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💌 just setting up my twttr / testing the webmention ...
published 19 months ago
💌 I want to recommend Standard Ebooks - it’s a sourc...
published 19 months ago
💌 On Firefox you can’t highlight text on a Notion pa...
published 19 months ago
💌 The way that Swift handles errors seems really nic...
published 19 months ago
💌 Not sure when it happened, but at some point I sto...
published 19 months ago
💌 If you put potatoes in bread, you get really good ...
published 19 months ago
💌 I need to let people format their comments on my b...
published 19 months ago
💌 I watched a video tour of the world’s largest crui...
published 19 months ago
💌 My natural eyebrow slit has never received enough ...
published 19 months ago
💌 I will soon be publishing a two hour long ambient ...
published 19 months ago
💌 Can’t wait for email providers to start blacklisti...
published 19 months ago
💌 I’m like Dune but with a budget of 75 pence
published 18 months ago
💌 Interesting that you only have to say “This is not...
published 18 months ago
💌 Interesting that you only have to say “This is not...
published 18 months ago
💌 Please, just a crumb of capital gains tax on prope...
published 18 months ago
💌 My Chemical Romance are unusual in that their chor...
published 18 months ago
💌 Jacob Marley: “it feels good to be scrobbling agai...
published 17 months ago
💌 It’s quite amazing how broken Tumblr is now. I can...
published 17 months ago
💌 I remember and miss the days when the “Menswear Gu...
published 17 months ago
💌 Richard Sapper was a genius, but ThinkPads are ver...
published 16 months ago
💌 “Oyler clearly wishes to be a person who says bril...
published 15 months ago
💌 I’d like to buy a tiny touch ID sensor that I can ...
published 15 months ago
💌 2-step rhythms, digitized kotos, and radio-ready s...
published 15 months ago
💌 Jeff Koons makes Funkopops for rich people
published 13 months ago
💌 I thought Online Ceramics shirts were cool until I...
published 13 months ago
💌 A kind reader emailed me to let me know that despi...
published 10 months ago
💌 I have added Cloudflare's turnstile to my comments...
published 10 months ago
💌 I wish that I had never written the thing about sh...
published 10 months ago
💌 The VSCode UI is so painful that I’m finding mysel...
published 9 months ago
💌 When a new generative AI tool comes out - all the ...
published 9 months ago
💌 I guess I'm someone who uses Safari to browse the ...
published 9 months ago
💌 Now when I post on https://johnwhiles.com/notes it...
published 9 months ago
💌 I used to write drafts with pen and paper and they...
published 9 months ago
💌 How do Claude projects work? Do they just append a...
published 8 months ago
💌 After a few years thinking that having a favourite...
published 8 months ago
💌 Moby Dick is the name of his sledge
published 8 months ago
💌 At least now we get to find out how exactly a gove...
published 8 months ago
💌 In the process of buying a dressing gown on the in...
published 8 months ago
💌 Top level apples: Cox’s Orange Pippin, Belle De Bo...
published 8 months ago
💌 It’s not me, it’s the incentives.
published 8 months ago
💌 It’s not the incentives, it’s you.
published 8 months ago
💌 My coat's big - but I’ve realised that it needs to...
published 8 months ago
💌 Sheeple are always trying to complicate their CRUD...
published 7 months ago
💌 I dreamt that someone made an NFT of my face and t...
published 7 months ago
💌 An important question that I don’t know the answer...
published 7 months ago
💌 I’m seeing more people quoting / reading Dominic C...
published 7 months ago
💌 He (me) is just not that into you (next.js)
published 7 months ago
💌 in chemistry they taught me about ‘rate limiting s...
published 7 months ago
💌 Currently collating the oral hygiene advice of Aze...
published 7 months ago
💌 Well if @PepMangione says I should buy $ANIC…...
published 7 months ago
💌 If you publish a list of your top 10 albums of the...
published 7 months ago
💌 The Quietus' album of the year list is exciting be...
published 7 months ago
💌 2024 was the year of insiders claiming to be outsi...
published 7 months ago
💌 Baking recipes are always like ”375μg baking soda,...
published 6 months ago
💌 I'm making a quiz where the contestants hear a tin...
published 6 months ago
💌 Substack are determined. Day by day, feature by fe...
published 6 months ago
💌 I really like apple intelligence notification summ...
published 6 months ago
💌 I’d never considered the impact of being able to e...
published 6 months ago
💌 Imagine using twitter. Lol, lmao even
published 6 months ago
💌 I’d love to find a way to combine my interests in ...
published 6 months ago
💌 Still lots of alpha in asking ‘what if we had focu...
published 6 months ago
💌 I listened to M.I.A.'s new song, post conversion t...
published 6 months ago
💌 I need to start texting people I like way more tha...
published 6 months ago
💌 RIP to the one guy who really saw the beauty in ev...
published 6 months ago
💌 Downside of the fancy Stagg kettle is that I have ...
published 6 months ago
💌 How do we reconcile Slime Mould Time Mould et al i...
published 5 months ago
💌 Polymarket (the only real crypto product) would wo...
published 5 months ago
💌 And for the tenth year running the music industry ...
published 5 months ago
💌 I can see deepseek in my index funds
published 5 months ago
💌 Given the whole “Fully automated space communism” ...
published 5 months ago
💌 I've been accused of doing things ironically. This...
published 5 months ago
💌 It’s a real shame that they built all this high le...
published 5 months ago
💌 I’m about ready to bite the bullet of the categori...
published 5 months ago
💌 If you’re reading this, I still want my My Chemica...
published 5 months ago
💌 ‘No you don’t understand - this Netflix is actuall...
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💌 Only a fool would think it possible to enumerate t...
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💌 Big something-pill moment when you realise that ri...
published 5 months ago
💌 Maybe this is controversial - but I think pets sho...
published 4 months ago
💌 A strange development of the last few years is tha...
published 4 months ago
💌 If Apple Watches actually manage to do non-invasiv...
published 4 months ago
💌 Imagine you love the Lord of the Rings and you’ve ...
published 4 months ago
💌 Websites should be allowed to autoplay music...
published 4 months ago
💌 ”newborn jellyfish, mushrooms, white MacBooks, bli...
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💌 If you're ever bored, try just really looking at s...
published 4 months ago
💌 It feels good to export a wav of an Ableton projec...
published 4 months ago
💌 obsessed with being obsessed
published 4 months ago
💌 How long do you have to use a computer before it g...
published 4 months ago
💌 Strategy: go on Spotify, or whatever, search for a...
published 3 months ago
💌 People say the Teenage engineering radio is 'stupi...
published 3 months ago
💌 Sometimes I'll be listening to a song and then sud...
published 3 months ago
💌 I went to a meet-up. I spoke to a man in a leather...
published 3 months ago
💌 On the surface Severance looks like an extended me...
published 3 months ago
💌 Moores law is ‘more is more’
published 3 months ago
💌 I will always read Michael Nelson reviewing Deaf H...
published 3 months ago
💌 I have a project called ”selected ambient voice no...
published 3 months ago
💌 I think this might be the best year for new music ...
published 3 months ago
💌 Have been on a roll creating backlinks in my Obsid...
published 3 months ago
💌 Really curious to know what portion of users have ...
published 3 months ago
💌 Finally what we all wanted, real markets that beha...
published 3 months ago
💌 Why use a relational database, when you could simp...
published 2 months ago
💌 Life hack: peel and segment a clementine then leav...
published 2 months ago
💌 Val.town is pretty cool - I just made a thing that...
published 2 months ago
💌 How do I totally remove all references to podcasts...
published 2 months ago
💌 finally abandoning my little cronjob that and bash...
published 2 months ago
💌 Thinking of building a generative background music...
published 2 months ago
💌 Serious question: does living in rural areas make ...
published 2 months ago
💌 Fuck the UK fishing industry IMO
published 6 weeks ago
💌 I want to be the W.G. Sebald of cassette mixtapes...
published 4 weeks ago
💌 Sometimes in order to keep your politically expedi...
published 3 weeks ago
💌 IMO Jeremy Corbyn has more or less dedicated his l...
published 2 days ago
💌 I hate to the be one to tell you this, but the mus...
published 46 hours ago
💌 I love cooking with Shaoxing wine... sometimes I e...
published 19 hours ago
💌 Against moderation
published 3 years ago
💌 Arnie films I’ve watched recently
published 3 years ago
💌 What I talk about when I talk about Balenciaga's Trainers
published 21 months ago
💌 Check out uBlock origins element picker
published 2 years ago
💌 John Recommends: B.P.R.D. Humble Bundle
published 10 months ago
💌 I wish Chat GPT was more like chatting
published 2 years ago
💌 I’m making Claude write Anki cards for me
published 7 months ago
💌 How to make Cloudflare properly cache a Remix site
published 18 months ago
💌 I made a SaaS product
published 21 months ago
💌 I have added comments to this website
published 20 months ago
💌 (Don’t) Use Computer
published 9 months ago
💌 Expired Domains Strike Again
published 3 months ago
💌 Features I'd like to add to this website
published 10 months ago
💌 Golden Age of Consumer Software
published 2 years ago
💌 I've rebuilt this website too many times. I just did it again.
published 2 years ago
💌 How can you save anything?
published 5 months ago
💌 Tries Company
published 6 years ago
💌 This site is in the internet phonebook!
published 7 weeks ago
💌 Suggestions and Observations, Japan
published 2 years ago
💌 GUEST POST: Japan's hottest tunes right now
published 2 years ago
💌 Local development with DynamoDB and JavaScript
published 5 years ago
💌 Most browsers can natively lazy load images
published 6 months ago
💌 Linking in to LinkedIn
published 3 years ago
💌 On Doing Maintenance / Cataloguing the Work
published 21 months ago
💌 I made a Quotebacks plugin for Marked
published 2 years ago
💌 Six things I sort of believe about making music/art
published 3 years ago
💌 I made a bunch of 'retro' App Icons for MacOS
published 22 months ago
💌 John Recommends: Easy positive EV on Polymarket
published 9 months ago
💌 Suddenly, I Understand Software
published 21 months ago
💌 Quote Bag January 2024
published 5 months ago
💌 Rating the Ramen I ate in Japan
published 2 years ago
💌 Adding data to a request object is totally an anti-pattern
published 6 months ago
💌 John Reviews: Rosalía‘s coca cola
published 2 years ago
💌 Please add an RSS feed to your website
published 18 months ago
💌 Fixing a Memory Leak in a Ruby SideKiq Job
published 2 years ago
💌 Rust Nation UK
published 2 years ago
💌 A Second Solaris
published 4 years ago
💌 Seeing Solaris
published 4 years ago
💌 Shaving Is Too Expensive. Also the world is out to get you
published 3 years ago
💌 The undisputed best songs of 2023
published 20 months ago
💌 Start Small, Stay Small
published 4 years ago
💌 I can’t believe how bad the Substack UX is
published 6 months ago
💌 Setting up my new computer, vim, and listening to Spotify in the terminal
published 2 years ago
💌 Fear and Loathing of The Terminal
published 2 years ago
💌 The Loneliness of the Mid Level Vimmer
published 20 months ago
💌 Johncom now supports webmentions
published 19 months ago
💌 What I Read On Holiday
published 3 years ago
💌 My mum couldn't use WhatsApp because her font size is too large
published 13 months ago
💌 Maybe you should do less “work”
published 3 years ago
💌 YikesScript
published 4 years ago