mastodon 4.7.3Frequently frustrated and inappropriate. Product leader, data person.
People I know, love, and respect think Teams is great. I hate it compared to Slack. Just hate it. Other people I know, love, and respect think Discord is great. I cannot understand why. 1
I do understand it has community moderation tools, but I also find trying to participate in Discord communities impossible and the app just an absolute garbage heap on Mac. ↩
Amazon. I'm begging you. Page turn buttons. Please.
There's a YouTuber I don't like that much, but do end up watching more than I'd like to admit. His video today, "In 2026, you don't need an amp." And all I can think is, "Yeah, you don't need an amp, because your playing is entirely recording for YouTube and playing in a cover band that does like wedding gigs."
Proof that you can rip on guitar but not know how to rock.
Has there ever been a bigger lie than the MyChart notification that an earlier appointment is available?
I wish every Discord was just a forum instead.
Declaring your art, music, or performances a space without politics is the same as declaring your art empty and pointless. Valueless art is valueless.
Years ago I would have written a long blog post on the Nikole Hannah-Jones article, but these days that feels like a painful chore. I will say that I've enjoyed watching everyone react and finding within this one story exactly whatever it is they already believed about education.
I thought Elon Musk straight up admitted that Hyperloop was invented just as a way to kill California High Speed Rail-- not replace it, kill it-- because it was never meant to work. Why isn't that the first thing everyone is saying about this new Texas nonsense?
I'm pretty unconvinced that "it's the phones", but boy I absolutely think it's hogwash to suggest "it's the Common Core". Dramatically overplays how much change actually happened in classrooms due to the Common Core.
A childhood autonomy decline? Maybe. But Common Core? You're showing your weird politics. https://www.theverge.com/policy/995704/peter-gray-restoring-childhood-jonathan-haidt
Drinking at nearly 40 is a total crapshoot. Sometimes I get fully drunk and feel 100% fine. Sometimes I have a single, light beer with dinner and feel terrible the entire next day.
Everyone says they hate targeted ads, but I was looking for courses/workshops (in person) to learn more about guitar building and repair, and then tonight Instagram sent me an ad for a four week guitar building class 1.5 miles from my house I would have never known about otherwise.
A subset of photos from our Philly Weekend
You can’t “descend into fascism” when fascism was the goal from the start. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/
At some point this year, I just stopped reading and I stopped writing. I haven't felt like doing much of either. In the past, I'd worry about it. Now I just think, "it's just not that kind of season in my life."
Working for Palantir disqualifes you.
I have to admit-- I forgot eBay was still a thing. I buy used stuff online and basically never go there. Just me? Millennial thing?
If I had unlimited regulatory power to address small, every day annoyances, I’d require all pills to be gel caps.
I think the worst sign for OpenAI is that people are using the phrase “Claude” as often as “ChatGPT” or “ChattyG” and other variants as a generic “I asked the AI/robot/agent/LLM a thing.” Their first mover advantage on product was meant to make OpenAI and ChatGPT the generic word— like Kleenex or Google.
They failed to achieve this.
Don’t try and manipulate me with your feedback: https://json.blog/2026/04/15/dont-try-and-manipulate-me
"I think one of the undervalued pitches that a prospective Democratic candidate for President in 2028 could make is, “Young enough to have to live with the consequences of my decisions.”"
Corey Richardson on Threads @thecoreyrichardson@www.threads.com
After avoiding trivia for a long time, we stumbled into the wrong (right?) bar: https://json.blog/2026/04/28/after-avoiding-trivia-for-a
Media Literacy is Dead: https://json.blog/2026/09/12/as-someone-who-watches-tv-the
Yeah, AI sucks at a lot of things, but it doesnt suck at taking a query plan and immediately noticing an index miss on a join because of a mismatch in column collation. I have no idea if I would have figured that out with infinite time.
Travel day nonsense
YouTube just broke their AppleTV app with autoplay on thumbnail hover. Autoplay is annoying enough, but if you set the AppleTV to match the content for refresh rate and HDR-type, this basically means a “flash” every time you navigate a single tile.
This latest Netflix increase is the end for me.
Figma not being able to merge with Adobe and then being deeply disrupted adds to the long history of anti-trust in the US being notoriously bad at determining what mergers are or are not problematic.
Whelp, JHS has let it out that the new dual overdrive they're working on is a Morning Glory + Klon. I'm mostly using the left side of my Double Barrel (a Morning Glory) with the Notaklon these days... so I guess my pedal board is getting a new addition soon and a bit of space back.
Autogenerate alt text with local models?: https://json.blog/2026/05/02/autogenerate-alt-text-with
A fun thing that happens every week-- I keep thinking about how I want to get different gear, then I go play with Colin and Charlie and I think "damn my guitar sound is dialed in."
Apple could do a lot more with Wallet. It's one of my favorite iOS features, but it's not a great app. It needs more organization tools and contextual awareness.
Now you can subscribe via email -- but probably don't: https://json.blog/2026/05/10/contact-newsletter-added
@pratik@writing.exchange I've seen so many people into this and ... boy I cannot imagine giving access to my email account like this. Maybe I'm a luddite. Maybe if I were running the LLM locally. Maybe.
