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📍 Tabelogged: 蕎麦 鷹乃 新静岡セノバ
🔥 Over the last 20 years, my time in Japan felt…
📍 Tabelogged: 浪漫
📍 Tabelogged: The Villa & Barrel Lounge
🔥 Tooling for coding agents is overly focused on…
🔥 This Opus 4.5 failure mode rarely happens with…
🔥 "Brakeman, hosted on GitHub under the…
🔥 Is anyone really surprised that Entropy fell…
📍 Tabelogged: 静岡かきセンター 呉服町店
📍 Tabelogged: ほんな骨 静岡店
🔥 After hearing lots of Opus 4.5 hype, I decided…
🔥 I wonder how many people accidentally book…
🔥 Commuter trains in Tokyo are so packed that the…
🔥 Look on the bright side, Apple chose not to ruin…
🔥 Given that it's just as often programmers who…
📍 Tabelogged: 大衆食堂BEETLE 原宿
🔥 Twenty years working on Windows command line…
🔥 I played Harvest Moon for the Super Nintendo so…
📍 Tabelogged: 本格板前居酒屋 お魚総本家 アスティ静岡店
🔥 Over the last year, every SaaS app launch has…
📸 A better macOS Globe key
✂️ Shenmue was educational software
🔥 Jerod Santo, the co-host/co-founder of The…
🔥 I would simply start a podcast.…
🔥 Documentary music video of my experience getting…
🔥 AI companies touting scale as how much…
📍 Tabelogged: どんぶりハウス
📍 Tabelogged: エル・ポジート
🔥 For anyone who wants to see my self-deleting…
🔥 What happened to Japanese men? When I was in…
📍 Tabelogged: とんかつ ひな太
🔥 I must admit, Japan's wholesome spin on…
🔥 Oh, Apple. Scheduled a "Send Later" iMessage to…
🔥 It is Twenty Fucking Twenty Six and iMessage…
🔥 The reviews are in! Melatonin supplements are a…
🔥 Here's a direct revenue idea for the airlines:…
🔥 I'm a shameless iPhone Air booster, but this is…
🔥 Back in college during my study abroad in Japan,…
📸 PSA: iPhone Air MagSafe Battery can charge your AirPods
🔥 Just got mad at my coding agent and corrected it…
🔥 Yet again, I finally sit down to tackle…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v49 - Saving Face Oil
📸 Peter Campbell's giraffe art
🔥 TIL that I'm the Napoleon of open source…
🔥 Oof. Adam Wathan and his colleagues on the…
📄 Weekstart
🔥 AirPods Pro 3 are a disappointment. Seal is less…
🔥 Glad someone else wrote this. IDGAF about macOS…
✉️ 100% Oyster Meat
🔗 Clicks Power Keyboard is a Headless Blackberry
🔥 Full. Breadth. Developer.…
📸 Shovelware: pdf2web pipeline
🔥 A low stakes, immediately useful task for AI…
🔥 Happy New Year! Need something low-key to watch…
📺 This Ball x Pit trailer
🔗 This Ball x Pit trailer
🔥 For a terrifying time, check out what Claude…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v48.1 - 2nd Annual Punsort
🔥 This perfectly encapsulates the coding agent…
📸 Meta's algorithm has me nailed
🔥 Braved the humanity and bolstered my immune…
🔥 Just realized that if the children's book Cloudy…
📸 Doordash Couture
🔥 Followed Ruby type systems for years. Spent a…
🔥 TIL if you want Safari to render 120fps, you…
📺 The Ultimate Siri Shortcut for Japanese Learners
🔥 Voters don't intuit that bond yields affect…
📸 Is Apple Shortcuts functional programming?
🔥 is everyone suddenly visited by the pervasive…
✉️ Merry Divestmas
🔥 Just verified this: macOS Tahoe 26 is the first…
🔥 Argument isn't airtight, but this is the best…
🔥 Andy Waite thought to have Sonnet 4.5 analyze…
🔥 It just dawned on me that I can write an iCloud…
🔗 Mike McQuaid has joined the POSSE
🔥 Now that POSSE Party is properly "done", I'll be…
🔥 A week or two after soft-launching POSSE Party,…
🔥 Burned-in, AI-generated captions have become so…
🔥 Forget five 9's of reliability—when it comes to…
🔥 The scope and scale of this leak is…
🔥 GPT 5.2's improved visual analysis is no joke. I…
🔥 We watched that racing biopic about DHH on Apple…
📸 That's a pretty good Searls impression
🔗 A New Old Republic game? Hell yeah.
🔥 A nonzero number of people think it's called…
🔥 The fundamental misunderstanding behind the…
📸 Seems like nothing interesting happened
🔥 I don't know who needs to hear this, but:…
🔥 How to see the ML-derived keywords for a photo…
🔥 I use both Instacart and ChatGPT, and just tried…
🔥 Thanks to having been bullied for being fat and…
📄 ChatGPT 5.1 explains why it hallucinates
🔗 The AI Wildfire Is Coming
🔥 Whenever I introduce myself as Justin in Japan,…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v48 - Coil Whine
🔥 Amazing to think that—adjusting for…
🔥 Sam should simply ask ChatGPT how to make…
✂️ Fit a 5090 gaming rig in a backpack
✉️ I'd do it all again
🔥 Happy Thanksgiving. This is for you:…
🔥 Words and phrases that Codex CLI will use to…
🔥 Continuous improvement feels good. Always…
🔥 The job of a programmer is to manage exactly two…
🔥 Hate to be so blunt, but if you're a senior…
✂️ The Software Project Lifecycle
🔥 It's time to work out and I realized I left my…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v47 - Turbinately Ill
🔥 I've been daily-driving Codex CLI with GPT-5…
🔥 On one hand, yes, it's ridiculous I pay $200 a…
🔥 First impression of Google Antigravity: this is…
📄 TDD is more important than ever
📸 Downdetector is down
🔥 Breaking Change is a lot of things, but likely…
📸 Live Captions for Audible books in iOS 26
✂️ Creating static Instagram Stories as Wisps
🔥 Codex CLI and I invented a full client-side CMS…
🔥 Anyone else have some number of HomePods…
🔥 Spectrum's technician was denied entry to my…
🔥 If Ed Zitron ends up being proven correct about…
📸 My lucky day
🔥 Apple is finally selling PSVR2 controllers for…
🔗 RIP iPhone 18 Air
🔥 I've been using Tahoe since July and I've…
🔥 My bro's staying with us, and he's pointed out…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v46 - Adjusted Gross Intelligence
🔥 I can confirm that visionOS 26 and the new 20…
🔥 My grandpa left me a tiny 1-inch portable TV…
🔥 This was a real pain in the ass. Please use it.…
🔗 Software is supply-constrained (for now)
🔥 The single most destructive metric is a key…
🔥 Watching Becky explore the world of…
🔥 There's always a reply guy.…
📄 How to downgrade Vision Pro
🔥 Seems like there's a bug in visionOS 26.1 where…
🔥 Excited to engage with the Orlando developer…
🔥 A nonstop Orlando-Tokyo route is absolutely…
🔥 I wonder what's in store for the USA's…
🔥 My brother's moving out in a few days and I…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v45 - Developer Strap-on
📸 The new Developer Strap delivers 20 Gbps to the M2 Vision Pro
🔥 Has anybody figured out a way to get Codex CLI…
🔥 I'm sick of getting spam email because of my CEO…
🔥 We just took @tenderlove on Jungle Cruise and he…
🎙️ Merge Commits podcast - The Ruby AI Podcast: The TLDR of AI Dev
🔥 Anyone else's Lutron Caseta system go down last…
✉️ The Generative Creativity Spectrum
🔥 TIL from John Hawthorn: If you use Kagi Search…
🔥 I never used to reach out to touch my MacBook…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v44.0.2 - Mike McQuaid: If you don't like it, Quit
🔥 "This is just proof that Matz is in bed with the…
🔥 Holy shit, a thing I made in college has a…
🔥 Dictated but not red.
🔥 Ruby is 30 years old, there's so much left to…
🔥 Genuinely curious how long it will be until we…
🔗 Good coding agent advice
🔥 A nonzero number of programmers under 30 assume…
🔥 When coding agents fail to accomplish what we…
🔥 After a fabulously productive weekend with Codex…
📸 ✅ Active on weekends
🔥 The joy I get out of programming has slowly…
🔥 When I work late or long hours coding something,…
🔥 Best reason to use Codex CLI over Claude Code is…
🔥 A cruel irony of coding agents is that everyone…
🔥 When working with a coding agent, a great…
🔥 lol I thought Codex CLI misspelled a field, but…
🔥 Have now received multiple apology emails from…
🔗 People jumped to conclusions about this RubyGems thing
🔥 Reading this, I feel good about not jumping to…
🔥 Who the hell called it a Strategic Advisory Firm…
🔥 This post is both correct and irrelevant. If you…
🔥 Any Fastmail users have advice on managing spam?…
🔥 Coding agents have really improved my self…
🎙️ Merge Commits podcast - Dead Code: Fear-driven Everything
🔥 TIL that you the macOS Terminal app has a…
🔥 Got a few more Sora invites. Email me justin at…
🔥 TFW your friend accidentally jailbreaks Sora to…
🔥 Good post by Dave Mosher. It'd be great if…
📄 Is Sora the future of fiction?
✂️ My Top 10 Sora Clips on Day One
🔥 For anyone who wants to be deepfake buddies,…
✂️ Will code for 🙌's
🔥 Without this post, it would require a conspiracy…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v44.0.1 - José Valim: It's a time for builders
🔥 Zach couldn't have asked for a better pull-quote…
🔥 Updated yesterday's post, adding a link to a…
🔥 Timely reminder that the email address for…
📄 Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco
🔥 Proposal: move RubyGems (the `gem` and `bundler`…
🔥 The only difference between GPT-5 and…
🔥 One year ago today, I gave my final conference…
🔥 I keep thinking about the guy who dismissed…
📄 How to automatically add chapters to your podcast
🔥 So much for OpenAI running out of money by the…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v44 - Can't get it up
🔥 Use chatbots as tools, not friends. If you use…
📸 MagSafe Ice Packs
🔥 I now know three people who've decided to return…
📄 Why I bought the iPhone Air
📸 Pro-tip: Dodge The Verge's Paywall
🔗 Tot is a great coding agent companion
📸 So much for Airplane Mode
🔥 My coding agent started stopping to tell me to…
🔥 Generative AI is like the "Draw the Rest of the…
🔥 For a real weird time, get yourself an MRI of…
🔥 Seeing a lot of Fractional CTOs and CFOs out…
🔥 TFW a virtually identical app to the one you've…
🔥 Easiest smell test of AI features in software:…
🔥 This post by Danny Bolella perfectly captures my…
🔥 Smart change Apple Software Update: if you were…
🔗 The Last Days Of Social Media
🔥 Playing Super Mario Odyssey and just realized…
📸 A simple calculation
🔥 A watched agent never codes.
🔥 So glad iPhone Pro goes to a 4x telephoto…
✉️ Visionaries, Entrepreneurs, and Innovators
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v43.1 - iPhone 17 Event Review
🔗 I've got your shovelware right here
🔥 Thanks to exercise and clean living, my resting…
🔥 Feel like Becky's podcast is starting to hit its…
🔥 Just fired up my Oculus Quest 2 for the first…
🔥 There are fully six podcasts devoted to Curb…
📄 Distributing your own scripts via Homebrew
🔥 While I'm complaining about LLMs, another one:…
🔥 One of the most pernicious habits of LLMs (that…
🔥 GPT-5 + Codex is so fast that when I expressed…
📸 You won't believe this Codex fork
🔗 What They Don't Tell You About Winning Film Awards
🔗 Bootloading > Sideloading
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v43 - The Slop Economy
✂️ Cinder block developers
🔥 Pro-tip: the codex CLI can't search the web by…
🔥 I wish coding agents came with those Green/Red…
🔥 I don't know who needs to hear this, but despite…
📄 This blog has a comment system
🔥 For somebody who hates Apple so much, you'd…
✂️ AI is exposing order-takers
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v42.0.1 - Scott Werner: Ignore all previous instructions
🔥 I think I'm finally at peace with the fact that…
🔥 TIRED: Rebinding caps lock to escape because you…
🔥 With Swift, I'm really speed-running the list of…
🔗 Why I wasn't cut out for management
📄 Sprinkling Self-Doubt on ChatGPT
🔥 The nice thing about server-side LLMs hitting…
🔥 I would pay so much extra for a version of…
📄 What's the Hotfix?
🔥 Despite not touching it for several years, I've…
📄 Which of your colleagues are screwed?
🔥 Keep hearing about Finntech and how much money…
📄 Star Wars: The Gilroy Order
🔥 Interesting analysis of the distinctiveness of…
📄 How to generate dynamic data structures with Apple Foundation Models
🔥 I don't wish them ill, but the stock price of…
🔥 The first affirmative case I've read for Ruby…
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v42 - Free as in Remodel
🔥 Claude Code's Explanatory and Learning modes are…
🔥 A group of Italian-American feminists should buy…
🔥 Been using Parachute for iCloud Drive & Photos…
🔥 Everyone complaining about GPT-5 doesn't…
🔥 You know that meme where the best developers…
🔥 Hilariously, Japan just discovered Myers-Briggs…
📸 Shout for DANGER
🔗 Is a Technical Debt ZIRP a good thing?
🔥 Personally, I was inclined to doubt the GPT-5…
🔥 I'm glad I pointed Scott to Orta's Claude post,…
📄 Letting go of autonomy
🔥 who the hell called it golden shower sex and not…
🔥 Best part about being CEO of a company named…
📄 "There Will Come Soft Rains" a year from today
🎙️ Breaking Change podcast v41 - Liquid Glasshole
🔗 There is no 'AI' in 'Team'
🔥 Shout-out to Orta for pulling on the…
🔗 Upside-Down Development
🔥 My OGs from high school and college still have…
📄 I made Xcode's tests 60 times faster
🔥 AppleCare One is a great deal if you like…
🔥 Did Satya write this for current and former…