Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 23hIf I ever declare I have B2B marketing goals please take me out back and shoot me. 110
Reposted by Jon WoodBryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 14/10/2026The Epic Store Launcher vibe coding messaging is a decent case study in mismarketing a product re-launch, because instead of just marketing *what* they made, they’re also marketing *how* they made it, dragging the product down with the need to market AI vibe coding. 2537
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Apologies for the rapid fire replies but this is more of the same. How does it take 5 seconds to load an application launcher? That shit should be instantaneous, if I’d written something like that and it took multiple seconds to display a list of installed games I’d be ashamed. 000
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Even if nothing else why would you lead your product announcement with “eh, it’ll do, ship it”? 010
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I own a house and think it would be neat if other people could as well, I’m aware it’s considered old fashioned to think of a house as a place you live rather than a particularly awkward bank account though. 180
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The solution to this being a massive drain on the NHS is so obviously to start training and hiring more people qualified to do diagnosis under the NHS instead of outsourcing it all to private providers. 040
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I’m paying a frankly eye watering amount of money for prescriptions and regular checkups because the doctor who diagnosed me wasn’t wearing his NHS ID at the time of diagnosis and instead did so privately, which means my GP has flat out refused to take on prescribing. Absolute madness. 140
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I love the idea that it thinks that was what you were doing. Like you sat down and went “right; this is my fashion book era, gonna buy as many as I can before it passes”. 020
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Yeah, you show that man Bezos by [checks notes] paying him money for things you don’t want. (ftr, I was tickled by your post) 000
Reposted by Jon WoodDave Iley @dna-level-c.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Last night on the bus: Phone lady: "Are you even listening to me?" Bus driver: "Everybody on this bus is listening to you. Can you tone it down?" 120911
Reposted by Jon WoodDan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026honestly if you’re booking so many flights you need an AI agent to do it for you I think you should urgently reassess your ecological impact 0588
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ok, but they appear to be going for legitimately horrifying generated images of something that might be food, which is *worse* than bad food photography where you’re at least not making people think alien insects may emerge from their lunch. 020
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026No, they go in your top. It would be really weird to walk around with nipples up your leg. 1180
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And this is why I’ll never ship a game. (I’m mostly alright with that, but I do love the *idea* of doing game development) 020
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I think it’s much funnier if you’re both into games and have worked for tech/software companies. Even then it’s wildly variable from episode to episode, some I found absolutely hilarious, a few quite moving, lots of them were simply filling time while I ate dinner. 020
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This doubles down on the sense of them being two different groups, and means that they’re going to grow up with less exposure to people from different walks of life. It also means that the people who often hold most sway have no incentive to demand better state provision because they don’t use it. 050
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026There’s a more subtle aspect to this as well, in that you’re effectively segregating society from an early age into provision for the well off and provision for the poor. All the rich people’s kids go to private nursery together, while the poor people’s kids go to state nursery. 180
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Or, and hear me out, the shop that sells baked potatoes could take a photo of one of those baked potatoes before handing it to a customer. 2280
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I’d love to know what the people writing pasta directions use to cook the stuff because not once have I seen it cook in less than twice the time stated on the pack. “11-13 minutes” says the pack, I’m 20 minutes in and you could still stab someone with one of these pasta bows. 010
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Even if this were true you don’t decide a tool is completely useless because it can’t be used for some tasks. I’m not aware of anyone saying we’re going to ban all forms of transport but bikes. 010
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“I’m going to use a graph database” is almost always the wrong answer to a question but I think this might be the one time in a million it’s the right answer given you literally want to store a graph as it evolves over time. 030
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026If only you had some sort of device to locate them and find out. 0350
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The ever shrinking window of what’s considered a good game. You know we’re really cooked when you have to use 3 decimal places. 010
Reposted by Jon Woodnige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 02/10/2026I can't believe that after all that, popups won 031
Reposted by Jon WoodDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Who amongst us hasn't been tempted... 541795
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every secondary school student in the UK is required to do critical writing on Romeo & Juliet, and I doubt very much of it is good. 010
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ok? I’m going to go out on a limb and say the EU would like recommendations to at least come from someone who’s started the application in question. 000
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Someone needs to tell that lady about how to take a dump without needing a set of new clothes everytime. 000
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The plane can cope with that just fine, the passengers probably had a bit of a moment. 60m/s is the sort of descent you do when a window just blew out and ejected all the nicely pressurised air full of oxygen into the sky. 130
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026And while that’s going on we’re all scrolling through social media being presented with idealised versions of other people’s lives where they can afford ten holidays a year and have idyllic houses while we’re sat in our barely affordable run down flats. 001
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We’re in a weird place currently where luxuries unimaginable to someone from 1986 such as huge TVs and supercomputers that fit in your pocket are accessible to basically everyone while fish & chips for a family cost a day’s wages for anyone working a retail job. 120
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That would be about the point at which I start dumping all their laundry in an unceremonious pile on their bed instead of doing things like pairing socks. 130
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So much of what’s wrong with the country is the property ladder. Gotta buy yourself a flat so you can wait a few years and sell it to buy a house, rinse and repeat indefinitely. Or maybe don’t sell it, you can rent it out for free money while begrudging your tenants wanting hot water. 000
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Once my son gets older I think I’ll probably end up doing something like this. I just love the idea of waking up in the morning, maybe climbing a hill before work, spending a day looking out on somewhere nice, a wander by a lake over lunch. Sounds like the dream to me. 000
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The recycling lobby really played a blinder in making everything about individuals sorting cardboard into a different bin rather than big business changing their behaviour in any way beyond printing Net Zero on the packaging for all this shit nobody needs. 2161
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Woah there cowboy. “You don’t care about traumatised inner-city kids” is quite a leap from “there’s a lot of people who do just have ADHD, I’m not sure about this”. I can absolutely believe there’s overlap, PTSD is brutal and does do similar things to the brain, but also a lot of people have ADHD. 210
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think this is the core of it for me. If you’re going to teach a computer to make phone calls for you at least be upfront about the fact this is a computer on the phone and not an assistant called Hailey. 1110
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026You can do this, and I did for several years, but for reasons that are beyond me despite monitors and TVs being basically the same thing now monitors tend not to have useful features like HDMI-CEC which allows for switching to the correct input when turned on, and volume control. 010
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It’s a massively uneven effort. Spotify are presumably slapping legal threats on anything they deem to be using stuff they have audiobook rights on via automated systems which require no effort at all, while on the other side creators of small podcasts are having to fight it. 230
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One of the exhausting things about the current climate is when the weird conspiracies about how Facebook terms are so they can take your niece’s birthday party photos and turn them into coffee table books for public sale or something turn out to be true. 000
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026That stuff is fine, it’s the “cook for 22 minutes at 180c” for oven stuff that drives me mad. Oven thermostats/dials have about as much precision as a blind person parallel parking, there’s no way that extra 2 minutes is justified vs “cool for about 20 minutes, but really until it looks cooked”. 110
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I feel like I’m going slowly mad being stuck between the AI Will Do Everything By Next Tuesday people on one side and the AI Has Literally Never Worked For Any Task Ever people on the other while I sit here making use of it for things where it makes sense and not when it doesn’t. 141
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The infuriating thing about these headlines now is that “AI” has lost all meaning. Is this a machine learning model trained specifically to flag potential airspace conflicts before they become a problem (good, eases controller load) or an LLM set loose to respond to ATC calls without enough context? 000
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It literally took someone turning up with authorisation to turn off my gas supply for me to pay the outstanding gas bill I could easily afford, it was just that I’d have to call up and do admin so I kept putting it off. 110
Reposted by Jon WoodRussell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Yes. And I was saying the same thing in 2015 about 1995. 1155
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026If someone wants to feel safe they shouldn’t volunteer for the most stressful job in the country. Burnham and his cabinet need to grow a spine. 130
Reposted by Jon WoodEvolve to Crab 🦀 🏳️⚧️ @obscuricom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You will never in a million years guess what this is a direct response to. 412124
Reposted by Jon WoodThew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations 3132191098
Jon Wood @jonwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is a genuinely great idea, especially if they can jettison continuity and not be carrying however many decades of baggage they’ve built up to be nitpicked by the obsessives whenever something is wrong. Can’t be too hard for the time and space show. Whoops, we got stuck in an alternate timeline. 110
