Jason Grigsby

I recently had the pleasure of working with @gerardo.bsky.social, @tylersticka.com, and a few other folks from the @cloudfour.com team, and WOW what an absolute delight they are to work with!

@gerardo.bsky.social writes better docs than any dev I've EVER worked with!

BigCommerce is now a subsidiary of a new parent company named Commerce which seems backwards or I don’t understand what the word “Big” means.

investors.bigcommerce.com/news-rele…

Android Instant Apps are Dead, iOS App Clips Should Follow Google recently told developers that Android Instant Apps will be removed at the end of the year due to their low adoption. iOS App Clips, which provide similar functionality, should meet a similar fa...

Android Instant Apps are Dead, iOS App Clips Should Follow – My latest featuring a brilliant illustration from @tylersticka.com
cloudfour.com/thinks/andro...

One Million Rising — No Kings

The Zoom meeting is full, but you can follow the livestream at www.nokings.org/rise

Attending the #onemillionrising training tonight. Highly recommend getting involved with @indivisible.org. No kings!

Hammer on nail... this man is going viral.

YES. That was my immediate thought as well when I saw @tylersticka.com’s image. I recently picked up TotK again. It’s so good and also overwhelming.

I think it's a good thing. :)

A skull icon with a dashed line around it on a grey background.

Oooh… @tylersticka@social.lol just created the coolest header image for my upcoming article. Any guesses what I’m writing about?

The only way. Criminal sanctions for impoundment, close the rescission loophole, short budget windows in case Trump breaks the law anyhow.

Maryland can't have flood relief because Stephen Miller demands concentration camps.

72-hour work weeks to make billionaires richer and build machines to replace you? Absolutely not. Burn it down. www.wired.com/story/sil…

Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore www.theregister.com/2025/07/2…

I’m a sucker for a great headline. This one starts fairly pedestrian, but the ending “told fibs galore”… :chef‘s kiss:

Minnesota Aurora, and I don't live in Minnesota.

Finding Joy on Shaky Foundations The satisfaction of rescuing experiences from daunting constraints.

Absolutely lovely article by @tylersticka.com on the joy that can be found in overcoming constraints in less-than-ideal projects. cloudfour.com/thinks/findi...

Why I’m Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) utkarshkanwat.com/writing/b… /ht @tylersticka.com

Trump is now posting private mortgage documents from Adam Schiff, and I URGE people who have less self-control than Pavlov's dogs to EMPHASIZE that it is likely a crime for him to have accessed these docs, if you do post them.

Great recommendations in this article on how to write and speak about AI in a way that doesn’t inadvertently contribute to the hype. hidde.blog/ai-hype/

What are Republicans afraid of? Why won't they hear the truth about Trump's unfit nominee, Emil Bove?

Americans deserve the truth.

From your home screen, swipe to the left until you run out of screens. You’ll find yourself on the App Library which is organized into squares of icons with titles like “Recently Added” and “Social.” There is a search bar at the top. Tap into it to get an alphabetical list of all of your apps.

Screenshot of my iOS App Library scrolled all the way to the bottom where the App Clips are stored. The App Clips start with a square icon with a dotted line around. The same icon is at the bottom of the right-side navigation used to jump to different letters in the alphabet.

Follow up question about iOS App Clips. Do you have any installed on your phone right now? They are listed at the bottom of your App Library and have dotted lines around the icon.

appletoolbox.com/how-to-fi…

Does anyone know of iOS App Clip examples that work well? Despite being an iPhone user, I think I’ve only encountered them once in the wild. I’m curious if others have different experiences.

No-one knows what anything means anymore, but...

Trump called for the resignation of Fed Chair Jay Powell around the time you might expect his staff to have shown him a preview of tomorrow's jobs numbers.

It would be illegal and unethical to even hint at such confidential info, but... y'know...

YouTube video by Web Conferences Amsterdam Natasha Rooney | Down the line: Evolving HTTP and making things QUIC | performance.now() 2018

HTTP/2 had some problems that only appears after it was in the wild for a bit that HTTP/3 is supposed to address. I watched a fantastic presentation by Natasha Rooney at performance.now() a few years ago that did a great job explaining the queueing problems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCwz...

Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.

Second, I wonder how brotli does in comparison to gzip with these small files. I've never tried to run brotli compression on my own machine. gzip is so much easier to test. :)

I always saw the value of this approach in the fact that if you could implement a caching (and cache busting) strategy, then the more modular pieces of the code would net out to a faster experience even if the total file size was slightly larger

Of course, implementing caching is its own challenge

@tylersticka.com passed this on this morning, and I had a couple of thoughts.

First, one of the hopes of reusing the same connection in HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 was that we reduced the network overhead enough to make modular code a reasonable alternative to bundling everything into a single file.

Because app devs don’t want to prompt people for reviews unless they like the app, they often ask, “Are you enjoying the app?” first.

Because I am in a hurry trying to get something done, I often respond “No” to avoid the review... https://grigs.micro.blog/2025/06/26/because-app-devs-dont-want.html

It should be noted in every piece about Iran that even if the strike went perfectly, it will accomplish nothing more than Obama accomplished diplomatically. And Obama’s solution to the problem of Iranian nuclear capabilities did not come with any of the risks that we now face.