Remembering Joe Rank
I was thinking about my old coworker Joe Rank today and went looking for photos. Desks, hoops after work, game…
Q3 2026 Highlights - A Look Back at the Third Quarter
Ballpark nachos, a LEGO store, a robotaxi, and an early Halloween. Q3 2026 as a set of trading cards.
My First USENET Post Was a Social Network
November 1994. I asked strangers on USENET to help me build a form that would match you with a pen pal in anot…
Recraft V4.1 Flash Drew the Evil Mickey I Actually Asked For
Recraft shipped V4.1 Flash today. It is the cheap, fast tier, and it handed back the most on-prompt evil Micke…
OpenAI Flagged Teddy Roosevelt for Political Campaigning
OpenAI sent me a warning letter about political campaigning. The candidate is Theodore Roosevelt. He has been …
GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst Refused Messi Twice
OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2.5 yesterday with two API tiers, Flare and Sunburst. I ran the slow one. Four gorgeo…
Career Day 2025
I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty you…
Finishing the Dan Jenkins Medal in an Hour with OpenAI Astra
Years ago I started a 3D model of the Dan Jenkins Medal and never finished it. I handed the sketch to OpenAI A…
Six Hours Next to Gloria Steinem
In 1993 I ran the book signings at the University Co-op in Austin. Gloria Steinem came to sign Revolution from…
Seedream 5.0 Flash for Three Cents an Image
ByteDance's budget Seedream tier costs $0.027 an image and hands back 2048 pixel renders. The castle and the r…
Granola Is Watching
I read Granola's privacy policy so you don't have to. Your meetings train their models by default, your employ…
Meta's Muse Image Is Not MEH
A year ago I wrote that Meta AI image generation put the MEH in Meta. Muse Image launched yesterday out of Met…
I Cracked the Top 5 in 30 Minutes.
A well-funded competitor graded most of the web an F for AI readiness. I ran my site through their index and h…
Q2 2026 Highlights - A Look Back at the Second Quarter
A ballgame, a surgery, and a scooter tour of Austin. Q2 2026 in pictures.
The King of Sixth Street
Gerry Van King, the King of Sixth Street, brought the funk to downtown Austin for decades. He passed on May 26…
My Wife Invented the Mickey Mouse Plate
It started as a family legend Melissa loves to tell — that she and her comanager invented the Mickey-head take…
Krea 2 Turbo Draws Mickey in Two Seconds
Krea put the weights for Krea 2 Turbo out yesterday. Two seconds per image, and it did not flinch at a single …
Reachy Mini
A little open-source desktop robot landed on my desk today. Time to unbox it, build it, and see what it can do
The End of Spatial
Spatial is sunsetting its creator platform. I've built worlds across Spatial, Horizon, and the long-dead Mozil…
PUMA PUMA
Web3 companies love to post their team retreats. Trust falls on a yoga mat. Cute. First internet revolution di…
Vamos Spurs
Spurs vs. Thunder. Game 7 Saturday. Last time we were in the building for a Finals game, they won. Heat took t…
Peelander-Z's Road to Recovery
Our friends in Peelander-Z were rear-ended by an 18-wheeler while touring. Kengo, Pinku, and Tiger are in the …
LinkedIn Puzzles Are Boomer Catnip
LinkedIn turned puzzles into a morning ritual. Queens, Zip, Patches — Celsius cracked, brain on, day starts. S…
Noscroll Doesn't Know When to Stop
Tried Noscroll tonight. The AI-over-SMS pitch is sharp. The execution kept texting me past midnight and treate…
Bringing Back the Click
I miss the tactile experience of typing on a cell phone. BlackBerry got the credit. The early-2000s smartphone…
Nano Banana 3 Lands With Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash today and a new Nano Banana came with it. I ran my usual five prompts against …
Hustle Culture Meets Riot Gear at 4 AM
I stood in line at 4 AM for the Swatch x Audemars Piguet drop at The Domain. A few hours later APD showed up w…
Two Agent Orchestrators Are Better Than One
Hermes and OpenClaw are both orchestrators with their own agent teams. Running them in parallel — and using on…
The MCP Server Behind Janisheck.com
Six profile resources, four tools, 270-plus blog posts indexed, and an LLM that grades my fit for any job in a…
OpenAI's GPT Image 2 Sets a New Bar
Running OpenAI's new GPT Image 2 through my five standard prompts. The thinking capabilities, web search, and …
Q1 2026 Highlights - A Look Back at the First Quarter
Chicago in January, SXSW in March, and everything in between. The first quarter of 2026 in pictures.
Your Site Is Costing AI Agents Money
Every site without machine-readable metadata silently taxes AI agents 5–100x in wasted tokens. At scale, that'…
20 Builders, No Slides
Google DeepMind and AI Tinkerers picked up the tab for 20 AI builders at Juniper during SXSW. Good food, good…
Six Pens
I took photos of random pens I've collected over the years, had AI turn them into museum-worthy product shots,…
SXSW 2026: No Badge, No Convention Center, No Problem
SXSW scattered across downtown Austin this year. The Convention Center is a hole in the ground, Hugh Forrest i…
ClawCon Austin: Locked In With the Teenagers
750 people showed up to ClawCon Austin during SXSW. The highlight was four teenagers who are already shipping…