Joshua Wood

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“Order is being processed, please don’t close this window”

Below that a big orange “Close” button. Do they do this on purpose?

Every time I see a K Line shipping container I think of IRC, am I a nerd

It’s alright
It’s okay
There’s something to live for
Jesus told me so

Someone who works in the parts department of a car dealership in Wisconsin saw one of our Honeybadger t-shirts and liked it so much he tracked down our 800 number and left a message. Shipping him one for free. This is what I love about my job.

You can just like go for a walk or a run and not track it. Crazy.

Gonna close my bank account, keep my savings in Robinhood. Live off the land (the grocery store doesn’t take crypto yet unfortunately).

Can’t a guy just enjoy some heroes in a half shell

Wife walks in to living room, “are you watching teen age mutant ninja turtles?”

And now she thinks I’m “cute” (source)

Wife walks in to living room, “are you watching teen age mutant ninja turtles?”

And now she thinks I’m “cute”

I feel like “the US President followed everyone on social media” will be one of those stories we tell our grandkids that captures the zeitgeist of the aughts but they won’t believe us.

You are genuinely describing the 2008 Obama campaign on Twitter, it followed anyone that followed him for a while. Millions of accounts (source)

I installed this mod in our realm server and it’s pretty fun/terrifying. We’ve been searching for it in caves and so far it has only stalked us. Probably gonna give the kids nightmares. 😂

It’s time for the U.S. tech and business community to drop the decorum around “politics” and start opposing this administration’s policies before they destroy our ability to do business entirely. It’s not political, it’s existential.

Is it a bad sign when you’ve pissed off the staff of Dunder Mifflin

Sat next to an older guy on a plane yesterday. Not a liberal type. A regional salesman with 42 years in the packaging industry. He said his clients are in chaos over the tariffs, and he’s traversing the U.S. to deal with the fallout. (source)

Sat next to an older guy on a plane yesterday. Not a liberal type. A regional salesman with 42 years in the packaging industry. He said his clients are in chaos over the tariffs, and he’s traversing the U.S. to deal with the fallout.

Rails is great for rapid prototyping, like when you need to replace all the US-based apps!

As a bootstrapped software founder much of my angst is just wanting to do too much with too little. And we do A LOT for our size. Gotta constantly remember that.

Besides the personal concerns, it’s bad for tech and business. Our communities and businesses will suffer. It measurably makes everyone’s lives harder.

I’m surprised that business communities aren’t discussing this more tbh. Seems like a real threat.

It is fucking ludicrous that our friends and neighbors in Mexico and Canada must worry about safe travel to and from the U.S. (source)

It is fucking ludicrous that our friends and neighbors in Mexico and Canada must worry about safe travel to and from the U.S.

Just saw the trailer for Drop (2025). The killer is clearly the date.

Tbh this is why it’s so important to get the UX right for apps like Bluesky. Because this network needs to attract normies, and “decentralization” is confusing af. This is why no one wants to use Mastodon.

Part of the problem for writers migrating from Substack is losing platform benefits and network effects. A real alternative must be more than just a publishing platform. It needs networks and communities too. (source)

Part of the problem for writers migrating from Substack is losing platform benefits and network effects. A real alternative must be more than just a publishing platform. It needs networks and communities too.

I’m going to continue to talk about building (and migrating to) infrastructure to counter the right wing bullshit machine. Here’s another piece of that. We need good (better?) alternatives to Substack and we need to take our content and eyeballs over to them. (source: Kate Starbird on Bluesky)

Woke up to the kids practicing their recorders so naturally assumed I’m a contestant on squid game

Standing up from a seated position sure is harder than it used to be

Watching Fargo (the series) for the first time. Can’t believe it took me this long.

Yes things are bad, but also each day is a gift and it’s a marvel that any of this works at all.

Finally watched Snowpiercer. Now I know for sure what I wasn’t missing all those years.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. This is so well articulated.

Andy Vitek:

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt’s words “the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

Double pneumonia is no joke. Day 10 of antibiotics and I can almost take a deep breath.