← Feed

Posts

• View post

  Media Literacy is Dead: https://json.blog/2026/09/12/as-someone-who-watches-tv-the

• View post

  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.

• View post

  Declaring your art, music, or performances a space without politics is the same as declaring your art empty and pointless. Valueless art is valueless.

• View post

  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

• View post

  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?

• View post

  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.

• View post

  Has there ever been a bigger lie than the MyChart notification that an earlier appointment is available?

• View post

  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.

• View post

  I wish every Discord was just a forum instead.

• View post

  Amazon. I'm begging you. Page turn buttons. Please.

• View post

  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. ↩

• View post

  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.

• View post

  The milkshake duck has been dethroned: https://json.blog/2026/07/28/dhh-showed-who-he-was

• View post

  @overcastfm@mastodon.social oh I have to tell you, reddit has been real shitty about Overcast. I hope they're less shitty hearing from you directly, but I'm not sure I have much hope.

• View post

  @marcoarment@mastodon.social I actually have a friend who has spent the last month writing a new language that more deeply embeds the ideas of MCP into its core. It's fascinating to see him take what he's learned and bring it to a domain-- I think we may actually see lots of micro-languages that are purpose built.

• View post

  @pratik 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.

• View post

  Now you can subscribe via email -- but probably don't: https://json.blog/2026/05/10/contact-newsletter-added

• View post

  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.

• View post

  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?

• View post

  A subset of photos from our Philly Weekend

• View post

  Travel day nonsense

• View post

  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.

• View post

  Don’t try and manipulate me with your feedback: https://json.blog/2026/04/15/dont-try-and-manipulate-me

• View post

  If I had unlimited regulatory power to address small, every day annoyances, I’d require all pills to be gel caps.

• View post

  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.

• View post

  Working for Palantir disqualifes you.

• View post

  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."

• View post

  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/

• View post

  No side loading sucks: https://json.blog/2026/04/30/no-side-loading-sucks