Jonathan Speek

portrait of Jason in Portland

today is my 40th birthday. to toot my own horn a bit, I'm the happiest, healthiest, and most successful I've ever been, so I'm going to indulge myself and do one of those "40 things that made me who I am" threads

so buckle up (or mute me for the next little bit 😆)

One of my kids did that with their Yoto player 😬

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I'm using render.com for a Rails app, and I use supabase.com for any JS/TS projects

“Grok this is a Wendy’s”

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No one:

LinkedIn at 9pm: one of your former co-workers has a connection that’s hiring for a role completely disconnected from your profession

Congrats - my kids have been quite the driver for me as well in a whole host of aspects

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I really want a, “Where are they now: My Super Sweet 16”

Launching my app today ⚡️

Would absolutely appreciate an upvote 🙏

The DRM thing requires a lot of money, apparently. But yeah, small team and essentially one guy having to deal with an onslaught of requests from all the disaffected Arc fans

If I remember right, it was actually that my Yubikey wouldn’t work, not just limited to Okta/Duo.

I did quite a bit. I haven’t checked Orion’s desktop app yet, but a couple of no-gos for me were that I couldn’t watch any DRM content (Netflix, etc.) and Okta didn’t work right. Not to mention the constant changes with how profiles worked. It got so confusing.

Arc Browser I’m kind of a browser connoisseur. Arc is about to win me over.

I’d never tried**

To give a sense of what I’d liked about Arc: speek.dev/blog/arc

Finally giving @kagi.com a go, both for the Orion browser and search. The browser has come a long way and the search (which is never tried) looks excellent.

I’ll do a write up soon, but I’m already happy with my main mobile test:
1. ad blocking
2. YouTube background play

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No, just a decent mic for Zoom calls and recording demos. I have kids at home, so lots of sound to try and cut out as well.

Work from home setup

She ain't much, but...

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Checking out my 401(K) this morning

Oh my @kylec.bsky.social

Girl Scout cookies! Tis’ the season 😀

I’m already imagining people using this for wedding invitations 🤣

Yeah, sometimes I wish I could use a smaller/faster model - especially with simple tasks

I’ve really enjoyed Windsurf so far. I’ve been daily driving since it launched and zero regrets.

At this point, all the standards bodies are just tryin to make daddy (The Verge) proud

FEEDBACK: A viewer questions Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO) offering a Capitol tour to pardoned J6 rioters. But I can see why.

Or Satya (not that I know of)

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Oh man...