John Candy: I Like Me, 2025 - ★★★★½

Watched on Friday October 24, 2025.

I love how just when I was beginning to wonder if Audio Hijack / Loopback from Rogue Amoeba weren’t long for this world, another productivity nerd discovers them and reminds everyone about how powerful they are.

I found an app combo that makes my audio quality basically perfect in every app – OBS, Zoom, whatever.&10;&10;1. Audio Hijack – lets me add effects to my actual mic input&10;2. Loopback – turns the output from Audio Hijack into a virtual input device&10;&10;This lets you use the virtual device as your input in any other app. You can even set it as your whole system's default input.&10;&10;Result: Perfect audio at the time of recording, in any app.&10;&10;I went down a rabbit hole to set this up because I was tired of my Loom recordings sounding so much worse than my YouTube videos.&10;&10;But this also solved issues in OBS, which doesn't support all of my audio plugins for some reason.&10;&10;I'm so pleased the result that I had to shoot a little video on it:

I cancelled my Flexbits subscription today. It’s only $7/month for a great Calendar app, but something has to give with every single app or service increasing in price.

New blog post: American Apple(s)

Two minutes late! Neville’s so over this selfie project.

#Selfie a day for a year, day 66, Oct 24, 2025 edition.

A person wearing glasses and a dog are lying on a dark leather couch, both resting their heads on the cushion.

WFH lunch

Photo of a plate of nachos with salsa, sour cream, and guacamole beside it in bowls.

We may be reaching peak podcasts about Satanic Panic: a new show that just started called “The Devil You Know” has Sarah Marshall (host of You’re Wrong About) digging into it.

New blog post: Everything is Broken - The Remix

5 different services (and counting) that I use that I’ve gotten “we value your support and understand it’s a hard time to do this, but we have to raise prices”.

Which is fair for them to ask. But also a good time for me to evaluate whether I need said services or not.

New blog post: What Advice Would You Give to a Grade 12 Entrepreneurial Class?