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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Interesting finds, Oct 2, 2023 Things I stumbled upon on the internet last week. I've been into guides and manifestos lately, so here's a few I loved. A credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos/1 Case against...
Elon received playbook to kill Twitter From Ben Collins for NBC: Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the 3,000-word anonymous article said, would amount to a “declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.” The sender of the texts was...
Some thoughts on naming your business A common theme I've noticed when freelancers name their business is the name is too long--way, way, way too long. People want a name that describes what business they're in. I get it. I make websites...
Write the worst brand identity anyone has ever written Take it from the king of shitty first drafts— no one ever has to know. Our previous series post identified three objectives for your logo design project. You can read that post first...
Three objectives for your logo design You're starting a new freelance business. You're excited. You're motivated. You're — oh no. You need a logo! Where do you start? Start here. This article will be part of a series called How to...
Mind if I search your car Reuters reporting on Meta's AI chatbot and the dataset the company used to train it: Meta also did not use private chats on its messaging services as training data for the model and took steps to filter private...
When exactly is Email Forgiveness Day? I remember it being April 30th. In fact, I'm sure of it. But, Gimlet Media, the company that produced the podcast where the holiday was invented says Email Forgiveness Day is September 30th. Today....
On the old web I stayed up late last night searching for the "old web"— personal homepages, digital gardens, manifestos, guides— the type of stuff FAANG buried under algorithms and shiny interfaces. And boy, did I find some stuff. The...
You've been visited by that-look lion. Someone at the bar explaining the nuanced differences between long-form and short-form improv? That-Look Lion will shoot you over, well, that look. You'll get just the right amount of validation to...
You've been visited by shame fish. Shame Fish will wipe away one embarrassing memory from your brain. No more, no less. All Shame Fish asks is you send this page to 10 people so that they may enjoy the magic wonders of Shame Fish. If...
You've been visited by photog phil. Photog Phil will never let you take a bad picture again. Photog Phil knows your good side. He has a lighting kit in the trunk and he never forgets to set his iPhone to portrait mode. All Photog Phil...
You've been visited by irate ivan. Irate Ivan has a knack for working those dreaded customer service calls you've been putting off. Want to cancel your Hims subscription? Need to speak with a CVS pharmacist? How about asking your...
You've been visited by drunk baby. Drunk Baby tells you the truth. Not pulling off that new septum ring? Does your breath stink after lunch? Drunk Baby will give it to you straight. All Drunk Baby asks is you send this page to 10 people...
You've been visited by yuck leopard. Did a creep just offer to buy you a drink? Yuck Leopard will casually walk by with a perfectly timed "yuck,” just loud enough for them to hear it. All Yuck Leopard asks is you send this page to 10...
On digital gardening When I stumbled on the concept of digital gardens, it lit up my brain[1]. It gave me a framework for something I've long tried (and failed) to accomplish with my previous blogs. My failures weren't always related to...