Lee Clontz
@clontz.blog
Distance runner, Hold Steady fan, terrible guitar player, writer, occasional gamer, husband, dad of two.
Theory: "The internet can route traffic dynamically in the event of an atomic bomb attack."
Reality: "I misconfigured DNS and now no one's bed can recline."
Reality: "I misconfigured DNS and now no one's bed can recline."
November 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Theory: "The internet can route traffic dynamically in the event of an atomic bomb attack."
Reality: "I misconfigured DNS and now no one's bed can recline."
Reality: "I misconfigured DNS and now no one's bed can recline."
Built something fun over the weekend: a Chrome/Edge extension called Prompt Drawer that lets users save and organize commonly-used AI prompt snippets or full prompts. Still some rough edges, so happy to have any feedback. Details in the blog post.
clontz.blog/2025/11/16/s...
clontz.blog/2025/11/16/s...
Stupid Weekend Project: Prompt Drawer edition
I love a good Stupid Weekend Project: some dumb hardware or software idea that you wake up thinking about and feel compelled to crank on to see where it goes. Here’s a new goofy thing for man…
clontz.blog
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Built something fun over the weekend: a Chrome/Edge extension called Prompt Drawer that lets users save and organize commonly-used AI prompt snippets or full prompts. Still some rough edges, so happy to have any feedback. Details in the blog post.
clontz.blog/2025/11/16/s...
clontz.blog/2025/11/16/s...
My Halloween costume this year is the album cover for the 1995 Warren Zevon classic "Mutineer."
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
My Halloween costume this year is the album cover for the 1995 Warren Zevon classic "Mutineer."
When my Gmail Inbox tab goes from 3,215 to 3,216, I know I have an important new email.
August 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
When my Gmail Inbox tab goes from 3,215 to 3,216, I know I have an important new email.
At some point we all laid out our last page in QuarkXPress, and the tragedy is that we didn't know.
July 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
At some point we all laid out our last page in QuarkXPress, and the tragedy is that we didn't know.
Hey @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social — any chance you’d share chords for Roll
Over and Die? Trying to learn it.
Over and Die? Trying to learn it.
July 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Hey @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social — any chance you’d share chords for Roll
Over and Die? Trying to learn it.
Over and Die? Trying to learn it.
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I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived. www.wired.com/story/couple...
My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
www.wired.com
June 26, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived. www.wired.com/story/couple...
Target's Switch 2 preorder shipping experience was a little nuts. Up until late last night, they were saying that it was "about to ship" and wouldn't arrive until *next Wednesday*, then all of a sudden it's coming today.
I guess it's an underpromise/overdeliver thing, but sheesh.
I guess it's an underpromise/overdeliver thing, but sheesh.
June 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Target's Switch 2 preorder shipping experience was a little nuts. Up until late last night, they were saying that it was "about to ship" and wouldn't arrive until *next Wednesday*, then all of a sudden it's coming today.
I guess it's an underpromise/overdeliver thing, but sheesh.
I guess it's an underpromise/overdeliver thing, but sheesh.
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the blubber wraps the body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange
June 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
the blubber wraps the body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange
Michael Barbaro’s “Mmm!”s are going to be audible from the moon tomorrow morning.
June 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Michael Barbaro’s “Mmm!”s are going to be audible from the moon tomorrow morning.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
What if the five people I meet in heaven are absolute pains in the ass? What then?
May 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
What if the five people I meet in heaven are absolute pains in the ass? What then?
Something wrong, babe? You’ve barely touched your Jocko Mölk.
May 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Something wrong, babe? You’ve barely touched your Jocko Mölk.
In my life, I've read two books that I almost had to stop reading because I was so intensely unsettled: Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone" back in 1995 and, just last week, Annie Jacobsen's "Nuclear War: A Scenario." Both books that I'm glad I read and never want to read again.
May 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
In my life, I've read two books that I almost had to stop reading because I was so intensely unsettled: Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone" back in 1995 and, just last week, Annie Jacobsen's "Nuclear War: A Scenario." Both books that I'm glad I read and never want to read again.
There's a strange BlueSky algorithm quirk (I'd call it a bug) where I frequently see the same story reshared by the same person two or three times in a row. I wish it would not do that.
May 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
There's a strange BlueSky algorithm quirk (I'd call it a bug) where I frequently see the same story reshared by the same person two or three times in a row. I wish it would not do that.
I’ll take “messages you never want to see in a Uber” for $1,000, Alex
May 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I’ll take “messages you never want to see in a Uber” for $1,000, Alex
I have 900 PC games in my various libraries, and all I like is Balatro.
April 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I have 900 PC games in my various libraries, and all I like is Balatro.
Dunno if @reckless.bsky.social and @davidpierce.xyz are watching Andor, but the wedding reception in S2E3 has the final form of the Sony ULT party speaker.
April 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Dunno if @reckless.bsky.social and @davidpierce.xyz are watching Andor, but the wedding reception in S2E3 has the final form of the Sony ULT party speaker.
Was able to score a Switch 2 preorder a few minutes after midnight. Few errors during checkout in the Target app, but it seemed to work without huge headaches. It's interesting that the API endpoints for mobile apps feel more robust and reliable than using the raw Web.
April 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Was able to score a Switch 2 preorder a few minutes after midnight. Few errors during checkout in the Target app, but it seemed to work without huge headaches. It's interesting that the API endpoints for mobile apps feel more robust and reliable than using the raw Web.
Just learned that Eric Van Lustbader isn't a pen name. Dude not only was born with the dopest writer name ever, but has a Zelig-like biography intersecting with Lauren Bacall, the Carradines, Elton John and John Lennon. Clearly the most interesting man in the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Va...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Va...
Eric Van Lustbader - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Just learned that Eric Van Lustbader isn't a pen name. Dude not only was born with the dopest writer name ever, but has a Zelig-like biography intersecting with Lauren Bacall, the Carradines, Elton John and John Lennon. Clearly the most interesting man in the world.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Va...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Va...
Hey @davidpierce.xyz -- Vergecast question: the recent midweek episodes have basically been two separate shows merged into one very long episode. Any reason not to just split them up into two different episodes to be released on different days? Love the show, keep it up, etc. etc.
April 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hey @davidpierce.xyz -- Vergecast question: the recent midweek episodes have basically been two separate shows merged into one very long episode. Any reason not to just split them up into two different episodes to be released on different days? Love the show, keep it up, etc. etc.
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Reposted by Lee Clontz
It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.
March 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.
This search result is hilarious in at least four different ways.
March 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This search result is hilarious in at least four different ways.