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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 27/09/2026

Occasionally, Michigan gets the bounces. Today was, once again, not such a day.

Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 20/09/2026

Love that you put “in attendance” in quotes. Are they just making up numbers for the attendance figure at this point? And those numbers aren’t even reflective of reality? 111k for a packed house vs OSU: sure. 110k for a game where the student sections never filled to 80%? Doubt.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 13/09/2026

🤔 I will say it is downright bizarre for the Lions to be the *beneficiary* of this type of call. (Thanks for the explanation!)

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 13/09/2026

The Goff fumble/pass? Saw but didn’t hear the call. (Long story.) What was the explanation? Even if it was a “pass,” the ball clearly went backwards. Isn’t a backward pass a live ball?

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 12/09/2026

Sometimes the accept/decline penalty dilemma is fun. What’s better: To put the opposing offense in 3rd and 10, or 2nd and 20 (to take just one example)? It depends!

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 12/09/2026

Your service is noted and appreciated.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 12/09/2026

Mmmm. Horizontal Mateer pleases me.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 08/09/2026

I bet this was a “bug” rather than a feature, and it’ll be back to the normal “too loud to converse over” this Saturday. 😐

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 08/09/2026

> Putting up the lyrics for "Mr. Brightside" but not for the "pick the sing-along song" choice later in the 4th- why would you not do that? 100% agree. Felt it took some of the magic away from “Mr. Brightside” to have the lyrics on the screen.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 08/09/2026

> Michigan Stadium's in-game presentation One change my wife and I noticed is that the volume of non-MMB music over the stadium speakers was noticably reduced compared to recent years — to the point where it was actually possible to have a conversation with one another without having to yell.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 08/09/2026

I appreciate that the art for Goblin Gecko Rider shows *why* it has Reach! 👍

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 17/08/2026

I use #therewasanincident in real life interactions with my family. I bet I picked it up from you!

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 10/08/2026

I think that “7” is part of the casting cost. So 9 mana total. 🙂

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 29/07/2026

I really liked being a “Hyrule engineer”!Software developer by trade in real life.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 29/07/2026

Oh ugh! That is maddening. I was able to finish it on my PC.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 29/07/2026

Years ago: Tribes 2, when my wife and I were playing online multiplayer, and I was trying to protect her from other players, and couldn’t.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 28/07/2026

“Why don’t we have neither?” 🤷‍♂️🎉

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 28/07/2026

It's so bubbly, and cloying, and *happy*. Just like the Federation!

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 17/07/2026

> That athletes are being paid to play under the cloak of what’s named NIL, but in fact is not NIL, and is better understood, really, as an employment contract. This does seem obviously true! Will be “interesting” to see how this plays out across college athletics.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 15/07/2026

A pair of brothers wearing sunglasses plan and hold a fundraiser to cover a property tax bill.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 15/07/2026

I've taken to prefixing my handwritten GitHub pull request descriptions with the heading "Description by Jon the Human 👨‍💻" to help differentiate them from the now-ubiquitous AI-generated PR summaries.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 23/06/2026

Paper Mario is still one of my all-time favorites! My hot take is that I like it even better than Thousand Year Door, for the worldbuilding that it brought to the Mushroom Kingdom itself.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 23/06/2026

At least she doesn’t just call him “Mario”! Reminds me of one of the old handheld Mario RPG games where Bowser knows who Mario is, but refers to Luigi as “green guy” or similar. 😂

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 22/06/2026

👀👀👀 Regarding itch.io: Only insofar as I’m aware that a few really nice games got their start on that platform before later making their way onto Steam, such as krajzeg.itch.io/slipways !

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 18/06/2026

Why doesn't Amazon have the search field on the amazon.com homepage get the input focus automatically on page load?? It's got to be an intentional design choice. I suppose Amazon wants to get users to look around at the products on the homepage as they're looking for the search field?

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 04/06/2026

Get that Steam Deck Verified green checkmark while you’re at it!

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 28/05/2026

My Dragon Quest story: I once beat the Dragonlord on the original NES cart with exactly 1 HP and 0 MP remaining on my hero. I remember thinking: “Welp, might as well hit FIGHT one last time before I lose.” I didn’t lose!

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 19/05/2026

In ~35+ years of occasionally running "chkdsk /f" to take a stab at fixing PC hard drive problems: I had it ACTUALLY WORK for the first time ever, and restore a Windows 11 computer from unbootable to a usable running state.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 13/05/2026

No spoilers please, still reading! 🙏

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 13/05/2026

Oh my goodness. Chapter 57 of the AUDIOBOOK version of “A Parade of Horribles” by @mattdinniman.bsky.social.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 08/05/2026

Hadn't heard of TetherGeist before today, but I gave the demo a try before work this morning, and played it all the way through. The game seems super well-crafted! I bought a copy!

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 29/04/2026

Ability to configure Ctrl+Tab to activate tabs in most-recently-used ordering, i.e. the same way Alt+Tab / Cmd+Tab activate open apps.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 24/04/2026

(No affiliation, I'm just a fan!)

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 24/04/2026

From his game dev blog, I'm bringing this to my team at my corporate SaaS job: > If the prototype ends up proving your idea doesn’t work, or is beyond your means, you’re gonna want as much time as possible to do something about that.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 24/04/2026

For my money, @pentadact.com is the pithiest and punchiest prose writer among active game developers today.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 23/04/2026

$27.20 to Michigan in the #CharitibundiBowl. Beating Ohio State is always fantastic -- and Michigan wouldn't have been IN this game without an OSU win, something sadly no longer true in the current expanded playoffs -- but the 27-20 Rose Bowl win over Alabama was HISTORIC.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 23/04/2026

Congratulations to @firefox.com on Firefox 150! I still remember back circa 2011 when it was a huge deal when Firefox 4 came out to replace Firefox 3.x. 😅

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 11/04/2026

> … He looked at me and asked why, and I explained that dozens of things have to go wrong for a team to lose a basketball game. One thing and only one thing has to go wrong to lose a hockey game. Wise words. Sent this quote to my son (current M Hockey Band member) along with the article link.

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Jon Schneider @jonschneider.com · 11/04/2026

I dunno! I myself have been doing this Schneider schtick for 40+ and it doesn’t really feel like that long.

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