Just John 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇰🇷
@justjohn.dev
Movie buff, frustrated artist, veteran, software engineer breathing life into other people’s bad ideas.
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
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September 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
I commute 35 miles a day, I charge at home every other day at the cost of $1.50 per charging session. Everything else is just icing on the cake.
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
thehill.com
July 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I commute 35 miles a day, I charge at home every other day at the cost of $1.50 per charging session. Everything else is just icing on the cake.
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
thehill.com/opinion/tech...
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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
July 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
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If scarcity is how society truly values things, then anything AI delivers must now be low value. But it's not all bad news, poorly written books, poorly executed art, and poorly written code have always been low value.
June 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If scarcity is how society truly values things, then anything AI delivers must now be low value. But it's not all bad news, poorly written books, poorly executed art, and poorly written code have always been low value.
If the answer to the problem at hand (foreign or domestic) is to send in the military, then you've already lost, and what happens next is just some version of "If I can't have it I'll just destroy it."
See also: Putin.
See also: Putin.
June 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If the answer to the problem at hand (foreign or domestic) is to send in the military, then you've already lost, and what happens next is just some version of "If I can't have it I'll just destroy it."
See also: Putin.
See also: Putin.
I've been off my road bike for 2.5 years. I saddled back up this weekend and embraced the suck. My Garmin was like...
Zzzz...
What the hell?
What are you doing?
Are we being chased by a bear?!
Zzzz...
What the hell?
What are you doing?
Are we being chased by a bear?!
June 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I've been off my road bike for 2.5 years. I saddled back up this weekend and embraced the suck. My Garmin was like...
Zzzz...
What the hell?
What are you doing?
Are we being chased by a bear?!
Zzzz...
What the hell?
What are you doing?
Are we being chased by a bear?!
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
Even AI can't figure out to make CSS work right. 🤦
April 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Even AI can't figure out to make CSS work right. 🤦
If you're not being shown loyalty, you owe no loyalty.
April 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If you're not being shown loyalty, you owe no loyalty.
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I'm putting a tariff on the word "tariff"!
Hooked up an arcade dispenser to give me a ticket every time that god-forsaken word shows up on my computer screen.
20 tickets == 1 beer
Hooked up an arcade dispenser to give me a ticket every time that god-forsaken word shows up on my computer screen.
20 tickets == 1 beer
April 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I'm putting a tariff on the word "tariff"!
Hooked up an arcade dispenser to give me a ticket every time that god-forsaken word shows up on my computer screen.
20 tickets == 1 beer
Hooked up an arcade dispenser to give me a ticket every time that god-forsaken word shows up on my computer screen.
20 tickets == 1 beer
So much insecurity around AI... Look folks, it's not going to take your job, but you may lose your job to SOMEONE who knows how to apply AI to your domain.
No one taught you how to use your phone, and yet here you are reading this post. Learn how to leverage AI and improve your efficiency. #AI
No one taught you how to use your phone, and yet here you are reading this post. Learn how to leverage AI and improve your efficiency. #AI
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
So much insecurity around AI... Look folks, it's not going to take your job, but you may lose your job to SOMEONE who knows how to apply AI to your domain.
No one taught you how to use your phone, and yet here you are reading this post. Learn how to leverage AI and improve your efficiency. #AI
No one taught you how to use your phone, and yet here you are reading this post. Learn how to leverage AI and improve your efficiency. #AI
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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1946)
Never was a truer thing said, in my humble experience, and it applies to almost every aspect of life.
Never was a truer thing said, in my humble experience, and it applies to almost every aspect of life.
April 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1946)
Never was a truer thing said, in my humble experience, and it applies to almost every aspect of life.
Never was a truer thing said, in my humble experience, and it applies to almost every aspect of life.
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
Visiting Costco on an empty stomach may lead to my financial ruin.
March 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Visiting Costco on an empty stomach may lead to my financial ruin.
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Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
March 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
Technology is easy, people are difficult.
March 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Technology is easy, people are difficult.
Oh, the irony. Doesn't this prove that the applicant knows how to use the company's products? I thought that was considered a plus...
Anthropic (Claude LLM) AI Company doesn’t want people using AI for their resumes or any part of Interview for software developer or IT jobs at their office. How ironic? LOL. The company says AI tools are flooding their system with bogus résumés and too many applicants. They can't find real talent
February 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Oh, the irony. Doesn't this prove that the applicant knows how to use the company's products? I thought that was considered a plus...
We're all still benefiting from Apple buying NeXT all those years ago. I guess that's why I decided to fiddle with the wireless MAC address on my new MacBook to fake out my Eero.
What can I tell you, I'm easily amused. 🤷
What can I tell you, I'm easily amused. 🤷
January 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We're all still benefiting from Apple buying NeXT all those years ago. I guess that's why I decided to fiddle with the wireless MAC address on my new MacBook to fake out my Eero.
What can I tell you, I'm easily amused. 🤷
What can I tell you, I'm easily amused. 🤷
New evening ritual to avoid watching the news: Having dinner while watching Friday Night Videos on the TV (cheesy 80’s commercials included)
youtu.be/7WOSCf9c5Do
youtu.be/7WOSCf9c5Do
Friday Night Videos 1984 compilation | Liknapho Candle Warmer Lamp
YouTube video by Mone Media
youtu.be
January 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
New evening ritual to avoid watching the news: Having dinner while watching Friday Night Videos on the TV (cheesy 80’s commercials included)
youtu.be/7WOSCf9c5Do
youtu.be/7WOSCf9c5Do
Grab a coffee, learn about Deepseek, and understand why synthetic training datasets are... concerning. In the same way that Oklahoma leaving the uglier parts of history out of school textbooks is... concerning. (Zoom forward to 26:20 if you're short on time)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9P...
OpenAI is terrified (there's finally a great open source LLM)
YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Grab a coffee, learn about Deepseek, and understand why synthetic training datasets are... concerning. In the same way that Oklahoma leaving the uglier parts of history out of school textbooks is... concerning. (Zoom forward to 26:20 if you're short on time)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=by9P...