Jensen Harris
@jensenharris.com
🏳️🌈 Co-founder & CEO of Textio, designer, engineer, world champion introvert, design + tech storyteller at youtube.com/jensenharris.
Ex-Microsoft, led UI for Windows and Office. I probably designed some of the software you’ve used!
Ex-Microsoft, led UI for Windows and Office. I probably designed some of the software you’ve used!
Sorry!
April 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Sorry!
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Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:
March 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Every time I read The Great Gatsby, the final paragraph brings me to tears. Breathtakingly powerful writing:
This captcha captures the zeitgeist of 2025 perfectly.
March 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This captcha captures the zeitgeist of 2025 perfectly.
Windows 10, my living room wall edition
February 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Windows 10, my living room wall edition
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DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us) hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/228-deepse...
228. DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us)
DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside the current center of US AI leadership and innovation.
hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us) hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/228-deepse...
The era of agents is here!!
I asked OpenAI Operator to create a petition calling for the cancelation of Hershey's Special Dark.
It replied: "I cannot help with this task."
So I set my sights lower: a petition calling for ending Mr. Goodbar. 36 minutes later...
www.ipetitions.com/petition/rem...
I asked OpenAI Operator to create a petition calling for the cancelation of Hershey's Special Dark.
It replied: "I cannot help with this task."
So I set my sights lower: a petition calling for ending Mr. Goodbar. 36 minutes later...
www.ipetitions.com/petition/rem...
Petition Remove Mr. Goodbar from Production
Remove Mr. Goodbar from Production
www.ipetitions.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The era of agents is here!!
I asked OpenAI Operator to create a petition calling for the cancelation of Hershey's Special Dark.
It replied: "I cannot help with this task."
So I set my sights lower: a petition calling for ending Mr. Goodbar. 36 minutes later...
www.ipetitions.com/petition/rem...
I asked OpenAI Operator to create a petition calling for the cancelation of Hershey's Special Dark.
It replied: "I cannot help with this task."
So I set my sights lower: a petition calling for ending Mr. Goodbar. 36 minutes later...
www.ipetitions.com/petition/rem...
I just sat down and my computer and had the weirdest fleeting thought: "it's been too long since I defragged this drive!"
(The drive is an SSD and I haven't defragged anything in more than a decade.)
(The drive is an SSD and I haven't defragged anything in more than a decade.)
January 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I just sat down and my computer and had the weirdest fleeting thought: "it's been too long since I defragged this drive!"
(The drive is an SSD and I haven't defragged anything in more than a decade.)
(The drive is an SSD and I haven't defragged anything in more than a decade.)
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this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology
January 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology
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I wrote up the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the Mac OS X Dock at Macworld Expo, from the perspective of a scared twenty-something engineer.
It's me. I'm the engineer.
tla.systems/blog/2025/01...
It's me. I'm the engineer.
tla.systems/blog/2025/01...
I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time
So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. The Age of A…
tla.systems
January 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I wrote up the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the Mac OS X Dock at Macworld Expo, from the perspective of a scared twenty-something engineer.
It's me. I'm the engineer.
tla.systems/blog/2025/01...
It's me. I'm the engineer.
tla.systems/blog/2025/01...
Never a clearer example of Microsoft vs. Apple version numbering.
December 11, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Never a clearer example of Microsoft vs. Apple version numbering.
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Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product
Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’ techcrunch.com/2024/...
Meta's Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky's 'Starter Packs' | TechCrunch
Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta's Threads, Meta is developing a feature that takes
techcrunch.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product
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This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America.
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
November 21, 2024 at 11:16 PM
This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America.
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
I can’t think of any two services I’d expect to work less reliably together than Alexa and Ticketmaster
Internal document: Amazon has held talks with several partners for handling specific tasks on the AI-powered Alexa, including Uber, Ticketmaster, and Instacart (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 18, 2024 at 11:39 PM
I can’t think of any two services I’d expect to work less reliably together than Alexa and Ticketmaster
So excited that my Fresh Step clumping toilet paper is coming today
November 16, 2024 at 7:38 PM
So excited that my Fresh Step clumping toilet paper is coming today
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gonna have to make a Best of Dying USA next
November 16, 2024 at 1:08 AM
gonna have to make a Best of Dying USA next
This is the funniest and greatest news in a week full of horrible news
Hi everyone.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars.
We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website.
We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off.
I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:49 PM
This is the funniest and greatest news in a week full of horrible news
Signed in to X for the first time in months to update my “moved to Threads” message to “moved to Bluesky.”
Holy shit my DMs are stuffed with scams and pornbots and crypto grifters. Hundreds of messages.
What a cesspool
Holy shit my DMs are stuffed with scams and pornbots and crypto grifters. Hundreds of messages.
What a cesspool
November 14, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Signed in to X for the first time in months to update my “moved to Threads” message to “moved to Bluesky.”
Holy shit my DMs are stuffed with scams and pornbots and crypto grifters. Hundreds of messages.
What a cesspool
Holy shit my DMs are stuffed with scams and pornbots and crypto grifters. Hundreds of messages.
What a cesspool
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To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Trump expected to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:37 PM
To state the very obvious, this would put an avowed anti-vaxxer in charge of vaccines, allowing him to thwart the development and approval of life-saving shots. It's almost too horrific to fathom—a potential death sentence for our families and children. It's lethal. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
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Polio after hearing RFK was selected as HHS secretary.
November 14, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Polio after hearing RFK was selected as HHS secretary.
If you wouldn’t be on Truth Social, why are you on X?
November 11, 2024 at 11:58 PM
If you wouldn’t be on Truth Social, why are you on X?
So we done with Threads too now?
October 22, 2024 at 9:40 PM
So we done with Threads too now?
I'm not sure I've ever seen a corporate logo on a building look like worse ass than this one.
I assume if you just give it a little push from the back it just tumbles off the building.
I assume if you just give it a little push from the back it just tumbles off the building.
BREAKING:
X logo, considered armed, desperate and extremely dangerous, has staked out position on roof of Twitter HQ building
X logo, considered armed, desperate and extremely dangerous, has staked out position on roof of Twitter HQ building
July 29, 2023 at 1:29 AM
I'm not sure I've ever seen a corporate logo on a building look like worse ass than this one.
I assume if you just give it a little push from the back it just tumbles off the building.
I assume if you just give it a little push from the back it just tumbles off the building.
Off to fuck around in Hyrule for 4 years and then maybe I’ll see what’s up with Ganondorf in about 2027
May 12, 2023 at 4:10 AM
Off to fuck around in Hyrule for 4 years and then maybe I’ll see what’s up with Ganondorf in about 2027
Tears of the Kingdom!!! lemme in
May 12, 2023 at 4:02 AM
Tears of the Kingdom!!! lemme in
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Someone just referred to Twitter as $8chan and I cannot top that.
May 10, 2023 at 7:45 PM
Someone just referred to Twitter as $8chan and I cannot top that.