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.
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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.
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