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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 15/05/2026

If my goal was to design a product to absolutely MAXIMIZE the number of times it would get dropped… I'm not sure I could do better than the AirPods case.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 26/03/2026

Since switching to Apple Music as my primary service, the one thing that continues to drive me up the wall is the inability to completely stop it from ever playing a certain artist. Why is there no block feature?!

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 11/03/2026

Coming up on four months since I left my tech job. Not missing it yet…

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 09/03/2026

One of my least favorite skills I picked up in my decades working in tech is the ability to immediately see when a feature has been made worse for users in order to improve some metric that the company (or an individual PM) has decided is important.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 01/03/2026

As I've been returning to film photography, I am reflecting on how, in the late 90s I was desperate for a digital camera that could approach the quality of 35mm film. And now, I am looking for the combination of film stock and scanner that can get me close to the quality of current digital cameras…

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 12/02/2026

One of the worst things about modern software is constantly being experimented on. I don't want features appearing and disappearing, buttons moving, and copy changing every day or two as various A/B tests run to see if they can squeeze a statistically significant 0.01% more engagement out of me.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 05/02/2026

Remember when we needed Flash to watch most video on the web? Those were the days…

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 02/02/2026

Is it a conspiracy that all of the manufacturers of power stations have websites that are terrible in the same way, and make it nearly impossible to understand what all of the options are?

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 28/01/2026

I never thought I'd be happy to see high temps in the 40s on the 10-day forecast…

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 25/01/2026

Solid cap of ice on top of the pillar at the end of our driveway.

Stone pillar, covered with a solid layer of ice.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 25/01/2026

Wind is picking up in downtown Franklin, and has started blowing down branches and things from trees. #tspotter

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 20/01/2026

The weather influencers are in full clickbait mode... (I don't consider @nashseverewx.com a weather influencer; that's not who I am talking about.)

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 10/01/2026

Probably one of the best setting changes I ever made on my iPhone. It's shocking how nice it is to just never have the phone vibrate, buzz, or bump at all, no matter what. I flipped this switch a little over a month ago, and I wish I did it earlier.

Screenshot of iPhone settings screen, showing the “Vibration” setting set to off.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 10/01/2026

Can I go home at halftime? Wait, I already am home. Sigh... #goducks

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 01/01/2026

In November, I left my tech job. Today's tech industry is unrecognizable compared to what it was when I started at Amazon in 1999. I'm looking forward to a 2026 filled with more human connection and creativity than algorithms and models.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 25/06/2025

Finally got off my butt and decided to change/consolidate banks, which I've been meaning to do for years. I knew it would be a bit of a pain but I underestimated how much work it would be. My to-do list to get everything moved over is up to 40 items…

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 17/06/2025

I'm getting tired of rain. Official request to @nashseverewx.com to please turn the water off.

Screenshot of rain data showing current rainfall rate of 2.34 in/hr, 2.52 in for the event, and 0.89 in for the day.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 20/05/2025

This is such a miserable process. I started it almost 12 hours ago.

Screenshot of the Adobe Lightroom Downloader app, showing a progress bar at 19%.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 15/05/2025

Sometimes it blows my mind to recall that there was a time that I made my way through the world without instant access to constantly-updating turn-by-turn directions…

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 11/05/2025

It's been a while since something so trivial has annoyed me as much as the insistence that any use of an em dash is a sure sign of AI. Next we're going to claim that writing in complete sentences or spelling correctly means you must have used AI. How low our standards for writing have become…

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 04/05/2025

I've had to reauthenticate to Bluesky in Safari 8 times in the last week 🤬

Screenshot of an email inbox showing 8 "Sign in to Bluesky" emails since April 28th.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 30/04/2025

It's kind of amazing the industry that has popped up around "link in bio" just because Instagram is so restrictive about links. They truly have created the worst of both worlds; people still link to outside stuff, but the UX friction is awful.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 28/04/2025

You'd think that as online shopping grew, apparel brands would have had strong incentives to make their sizing more predictable and consistent. After all, incorrect sizing is a big driver of returns, and returns kill margin. And yet, it seems to keep getting worse.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 21/04/2025

Ah yes, this year's shade of grey.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 03/04/2025

My cat apparently now understands what the tornado warning sound from my phone means. When the last one happened, he started heading toward the basement on his own.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 03/04/2025

Definitely hitting tornado warning fatigue here...

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 03/04/2025

This long string of red boxes is not a recipe for any sleep at all tonight....

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 03/04/2025

There goes my attempt at sleep. Stay safe, friends.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 02/04/2025

I'm retired from griping about travel on social media but I have to temporarily come out of retirement to say: how is the Miami airport so bad???

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 23/03/2025

@nashseverewx.com Downtown Franklin just now. Heavy precipitation but the hail is small. #tspotter

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 17/03/2025

Some day, I hope we get a case study on how the FedEx website got so bad and stayed that way for so long.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 14/03/2025

Not a quote I like hearing from a weather veteran like David, but I'm glad they're giving it to us straight.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 06/03/2025

This is a niche gripe, but it is so dastardly for the owner of HiFiEngine / VinylEngine to spend years getting people to upload vintage audio equipment manuals, and then put them all behind a login gate, turn off signups, and start disabling accounts. Basically stealing community contributions.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 26/02/2025

Why is AXS so bad? We thought Ticketmaster was terrible, but AXS has taken it to a new level.

Error message from AXS claiming that I’m a bot rather than a “real fan.”

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 24/02/2025

I'm fed up with Monarch Money, so I am seeking recommendations for alternatives. I only care about ONE THING: being able to automatically pull in transactions and categorize them so I can look at per-category spend rollups once a quarter or so. I do not care about budgeting or anything else.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 23/02/2025

For all the complaints I can make about Apple software, I really appreciate that it at least always gives informative and actionable error messages.

An error on an iPhone lock screen, reading “Create Note: The request was denied by service delegat… The request to open “com.apple.mobilenotes” failed.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 21/02/2025

I used to joke that the internet was a mistake. But now I actually believe it.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 21/02/2025

Update: he now has his own dedicated water glass on my side table. I give him a fresh one every evening after dinner.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 19/02/2025

Are profiles like this against the rules? If we report them, will they get taken down? It seems clearly to be automated and/or spammy. The photos are of a celebrity and the content is somewhat nonsensical. But it's not literal impersonation because it's not using the celebrity's name...

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 17/02/2025

Retired my U-Turn Orbit and replaced it with a table older than I am. It's more in line with the Sansui amp it's hooked up to, so this feels like the right move. It has some cosmetic imperfections, but don't we all when we get to this age?

Technics SL-1300 turntable playing 1988 by Lori McKenna.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 11/02/2025

It's ok. I wasn't going to drink that anyway.

Tabby cat drinking water out of a large mason jar on a side table.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 01/02/2025

Why do I feel like I am in trouble?

Brown tabby cat with a white chest, standing with his front paws on my legs and back feet on the ottoman I am resting my feet on.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 01/02/2025

It's a rare TV show where I watch an episode and immediately want to watch it again. #Severance

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 30/01/2025

Sample Gates at Indiana University Bloomington. Shot on film.

Sample Gates at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. The view is from campus, looking west through the gates, down E Kirkwood Ave.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 19/01/2025

Why do I watch YouTube videos about making espresso when I don't really care about espresso, rarely drink it, and have no desire to ever make it at home?

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 19/01/2025

Only a day late (thanks, USPS), I am now ready for season 2 of Severance.

Metal “water drop” Lumon pin, inspired by the TV show Severance, sitting on top of a Lumon Industries padded envelope.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 16/01/2025

As someone who likes to get to the airport with plenty of extra time, it felt like a real accomplishment today to leave Jersey City at 12:10 and get to LGA in time to switch to a 2PM flight. If I didn't make it, I'd have been waiting until 8:30PM, so it was a real win.

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Sean Harding @seanharding.com · 10/01/2025

A downside of losing weight is that my "wear once a year (or less)" snow pants are now too loose.

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