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 I was young and learning how to do my own laundry, I remember always thinking “permanent press” sounded like too much of a commitment.
TIL you can create a new rails app inside the current directory without creating a new one! For example, to build out a rails app around them:
$ rails new .
The app module will be named after the current working directory.
I really hope that for the next Vision hardware release, Apple makes the light shield (functionally) optional. The original is so much more productive and pleasant when you remove the light shield and retain your (human) peripheral vision and airflow over your face’s skin.
Been “vibe coding” (ugh) all afternoon, and 3 hours into my agent building an agentic REPL (I know), it decided to just remove all human-facing output because it figured out how to read underlying logs I don’t have (apparent) access to.
Was like that scene in Her when the AI just decides to peace out and go do its own thing. Welp.
The pope’s death today is absolutely tremendous news for VOD rentals for Conclave. Great movie!
Welp, this is a first. Prepping for v35 of Breaking Change and there's not a single email in the mailbag. Write to podcast@searls.co in the next hour and I'll talk about whatever you want!
Reddit really didn’t like my HomeKit post. One of the best things about being me is that I had the privilege to spend half a decade unwinding myself from the soul-crushing responsibility of giving a single flying fuck what randos on the Internet thought. ✌️ reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/1jynr4v/i_made_a_guide_fro_making_homekit_backgrounds/
Feels so good when somebody has already made the exact tool you need. Really easy to confuse multiple VS Code project windows, especially when extracting a library marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=johnpapa.vscode-peacock
Why I love infrared saunas: weighing myself before and after a 60 minute session, I sweat so much that I dropped 1.3 pounds DESPITE drinking 1.68 liters (3.7 lb) of water.
That means in just one hour a 65°C sauna caused me to perspire 2.27 L (5 lb). Holy shit.
My productivity skyrocketed this week. Sleeping better? New AI tool? Nope!
I signed out of iMessage on my Mac. Night and day difference. My computer is for computing again. HUGE difference.
iOS lets you set a default app for 9 different categories, but of course Reminders is not among them. All I want is to be able to funnel everything into Things with minimal shenanigans support.apple.com/en-us/121430
Not gonna lie, zero regrets for having spent the weekend panic-buying just about every piece of electronics I need for the next year. reuters.com/technology/chinese-electronics-company-anker-starts-raising-prices-amazon-2025-04-11/
Sure, Nate's CEO hired Filipinos to "be the AI", but If investors had bothered to read the pitch deck, they'd have noticed he defined LLM as "Large Labor Model" techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/fintech-founder-charged-with-fraud-after-ai-shopping-app-found-to-be-powered-by-humans-in-the-philippines/
The reason AI startups like Windsurf, Cursor, et. al, are all fucked is that "you’re a product, not a platform" is the new "you’re a feature, not a product."
If you fail to secure a massive acquisition, you're gonna get steamrolled by the big tech companies as soon as they catch up.
It’s a bad time to sell stocks, but it’s the PERFECT time to sell my playstupid.games domain. Want it? E-mail me at wtf@searls.co
Good post for engineering leaders struggling to figure out how to make their business counterparts happy. Bonus: a rare 2x2 matrix that makes a meaningful point. testdouble.com/insights/beyond-mvp-why-your-most-valuable-tactic-matters
The latest episode of Breaking Change is the first that feels like it clicks as a video. Genuinely preferred watching it over simply listening for the first time youtube.com/watch?v=y6G5a_myb4M
TIRED: Panic-buying toilet paper
WIRED: Panic-buying cameras and SSDs
There's the headline. You know it's real when they pull out the pics of floor traders touching their faces. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trump-tariffs-stock-market
The best test framework for Ruby finally became useful. TLDR 1.0 is here: github.com/tendersearls/tldr