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Art-house goon Developer, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ex-@tinymixtapes · webdev · vim · movies · music · uspol · design · […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.coop/@jsit, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 9h
God damn it, it’s TOAD.
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 9h
RE: indieweb.social/@classicweb/1173740… Man I miss blog-ass blogs
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 10h
Anybody know how to get a frog out of a bass guitar, asking for a friend
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 10h
Aww, @lauraehall‘s #31DaysOfHalloween is back! buttondown.com/31daysofhalloween
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 10h
Pff, Cher Horowitz had this in 1995 techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/chatgpt-c…
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 12h
@Sarahp Yeah like, I don't trust or like Meta, but I believe Singleton's claim that macOS's disk protections "can’t be circumvented even if the Muse application had a bug." "Full Disk Access" isn't a *suggestion* that bugless apps obey; it's a system-level firewall that makes it impossible for […]
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 16h
For anyone upset about Beehiiv increasing their prices: SaaS companies are not running a charity. When there is a controversy with some big player in a tech space (Substack), competitors will often come in with a free or cheaper alternative. With growth, *of course* they will start charging […]
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 18h
Very soon you will be paying $50/mo for Skydance+
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 01/10/2026
The #Castlevania demo is downloadable today FYI
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 29/09/2026
Meta’s Muse AI bot “Jolly.” He is blobby and beige and fuzzy with a cute face.The monster from Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. He is blobby and beige and fuzzy with a horrifying face.
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@daringfireball/117… The scourge of modern UI design is “Dribbble Brain.” Clarity and the psychology of human-computer interaction is being rejected in favor of things that just kinda “look cool.” There is a whole demographic of influential people who […]
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 26/09/2026
I miss Aquarius Records so much
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 25/09/2026
RE: social.coop/@jsit/117320441612675721 Entering the shoe discourse
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 23/09/2026
Why do sneakers look like facehuggers now
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 25/09/2026
Muse truly is like BonziBuddy because it’s cute and will absolutely fuck up your computer
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 25/09/2026
Is there a good side-by-side before/after photograph/rendering of the previous and new locations of the Citgo sign? #Boston @universalhub
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
I'm so bummed that #Apple stopped putting any effort into Dynamic Wallpapers in #macOS. Such a cool thing
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
Wow, Apple removed "Get album artwork" from Apple Music in #macOS Golden Gate
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
Media Log: Exit Party (Emily St. John Mandel) Started: Sep 23, 2026 #NowReading #books #MediaLog
"Exit Party" (Emily St. John Mandel) book cover
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
Media Log: Stillwatch (Mary Higgins Clark) Started: Sep 5, 2026 Finished: Sep 19, 2026 #NowReading #books #MediaLog
"Stillwatch" (Mary Higgins Clark) book cover
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
@stroughtonsmith Recently I spent $80 for Claude Opus to read a proprietary file system from an arcane piece of hardware from the early 90s. It was able to extract all the files intact.
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
As streaming prices increase, remember that there is nothing stopping you from buying a Blu-ray player: www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/…
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
Media Log: Batman (Tim Burton, 1989) Watched: Sep 18, 2026 On 70mm! #NowWatching #movies #MediaLog
"Batman" (1989) movie poster
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
Media Log: Possession (1981) Watched: Sep 19, 2026 #NowWatching #movies #MediaLog
"Possession" (1981) movie poster
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
Media Log: Dead Calm (1989) Watched: Sep 22, 2026 #NowWatching #movies #MediaLog
"Dead Calm" (1989) movie poster
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
Media Log: In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1995) Watched: Sep 23, 2026 On 35mm! As part of a double feature with Event Horizon. #NowWatching #movies #MediaLog
"In the Mouth of Madness" (1995) movie poster
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 24/09/2026
Media Log: Event Horizon (1997) Watched: Sep 23, 2026 On 35mm! I love this movie. #NowWatching #movies #MediaLog
"Event Horizon" (1997) movie poster
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 23/09/2026
Why do sneakers look like facehuggers now
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 17/09/2026
Gerudo Town feels like a Tony Hawk level
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 16/09/2026
I still think the bold is too bold, but mostly, Georgia really holds up. It just looks great.
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 15/09/2026
I *prefer* the UI of #macOS Golden Gate to Tahoe. But I'm kind of disappointed in Apple for merely backtracking on some of the Liquid Glass ideas rather than trying to refine them. Toolbars and sidebars in particular feel like they're running away with their tail between their legs.
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 12/09/2026
@mattgriffin Yeah like I don't mean on social media, I mean in meatspace
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 12/09/2026
@mattgriffin No like they said it themselves, out loud, before doing an impression of something
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 12/09/2026
This weekend I learned that Gen Alpha (as young as 4) is using "POV" in spoken language. At the beginning of an utterance, it translates roughly to, "This is what it looks like when," e.g., "POV, Dad trying to carry ten plates at once [exaggerated pantomime and giggling]." Earlier generations […]
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 12/09/2026
www.kilobitspersecond.com/2026/09/1…
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 11/09/2026
The 1985 song “Oh Yeah” by Swiss band Yello is about a guy repeatedly remembering or realizing something: “…ohhhhh, yeah!”
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 10/09/2026
New 2D #Metroid?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku-vSTDNsT8
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 09/09/2026
So the #iPhoneDuo aspect ratio is √2?
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 09/09/2026
In first with the #Hingegate hashtag
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 09/09/2026
RE: social.panic.com/@playdate/11723662… #Playdate having a live stream event at the same time as #Apple’s is like Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 07/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 07/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 05/09/2026
I can imagine a really great Apple TV YouTube app —- browsing playlists in a sidebar, picture-in-picture, queues, etc. But what they deliver makes it clear that they don’t even really want to try.
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 04/09/2026
Indispensable Mac app Hazel is 35% off for its 20th anniversary store.noodlesoft.com/store
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Noodlesoft Store
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 03/09/2026
I quit #1Password when they went to cloud-only syncing, and I can recommend #Vaultwarden as being fairly easy to set up on a #RaspberryPi at home: github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
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GitHub - dani-garcia/vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs - dani-garcia/vaultwarden
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 27/08/2026
FediBlock @HolosDiscover, probably
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 27/08/2026
GOD BLESS @panic arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/08/pani…
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 27/08/2026
How about taking a quick glance at the beautiful riverside cityscape that you pay a gazillion dollars to live near
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 27/08/2026
People who don’t look up from their phones when the Red Line crosses the Longfellow are dead #Boston
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 26/08/2026
“QUIET ROCKY HORROR NIGHT,” please Boston theaters make this happen
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