fromjason.xyz

fromjason.xyz

Jason Velazquez

What's up, weirdos. I'm Jason. Welcome to my digital garden. I'm happy you're here. Please make yourself comfortable. By day, I'm a digital freelancer, copywriter, uncle, and cheese danish sommelier. By night, I drink the blood of my enemies in an old Mountain Dew bottle I found in a Buc-ee's bathroom. Kidding. I'm just a guy who likes to blog about technology, design, the web, and anything I'm hyper fixated on at the time.

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Bloktoberfest— Some anticlimactic thoughts on blocking

fromjason.xyz · 2y

Bloktoberfest— Some anticlimactic thoughts on blocking Note: this post is what I consider a note— some light musing that may or may not have a conclusion and may or may not turn...

How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop

fromjason.xyz · 2y

How do we stop Meta in 2024? We fix the information loop Discursive dominance is “the ultimate emergence of one discourse as dominant among competing ones in their struggle for...

Copy, Acquire, Kill— How Meta could pull off the most extraordinary pivot in tech history

fromjason.xyz · 2y

Copy, Acquire, Kill— How Meta could pull off the most extraordinary pivot in tech history Meta's sudden interest in ActivityPub and Mastodon doesn't make much sense. There are a...

Posts critical of Threads and Meta missing on Mammoth app

fromjason.xyz · 2y

Posts critical of Threads and Meta missing on Mammoth app There were big chunks of posts missing under the threads hashtag feed. Some are still missing. Many of these posts were...

The medium is the message— Threads isn't a win for the Fediverse

fromjason.xyz · 2y

The medium is the message— Threads isn't a win for the Fediverse Meta needs the Fediverse more than the Fediverse needs Meta. I say this in the sense that the Fediverse never...

I got my first blue bubble scam text the other day and I think I know why

fromjason.xyz · 2y

I got my first blue bubble scam text the other day and I think I know why Beeper Mini is a new Android app that gives Android users a blue bubble when they text iPhone users....

Why it feels like AIs are coming for the artists

fromjason.xyz · 2y

Why it feels like AIs are coming for the artists Each week, a new AI thing goes viral. It's always something artistic-adjacent. Either it's a GPT-illustrated kids' book, an AI...

The Village Effect of the Greater Web

fromjason.xyz · 2y

The Village Effect of the Greater Web The internet is a vast and open plain. It represents the best account we have of the human condition (it's also really fun and interesting...

Database in love

fromjason.xyz · 2y

Database in love Multi-relational Polyamorous

Why is gifting subscriptions so hard?

fromjason.xyz · 2y

Why is gifting subscriptions so hard? As a freelancer, some years are better than others. The last two years have been difficult for me financially, so I'm always thinking of...

A Frantic Friday Massacre

fromjason.xyz · 2y

A Frantic Friday Massacre Update: The Verge is reporting that Altman is in talks with the board to come back as CEO, is "ambivalent" about retuning without governing changes to...

fromjason.xyz · 2y

My precious From Atlantic Staff Writer Charlie Warzel (via Threads): One thing in the OpenAI stuff that feels consistent (based on some internal convos I've had) is that a group...

fromjason.xyz · 2y

App defaults Just last night I stumbled on The Small Website Discoverability Crisis post while scrolling Hacker News. And here I am tonight, writing a post based on a viral...

On iA Presenter and my mission to preserve my digital assets

fromjason.xyz · 2y

On iA Presenter and my mission to preserve my digital assets So certain that the world didn't need another presentation app, I ignored iA's new offering for months. Not even...

You likely already own the first big AI wearable

fromjason.xyz · 2y

You likely already own the first big AI wearable It's AirPods. The world's most ubiquitous earbuds just so happens to have a computer chip and a voice assistant. The opening is...