Working for Palantir disqualifes you.

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."

I didn’t see it, but the only thing missing from this is a mechanism to force an en banc hearing of all 26. But otherwise, nails it.

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.

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

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 m... https://json.blog/2026/04/11/i-think-the-worst-sign-for

This latest Netflix increase is the end for me.

Travel day nonsense

When 5 o’clock hits and she looks up at me like that…

I’ve been writing a song in my head all week. I’m desperate to record it. I know it won’t sound right. Taste exceeds talent– every time. But this week has been eating my brain and zapping me of the will to do it. Here’s hoping this one s... json.blog/2026/04/04/ive-been-writ...

Scrolling LinkedIn makes me want to barf.

So does frankly all the BS at work that isn’t just building.

I can’t decide if my future is moving up or moving way back down.

The legal academic community in the United States is such a joke.

Home recording is still pretty hard for me: https://json.blog/2026/03/30/home-recording-is-still

All the cool guitar gear I want to try cannot be found within a 90 minute drive of Baltimore City. Sigh.

Elsa: you were an early adopter of … Readers? You know remember that Google thing? Google Reader? Why did they kill that?

Me: 🫠🔪

The US strategic oil reserves are not so healthy.

I’ll give you one more bit that has been huge for PMs— I can get much faster/better answers as to what our product actually does, because I can use AI to quickly explore the actual code base, then get the human documentation up to date. No more 3 weeks chasing people down to confirm behavior.

I went from a PM who still wrote code to deliver a small side thing 1x month to a PM who can deliver major features and refactors on a weekly basis. My value was being able to (though rarely needing to) be two vertices on the product triad— jobs won’t exist that aren’t like that going forward.

Currently so tired on the couch that I feel too tired to walk upstairs and go to bed.

The AirPods Max 2-- just like the Studio Display Update: json.blog/2026/03/16/airpods-max-2...

A new, short form Contrapoints: json.blog/2026/03/14/a-new-short-f...

Sanderson provides an example of growth: json.blog/2026/03/14/sanderson-pro...

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Normally, I worry about sticks and food and balls we find on our walks. This morning, Mae added empty planters.

I can't decide if I want to support webmentions on my blog. I very rarely got them. I do like the idea of knowing when someone has linked to me. I don't know if anyone cares if I send them.

The Mac I Want Doesn't Exist

In The Mac I Want Doesn’t Exist, Chris Hannah perfectly sums up the state of the Mac post Apple Silicon transition. The computers are so good, there’s basically no reason to upgrade until the hardware form factor changes.

Two dogs asleep on their beds

My first post from my phone: json.blog/2026/03/13/my-first-post...

This is a test post from the iOS simulator.

Opinion | Why the latest racist, antisemitic college MAGA group chat points to the GOP's future Anthony L. Fisher Young MAGA activist leaders —the heirs to Charlie Kirk’s legacy — keep getting outed as bigots. And the right’s mostly just yawns.

A leaked Florida college group chat revealed TPUSA's chapter president — and other young Republican activist leaders — giddily using antisemitic, racist and fascist rhetoric.

The heirs to Charlie Kirk’s legacy keep getting outed as bigots. And the right mostly just shrugs.

(new @ms.now column)

An hour of vibecoding in Xcode has convinced me apps may be dead: https://json.blog/2026/03/01/an-hour-o