I joined Twitter in 2007 and my brain slowly morphed over the next 15 years from hopelessly verbose to nihilistically pithy. I've kicked the Twitter habit, but the takes keep flowing. That's why I post them here and format them as a social network of one. You're welcome to bookmark any of these takes, though I'm not sure why you would.
By the way, the hearts and like counts are fake. They're just there to make you feel safe.
When your CI server notifies you of JavaScript test failures in a modern Rails app, is it sending you a Stimulus check?
Though making things with computers involves a fair bit of misery and frustration, what keeps me at it is the feeling of FINALLY getting over the hump and unlocking the next chunk of rapid progress.
The closest analogue is how it felt to receive a present as a child and want to run away from the party to immediately play with it. As soon as I'm unblocked, I can't tear myself away.
Pro-tip: if your AirPods Pro have been in your ears for a while without audio playing and your device won't connect, brush the stem so as to adjust the volume. This will wake them up and they'll connect more quickly.
I wonder whether dudes enthralled by right-wing incel manosphere influencers realize that being an alpha male and having something to prove by posting online are fundamentally incompatible.
Everyone’s recent realization that the software industry has been living in a vibes-based alternate reality makes me wonder if the tech sector of the 2010s won’t be remembered the same way we think of finance in the 1980s. A gold rush typified by unbridled greed, lavish excess, and excessive risk.
Moral bankruptcy slowly giving way to literal bankruptcy.
The fact RuboCop can’t lint ERB templates is a pretty huge cop-out IMO
One reason Apple Intelligence has been slow to roll out is… a lot of this shit just isn't useful. I'm a sadist that insists on coding with LLM-based tools all day every day and it's almost always a waste of time compared to raw-dogging it myself. macrumors.com/2025/03/13/apple-announced-swift-assist-wwdc24-so-where-is-it/
Someone brought up this older post of mine today and i'm pleased to report that (with the benefit of my no longer remembering it years later), it is as good a post on the topic as I could hope to find and that past-me was indeed very smart testdouble.com/insights/necessary-sufficient
"Send Later" functionality in Mail and Messages are both (according to Apple's documentation) completely client-side. That being the case, why does it support iMessage conversations and not SMS/RCS ones?
Delta: "Instead of waiting on hold you can message us on the go. Current messaging hold time is 11 hours 12 minutes."
Delta, after I decline: "Current call hold time is 2 minutes."
Just deployed a Threads adapter to POSSE Party. This rounds out support for all four major Twitter-like services! 🎉 posseparty.com
Arguing about divisive political issues in the open at work (esp. in Slack/Teams/etc) is generally not a good idea.
Interjecting to say it's a bad idea is not the same as banning it.
I don't know who needs to know this but Meta's Threads app counts characters based on unicode code points and not grapheme clusters. The documentation doesn't say how it counts the 500 character limit, so there you go.
If the tariff-coaster is stressing you out, I guess it's a small kindness that the US manufactures more than enough liquor domestically.
When I drive a Tesla with Full-Self Driving enabled it feels just like riding a bike with no hands—I'm simultaneously amazed by what is happening but so nervous it'll kill me that I'm ready to take over in an instant.
I've found real value in Open AI's "Deep Research" mode, so today I added the 10th(!) multimedia type to my website (called "Slops") to embed AI-generated content, including my prompt, stylized citations, and metadata indicating which content is AI-generated justin.searls.co/slops/
The thing I can't stand about Vegas is that even when I eat right, exercise, and go to bed early, I still feel like absolute garbage by the end.
If my body's gonna feel this wrecked, I should at least get to enjoy way harder drugs and kinkier shit than I actually get up to.
Apple dropped support for “apple-touch-icon-precomposed” and yet Safari will still, 11 years later, make GET requests to /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png even if you specify a different URL in a link tag. Sheer madness. developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html
I used to think I loved to travel, but it turns out I just hated where I lived.
Now that I’m where I want to be, travel has just become an expensive way to feel inconvenienced and come home sick.