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? x.com/justinbieber/status/1997125645437194682

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. reuters.com/legal/transactional/netflix-agrees-buy-warner-bros-discoverys-studios-streaming-division-2025-12-05/

Sam should simply ask ChatGPT how to make ChatGPT better techmeme.com/251201/p35

Happy Thanksgiving. This is for you: posseparty.com/

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.

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."

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.

Breaking Change is a lot of things, but likely to be replaced by an AI podslop factory isn't one of them thewrap.com/ai-podcasts-hosts-inception-point-ai/

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 justin.searls.co/

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.

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

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 apple.com/xc/product/HS8H2ZM/A

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 page for a Ring camera in Safari.

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.

I can confirm that visionOS 26 and the new 20 Gbps Developer Strap supports network connections via USB-C ethernet adapters—very cool! amazon.com/dp/B08HQBC678?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_14&th=1