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-10-23h23m07s/ Tabelogged: 三河屋 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-09T23:23:07+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 三河屋 on May 10, 2025. I gave it a 3.8 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-10-23h23m07s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-09-10h38m22s/ Tabelogged: 薩摩だれやめ処まえわり屋 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-09T10:38:22+00:00 2025-06-09T10:38:25+00:00

I visited 薩摩だれやめ処まえわり屋 on June 9, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-09-10h38m22s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-07-18h44m29s/ This fucking fish Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-08T04:44:29+00:00 2025-06-07T19:47:32+09:00

Felt extremely stupid not knowing how to pronounce this fish. Asked waitress. She didn't know Neighboring elderly couple next to me didn't know. Sushi chef across counter didn't know. Took three staff members to identify it as "isaki" Was an incredibly validating moment See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-07-18h44m29s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-07-18h10m31s/ We are Rainbow Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-07T09:10:31+00:00 2025-06-07T18:09:40+09:00

These gummy candies are the first rainbow-themed things I've seen so far this Pride Month. (I bought them. They were good 🌈) See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-07-18h10m31s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-07-03h48m33s/ Tabelogged: イエロースパイス Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-07T03:48:33+00:00 2025-06-07T03:48:36+00:00

I visited イエロースパイス on June 7, 2025. I gave it a 3.4 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-07-03h48m33s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-07-23h03m03s/ Tabelogged: とんかつとんき Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-06T23:03:03+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited とんかつとんき on May 7, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-07-23h03m03s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-07-22h23m06s/ Tabelogged: らーめん矢吹本店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-06T22:23:06+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited らーめん矢吹本店 on May 7, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-07-22h23m06s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-07-22h15m20s/ Tabelogged: 新橋立呑処へそ静岡1号店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-06T22:15:20+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 新橋立呑処へそ静岡1号店 on May 7, 2025. I gave it a 3.3 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-07-22h15m20s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-06-23h02m53s/ Tabelogged: 静岡四川飯店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-05T23:02:53+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 静岡四川飯店 on May 6, 2025. I gave it a 3.2 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-06-23h02m53s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-06-21h36m55s/ Tabelogged: ななや静岡店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-05T21:36:55+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited ななや静岡店 on May 6, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-06-21h36m55s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-05-23h09m08s/ Tabelogged: 石松餃子アスティ静岡店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-04T23:09:08+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 石松餃子アスティ静岡店 on May 5, 2025. I gave it a 3.7 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-05-23h09m08s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-05-21h20m31s/ Tabelogged: がブリチキン。草薙駅前店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-04T21:20:31+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited がブリチキン。草薙駅前店 on May 5, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-05-21h20m31s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-04-09h48m15s/ Tabelogged: 磯魚・イセエビ料理ふる里 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-04T09:48:15+00:00 2025-06-04T09:48:18+00:00

I visited 磯魚・イセエビ料理ふる里 on June 4, 2025. I gave it a 3.6 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-04-09h48m15s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-03-11h32m56s/ Tabelogged: くずし割烹ぼんた個室お二階 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-03T11:32:56+00:00 2025-06-03T11:32:58+00:00

I visited くずし割烹ぼんた個室お二階 on June 3, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-03-11h32m56s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-03-07h34m41s/ Tabelogged: 魚河岸直営いけす海鮮ろ組くるふ福井駅店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-03T07:34:41+00:00 2025-06-03T07:34:43+00:00

I visited 魚河岸直営いけす海鮮ろ組くるふ福井駅店 on June 3, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-03-07h34m41s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-03-08h53m38s/ Try this Milk Sour! Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-02T23:53:38+00:00 2025-06-03T08:52:45+09:00

An accident of language—the fact that "sour milk" sounds so unappealing—is probably why nobody in America ever considered making a "milk sour", which is just... exactly what it sounds like. Milk and liquor, together at last. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-06-03-08h53m38s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-02-09h22m21s/ Tabelogged: 焼肉ニューミート Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-02T09:22:21+00:00 2025-06-02T09:22:23+00:00

I visited 焼肉ニューミート on June 2, 2025. I gave it a 3.6 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-02-09h22m21s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-02-06h23m29s/ Tabelogged: マルカドール Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-02T06:23:29+00:00 2025-06-02T15:55:12+09:00

I visited マルカドール on June 2, 2025. I gave it a 3.7 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-02-06h23m29s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-01-21h21m15s/ Tabelogged: 福炒家 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-06-01T21:21:15+00:00 2025-06-01T10:47:52+00:00

I visited 福炒家 on June 1, 2025. I gave it a 3.2 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-06-01-21h21m15s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-31-22h34m21s/ Tabelogged: 宇都宮きそば Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-05-31T22:34:21+00:00 2025-05-31T09:02:39+00:00

I visited 宇都宮きそば on May 31, 2025. I gave it a 3.2 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-31-22h34m21s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-31-22h14m16s/ Tabelogged: ラトゥール Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-05-31T22:14:16+00:00 2025-05-31T08:49:00+00:00

I visited ラトゥール on May 31, 2025. I gave it a 3.8 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-31-22h14m16s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-31-21h46m01s/ Tabelogged: とちおとめ×芭莉式 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-05-31T21:46:01+00:00 2025-05-31T08:49:00+00:00

I visited とちおとめ×芭莉式 on May 31, 2025. I gave it a 3.4 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-31-21h46m01s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-31-21h24m14s/ Tabelogged: オリオン餃子宇都宮駅前通り店 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-05-31T21:24:14+00:00 2025-05-31T09:02:39+00:00

I visited オリオン餃子宇都宮駅前通り店 on May 31, 2025. I gave it a 3.5 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-05-31-21h24m14s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-28-22h42m25s/ It's crane games all the way down Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-05-28T13:42:25+00:00 2025-05-28T22:41:42+09:00

Finally, a crane game where the prize is another crane game. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-28-22h42m25s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-26-12h49m52s/ Forbidden Button Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-05-26T03:49:52+00:00 2025-05-26T17:19:13+09:00

I have never wanted to press a button more than I want to press this button See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-26-12h49m52s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-23-17h11m30s/ Like a Yakuza Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-05-23T08:11:30+00:00 2025-05-23T22:36:15+09:00

Was hunkered down at a cafe in Yokohama's Chinatown earlier this week while waiting for Becky to finish a workout and looked up from my Steam Deck to notice I was simultaneously standing under the same gate in Like a Dragon: Yakuza's See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-23-17h11m30s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-18-13h48m50s/ Soapy Snake Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-05-18T04:48:50+00:00 2025-05-18T13:51:48+09:00

One thing I love about Japan are all the obscure Metal Gear Solid spin-offs that we never saw stateside. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-18-13h48m50s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-05-18h50m34s/ If this is losing, I don't want to win Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-05-05T09:50:34+00:00 2025-05-05T18:55:54+09:00

In Japan, it's common for bars to have a dice game with rules like: * Snake eyes: free drink * Even number: half off drink * Odd number: double size, double price drink I "lost" with both of these 1L whisky-fruit highballs. I sure don't feel like a loser, though. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-05-05-18h50m34s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-04-26-18h57m18s/ This one's tough, Sam Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-04-26T22:57:18+00:00 2025-04-26T19:05:26-04:00

One of my favorite things about OpenAI is when they A/B test ChatGPT responses and the computer arrives at two identical responses, but still insist you tell them which answer was better. I'm feeling the response on the right, personally. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-04-26-18h57m18s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-04-24-21h54m58s/ Tabelogged: 土と日 Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-04-24T21:54:58+00:00 2025-05-29T21:20:59+09:00

I visited 土と日 on April 24, 2025. I gave it a 4.0 on Tabelog. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/spots/2025-04-24-21h54m58s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-04-21-11h01m30s/ Radioactive Condos Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-04-21T15:01:30+00:00 2025-06-14T10:44:47+09:00

Searching for real estate in Japan has been a humorous lesson in the differences of how we market things here. You'd think of all countries, Japanese developers might be sensitive to promotional images that make their brand-new condo building appear to be radioactive. ☢️ See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-04-21-11h01m30s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-04-13-20h54m45s/ How to make incredible HomeKit backgrounds with ChatGPT Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-04-14T00:54:45+00:00 2025-04-13T21:41:21-04:00

Okay, so there's a great meme going around the /r/HomeKit subreddit right now, where folks are using ChatGPT to generate illustrations for each of their rooms in the Home app. Finally got around to joining in the fun. Here's how I did it: 1. Take a vertical photo of each of the rooms in your home that you've configured in HomeKit 2. Start a conversation with GPT-4o and describe that you want vertical (9:16) illustrations for the Home app based on your photos, and any style preferences (I'll share my prompt below) 3. One at a time, feed it your photos, and offer feedback until it gets it right 4. Save each photo to a new album in Photos so you can reference it from the Home app 5. Over in the Home app, for each room: 1. Select the room (on iPhone, tap the ellipsis in the corner; on iPad or Mac, select it in the side bar) 2. Tap the ellipsis in the top right and choose "Room settings" 3. Choose an image for the room background 4. Select the image from your Photos library 6. Do this on every device, because (of course) the Home app still doesn't sync background images I had a blast setting these up and didn't hesitate to repeat it for all my devices. The bland, samey look of the default HomeKit room design makes it easy to confuse where you are in the app, and these illustrations are nothing short of delightful. Apart from the tremendous image generation capabilities of ChatGPT 4o, photographing rooms without resorting to a comically wide angle fisheye lens is very difficult, and an artistic touch can emphasize the "feel" of a room better than a photo can. Here's the full set of my rooms: Oh, and here's the prompt I used: > I have a fun project for you! Please make stylized background images based on the photos of each room in my home that I send you. I'm going to use these as background images for each of my rooms in HomeKit. Important to note, these images must be vertical. 9:16! > > Very excited about this. Would love for you to take… See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-04-13-20h54m45s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-04-11-11h17m26s/ First impressions of GitHub Copilot's Agent mode Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-04-11T15:17:26+00:00 2025-04-11T11:38:59-04:00

tl;dr it works. You should try it. I finally got around to trying the new Agent functionality in GitHub Copilot. You gotta really know when to ask an LLM for help, though. (I wrote last year how I decide whether to reach for an AI assistant, if you're interested.) My experience and recent research both indicate that AI works best for creating _new_ stuff from scratch, especially when that code is perfunctory and typical and conventional. That's the reason there's such a divide between people who've had terrific experiences with "vibe coding" and others—like me—for whom all the hours fucking with AI to make it do my job for me have mostly been a waste of my time. Every other time I've tried to use an agent mode in Cursor or Claude Code, I've asked it how to do things that most "staff" or "principal" or "distinguished" engineer have never tried and would have no idea how to do, so naturally they never went well. But today I'm finally starting work on a new gem, and I had an annoying task that _wasn't_ a legacy rescue, or exploiting a brand new language feature, or doing something totally unlike anything anyone has ever done before. So I fired up the agent mode using Anthropic's 3.7-sonnet model and let it go to work. Specifically, I asked it to stub out a Rails engine to use as a starting point for moving over existing login functionality into a gem. It did basically everything in the same order and way that I would. It commented out additional hooks I'll probably need, which is nice. It also gave me instructions for wiring up the new engine from the project I'm extracting the behavior from, which is a nice bonus. Did it work? Yup: Cool. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-04-11-11h17m26s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-03-30-09h23m07s/ Ah yes, that magical trip through the foothills of Falkreath Hold Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-03-30T13:23:07+00:00 2025-06-14T10:44:47+09:00

That Microsoft OneDrive still insists on sending me photo memory e-mails, despite the fact I've unsubscribed a dozen times, and even though literally every picture in my OneDrive is a screenshot from my gaming PC will never not be hilarious to me. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-03-30-09h23m07s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/posts/this-vision-pro-strap-is-totally-globular-/ This Vision Pro strap is totally globular! Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-03-13T20:52:16+00:00 2025-03-13T17:22:26-04:00

Who the fuck knows what a "globular cluster" is, but the Globular Cluster CMA1 is my new recommendation for Best Way to Wear Vision Pro. It replaces a lightly-modified BOBOVR M2 as the reining champ, primarily due to the fact it's a thing you can just buy on Amazon and slap on your face. It's slightly lighter, too. One downside: it places a _wee_ bit more weight up front. I genuinely forget I'm wearing the BOBOVR M2 and I never _quite_ forget I'm wearing this one. Here's a picture. You can't tell, but I'm actually winking at you. Also pictured, I've started wearing a cycling skull cap when I work with Vision Pro to prevent the spread of my ethnic greases onto the cushions themselves. By regularly washing the cap, I don't have to worry about having an acne breakout as a 40-year-old man. An ounce of prevention and all that. You might be asking, "_where's the Light Seal?_" Well, it turns out if you're wearing this thing for more than a couple hours, having peripheral vision and feeling airflow over your skin is quite nice. Besides, all the cool kids are doing it. Going "open face" requires an alternative to Apple's official straps, of course, because Apple would prefer to give your cheek bones a workout as gravity leaves its mark on your upper-jowl region. You might also be wondering, "_does he realize he looks ridiculous?_" All I can say is that being totally shameless and not caring what the fuck anyone thinks is always a great look. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/posts/this-vision-pro-strap-is-totally-globular-/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-03-11-16h29m15s/ ChatGPT has become my search engine Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-03-11T20:29:15+00:00 2025-03-11T16:40:24-04:00

Perhaps this is partly because the Japanese Internet continues to be needlessly opaque (it has now been zero days since I encountered a UI built around HTML image maps), but ChatGPT has become an indispensable planning partner whenever Google would normally let me down. In the case above, I just typed "search for Indigo La End concerts in Japan this June", and it got me back only the June dates of a tour I didn't know was going on, and for which tickets only went on sale two days ago. From there it was literally two more clicks to be where I needed to be in order to buy a paper ticket I could pick up at any 7-Eleven nationwide. These days, whenever a traditional Google-oriented search workflow would have been particularly fraught—whether that's due to out-of-date information (past concerts) or SEO spam (ticket resellers)—the fact that ChatGPT will jump through two or three extra hoops _for me_ has made a huge difference in whether I find the answer I'm looking for or get lost in a forest of tabs and give up. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-03-11-16h29m15s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/clips/v31-what-is-refactoring/ What is Refactoring? Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-02-19T22:37:13+00:00 2025-02-19T17:40:38-05:00

Realized I managed to shit out a decent definition of the word "refactoring" in 30 seconds when I was editing this longer video on career advice, so may as well clip it for posterity. Both were pulled from v31 of Breaking Change. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/clips/v31-what-is-refactoring/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/clips/v30-the-wrong-programmers/ The Wrong Programmers Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-02-13T16:40:49+00:00 2025-02-14T10:52:35-05:00

I'm as big a fan of searching for environmental and systemic explanations when expectations are missed, but that doesn't mean that _sometimes_ the blame lies with the skill of the people doing the job. Decided I'm going to stop pretending as if that's never the case. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/clips/v30-the-wrong-programmers/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-02-13-10h36m30s/ I have lost all control Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-02-13T15:36:30+00:00 2025-02-13T10:36:52-05:00

Every time I sin, another device appears on my desk. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-02-13-10h36m30s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/clips/v30-the-startup-shell-game/ The Startup Shell Game Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-02-10T14:47:27+00:00 2025-02-14T10:52:35-05:00

The Startup Shell Game See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/clips/v30-the-startup-shell-game/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-02-09-08h54m55s/ Ultra Narrow View Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-02-09T13:54:55+00:00 2025-06-14T10:44:47+09:00

Vertical monitors for folks working on documents have been a thing for decades — now that Apple Vision Pro supports an 8K-ish ultra wide screen orientation for Mac Virtual Display, I'd love to see custom aspect ratios that allow you to create only as big of a Mac window as you need. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-02-09-08h54m55s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-02-08-16h49m24s/ 20%? Sign me up! Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-02-08T21:49:24+00:00 2025-02-08T16:49:50-05:00

Why freak out about tariffs and the economy when random signs on the side of the highways in Florida are able to offer such amazing investment returns? See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-02-08-16h49m24s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/clips/v30-the-baby-store/ The Baby Store Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-02-08T03:39:30+00:00 2025-02-14T10:52:35-05:00

Why I didn't have kids, despite the fact a lot of men seem weirdly OK with pretending they have zero regrets. This clip is from v30 of Breaking Change. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/clips/v30-the-baby-store/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-01-30-20h21m44s/ How to build a podcasting platform in under 8 hours Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-01-31T02:04:23+00:00 2025-01-31T07:25:57-05:00

Last year at Rails World, I indulged in some horn tooting and victory-lap taking when I showed off the publishing platform and strength-training app I built to support Becky's business. The paper-thin pretense of my talk was, "wow, look at how incredible Ruby on Rails is for empowering developers—even solo acts—to build ambitious products." And don't get me wrong, that was the main thesis. But the presentation was also an opportunity to show off my work and drop the mic. As a consultant, I spent my entire career hearing _how hard it is_ to build a real product. That as a Johnny-come-lately contractor, I _could never know_ why things had to be slow. Or complicated. Or buggy. I lost track of how many times someone referenced Steve Jobs' epic judgment of consultants as the reason they wouldn't hire me on a contract basis and why I _was only valuable_ if I joined their corporate family in W-2 matrimony. Well, all that consultant FUD turned out to be bullshit. Simply by doing all the things I'd been telling others to do for two decades, I enjoyed the smoothest software development experience I've ever witnessed at any company of any scale. Literally everything went great. The resulting app looks, performs, and functions better than I ever imagined it would. My product owner / wife is thrilled with it. In its first 4 months on the market, only two bugs have been reported by customers and both were fixed in an hour or less. Of course, one reason I held back on celebrating the success of my own ability to somehow form _all the right opinions_ about good software was because it would have been premature. The true test of any software system is how easy it is to change later. Well, as you might be able to tell from the braggadocious tone of this post, I finally have an answer after delivering the platform's first major post-launch feature. Becky has been wanting to start a podcast for a while, and given that we already had a bespoke CMS with her name on it lying around,… See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-01-30-20h21m44s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-01-21-16h19m31s/ New paper answers whether ChatGPT makes you lazier Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-01-21T21:19:31+00:00 2025-01-21T16:34:40-05:00

Apple Intelligence summary of the abstract, which I couldn't be bothered to read: > A study comparing learners' motivations, self-regulated learning processes, and performance with different support agents (AI, human expert, writing analytics, or none) found no difference in motivation but significant differences in learning processes and performance. While AI support improved essay scores, it may also promote dependence and "metacognitive laziness." See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-01-21-16h19m31s/

]]> https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-01-14-12h49m31s/ Happy Birthday I Got You an Irrelevant Blog Post Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-01-14T17:49:31+00:00 2025-01-14T12:49:47-05:00

Think of how much they saved by sending me this nonsensical content marketing collateral instead of a coupon. See the full post in high resolution at justin․searls․co 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-01-14-12h49m31s/

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https://justin.searls.co/tubes/2025-12-25-08h30m45s/ The Ultimate Siri Shortcut for Japanese Learners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjgylY5DMeI Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-25T13:30:45+00:00 2025-12-25T09:44:18-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-24-09h13m50s/<![CDATA[Voters don't intuit that bond yields affect currency valuations affect foreign tourism, but Japanese populists now depend on low yields to depress the yen to maintain the supply of obnoxious foreign tourists to buoy… https://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/japanese-denial-on-debt]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-24T14:13:50+00:00 2025-12-24T14:20:46+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-24-08h21m27s/ Is Apple Shortcuts functional programming? https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-24-08h21m27s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-24T13:21:27+00:00 2025-12-24T08:28:45-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-23-08h30m27s/<![CDATA[is everyone suddenly visited by the pervasive smell of dead cats 20 days after sinus surgery or just me 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-23-08h30m27s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-23T13:30:27+00:00 2025-12-23T08:31:09-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-11/ Merry Divestmas https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-11/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-23T00:19:36+00:00 2025-12-23T00:19:39+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-22-15h34m36s/<![CDATA[Just verified this: macOS Tahoe 26 is the first release that accepts inbound SSH connections on FileVault-protected Macs before first unlock ("BFU", i.e. after a cold boot). Process: 1. Just SSH in as you always would… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-22-15h34m36s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-22T20:34:36+00:00 2025-12-22T15:42:17-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-22-14h07m08s/<![CDATA[Argument isn't airtight, but this is the best link I currently have to send non-tech people who are worried about AI killing their job: https://www.maxberry.ca/p/how-to-not-be-replaced-by-ai ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-22T19:07:08+00:00 2025-12-22T19:08:11+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-22-08h03m22s/<![CDATA[Andy Waite thought to have Sonnet 4.5 analyze the POSSE Party codebase. Good habit to get into for anyone looking at sizing up a new project:… https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1psbh26/claudes_architectural_analysis_of_posse_party_by/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-22T13:03:22+00:00 2025-12-22T13:05:14+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-21-14h18m50s/<![CDATA[It just dawned on me that I can write an iCloud Shortcut that taps into multiple cloud-based GPUs to perform any number of complex tasks for FREE, but I still can't define an "if-else" block. Welcome to the future,… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-21-14h18m50s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-21T19:18:50+00:00 2025-12-21T14:20:28-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-21-mike-mcquaid-has-joined-the-posse/ Mike McQuaid has joined the POSSE https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-21-mike-mcquaid-has-joined-the-posse/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-21T12:40:17+00:00 2025-12-21T12:45:13+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-18-18h21m05s/<![CDATA[Now that POSSE Party is properly "done", I'll be on Aaron's live stream tomorrow at 1 PM eastern / 18:00 UTC to show him how the sausage is made by… uhh, peeling back the casing, I guess? It will be gross and/or fun!… https://youtube.com/live/YkMpfAnu6Z8]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-18T23:21:05+00:00 2025-12-18T23:24:39+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-18-15h09m59s/<![CDATA[A week or two after soft-launching POSSE Party, I'm ready to call this the HARD launch. In addition to new docs for setting up all 8 supported social platforms, I took a choose-your-own-attention-span approach to… https://posseparty.com]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-18T20:09:59+00:00 2025-12-18T20:13:49+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-18-07h55m25s/<![CDATA[Burned-in, AI-generated captions have become so ubiquitous on social platforms that it feels like iOS 27 should just include the feature for videos in the Photos app. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-18-07h55m25s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-18T12:55:25+00:00 2025-12-18T07:56:32-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-16-14h40m24s/<![CDATA[Forget five 9's of reliability—when it comes to LLMs, I'd gladly settle for just one 9. Just be correct 90% of the time. That'd be a dream. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-16-14h40m24s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-16T19:40:24+00:00 2025-12-16T14:42:43-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-15-20h52m20s/<![CDATA[The scope and scale of this leak is unprecedented in Apple's history. I almost can't believe it. https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/15/apple-leak-unreleased-devices-codenames/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-16T01:52:20+00:00 2025-12-16T01:53:20+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-14-16h28m56s/<![CDATA[GPT 5.2's improved visual analysis is no joke. I took 20 PDFs pertaining to our condo purchase and asked for transcriptions/translations with Codex CLI set to 5.2 (xhigh). What's been produced so far is… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-14-16h28m56s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-14T21:28:56+00:00 2025-12-14T16:33:25-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-13-10h21m58s/<![CDATA[We watched that racing biopic about DHH on Apple TV last night—was pretty good! 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-13-10h21m58s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-13T15:21:58+00:00 2025-12-13T10:22:17-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-12-16h14m55s/ That's a pretty good Searls impression https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-12-16h14m55s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-12T21:14:55+00:00 2025-12-12T16:18:51-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-12-a-new-old-republic-game-hell-yeah/ A New Old Republic game? Hell yeah. https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-12-a-new-old-republic-game-hell-yeah/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-12T13:17:44+00:00 2025-12-12T13:28:15+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-12-07h18m00s/<![CDATA[A nonzero number of people think it's called "sudo phederine" because it requires admin privileges. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-12-07h18m00s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-12T12:18:00+00:00 2025-12-12T07:18:21-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-11-08h09m05s/<![CDATA[The fundamental misunderstanding behind the question, "why isn't AI eliminating more jobs?" is that the clock on adoption of agents with human-replacement-level capabilities started in April 2025, not Nov 2022. And it… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-11-08h09m05s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-11T13:09:05+00:00 2025-12-11T08:12:20-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-11-06h33m07s/ Seems like nothing interesting happened https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-11-06h33m07s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-11T11:33:07+00:00 2025-12-11T06:35:13-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-10-21h36m37s/<![CDATA[I don't know who needs to hear this, but: AirPods work fine in the shower. You won't break them. It's simpler than dealing with some kind of shower speaker and sounds better than blaring your phone from across the room. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-10-21h36m37s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-11T02:36:37+00:00 2025-12-10T21:37:26-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-10-15h30m05s/<![CDATA[How to see the ML-derived keywords for a photo or video in iCloud Photos: 1. Run: brew install RhetTbull/osxphotos/osxphotos 2. In the Photos app, select the image 3. Run: osxphotos query --mute --quiet \ --uuid… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-10-15h30m05s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-10T20:30:05+00:00 2025-12-10T15:46:26-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-09-13h57m55s/<![CDATA[I use both Instacart and ChatGPT, and just tried this. It's an absolute joke. Broken. If you can't oneshot a full order, you'll "slip out" of agentic mode and into normal conversation. Total Junk.… https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/you-can-buy-your-instacart-groceries-without-leaving-chatgpt/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-09T18:57:55+00:00 2025-12-09T19:01:34+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-09-10h11m30s/<![CDATA[Thanks to having been bullied for being fat and out of shape as a child, I'm still intimidated working out in a busy gym full of others. That goes double for days when I walk into my gym and half the Miami Heat are… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-09-10h11m30s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-09T15:11:30+00:00 2025-12-09T10:12:49-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/posts/chatgpt-5-1-explains-why-it-hallucinates/ ChatGPT 5.1 explains why it hallucinates https://justin.searls.co/posts/chatgpt-5-1-explains-why-it-hallucinates/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-08T21:00:05+00:00 2025-12-08T21:37:23+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-08-the-ai-wildfire-is-coming/ The AI Wildfire Is Coming https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-08-the-ai-wildfire-is-coming/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-08T12:59:59+00:00 2025-12-08T13:15:07+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-08-07h42m05s/<![CDATA[Whenever I introduce myself as Justin in Japan, there's a 30% chance they'll reply "JASUTEEN BEEBAA" and I'll snap back, "no I am nothing like Justin Bieber." Or am I?… https://x.com/justinbieber/status/1997125645437194682]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-08T12:42:05+00:00 2025-12-08T12:43:58+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v48-coil-whine/ Breaking Change podcast v48 - Coil Whine https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v48-coil-whine/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-06T17:48:01+00:00 2025-12-08T08:19:37-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-05-12h35m34s/<![CDATA[Amazing to think that—adjusting for inflation—the entirety of Warner Brothers is worth significantly less than Activision. Call of Duty and Candy Crush matter more than Harry Potter, HBO, DC comics, etc.… https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/netflix-agrees-buy-warner-bros-discoverys-studios-streaming-division-2025-12-05/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-05T17:35:34+00:00 2025-12-05T12:37:53-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-02-13h50m42s/<![CDATA[Sam should simply ask ChatGPT how to make ChatGPT better https://www.techmeme.com/251201/p35 ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-02T18:50:42+00:00 2025-12-02T17:32:47-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/clips/fit-a-5090-gaming-rig-in-a-backpack/ Fit a 5090 gaming rig in a backpack https://justin.searls.co/clips/fit-a-5090-gaming-rig-in-a-backpack/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-30T22:06:51+00:00 2025-11-30T17:13:38-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-10/ I'd do it all again https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-10/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-28T00:18:28+00:00 2025-11-28T00:18:31+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-27-16h16m36s/<![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving. This is for you: https://posseparty.com/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-27T21:16:36+00:00 2025-11-27T21:17:19+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-27-10h30m48s/<![CDATA[Words and phrases that Codex CLI will use to describe things it did that I will almost always revert: * "Belt-and-suspenders" * "Fallback" * "Backwards compatibility" * "Sentinel" 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-27-10h30m48s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-27T15:30:48+00:00 2025-11-27T10:31:49-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-24-15h50m12s/<![CDATA[The job of a programmer is to manage exactly two things: uncertainty and complexity. Code is sometimes an asset and sometimes a liability, but itself has no meaning outside the context of those two factors. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-24-15h50m12s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-24T20:50:12+00:00 2025-11-24T15:51:45-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-24-11h24m25s/<![CDATA[Hate to be so blunt, but if you're a senior programmer and aren't succeeding with AI coding agents, you most likely failed to acquire the skill, intuition, and taste you should have been building all along. Your time is… https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-development-in-the-time]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-24T16:24:25+00:00 2025-11-24T16:35:38+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/clips/the-software-project-lifecycle/ The Software Project Lifecycle https://justin.searls.co/clips/the-software-project-lifecycle/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-23T13:13:29+00:00 2025-11-23T08:17:31-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-22-14h50m39s/<![CDATA[It's time to work out and I realized I left my gym clothes in the laundry machine overnight and they're still damp. For some reason, I refuse to just wear them because—as opposed to being sweaty—they are now "the wrong… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-22-14h50m39s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-22T19:50:39+00:00 2025-11-22T14:51:45-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v47-turbinately-ill/ Breaking Change podcast v47 - Turbinately Ill https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v47-turbinately-ill/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-22T19:07:27+00:00 2025-11-22T22:44:50-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-17h14m18s/<![CDATA[I've been daily-driving Codex CLI with GPT-5 since release, because OpenAI's "codex" model was—in my experience—bad at coding. Well, their new "GPT-5.1-Codex-Max" model absolutely **smokes** any model OpenAI has put out… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-17h14m18s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-20T22:14:18+00:00 2025-11-20T17:19:41-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-14h17m00s/<![CDATA[On one hand, yes, it's ridiculous I pay $200 a month for ChatGPT Pro. On the other hand, I saved over $800 last month by just letting it crank on scrounging for coupon codes and price matches. Easily pays for itself if… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-14h17m00s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-20T19:17:00+00:00 2025-11-20T14:19:06-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-07h59m26s/<![CDATA[First impression of Google Antigravity: this is by far the jankiest VS Code fork I've seen yet. Should have shipped a CLI with a web product for orchestration. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-07h59m26s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-20T12:59:26+00:00 2025-11-20T08:00:10-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/posts/tdd-is-more-important-than-ever/ TDD is more important than ever https://justin.searls.co/posts/tdd-is-more-important-than-ever/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-18T20:54:32+00:00 2025-11-18T16:52:25-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-18-08h15m36s/ Downdetector is down https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-18-08h15m36s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-18T13:15:36+00:00 2025-11-18T08:20:00-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-17-19h08m34s/<![CDATA[Breaking Change is a lot of things, but likely to be replaced by an AI podslop factory isn't one of them https://www.thewrap.com/ai-podcasts-hosts-inception-point-ai/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-18T00:08:34+00:00 2025-11-18T00:09:03+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-17-10h53m34s/ Live Captions for Audible books in iOS 26 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-17-10h53m34s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-17T15:53:34+00:00 2025-11-17T11:13:38-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/clips/creating-static-instagram-stories-as-wisps/ Creating static Instagram Stories as Wisps https://justin.searls.co/clips/creating-static-instagram-stories-as-wisps/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-17T14:33:07+00:00 2025-11-17T09:46:13-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-16-22h15m42s/<![CDATA[Codex CLI and I invented a full client-side CMS for the blog using the GitHub and S3 APIs, then I wired up a new "wisp" media type to syndicate Instagram stories. See the top of https://justin.searls.co/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-17T03:15:42+00:00 2025-11-17T03:16:11+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-20h19m40s/<![CDATA[Anyone else have some number of HomePods suddenly playing audio with no prompting? Always a few seconds, then it cuts out. Updated to 26.1, no dice. Restored firmware, nada. Won't even pause when I touch the top. Sigh. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-20h19m40s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-14T01:19:40+00:00 2025-11-14T01:20:45+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-11h17m58s/<![CDATA[Spectrum's technician was denied entry to my neighborhood, because WiFi calling failed to connect the gatehouse's call to my iPhone, because Spectrum's Internet was down. congrats-you-played-yourself.gif 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-11h17m58s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-13T16:17:58+00:00 2025-11-13T11:21:26-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-06h54m59s/<![CDATA[If Ed Zitron ends up being proven correct about everything he's reported out about OpenAI, he'll deserve a Peabody for having pantsed the global financial press for multiple years running.… https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-13T11:54:59+00:00 2025-11-13T11:55:24+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-12-14h13m34s/ My lucky day https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-12-14h13m34s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-12T19:13:34+00:00 2025-11-12T14:13:47-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-12-05h35m37s/<![CDATA[Apple is finally selling PSVR2 controllers for use with VIsion Pro… for $249. I bought a barely-used PSVR 2 _headset_ + controllers for $170 off eBay a couple months ago https://www.apple.com/xc/product/HS8H2ZM/A ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-12T10:35:37+00:00 2025-11-12T10:36:46+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-11-10-rip-iphone-18-air/ RIP iPhone 18 Air https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-11-10-rip-iphone-18-air/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-10T21:29:50+00:00 2025-11-10T16:45:36-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-10-07h36m21s/<![CDATA[I've been using Tahoe since July and I've really, really tried to like the new Spotlight because I'm encouraged by the direction it's taking, but I'm giving up and going back to Raycast. It's just WAY TOO SLOW. If you… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-10-07h36m21s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-10T12:36:21+00:00 2025-11-10T12:37:10+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-09-14h36m36s/<![CDATA[My bro's staying with us, and he's pointed out what a mess our home network is. Spent all weekend detangling a rat's nest of overtorqued ethernet cables, and it's still busted. I feel awful about it. Kink shaming isn't… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-09-14h36m36s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-09T19:36:36+00:00 2025-11-09T14:36:41-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v46-adjusted-gross-intelligence/ Breaking Change podcast v46 - Adjusted Gross Intelligence https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v46-adjusted-gross-intelligence/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-08T17:24:27+00:00 2025-11-09T10:47:57-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-07-19h16m41s/<![CDATA[I can confirm that visionOS 26 and the new 20 Gbps Developer Strap supports network connections via USB-C ethernet adapters—very cool!… https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HQBC678?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_14&th=1]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-08T00:16:41+00:00 2025-11-08T00:19:28+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-07-18h59m40s/<![CDATA[My grandpa left me a tiny 1-inch portable TV growing up. It felt like you were watching TV… until you put it next to the real thing. Sandwich's new ad gave me the same feeling—seeing it in the context of immersive video… https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/hello-robot-sandwich-launches-immersive-commercial/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-07T23:59:40+00:00 2025-11-08T07:31:33-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-07-10h48m35s/<![CDATA[This was a real pain in the ass. Please use it. https://searlsco.github.io/straight-to-video/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-07T15:48:35+00:00 2025-11-07T15:49:48+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-11-04-software-is-supply-constrained-for-now/ Software is supply-constrained (for now) https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-11-04-software-is-supply-constrained-for-now/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-04T21:17:25+00:00 2025-11-04T21:55:39+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-04-14h08m41s/<![CDATA[The single most destructive metric is a key performance indicator that improves for reasons the business doesn't understand. When it inevitably goes back down, people panic because nobody understands why it went up in… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807775]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-04T19:08:41+00:00 2025-11-04T14:09:39-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-03-14h56m26s/<![CDATA[Watching Becky explore the world of bodybuilding, all I know is I would really struggle with my body being scrutinized by others. Surprisingly, though, I'm actually most impressed with the vegan bodybuilders—somehow they… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-03-14h56m26s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-03T19:56:26+00:00 2025-11-03T19:57:08+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-30-17h07m54s/<![CDATA[There's always a reply guy. https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1ok1lye/comment/nm9acis/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-30T21:07:54+00:00 2025-10-30T21:08:31+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/posts/how-to-downgrade-vision-pro-dfu-mode/ How to downgrade Vision Pro https://justin.searls.co/posts/how-to-downgrade-vision-pro-dfu-mode/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-30T19:00:35+00:00 2025-10-30T15:20:19-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-30-11h00m40s/<![CDATA[Seems like there's a bug in visionOS 26.1 where the first time you connect the new Developer Strap you get a glorious 20 Gbps connection, but then all subsequent connections are stuck at USB 2 480 Mbps speeds. Neat.… https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1ok1lye]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-30T15:00:40+00:00 2025-10-30T15:02:18+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-29-10h57m27s/<![CDATA[Excited to engage with the Orlando developer community for the first time tonight. Going to do a hotseat Q & A on agentic coding and what it means for your weekend. https://www.meetup.com/orlandodevs/events/310925222/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-29T14:57:27+00:00 2025-10-29T14:58:15+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-29-09h26m39s/<![CDATA[A nonstop Orlando-Tokyo route is absolutely HUGE. Zip Airlines may be a budget airline, but the lowest-tier of Japanese service is frankly a superior experience to United/Delta/AA. Becky flew them to NRT earlier this… https://www.wesh.com/article/first-nonstop-flights-connecting-orlando-to-tokyo-announced/69177387]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-29T13:26:39+00:00 2025-10-29T13:27:25+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-27-10h35m37s/<![CDATA[I wonder what's in store for the USA's Bi.5centennial next year. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-27-10h35m37s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-27T14:35:37+00:00 2025-10-27T14:36:48+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-26-12h26m29s/<![CDATA[My brother's moving out in a few days and I bought him a couple gifts to celebrate… does that make them housecooling gifts? 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-26-12h26m29s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-26T16:26:29+00:00 2025-10-26T16:27:17+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v45-developer-strap-on/ Breaking Change podcast v45 - Developer Strap-on https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v45-developer-strap-on/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-26T14:54:47+00:00 2025-10-27T20:46:01-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-25-12h35m39s/ The new Developer Strap delivers 20 Gbps to M2 Vision Pro https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-25-12h35m39s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-25T16:35:39+00:00 2025-10-25T13:09:22-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-24-13h06m56s/<![CDATA[Has anybody figured out a way to get Codex CLI or Claude Code to stop working when confidence drops and ask the user a question? 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-24-13h06m56s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-24T17:06:56+00:00 2025-10-24T13:07:16-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-23-22h25m48s/<![CDATA[I'm sick of getting spam email because of my CEO title at Searls LLC on LinkedIn, so it's got me thinking about stepping back into a Steakholder role. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-23-22h25m48s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-24T02:25:48+00:00 2025-10-23T22:25:50-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-22-17h43m18s/<![CDATA[We just took @tenderlove on Jungle Cruise and he had no idea what was in store for him. I've never seen better product-market fit than how that man reacted to every terrible pun. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-22-17h43m18s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-22T21:43:18+00:00 2025-10-22T17:43:21-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/merge-commits-ruby-ai-tldr-of-ai-dev/ Merge Commits podcast v - The Ruby AI Podcast: The TLDR of AI Dev https://justin.searls.co/casts/merge-commits-ruby-ai-tldr-of-ai-dev/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-21T15:42:53+00:00 2025-10-21T12:31:26-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-21-08h10m13s/<![CDATA[Anyone else's Lutron Caseta system go down last night? App can't connect to hub, which won't go online. I want to blame the AWS outage before I start ripping apart networking gear. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-21-08h10m13s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-21T12:10:13+00:00 2025-10-21T12:11:04+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-09/ The Generative Creativity Spectrum https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-09/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-21T00:17:59+00:00 2025-10-21T00:18:02+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-20-10h20m30s/<![CDATA[TIL from John Hawthorn: If you use Kagi Search you can now search `!rb String#gsub` This is so cool! Zero configuration required https://www.johnhawthorn.com/2025/searching-ruby-docs/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-20T14:20:30+00:00 2025-10-20T14:51:59+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-17-15h23m12s/<![CDATA[I never used to reach out to touch my MacBook screen after using my iPad, but because each 26 OS looks so similar, I'm doing it all the time now. All according to keikaku. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-17-15h23m12s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-17T19:23:12+00:00 2025-10-17T19:24:14+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/hotfix-v44.0.2-if-you-dont-like-it-quit/ Breaking Change podcast v44.0.2 - Mike McQuaid: If you don't like it, Quit https://justin.searls.co/casts/hotfix-v44.0.2-if-you-dont-like-it-quit/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-17T16:00:00+00:00 2025-10-20T22:20:26-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-17-09h35m44s/<![CDATA["This is just proof that Matz is in bed with the fascists!" said somebody on Bluesky, I'm sure. To be clear, this is an unmitigated GOOD THING and is a decade overdue IMNSHO.… https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/17/rubygems-repository-transition/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-17T13:35:44+00:00 2025-10-17T10:19:30-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-16-15h19m04s/<![CDATA[Holy shit, a thing I made in college has a Wikipedia page?! And no one told me?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KnightCite ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-16T19:19:04+00:00 2025-10-16T19:19:58+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-15h58m54s/<![CDATA[Dictated but not red. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-15h58m54s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-15T19:58:54+00:00 2025-10-15T15:59:16-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-14h54m27s/<![CDATA[Ruby is 30 years old, there's so much left to solve that it'd be too much to ask them to finally add support for naming methods with an interrobang. (I would accept either `this?!` or `that‽`) I'm serious! Have you… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-14h54m27s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-15T18:54:27+00:00 2025-10-15T19:01:54+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-12h08m36s/<![CDATA[Genuinely curious how long it will be until we have our first local LLM-based computer virus that generates code and uses tools to creatively replicate itself. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-12h08m36s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-15T16:08:36+00:00 2025-10-15T12:09:04-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-10-15-good-coding-agent-advice/ Good coding agent advice https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-10-15-good-coding-agent-advice/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-15T10:11:43+00:00 2025-10-15T14:04:28-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-14-14h17m57s/<![CDATA[A nonzero number of programmers under 30 assume GraphQL is a legacy technology invented by Texas Instruments in the 90s and had something to do with graphing calculators. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-14-14h17m57s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-14T18:17:57+00:00 2025-10-14T14:18:19-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-14-11h56m37s/<![CDATA[When coding agents fail to accomplish what we task them with, very often it's because the codebase has complications we failed to anticipate and communicate. It's easy to get mad at the AI, but reckoning with technical… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-14-11h56m37s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-14T15:56:37+00:00 2025-10-14T15:59:02+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-13-13h26m15s/<![CDATA[After a fabulously productive weekend with Codex CLI shipping a set of features that would have taken me two weeks, it is now past 9 AM on a weekday in San Francisco and it's struggling to add two numbers together again.… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-13-13h26m15s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-13T17:26:15+00:00 2025-10-13T17:27:02+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-13-09h09m26s/ ✅ Active on weekends https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-13-09h09m26s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-13T13:09:26+00:00 2025-10-13T09:14:45-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-13-07h39m16s/<![CDATA[The joy I get out of programming has slowly waned over the years, because most interesting problems are now "solved" via standard libraries, open-source dependencies, and HTTP APIs. Novel problem solving gradually gave… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-13-07h39m16s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-13T11:39:16+00:00 2025-10-13T07:41:55-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-17h41m34s/<![CDATA[When I work late or long hours coding something, it is expressly NOT because I enjoy it. It's because I can't stomach the thought of wasting another day of my life on this shit. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-17h41m34s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-12T21:41:34+00:00 2025-10-12T17:41:37-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-11h12m10s/<![CDATA[Best reason to use Codex CLI over Claude Code is the limits. I've been HAMMERING gpt-5-high for >8 hours/day all week. It's the last day of the week and I haven't hit 35% of the weekly limit. If I'd paid the same… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-11h12m10s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-12T15:12:10+00:00 2025-10-13T13:15:13+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-06h59m17s/<![CDATA[A cruel irony of coding agents is that everyone who blew off automated testing for the past 20 years is now telling the AI to do TDD all the time. But because LLMs were trained on decades of their shitty tests, the… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-06h59m17s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-12T10:59:17+00:00 2025-10-12T07:00:42-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-11-12h21m25s/<![CDATA[When working with a coding agent, a great periodic housekeeping task is to ask it to evaluate the codebase against the principles and values you've laid out in your CLAUDE/AGENTS/RULES files. Agents frequently violate… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-11-12h21m25s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-11T16:21:25+00:00 2025-10-11T18:44:48+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-11-09h44m40s/<![CDATA[lol I thought Codex CLI misspelled a field, but nope: TikTok actually misspelled "publicaly_available_post_id" in their API https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-get-video-status ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-11T13:44:40+00:00 2025-10-11T18:44:48+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-09-18h04m29s/<![CDATA[Have now received multiple apology emails from people who called my previous post a "hit job." First time for everything. https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-10-09-people-jumped-to-conclusions-about-this-rubygems-thing/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-09T22:04:29+00:00 2025-10-09T22:04:53+00:00

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https://justin.searls.co/tubes/2025-12-25-08h30m45s/ The Ultimate Siri Shortcut for Japanese Learners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjgylY5DMeI Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-25T13:30:45+00:00 2025-12-25T09:44:18-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-24-09h13m50s/<![CDATA[Voters don't intuit that bond yields affect currency valuations affect foreign tourism, but Japanese populists now depend on low yields to depress the yen to maintain the supply of obnoxious foreign tourists to buoy their agenda. https://robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/japanese-denial-on-debt ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-24T14:13:50+00:00 2025-12-24T14:20:46+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-24-08h21m27s/ Is Apple Shortcuts functional programming? https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-24-08h21m27s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-24T13:21:27+00:00 2025-12-24T08:28:45-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-23-08h30m27s/<![CDATA[is everyone suddenly visited by the pervasive smell of dead cats 20 days after sinus surgery or just me 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-23-08h30m27s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-23T13:30:27+00:00 2025-12-23T08:31:09-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-11/ Merry Divestmas https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-11/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-23T00:19:36+00:00 2025-12-23T00:19:39+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-22-15h34m36s/<![CDATA[Just verified this: macOS Tahoe 26 is the first release that accepts inbound SSH connections on FileVault-protected Macs before first unlock ("BFU", i.e. after a cold boot). Process: 1. Just SSH in as you always would 2. Be disconnected as macOS finishes booting 3. SSH back in 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-22-15h34m36s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-22T20:34:36+00:00 2025-12-22T15:42:17-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-22-14h07m08s/<![CDATA[Argument isn't airtight, but this is the best link I currently have to send non-tech people who are worried about AI killing their job: https://www.maxberry.ca/p/how-to-not-be-replaced-by-ai ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-22T19:07:08+00:00 2025-12-22T19:08:11+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-22-08h03m22s/<![CDATA[Andy Waite thought to have Sonnet 4.5 analyze the POSSE Party codebase. Good habit to get into for anyone looking at sizing up a new project: https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1psbh26/claudes_architectural_analysis_of_posse_party_by/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-22T13:03:22+00:00 2025-12-22T13:05:14+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-21-14h18m50s/<![CDATA[It just dawned on me that I can write an iCloud Shortcut that taps into multiple cloud-based GPUs to perform any number of complex tasks for FREE, but I still can't define an "if-else" block. Welcome to the future, chumps. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-21-14h18m50s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-21T19:18:50+00:00 2025-12-21T14:20:28-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-21-mike-mcquaid-has-joined-the-posse/ Mike McQuaid has joined the POSSE https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-21-mike-mcquaid-has-joined-the-posse/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-21T12:40:17+00:00 2025-12-21T12:45:13+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-18-18h21m05s/<![CDATA[Now that POSSE Party is properly "done", I'll be on Aaron's live stream tomorrow at 1 PM eastern / 18:00 UTC to show him how the sausage is made by… uhh, peeling back the casing, I guess? It will be gross and/or fun! https://youtube.com/live/YkMpfAnu6Z8 ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-18T23:21:05+00:00 2025-12-18T23:24:39+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-18-15h09m59s/<![CDATA[A week or two after soft-launching POSSE Party, I'm ready to call this the HARD launch. In addition to new docs for setting up all 8 supported social platforms, I took a choose-your-own-attention-span approach to tutorial videos that I'm really proud of: https://posseparty.com ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-18T20:09:59+00:00 2025-12-18T20:13:49+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-18-07h55m25s/<![CDATA[Burned-in, AI-generated captions have become so ubiquitous on social platforms that it feels like iOS 27 should just include the feature for videos in the Photos app. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-18-07h55m25s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-18T12:55:25+00:00 2025-12-18T07:56:32-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-16-14h40m24s/<![CDATA[Forget five 9's of reliability—when it comes to LLMs, I'd gladly settle for just one 9. Just be correct 90% of the time. That'd be a dream. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-16-14h40m24s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-16T19:40:24+00:00 2025-12-16T14:42:43-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-15-20h52m20s/<![CDATA[The scope and scale of this leak is unprecedented in Apple's history. I almost can't believe it. https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/15/apple-leak-unreleased-devices-codenames/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-16T01:52:20+00:00 2025-12-16T01:53:20+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-14-16h28m56s/<![CDATA[GPT 5.2's improved visual analysis is no joke. I took 20 PDFs pertaining to our condo purchase and asked for transcriptions/translations with Codex CLI set to 5.2 (xhigh). What's been produced so far is professional-level quality and 10.5 hours in, it's still cranking on them! 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-14-16h28m56s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-14T21:28:56+00:00 2025-12-14T16:33:25-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-13-10h21m58s/<![CDATA[We watched that racing biopic about DHH on Apple TV last night—was pretty good! 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-13-10h21m58s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-13T15:21:58+00:00 2025-12-13T10:22:17-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-12-16h14m55s/ That's a pretty good Searls impression https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-12-16h14m55s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-12T21:14:55+00:00 2025-12-12T16:18:51-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-12-a-new-old-republic-game-hell-yeah/ A New Old Republic game? Hell yeah. https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-12-a-new-old-republic-game-hell-yeah/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-12T13:17:44+00:00 2025-12-12T13:28:15+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-12-07h18m00s/<![CDATA[A nonzero number of people think it's called "sudo phederine" because it requires admin privileges. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-12-07h18m00s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-12T12:18:00+00:00 2025-12-12T07:18:21-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-11-08h09m05s/<![CDATA[The fundamental misunderstanding behind the question, "why isn't AI eliminating more jobs?" is that the clock on adoption of agents with human-replacement-level capabilities started in April 2025, not Nov 2022. And it started with coders, not paralegals or junior accountants. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-11-08h09m05s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-11T13:09:05+00:00 2025-12-11T08:12:20-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-11-06h33m07s/ Seems like nothing interesting happened https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-12-11-06h33m07s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-11T11:33:07+00:00 2025-12-11T06:35:13-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-10-21h36m37s/<![CDATA[I don't know who needs to hear this, but: AirPods work fine in the shower. You won't break them. It's simpler than dealing with some kind of shower speaker and sounds better than blaring your phone from across the room. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-10-21h36m37s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-11T02:36:37+00:00 2025-12-10T21:37:26-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-10-15h30m05s/<![CDATA[How to see the ML-derived keywords for a photo or video in iCloud Photos: 1. Run: brew install RhetTbull/osxphotos/osxphotos 2. In the Photos app, select the image 3. Run: osxphotos query --mute --quiet \ --uuid "$(osxphotos uuid)" \ --print '{label}' Cool! 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-10-15h30m05s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-10T20:30:05+00:00 2025-12-10T15:46:26-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-09-13h57m55s/<![CDATA[I use both Instacart and ChatGPT, and just tried this. It's an absolute joke. Broken. If you can't oneshot a full order, you'll "slip out" of agentic mode and into normal conversation. Total Junk. https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/you-can-buy-your-instacart-groceries-without-leaving-chatgpt/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-09T18:57:55+00:00 2025-12-09T19:01:34+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-09-10h11m30s/<![CDATA[Thanks to having been bullied for being fat and out of shape as a child, I'm still intimidated working out in a busy gym full of others. That goes double for days when I walk into my gym and half the Miami Heat are training there. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-09-10h11m30s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-09T15:11:30+00:00 2025-12-09T10:12:49-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/posts/chatgpt-5-1-explains-why-it-hallucinates/ ChatGPT 5.1 explains why it hallucinates https://justin.searls.co/posts/chatgpt-5-1-explains-why-it-hallucinates/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-08T21:00:05+00:00 2025-12-08T21:37:23+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-08-the-ai-wildfire-is-coming/ The AI Wildfire Is Coming https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-12-08-the-ai-wildfire-is-coming/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-08T12:59:59+00:00 2025-12-08T13:15:07+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-08-07h42m05s/<![CDATA[Whenever I introduce myself as Justin in Japan, there's a 30% chance they'll reply "JASUTEEN BEEBAA" and I'll snap back, "no I am nothing like Justin Bieber." Or am I? https://x.com/justinbieber/status/1997125645437194682 ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-08T12:42:05+00:00 2025-12-08T12:43:58+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v48-coil-whine/ Breaking Change podcast v48 - Coil Whine https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v48-coil-whine/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-06T17:48:01+00:00 2025-12-08T08:19:37-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-05-12h35m34s/<![CDATA[Amazing to think that—adjusting for inflation—the entirety of Warner Brothers is worth significantly less than Activision. Call of Duty and Candy Crush matter more than Harry Potter, HBO, DC comics, etc. https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/netflix-agrees-buy-warner-bros-discoverys-studios-streaming-division-2025-12-05/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-05T17:35:34+00:00 2025-12-05T12:37:53-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-12-02-13h50m42s/<![CDATA[Sam should simply ask ChatGPT how to make ChatGPT better https://www.techmeme.com/251201/p35 ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-02T18:50:42+00:00 2025-12-02T17:32:47-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/clips/fit-a-5090-gaming-rig-in-a-backpack/ Fit a 5090 gaming rig in a backpack https://justin.searls.co/clips/fit-a-5090-gaming-rig-in-a-backpack/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-30T22:06:51+00:00 2025-11-30T17:13:38-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-10/ I'd do it all again https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-10/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-28T00:18:28+00:00 2025-11-28T00:18:31+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-27-16h16m36s/<![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving. This is for you: https://posseparty.com/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-27T21:16:36+00:00 2025-11-27T21:17:19+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-27-10h30m48s/<![CDATA[Words and phrases that Codex CLI will use to describe things it did that I will almost always revert: * "Belt-and-suspenders" * "Fallback" * "Backwards compatibility" * "Sentinel" 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-27-10h30m48s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-27T15:30:48+00:00 2025-11-27T10:31:49-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-24-15h50m12s/<![CDATA[The job of a programmer is to manage exactly two things: uncertainty and complexity. Code is sometimes an asset and sometimes a liability, but itself has no meaning outside the context of those two factors. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-24-15h50m12s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-24T20:50:12+00:00 2025-11-24T15:51:45-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-24-11h24m25s/<![CDATA[Hate to be so blunt, but if you're a senior programmer and aren't succeeding with AI coding agents, you most likely failed to acquire the skill, intuition, and taste you should have been building all along. Your time is no longer worth $150 per hour. https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-development-in-the-time ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-24T16:24:25+00:00 2025-11-24T16:35:38+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/clips/the-software-project-lifecycle/ The Software Project Lifecycle https://justin.searls.co/clips/the-software-project-lifecycle/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-23T13:13:29+00:00 2025-11-23T08:17:31-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-22-14h50m39s/<![CDATA[It's time to work out and I realized I left my gym clothes in the laundry machine overnight and they're still damp. For some reason, I refuse to just wear them because—as opposed to being sweaty—they are now "the wrong kind of wet." 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-22-14h50m39s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-22T19:50:39+00:00 2025-11-22T14:51:45-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v47-turbinately-ill/ Breaking Change podcast v47 - Turbinately Ill https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v47-turbinately-ill/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-22T19:07:27+00:00 2025-11-22T22:44:50-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-17h14m18s/<![CDATA[I've been daily-driving Codex CLI with GPT-5 since release, because OpenAI's "codex" model was—in my experience—bad at coding. Well, their new "GPT-5.1-Codex-Max" model absolutely **smokes** any model OpenAI has put out before. Much higher code quality and 2-3 times as fast. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-17h14m18s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-20T22:14:18+00:00 2025-11-20T17:19:41-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-14h17m00s/<![CDATA[On one hand, yes, it's ridiculous I pay $200 a month for ChatGPT Pro. On the other hand, I saved over $800 last month by just letting it crank on scrounging for coupon codes and price matches. Easily pays for itself if you're creative. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-14h17m00s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-20T19:17:00+00:00 2025-11-20T14:19:06-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-07h59m26s/<![CDATA[First impression of Google Antigravity: this is by far the jankiest VS Code fork I've seen yet. Should have shipped a CLI with a web product for orchestration. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-20-07h59m26s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-20T12:59:26+00:00 2025-11-20T08:00:10-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/posts/tdd-is-more-important-than-ever/ TDD is more important than ever https://justin.searls.co/posts/tdd-is-more-important-than-ever/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-18T20:54:32+00:00 2025-11-18T16:52:25-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-18-08h15m36s/ Downdetector is down https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-18-08h15m36s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-18T13:15:36+00:00 2025-11-18T08:20:00-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-17-19h08m34s/<![CDATA[Breaking Change is a lot of things, but likely to be replaced by an AI podslop factory isn't one of them https://www.thewrap.com/ai-podcasts-hosts-inception-point-ai/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-18T00:08:34+00:00 2025-11-18T00:09:03+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-17-10h53m34s/ Live Captions for Audible books in iOS 26 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-17-10h53m34s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-17T15:53:34+00:00 2025-11-17T11:13:38-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/clips/creating-static-instagram-stories-as-wisps/ Creating static Instagram Stories as Wisps https://justin.searls.co/clips/creating-static-instagram-stories-as-wisps/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-17T14:33:07+00:00 2025-11-17T09:46:13-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-16-22h15m42s/<![CDATA[Codex CLI and I invented a full client-side CMS for the blog using the GitHub and S3 APIs, then I wired up a new "wisp" media type to syndicate Instagram stories. See the top of https://justin.searls.co/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-17T03:15:42+00:00 2025-11-17T03:16:11+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-20h19m40s/<![CDATA[Anyone else have some number of HomePods suddenly playing audio with no prompting? Always a few seconds, then it cuts out. Updated to 26.1, no dice. Restored firmware, nada. Won't even pause when I touch the top. Sigh. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-20h19m40s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-14T01:19:40+00:00 2025-11-14T01:20:45+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-11h17m58s/<![CDATA[Spectrum's technician was denied entry to my neighborhood, because WiFi calling failed to connect the gatehouse's call to my iPhone, because Spectrum's Internet was down. congrats-you-played-yourself.gif 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-11h17m58s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-13T16:17:58+00:00 2025-11-13T11:21:26-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-13-06h54m59s/<![CDATA[If Ed Zitron ends up being proven correct about everything he's reported out about OpenAI, he'll deserve a Peabody for having pantsed the global financial press for multiple years running. https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-13T11:54:59+00:00 2025-11-13T11:55:24+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-12-14h13m34s/ My lucky day https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-11-12-14h13m34s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-12T19:13:34+00:00 2025-11-12T14:13:47-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-12-05h35m37s/<![CDATA[Apple is finally selling PSVR2 controllers for use with VIsion Pro… for $249. I bought a barely-used PSVR 2 _headset_ + controllers for $170 off eBay a couple months ago https://www.apple.com/xc/product/HS8H2ZM/A ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-12T10:35:37+00:00 2025-11-12T10:36:46+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-11-10-rip-iphone-18-air/ RIP iPhone 18 Air https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-11-10-rip-iphone-18-air/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-10T21:29:50+00:00 2025-11-10T16:45:36-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-10-07h36m21s/<![CDATA[I've been using Tahoe since July and I've really, really tried to like the new Spotlight because I'm encouraged by the direction it's taking, but I'm giving up and going back to Raycast. It's just WAY TOO SLOW. If you set up quick keys and then type them "too fast," it'll always do something else instead. Same goes for launching apps by name. Just typed "1p", but Spotlight spent 3 seconds assuming that meant I wanted to open a product… 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-10-07h36m21s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-10T12:36:21+00:00 2025-11-10T12:37:10+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-09-14h36m36s/<![CDATA[My bro's staying with us, and he's pointed out what a mess our home network is. Spent all weekend detangling a rat's nest of overtorqued ethernet cables, and it's still busted. I feel awful about it. Kink shaming isn't cool. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-09-14h36m36s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-09T19:36:36+00:00 2025-11-09T14:36:41-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v46-adjusted-gross-intelligence/ Breaking Change podcast v46 - Adjusted Gross Intelligence https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v46-adjusted-gross-intelligence/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-08T17:24:27+00:00 2025-11-09T10:47:57-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-07-19h16m41s/<![CDATA[I can confirm that visionOS 26 and the new 20 Gbps Developer Strap supports network connections via USB-C ethernet adapters—very cool! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HQBC678?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_14&th=1 ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-08T00:16:41+00:00 2025-11-08T00:19:28+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-07-18h59m40s/<![CDATA[My grandpa left me a tiny 1-inch portable TV growing up. It felt like you were watching TV… until you put it next to the real thing. Sandwich's new ad gave me the same feeling—seeing it in the context of immersive video is an incredible experience. https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/hello-robot-sandwich-launches-immersive-commercial/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-07T23:59:40+00:00 2025-11-08T07:31:33-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-07-10h48m35s/<![CDATA[This was a real pain in the ass. Please use it. https://searlsco.github.io/straight-to-video/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-07T15:48:35+00:00 2025-11-07T15:49:48+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-11-04-software-is-supply-constrained-for-now/ Software is supply-constrained (for now) https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-11-04-software-is-supply-constrained-for-now/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-04T21:17:25+00:00 2025-11-04T21:55:39+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-04-14h08m41s/<![CDATA[The single most destructive metric is a key performance indicator that improves for reasons the business doesn't understand. When it inevitably goes back down, people panic because nobody understands why it went up in the first place. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807775 ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-04T19:08:41+00:00 2025-11-04T14:09:39-05:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-03-14h56m26s/<![CDATA[Watching Becky explore the world of bodybuilding, all I know is I would really struggle with my body being scrutinized by others. Surprisingly, though, I'm actually most impressed with the vegan bodybuilders—somehow they all seem to maintain a really healthy self-esteem. Maybe it's because they never whey themselves. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-03-14h56m26s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-11-03T19:56:26+00:00 2025-11-03T19:57:08+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-30-17h07m54s/<![CDATA[There's always a reply guy. https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1ok1lye/comment/nm9acis/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-30T21:07:54+00:00 2025-10-30T21:08:31+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/posts/how-to-downgrade-vision-pro-dfu-mode/ How to downgrade Vision Pro https://justin.searls.co/posts/how-to-downgrade-vision-pro-dfu-mode/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-30T19:00:35+00:00 2025-10-30T15:20:19-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-30-11h00m40s/<![CDATA[Seems like there's a bug in visionOS 26.1 where the first time you connect the new Developer Strap you get a glorious 20 Gbps connection, but then all subsequent connections are stuck at USB 2 480 Mbps speeds. Neat. https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1ok1lye ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-30T15:00:40+00:00 2025-10-30T15:02:18+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-29-10h57m27s/<![CDATA[Excited to engage with the Orlando developer community for the first time tonight. Going to do a hotseat Q & A on agentic coding and what it means for your weekend. https://www.meetup.com/orlandodevs/events/310925222/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-29T14:57:27+00:00 2025-10-29T14:58:15+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-29-09h26m39s/<![CDATA[A nonstop Orlando-Tokyo route is absolutely HUGE. Zip Airlines may be a budget airline, but the lowest-tier of Japanese service is frankly a superior experience to United/Delta/AA. Becky flew them to NRT earlier this year and it was great—lie-flat seats from SFO for like $1100! https://www.wesh.com/article/first-nonstop-flights-connecting-orlando-to-tokyo-announced/69177387 ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-29T13:26:39+00:00 2025-10-29T13:27:25+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-27-10h35m37s/<![CDATA[I wonder what's in store for the USA's Bi.5centennial next year. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-27-10h35m37s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-27T14:35:37+00:00 2025-10-27T14:36:48+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-26-12h26m29s/<![CDATA[My brother's moving out in a few days and I bought him a couple gifts to celebrate… does that make them housecooling gifts? 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-26-12h26m29s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-26T16:26:29+00:00 2025-10-26T16:27:17+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v45-developer-strap-on/ Breaking Change podcast v45 - Developer Strap-on https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v45-developer-strap-on/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-26T14:54:47+00:00 2025-10-27T20:46:01-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-25-12h35m39s/ The new Developer Strap delivers 20 Gbps to M2 Vision Pro https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-25-12h35m39s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-25T16:35:39+00:00 2025-10-25T13:09:22-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-24-13h06m56s/<![CDATA[Has anybody figured out a way to get Codex CLI or Claude Code to stop working when confidence drops and ask the user a question? 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-24-13h06m56s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-24T17:06:56+00:00 2025-10-24T13:07:16-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-23-22h25m48s/<![CDATA[I'm sick of getting spam email because of my CEO title at Searls LLC on LinkedIn, so it's got me thinking about stepping back into a Steakholder role. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-23-22h25m48s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-24T02:25:48+00:00 2025-10-23T22:25:50-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-22-17h43m18s/<![CDATA[We just took @tenderlove on Jungle Cruise and he had no idea what was in store for him. I've never seen better product-market fit than how that man reacted to every terrible pun. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-22-17h43m18s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-22T21:43:18+00:00 2025-10-22T17:43:21-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/merge-commits-ruby-ai-tldr-of-ai-dev/ Merge Commits podcast v - The Ruby AI Podcast: The TLDR of AI Dev https://justin.searls.co/casts/merge-commits-ruby-ai-tldr-of-ai-dev/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-21T15:42:53+00:00 2025-10-21T12:31:26-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-21-08h10m13s/<![CDATA[Anyone else's Lutron Caseta system go down last night? App can't connect to hub, which won't go online. I want to blame the AWS outage before I start ripping apart networking gear. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-21-08h10m13s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-21T12:10:13+00:00 2025-10-21T12:11:04+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-09/ The Generative Creativity Spectrum https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-09/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-21T00:17:59+00:00 2025-10-21T00:18:02+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-20-10h20m30s/<![CDATA[TIL from John Hawthorn: If you use Kagi Search you can now search `!rb String#gsub` This is so cool! Zero configuration required https://www.johnhawthorn.com/2025/searching-ruby-docs/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-20T14:20:30+00:00 2025-10-20T14:51:59+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-17-15h23m12s/<![CDATA[I never used to reach out to touch my MacBook screen after using my iPad, but because each 26 OS looks so similar, I'm doing it all the time now. All according to keikaku. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-17-15h23m12s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-17T19:23:12+00:00 2025-10-17T19:24:14+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/casts/hotfix-v44.0.2-if-you-dont-like-it-quit/ Breaking Change podcast v44.0.2 - Mike McQuaid: If you don't like it, Quit https://justin.searls.co/casts/hotfix-v44.0.2-if-you-dont-like-it-quit/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-17T16:00:00+00:00 2025-10-20T22:20:26-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-17-09h35m44s/<![CDATA["This is just proof that Matz is in bed with the fascists!" said somebody on Bluesky, I'm sure. To be clear, this is an unmitigated GOOD THING and is a decade overdue IMNSHO. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/10/17/rubygems-repository-transition/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-17T13:35:44+00:00 2025-10-17T10:19:30-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-16-15h19m04s/<![CDATA[Holy shit, a thing I made in college has a Wikipedia page?! And no one told me?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KnightCite ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-16T19:19:04+00:00 2025-10-16T19:19:58+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-15h58m54s/<![CDATA[Dictated but not red. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-15h58m54s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-15T19:58:54+00:00 2025-10-15T15:59:16-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-14h54m27s/<![CDATA[Ruby is 30 years old, there's so much left to solve that it'd be too much to ask them to finally add support for naming methods with an interrobang. (I would accept either `this?!` or `that‽`) I'm serious! Have you never seen a predicate method with a side effect?! 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-14h54m27s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-15T18:54:27+00:00 2025-10-15T19:01:54+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-12h08m36s/<![CDATA[Genuinely curious how long it will be until we have our first local LLM-based computer virus that generates code and uses tools to creatively replicate itself. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-15-12h08m36s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-15T16:08:36+00:00 2025-10-15T12:09:04-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-10-15-good-coding-agent-advice/ Good coding agent advice https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-10-15-good-coding-agent-advice/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-15T10:11:43+00:00 2025-10-15T14:04:28-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-14-14h17m57s/<![CDATA[A nonzero number of programmers under 30 assume GraphQL is a legacy technology invented by Texas Instruments in the 90s and had something to do with graphing calculators. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-14-14h17m57s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-14T18:17:57+00:00 2025-10-14T14:18:19-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-14-11h56m37s/<![CDATA[When coding agents fail to accomplish what we task them with, very often it's because the codebase has complications we failed to anticipate and communicate. It's easy to get mad at the AI, but reckoning with technical debt requires your awareness and involvement, too. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-14-11h56m37s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-14T15:56:37+00:00 2025-10-14T15:59:02+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-13-13h26m15s/<![CDATA[After a fabulously productive weekend with Codex CLI shipping a set of features that would have taken me two weeks, it is now past 9 AM on a weekday in San Francisco and it's struggling to add two numbers together again. What a world. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-13-13h26m15s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-13T17:26:15+00:00 2025-10-13T17:27:02+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-13-09h09m26s/ ✅ Active on weekends https://justin.searls.co/shots/2025-10-13-09h09m26s/ Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-13T13:09:26+00:00 2025-10-13T09:14:45-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-13-07h39m16s/<![CDATA[The joy I get out of programming has slowly waned over the years, because most interesting problems are now "solved" via standard libraries, open-source dependencies, and HTTP APIs. Novel problem solving gradually gave way to "digital pipefitting" of stuff built by others. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-13-07h39m16s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-13T11:39:16+00:00 2025-10-13T07:41:55-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-17h41m34s/<![CDATA[When I work late or long hours coding something, it is expressly NOT because I enjoy it. It's because I can't stomach the thought of wasting another day of my life on this shit. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-17h41m34s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-12T21:41:34+00:00 2025-10-12T17:41:37-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-11h12m10s/<![CDATA[Best reason to use Codex CLI over Claude Code is the limits. I've been HAMMERING gpt-5-high for >8 hours/day all week. It's the last day of the week and I haven't hit 35% of the weekly limit. If I'd paid the same $200/mo for Claude, I'd have been locked out by day 2. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-11h12m10s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-12T15:12:10+00:00 2025-10-13T13:15:13+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-06h59m17s/<![CDATA[A cruel irony of coding agents is that everyone who blew off automated testing for the past 20 years is now telling the AI to do TDD all the time. But because LLMs were trained on decades of their shitty tests, the agents are also terrible at testing. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-12-06h59m17s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-12T10:59:17+00:00 2025-10-12T07:00:42-04:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-11-12h21m25s/<![CDATA[When working with a coding agent, a great periodic housekeeping task is to ask it to evaluate the codebase against the principles and values you've laid out in your CLAUDE/AGENTS/RULES files. Agents frequently violate one's rules while coding, but will also spot those deviations after the fact if asked. 🔗 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-11-12h21m25s/]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-11T16:21:25+00:00 2025-10-11T18:44:48+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-11-09h44m40s/<![CDATA[lol I thought Codex CLI misspelled a field, but nope: TikTok actually misspelled "publicaly_available_post_id" in their API https://developers.tiktok.com/doc/content-posting-api-reference-get-video-status ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-11T13:44:40+00:00 2025-10-11T18:44:48+00:00 https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-10-09-18h04m29s/<![CDATA[Have now received multiple apology emails from people who called my previous post a "hit job." First time for everything. https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-10-09-people-jumped-to-conclusions-about-this-rubygems-thing/ ]]> Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-10-09T22:04:29+00:00 2025-10-09T22:04:53+00:00

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https://justin.searls.co/tubes/2025-12-25-08h30m45s/ 📺 The Ultimate Siri Shortcut for Japanese Learners Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-25T13:30:45+00:00 2025-12-25T09:44:18-05:00

Merry Christmas! I made a little present for any of my fellow Japanese learners out there. 🎁

Today I'm pleased to share this ChatGPT-powered Shortcut for Apple platforms I've been working on with you.

Here are its headlining features of the Ingest Japanese shortcut:

Render Furigana - ChatGPT tokenizes words and produces readings for kanji and okurigana, which are then assembled into an HTML page with proper <ruby> and <rt> tags (copyable as an HTML file)
Show Kana Reading - ChatGPT tokenizes the words and converts them their kana pronunciations, separating each word with a space, so you can understand word boundaries at a glance
Translate to English - Uses whatever additional context has been provided to give an accurate translation of the text
Speak Aloud - Pronounces the selected text (copyable as an audio file)
Show Definitions - Generates dictionary definitions of each distinct word found in the text, highlighting the most likely meanings based on the surrounding context (copyable as an HTML file)

It also exposes these utilities:

What happens next will shock you…

Newsletters

https://justin.searls.co/mails/2025-11/ Merry Divestmas Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-23T00:19:36+00:00 2025-12-23T00:19:39+00:00 Hey everybody, we've almost survived another year! Just ten days to go—I hope we all make it!

Looking back on the home stretch of 2025, this is all I have to report since our last issue:

I built a sexy new gaming PC over 3 days, 120 teeny-tiny M3 screws, and at least ten cups of coffee
I got my first nose job. I've always had a huge fucking nose, and I'm relieved to finally be able to breathe out of it
I talked about both of the above on my podcast
I'm so sick of bracing for the AI bubble to pop, that I've decided to look forward to it instead. Buy popcorn futures, everyone 🍿
I released POSSE Party, which I'll talk a bit more about later. Also these bits:
- I spent a couple days documenting the hell that is other people's API keys.
- I recorded a tutorial video in 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 minute variations. It's a Choose-your-own-attention-span adventure.
- The first stop on my promotional tour was Aaron's livestream for a tour of the codebase, which you can peruse on GitHub

The day of my surgery, Becky insisted on taking a picture of me after I was told to put on a hairnet but before the drugs kicked in. I was very anxious going into the operation and she was very supportive throughout.

And then what happened?…

Merge Commits

x1IdLjVdBBHjFYUEf3c9OHKM Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:42:53 +0000 The Ruby AI Podcast: The TLDR of AI Dev The Ruby AI Podcast: The TLDR of AI Dev Justin Searls 055:26 Justin Searls https://justin.searls.co/casts/merge-commits-ruby-ai-tldr-of-ai-dev/ Joe Leo and Valentino Stoll sat with me to talk about why I quit speaking and an exciting year of iteration on AI development workflows.

Appearing on: The Ruby AI Podcast
Published on: 2025-10-25
Original URL: https://www.therubyaipodcast.com/2388930/episodes/18044989-the-tldr-of-ai-dev-real-workflows-with-justin-searls

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https://justin.searls.co/tubes/2025-12-25-08h30m45s/ 📺 The Ultimate Siri Shortcut for Japanese Learners Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-25T13:30:45+00:00 2025-12-25T09:44:18-05:00

Merry Christmas! I made a little present for any of my fellow Japanese learners out there. 🎁

Today I'm pleased to share this ChatGPT-powered Shortcut for Apple platforms I've been working on with you.

Here are its headlining features of the Ingest Japanese shortcut:

Render Furigana - ChatGPT tokenizes words and produces readings for kanji and okurigana, which are then assembled into an HTML page with proper <ruby> and <rt> tags (copyable as an HTML file)
Show Kana Reading - ChatGPT tokenizes the words and converts them their kana pronunciations, separating each word with a space, so you can understand word boundaries at a glance
Translate to English - Uses whatever additional context has been provided to give an accurate translation of the text
Speak Aloud - Pronounces the selected text (copyable as an audio file)
Show Definitions - Generates dictionary definitions of each distinct word found in the text, highlighting the most likely meanings based on the surrounding context (copyable as an HTML file)

It also exposes these utilities:

Spoiler alert: there's more to this…

Breaking Change

QZ8Aoe9kUs1mebZpnCNxTptD Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:48:01 +0000 v48 - Coil Whine v48 - Coil Whine 53 Justin Searls 02:25:52 Justin Searls https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v48-coil-whine/ I'm experiencing what breathing out of my nose properly feels like for the first time. Everything is new and wondrous and I've never felt so optimistic. This sensation lasted for two days and now I'm used to it and existence is once again pain.

Share your existential musings at podcast@searls.co and I'll nod and sigh along. I might even nod and sigh performatively for you on the show!

Let's dive in and find out…

https://justin.searls.co/tubes/2025-12-25-08h30m45s/ 📺 The Ultimate Siri Shortcut for Japanese Learners Justin Searls website@searls.co 2025-12-25T13:30:45+00:00 2025-12-25T09:44:18-05:00

Merry Christmas! I made a little present for any of my fellow Japanese learners out there. 🎁

Today I'm pleased to share this ChatGPT-powered Shortcut for Apple platforms I've been working on with you.

Here are its headlining features of the Ingest Japanese shortcut:

Render Furigana - ChatGPT tokenizes words and produces readings for kanji and okurigana, which are then assembled into an HTML page with proper <ruby> and <rt> tags (copyable as an HTML file)
Show Kana Reading - ChatGPT tokenizes the words and converts them their kana pronunciations, separating each word with a space, so you can understand word boundaries at a glance
Translate to English - Uses whatever additional context has been provided to give an accurate translation of the text
Speak Aloud - Pronounces the selected text (copyable as an audio file)
Show Definitions - Generates dictionary definitions of each distinct word found in the text, highlighting the most likely meanings based on the surrounding context (copyable as an HTML file)

It also exposes these utilities:

You'll never guess what happens next…