Justin Searls

@searls
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I make things that nobody's asking for.

I used to post things that nobody was asking for, but then I stopped. Learn about me at https://justin.searls.co or reach out to [email protected].

LocationOrlando, FL
Lifehttps://justin.searls.co
Workhttps://searls.co
Codehttps://github.com/searls
New episode of Breaking Change is live! Pod Freeze https://justin.searls.co/casts/breaking-change-v53-pod-freeze/
Breaking Change v53 - Pod Freeze

The promise of Breaking Change is that with every major version (this being the 60th episode of the program, but only the 53rd such release), I will break…

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Update on using MacBook Neo for dev tasks: this is definitely a device you should to reboot daily, even without Chrome or any Electron apps.

This morning, Zed (a native Rust app) was 500% CPU without a single window open, 3 macOS internal daemons had crashed, 800ms input lag.

Using MacBook Neo for "real" development work and it's simultaneously juggling:

• Running Claude Code in three tabs at once
• Compiling multi-package Xcode builds
• Automating two iOS Simulators and a Mac build of my app

Hasn't missed a beat. Not bad for a phone chip.

Claude sure goes down a lot for being a product targeting businesses.

Maybe Anthropic is just doing humanity a solid by helping us understand how much it will suck when the era of subsidized pricing for LLM-based products ends.

Sent the DLSS 5 video to some not-very-online friends and they thought it looked incredible. Shame on them for not knowing that real gamers are supposed to be outraged! (I happen to think it looks slick as hell and am looking forward to using it.) https://youtu.be/4ZlwTtgbgVA
Hands-On With DLSS 5: Our First Look At Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting

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New episode of Merge Commits is live! freeCodeCamp: Which Devs Are Screwed? https://justin.searls.co/casts/merge-commits-freecodecamp-which-devs-are-screwed/
Merge Commits podcast - freeCodeCamp: Which Devs Are Screwed?

Quincy Larson over at freeCodeCamp had me on their podcast to discuss how the rapidly changing software industry is impacting junior developers and what they…

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We blew past this milestone without much fanfare, but it bears repeating: building awareness & goodwill by releasing open source no longer makes strategic sense for many companies. Agents increasingly consume & adapt OSS—often without users' knowledge—and cut out the creator.
Models are commodities, harnesses are differentiators

Ben Thompson's latest rests on a single load-bearing assumption: that the harness and the model are tightly coupled, the way Apple's hardware and software are.…

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Marathon is the first PVP-heavy game to get its hooks in me since… Unreal Tournament in 2001?

I fucking suck, but even playing solo it can feel incredible when you do manage to come out on top. If you want to roll with me, I'm Searls#2430 (or just email me [email protected])

Dual-loop BDD is the new Red-green TDD

This one goes out to all the testing neophytes who only recently realized that it's useful to have an automated means of verifying their code does what it…

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