Jonathan Brewer

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.

Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

Google's AI defeated by its own shitty software.

Infrastructure level competition: market at work.

Yep it's really not worth using. On Mac I'm using colima via Homebrew & it's doing everything I need. I wouldn't attempt on Windows.

Treadmill in a gym showing the Wellington waterfront near Te Papa the national museum.

Wellington popped up on the treadmill this morning. With cut-rate filming & no 50 kph headwind it just wasn't the same.

Sunrise over Jakarta. Sun is an orange ball with clear definition.

Good morning! High humidity and generally poor air quality has some advantages.

Great job everybody! Melania: Devourer of Men is number one across the board. Remember to pass the word: download this free ebook so that we completely screw up Melania T's algorithm this weekend.

A lot of people always ask me to explain New Zealand to them. Here is the first part of my attempt to explain everything about Aotearoa to people who have never been there and will (hopefully) never go:

notagrift.com/explaining-a...

Beef Rendang with a pair of round puff crisps

Stewed vegetables in coconut milk.

Chicken satay on a grill.

A whole fish on a plate.

Day six in Jakarta. I've had a lot of outstanding food this week, but it's about time for a burger.

You know what though? We get rounded corners now.

ROUNDED CORNERS. WOW.

A comparison of the graphical user interface of an accounts listing widget in the Xero accounting system.

One of several ways the new Xero UI is worse is that it takes up more space while displaying information in a clumsier, harder to read way.

Xero's new user interface displays less information than the old one, and does it in an incredibly clumsy way. I don't know who the product owner is for this mess, but they should try working in a different industry. They likely won't have much choice in the near future.

If the Synology is ~10 years old, get a new Synology. The CPUs in newer models are much faster and the user experience better as a result. Some newer models also can take extra memory, nvme ssd for caching, can run Docker containers, all sorts of cool things the older ones didn't do.

Apple intelligence "live translation" makes absolute nonsense out of spoken Bahasa Indonesia. Especially when lots of acronyms are thrown in. It's hilarious nonsense but such a distraction I've given up.

Apple menu used for screen mirroring showing local devices and some that are not mine.

When your hotel's IT people don't understand how Wi-Fi host isolation works. I wonder what Josh would think if he got a request to let me stretch my desktop onto his MBA...

I think we all need to consider how we handle the day a belligerent government captures ICANN. And maybe we need to start working on that alt-ICANN sooner rather than later.

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iran's awake, it seems

Twenty hours from home to central Jakarta. Would be so nice to get that Wellington to Singapore flight back again, it made working in SEA so much easier.

I have friends from school who work in hospitals in America. One's a trauma nurse in RGV Texas & gunshot wounds are a daily thing. That's a whole lot of nope. How does America even function now.

The Wi-Fi was down almost the entire route AKL-SIN today so I got some TV in. Got through nine episodes of The Pitt. Thank fuck I don't live in America anymore. City hospitals were scary enough 25 years ago before fentanyl, rampant gun crime, epidemic obesity, & antivax... can't imagine it now.

A splash screen for AirNZ in-flight Wi-Fi where the company has asked for an email address as a pre-condition of receiving service. The form accepts any email address as long as it fits the pattern of string@string.string.

Why the lame attempt at data harvesting Air New Zealand? What are you doing with the email addresses you collect when people want to use in-flight Wi-Fi? Obviously nothing with the ones I've supplied.

Help us make hope normal again.

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Love it how LinkedIn will blindly announce work anniversaries for members who haven't used the site in years. Saw a 25th announcement today for a guy I know has been gone 13 years.

DNS request traffic to @cloudflare.social 1.1.1.1 resolver has also seen a significant increase, with growth starting on 17-Jan and exceeding pre-shutdown levels the next day. TXT record queries have grown to be the majority of the request traffic.
radar.cloudflare.com/dns/ir?dateR...

As two full weeks of #IranDigitalBlackout approaches, traffic again began to grow, starting around 18:00 UTC on 21-Jan. The growth was driven by large increases across several ASNs, and could potentially be related to an expanding whitelist of domains.
radar.cloudflare.com/dns/ir?dateR...

I think it's ok to be thankful for one less psychotic nazi in the world. Even if they were a nice little boy once.

People working at banks should know how to read a P&L. Like and Subscribe for more wild ideas.

Today 45 Years Ago: Reagan May Have Been Elected, Doesn't Recall

Today 45 Years Ago: Reagan May Have Been Elected, Doesn't Recall

Honestly Union Station just isn't that nice. Passengers better off not going there.

Is Greenland Trump's Wookiee Defense to the Epstein Files?