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.
It says a lot that Final Cut Pro literally won’t allow you to save a library to a folder managed by iCloud Drive.
And one day after adding X support, my new Syndication app should also be cross-posting to Mastodon. Next up, Threads.
Just a few days after launching my TOP SECRET syndication app with Bluesky support, I've written a new adapter for cross-posting to X. Updated the site’s POSSE roundup accordingly: justin.searls.co/posse/
Becky keeps encouraging me to try nutritional yeast as a healthy, protein-rich seasoning, but the wires in my brain got crossed and I keep calling it "informational yeast" and then wondering what the hell it has to tell me.
With any luck, my website now syndicates to my Bluesky account.
And if you’re seeing this on Bluesky, then… hello!
I found myself wanting a commercial license that gave me a way to share my work, but which conferred literally no other privileges.
So I wrote a new one: the Fuck You Pay Me License github.com/searls/fypm
Someone should start a "Delete TikTok" challenge, wherein you record yourself accessing a friend's phone, deleting the TikTok app, and then capturing their reaction when they realize they can't reinstall it.
"How hard could it possibly be to truncate a string while making sure it doesn't cut off any URLs or hashtags?" he asked, ignorantly. gist.github.com/searls/9d8ee42929da99ae268477eb20818da6
No offense to the startup bros out there but “Agentic” sounds more like an Alzheimer’s drug that’s mired in a class action lawsuit for giving people cancer.
I find myself frequently wondering how much better LLMs would be at coding if they were trained to be humble and full of self-doubt instead of overconfident know-it-alls.
Super Switch. There’s a lot to unpack here (plan to record an episode of Breaking Change this weekend to discuss), but the biggest “surprise” is that this is the least surprising console Nintendo has ever designed. youtube.com/watch?v=itpcsQQvgAQ
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Just wasted 30 minutes trying to validate the following XML file:
AFAICT, 90% of XML validators don’t look up referenced XSD URLs and literally zero will validate against all of them if a default namespace is used at all. Prove me wrong!
$ rails new syndicate --database=postgresql --css=tailwind --skip-devcontainer --skip-docker --skip-kamal --skip-rubocop --skip-thruster --skip-action-mailbox
Have an old app that I don’t use and which generates Bugsnag notifications almost daily, and I’ve been stressing about a few todos to fix these long-known problems once and for all.
But then I realized I could just unsubscribe from Bugsnag email notifications and that will take way less time than debugging Postgres deadlocks. Problem solved!
Sitting on hold with a doctor and every 30 seconds it says "Due to unusually long hold times, you can press 1 to leave a voicemail and we will return your call within 24 business hours."
24 business hours? So if it’s 1 PM Monday, that means they’ll get back to me on 10 AM Thursday?
The catastrophic failure of Peloton as a business is very funny in its own right, but the fact that they’ll either go bankrupt or be merged into oblivion without ever once owning peloton dot com is sort of hilarious.
In case you’re wondering how wide the new Ultra Wide (32:9 @ 5120x1440px) setting is for Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro, it amounts to:
It’s wide.
This month's issue of Searls of Wisdom is out and includes the eulogy I recently gave for my father. If you sign up now, you'll receive it.
Already heard back from a young father who read it from a totally different perspective than I had anticipated. It's easy to assume that something that feels so personal can only apply to you, but never underestimate the impact of sharing your authentic self with others. justin.searls.co/newsletter/