Justin Michael's personal website and blog.
Stephanie K. Baer at The San Francisco Standard : Glasses and dishes had been removed from kitchen cabinets and left elsewhere. The dishwasher, refrigerator, and washing machine were scratched. Dishwasher racks were bent and removed. Wooden furniture was scratched and stained. Bathroom tiles were chipped. A shoe rack and several pairs of shoes were missing from a locked bedroom closet. [...] In a…
Turns out Backblaze no longer backs up cloud files—not even cloud files that are already downloaded and stored locally on your computer. Worse, they quietly shipped this change in a minor point update and hoped no one would notice: Release Version 9.2.2.877 [...] The Backup Client now excludes popular cloud storage providers from backup, including both mount points and cache directories. This…
Manuel Moreale in a post titled "Ad Blockers didn’t help kill the open web" : I agree that the web platform failed at figuring out a way to deal with monetisation. Everything ultimately falls back on Ads because it’s the only idea that “works”. But to me, the issue is that we have an overabundance of content, and most content is not worth paying for. Most content is not worth anything. This post…
As you can tell from the titles on this blog, I like emoji. In addition to putting emoji in my post titles, I also add an emoji to each item on my todo list. Recently, I added a financial task to my todo list, pulled up the emoji picker, and typed money . I figured I'd probably use the sack of money emoji (💰) or maybe the stack of dollar bills (💵), but one of the results was something I hadn't…
Karina's personal website, How soon is now? , is one of the most emotional and human sites I've ever seen. This website was created out of nostalgia for the simpler, more personal era of the internet, or "old web", contrasting the corporate hellscape of social media platforms. While I keep this site for myself, I hope you find something of interest here. ♡ Oh, there's something of interest there…
Robin Rendle in a short post about the importance of being kind and being cool : Kindness is easy to quantify. Kindness will make you do things that’s bad for business but great for customers that will eventually make it great for your business again. At this one company many years ago I remember arguing that we should add unsubscribe links to our emails and someone said “nah, that’s bad for us…
I clearly need to up my LinkedIn game. Mark Tyson at Tom's Hardware : Tmuxvim thought it would be fun to time-warp messaging spam by putting a prompt injection string in their About Me section of the site. In place of the usual LinkedIn About section, where one might discuss your work-related activities and achievements, Tmuxvim added an ‘admin’ prompt. The idea was that this would be interpreted…
taken. shares the things it learns about you just by visiting: Every page you have ever visited knows at least this much. Most of them know more. None of them told you. The information is presented with some amount of dramatic flair, but things have gotten so out of hand it feels like a little dramatic flair is warranted. For people in tech—especially those who work on the web—most of this…
On June 30th, 2025, I started working at Stainless as a part-time contractor. A couple months later, on August 21st, I joined the team full-time. Today, on May 18th, Stainless announced they've been acquired by Anthropic. See also: Anthropic's announcement . Given how I feel about generative AI , I declined the opportunity to join Anthropic. I wish all of my former colleagues the very best…
Jenny Volvovski designs incredible book covers. Delightful and inspiring. See also: Also , her design studio where she does more great work.
