John Conn

@johnconnolly.bsky.social

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nah no thanks

Screenshot of Spotify iOS, the playlist play button is a glossy metallic skeuomorphic play button from the CD era
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amazon spending per year, 2005-2026 with a bellcurve looking shape, peaking in 2023 and steadily down since then.
Image from Reddit from tumblr There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.
screenshot of a claude code session with subagents and an orchestrator, all of which are working on hardening a claude plugin with 10 claude skills, specific to my company/job. bananas.
screenshot of an ad i was served in firefox homepage advertising hearing aids for seniors born between 1935 and 1975. which... 1975? really?
Slide from nick cooper on mcp at my dev summit 2026
Photo of a slide from mcp dev summit saying “welcome to the New Web”, capital “N” capital “W”
text message exchange between me and my wife. her: "OK, so just double confirming you're gonna pick up the kids from Michele's correct" me: "Omg, yes. I love when you double confirm things, it’s so hottt"
photo of well preserved ruins of mesa verde beneath an overhanging cave
3 year old ripping it up dancing on the bed in a messy bedroom, with lyrics from the the chieftains “the frost is all over” but the Mary wallopers version.