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.
Claude Code gives me better apologies than I think I've ever received from a human.
Amazingly, Russian doesn't have a word for "no," only "not yet."
Everything we learn about Shizuoka just makes us more excited that we chose it as the place to get a condo. Turns out, it's a huge soccer town! Bonus: Fuji-adjacent stadium 🗻⚽️ youtube.com/watch?v=txanTKRQXmI
Huge unlock working with Claude Code: Ultrawide mode in Vision Pro's Mac Virtual Display. Keep a terminal off to the side and still have plenty of room for your own work. If Claude is worth $200/mo, this display experience is worth $3500.
2008: Social Network
2014: Social Media
2025: Content Platform
Apologies for lighting up my feed with restaurant photos and reviews for so long—it was an inevitable consequence of being stuck in business hotels for two months. I'm back home and I'm cooking food and my gut is slowly recovering.
MCP is doing the heavy lifting here. I've written two "agentic" apps. I immediately realized I could improve both by replacing the LLM part with normal fucking code. The revolution here is MCP shoehorning API access into many more programs and services than we previously had worksonmymachine.substack.com/p/mcp-an-accidentally-universal-plugin
I would love to go to one of these but for the fact that the kind of people who'd love to go to one of these are not my kind of people theoffline-club.com/
If you or a loved one are exhibiting symptoms of Hustlebrosis, please discontinue use of Claude Code and seek help from a medical professional immediately reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/I5kWGHn2EL
It took me almost TWENTY YEARS but I just now realized C# being pronounced "C-Sharp" is a musical note reference.
The current year is 2025 and the only supported way to sign out of a Netflix account on my Airbnb's 2025 Smart TV is to enter this fucking Konami code:
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Up, Up, Up, Up
No.
Third-party games selling like garbage at the launch of a Nintendo system? Who could have seen this coming videogameschronicle.com/news/third-party-switch-2-game-sales-have-started-off-slow-with-one-publisher-selling-below-our-lowest-estimates/
Becky's Dyson Airwrap can connect to the Dyson app… just realized I can cURL her curler while she curls her hair.
Wow, Iran must be really pissed about them adding ads to WhatsApp to be asking their entire population to delete it theverge.com/politics/688875/iran-cutting-off-internet-israel-war
Similar to Kojima, I had to adjust the runtime and prevalence of swears in the Breaking Change podcast because they weren't pissing enough people off videogameschronicle.com/news/composer-says-kojima-changed-death-stranding-2-because-it-wasnt-polarizing-enough/
Been a fun couple of weeks touring more remote parts of Japan, and I'm happy to report I've now stayed at least one night in 46 of Japan's 47 prefectures. I'm saving the last—Hokkaido—for next year. RubyKaigiかな justin.searls.co/posts/all-the-pretty-prefectures/
Someone asked me for an explanation of how KameSame's synonym detection works, which I never actually shared before. To save myself some time, I had Cursor analyze the codebase and answer for me and… wow! I remember how hard this was now. gist.github.com/searls/a6f5e6d2eb178e342b2224f2bcc4b439
Just sent out this month's edition of Searls of Wisdom. It's a creative one. If you're curious about what it's been like buying a second home in Japan, sign up and you'll get it justin.searls.co/newsletter/
My heart goes out to Mikeal's friends, family, and loved ones upon hearing of his passing. We interacted at a handful of conferences in the early Node.js days and he was always kind, thoughtful, and present. b.h4x.zip/mikeal/
I checked to see what the Internet thought about Apple's WWDC keynote, and I gotta say that I'm very impressed to see that despite the woke backlash, every stereotypical tech bro is suddenly an accessibility advocate.