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Advanced nerd-herder currently at Amazon Music. Father, husband, bassist, techie, cosmology nerd, birdsite refugee. Veteran of the clone wars. Opinions are solely my own. Boost =/≠ endorsement.

Interests: #OpenWeb #SelfHosting #music #MusicProduction #mixing #cosmology #physics #QuantumMechanics #podcasts #tech #blogging #startups #politics #OSInt #TPM

Blog (quiet)https://jakesav.in/
Twitter (silent)https://twitter.com/jsavin
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jakesavin/

On my blog: “And it seems retro in the worst way that we’re still using anything other than a scripting language for most of our code. We should be using something simple and light that can configure toolbars, handle networking callbacks, query databases, manage views, and so on.”

https://inessential.com/2025/08/28/easy-app-writing.html

inessential: Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn’t Be So Difficult

Don’t miss James Dempsey and the Breakpoints tonight!

It’s beautiful weather for a free outdoor acoustic show featuring the high drama of “Almost Dropped My iPhone” and the uncanny catchiness of “The Liki Song.” 🏝️

When: from 6 pm on, music around 7 pm

Where: Bale Breaker in Ballard, outside, at picnic tables

More details here! https://xcoders.org/2025/08/12/special-event-breakpoint-jam-with.html

Special Event! Breakpoint Jam with James Dempsey and the Breakpoints

Know any UXers who have been suffering the last few years in tech? Layoffs, non-stop reorgs, making do with less. I wrote this for them https://www.caitlinsteele.com/its-not-you-its-us-tax-code-section-174

#ux #tech

It’s Not You, It’s US Tax Code Section 174

For the last few years, I have been an unofficial grief counsellor of UX, consoling designers and researchers through countless Slack threads and coffee chats about the tech industry’s sudden personality change. Everyone’s exhausted, either from job hunting, constant reorgs, or just “Making do with less.” Cutbacks are

Caitlin AF
When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.

New website I had to make. Hopefully I got the SSL part right. 🐥

https://nolearnings.com/

No Learnings

inessential: Retirement Day

With so much attention and media investigation surrounding DOGE, their accessing federal data and systems like IRS and Social Security, I have to wonder about the misdirection: Are we paying no attention to the man behind the curtain? (And if not Trump and not Musk, who *is* it?)
Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now

The White House called a rumor that Amazon might display tariff prices a “hostile and political act,” and now it looks like Amazon caved.

The Verge
I hit a pothole on my scooter on the way into work today and my turn signal/brake light popped off and was immediately run over. Turns out the electronics still work. Maybe I'll try to salvage it. #random
Looking at some figmas with a title “Accessibility (A11Y)” — and I’m going to suggest that maybe we should adopt a new convention where we just shorten that to “Accessibility.”