I’m focusing 100% of my marketing efforts for 2025 on walking around empty Meta Horizon VR worlds asking if anyone needs a podcast editor. (This was at a Shawn Mendes concert?)
Every so often I manage to sneak on to my Xbox connected to my tv and play a bit of Fortnite or NHL ‘25.
I’ve settled back on using Gwenpool, Baymax rocket boots, and the longboard glider as my skin. Feels like the best mix of form and function. 😆 🎮
Up until 1 to pick up oldest from a winter formal at school, awake until 2:30 waiting for him to get home from taking pics at an odr, then up at 6:30 when youngest decides to make French toast first thing.
I’m starting to see the appeal of kids eventually moving out on their own. 😂 😴
I slipped on the ice while taking Neville for a walk tonight. I’m sure I’ll feel some random muscle pain in 2 days.
As much as 2C in January is nice, it’s awful for the sidewalks. I was ready to sell the house and move to Mexico.
I love my American friends. But ya’ll look like clowns right now.
New blog post: Federated Following Confusion Featuring Matt Haughey
I’d love to ditch Meta (FB, WhatsApp, IG, and now Threads), but whenever I open Threads I see posts from people i follow that I can’t find elsewhere.
Zuckerberg and Musk are vile, yes. But I want to connect with other humans—not brands—who are on their platforms. 🤔
I appreciate that Buttondown makes sure you’re serious enough about the relationship before allowing naked mode. 😆
New blog post: Missing Notifications in iOS 18
I don’t know why, but it bothers me so much that the Descript dot com version is snappier than the desktop version on my Mac Studio. 😆
Just checking what happens if I bold some text or maybe italicize it via Micro.blog and then cross-posting to Bluesky.
TIkTok’s frantic effort to skirt the U.S. ban as the White House changed hands:
“It was all a game. It was like a competition: What’s a creative way to suck up to Trump?” the person said. “They created a crisis and then averted it. But there was no crisis.”
I see a resurgence in the use of Signal as a WhatsApp / Messenger / etc. alternative. Is it secure to share your username publicly? Or more of a thing you’d use to give directly to someone you know?
I wish I could get off Meta, but the WhatsApp moat is a huge one.
Seems like today’s iOS & macOS updates might be worth doing for security reasons more so than an AI slop features.
I’m thankful that Ben Thompson woke up early to go deep on DeepSeek.
Meta, meanwhile, is the biggest winner of all. A big barrier to realizing their vision is the cost of inference, which means that dramatically cheaper inference makes that vision much more achievable.
Woof.
