Jordan Running
@jrunn.ing
He/him • Dad, software engineer, karaokeist, recent Minnesota transplant
Tfw you spend half an hour trying to figure out why your Playwright tests are being flaky before realizing that the test is working as intended and you actually broke the thing.
January 28, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Tfw you spend half an hour trying to figure out why your Playwright tests are being flaky before realizing that the test is working as intended and you actually broke the thing.
Discovered that the domain name running.family was available and snatched it up. What should I do with it?
January 28, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Discovered that the domain name running.family was available and snatched it up. What should I do with it?
Shopping for phone cases is a trip.
January 22, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Shopping for phone cases is a trip.
Chrome is very concerned that that my email/password combination of test@example.com/password123 was found in a data breach.
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Chrome is very concerned that that my email/password combination of test@example.com/password123 was found in a data breach.
Cats in litter box product photos is one of my favorite genres.
January 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Cats in litter box product photos is one of my favorite genres.
TIL iOS’ Accessibility settings has “Per-App Settings” so you can bump up the font size in just those apps that have obnoxiously small text. (I’m looking at you, Reddit.)
January 14, 2026 at 2:10 AM
TIL iOS’ Accessibility settings has “Per-App Settings” so you can bump up the font size in just those apps that have obnoxiously small text. (I’m looking at you, Reddit.)
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A must-read:
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
A must-read:
Stayed in a hotel room last weekend that had daylight bulbs in its bedside sconces. Still shaking my head.
December 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Stayed in a hotel room last weekend that had daylight bulbs in its bedside sconces. Still shaking my head.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
I’m in my Buying Things In Bright Colors Specifically To Make Them Easier To Find When They Get Lost In My Messy House era.
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I’m in my Buying Things In Bright Colors Specifically To Make Them Easier To Find When They Get Lost In My Messy House era.
An acquaintance’s last name starts with Z and has only two vowels. I don’t want to doxx them but it’s close to “Zbrabben.” Cool name, yeah? I come to find out they’ve married another Z-name with the same consonant-vowel ratio and naturally chose to hyphenate them: Zschoppe-Zbrabben. 10/10 no notes.
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
An acquaintance’s last name starts with Z and has only two vowels. I don’t want to doxx them but it’s close to “Zbrabben.” Cool name, yeah? I come to find out they’ve married another Z-name with the same consonant-vowel ratio and naturally chose to hyphenate them: Zschoppe-Zbrabben. 10/10 no notes.
One must imagine one’s emails finding Sisyphus well.
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
One must imagine one’s emails finding Sisyphus well.
Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band
Watching Fantasia with the kids. They mostly tuned out the second half until the part with the mostly-nude cherubs and centaurs and satyrs. Lots of giggles.
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Watching Fantasia with the kids. They mostly tuned out the second half until the part with the mostly-nude cherubs and centaurs and satyrs. Lots of giggles.
I even specified “bird.” Thanks Google.
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I even specified “bird.” Thanks Google.
Uhh okay, thanks Google AI. 🙄
October 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Uhh okay, thanks Google AI. 🙄
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October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾
October 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾
I tried implementing a server-side #atproto auth client from scratch and gave up after a few days because it turns out it’s just… not possible?? Not without a pretty deep understanding of OAuth and JWTs and JWKs and PKCE and PAR and DPoP and and and…
Skill issue, maybe, but not a great experience.
Skill issue, maybe, but not a great experience.
October 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I tried implementing a server-side #atproto auth client from scratch and gave up after a few days because it turns out it’s just… not possible?? Not without a pretty deep understanding of OAuth and JWTs and JWKs and PKCE and PAR and DPoP and and and…
Skill issue, maybe, but not a great experience.
Skill issue, maybe, but not a great experience.
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More alternatives:
- Surge
- Railway
- Render
- Tiiny
- Fly dot io
- Surge
- Railway
- Render
- Tiiny
- Fly dot io
fuck vercel, fuck Next.js, fuck Svelte, fuck Turborepo, fuck SWR, fuck SWC
Posing with the architect of a genocide for sales leads is an insane and deeply immoral stance
these projects cannot separate themselves from the CEO of the company who funds them
Posing with the architect of a genocide for sales leads is an insane and deeply immoral stance
these projects cannot separate themselves from the CEO of the company who funds them
September 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
More alternatives:
- Surge
- Railway
- Render
- Tiiny
- Fly dot io
- Surge
- Railway
- Render
- Tiiny
- Fly dot io