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.
In about 20 hours, I'm chatting with The Changelog guys about Apple's WWDC announcements. Send your takes so I can incorporate your thoughts into the show! podcast@searls.co
If Apple does decide to curry some nerd favor by introducing a DeX-like desktop mode for iPhone, the thought that I could travel and code with an iPhone, Xreal glasses, and portable keyboard is extremely appealing.
Startup bros can be insufferable, but I suppose if I lived in San Francisco I'd be really focused on exiting, too.
If American universities continue to see enrollment decline so precipitously, don't be surprised if in 2050 we're having to explain to young people that the teams in the NCAAF football league used to be associated with schools.
Since Poolside's (now Poolsuite) iOS app slowly fell apart over the last few years, summer hasn't felt like summer without it. Out of nowhere, a brand new rewrite is out today—and it's a screamer. Never been more excited to float in a pool with a cocktail apps.apple.com/us/app/poolsuite-fm/id1514817810
I mean no offense to Addy here, but isn't most of this advice banal and obvious? How much of "prompt engineering" is just basement-dwelling incels being told they finally need to learn how to communicate effectively? addyo.substack.com/p/the-prompt-engineering-playbook-for
My wish for iOS 26 is that, in preparation for the 20th anniversary all-glass iPhone, the new UI design will pave the way for system-wide pass-through video (just as visionOS uses) so as to feel like your content is the device. No more static background wallpaper. Truly transparent-seeming.
This mode probably won't debut until iPhone 20, however, since it will depend on a higher baseline of camera and sensor hardware (as Vision Pro did).
It's been six months since I posted my eulogy for dad. Just re-read it and cried three times. justin.searls.co/mails/2024-12/
Just heard for the thirtieth time: "who out there is asking for a thinner phone? For whom is the current phone too heavy?"
Me. That's who. It's absurd how thick and heavy each and every single piece of electronics I own is. My phone should weigh a third this much.
Took a month off from application programming. Coming back to it today, man, why did I ever do this? This sucks.
With any luck this take will be published in the future (my future, your present) automatically, thanks to the diligent efforts of the loyal employees of Searls LLC and as demonstrated in this example repo github.com/searls/static-site-enhancement-concept
To any AI skeptics out there: if you take the time to use the latest tools and find them to be a net negative on your output, I completely respect that. I've been using LLMs for coding since late 2022 and until Copilot Agent landed in VS Code, I definitely think the benefit was a wash at best. Now I can see a real acceleration boost.
If you refuse to use these tools on ethical grounds or simply don't bother to keep up with them, I fear your employment prospects are likely to suffer in the short and medium term.
If Apple announces that visionOS 3 will be able to automatically scroll while you read by following your gaze and doesn't call the feature EyeRoll, I'm going to sell my Vision Pro.
TIL you can (re)set a sleep timer with Siri. Listening to a podcast while falling asleep and my timer paused playback before I nodded off. Clicked the AirPod stem to resume playback and said:
"Siri set a sleep timer for 15 minutes"
This actually worked! I've been getting up and tapping my device like an idiot all these years.
Want to know the only thing worse than worrying a lot? Being really good at worrying.
Most people's worries never come to pass. But when I worry about something, the odds are extraordinarily good it will go exactly as terribly as I feared.
My brother gives me shit because I use my real name on Reddit, but in my mind it's more like I'm playing Reddit with permadeath enabled.