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.
Latest Posts
New technology same old people Humane, an AI hardware start-up whose name choice is as transparent as glass, has a "trust" section front-and-center on its website. It reads: At Humane, we believe you deserve the ability to own your data...
Madonna in the 80s? AI already tainting our history This Reddit post, an ode to early Madonna, has 505 upvotes at the time of writing this note. But, the seemingly innocuous collection of Madonna photos from the late 70s and early 80s...
How to properly peel a pomegranate Pomegranates are delicious, but can be tricky to rip open. In this guide I'll show you how to expose that sweet, sweet flesh and get away with it. Step 1: beat it over then head with a wooden spoon....
From Jason 2.0 is an 11ty-powered digital garden with multiple plots From Jason 2.0 builds on the concept of 1.0 where I created sub-sections ("subs") that behave like independent blogs. These subs now have a new name— plots. I made From...
I made a Lorem Ipsum page Go to: Lorem Ipsum with copy button I made a Lorem Ipsum (Lipsum if you're nasty) because the site I use for my website dummy text has gone mad with advertisements. I suspect it's the same site we all use. I'm...
My Indie Web list Note 12/10/2023: I am in thr process of revamping my bookmarks and curation. if you came here hoping for a big list of cool sites, you'll want to come back in a couple days. Id say Monday. I have some fun stuff I'm...
Interesting finds: Design articles I still think about This post is officially my first on my newly designed custom blog (if you don't count the colophon). I figured I should share a few articles that have impacted my approach to design....
This event was shot on iPhone and edited on Mac Just finished watching Apple's Scary Fast Event[^1]. Cook & Co. announced a new MacBook Pro, updated iMac, and the M3 chip family (M3, Pro, Ultra). Pretty standard stuff, if not a little...
Design & art There's a fundamental misunderstanding of what design sets to accomplish. Scrolling design-focused forums, you get the sense that design and art are viewed as interchangeable ideologies. We've somehow formed the belief that...
Meta doesn't hate news, just anything that moves us off the app Meta's vision for social media is a billion lobotomized users engaging with The Hamburglar's new value meal. To realize that vision, the conglomerate is downgrading "news"...
Interesting finds, October 10, 2023 A few things I stumbled upon last week. No theme. Just some cool stuff. Every Noise Ever wonder what genre an artist belongs to? In an effort to categorize music and personalize playlists, Spotify...
Patreon's new logo design is good actually From my post in r/logodesign Patreon is the latest brand to get dragged by the internet for its new logo design. At the risk of catching a few strays, I'm here to defend it, just a bit,...
I guess I'll just pay til I die? Why I'm switching from Ulysses to iA Writer I'm switching to iA Writer from Ulysses as my primary writing tool. The process has left me with some big feelings about Software as a Service (SaaS),...
Love, Loss, and Raspberry Scones Dearest Juanita, I am currently floating through the tireless void of space. How are you? Please don't worry for me, Juanita. The stars will surely guide me home. It's just, old men with estranged hearts...
Apple is killing the cloud as we know it Hello. A technology novice may know that iCloud syncs their documents across all their devices— iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Someone a little more tech-savvy may understand that the cloud, as a general...