An hour of vibecoding in Xcode has convinced me apps may be dead: https://json.blog/2026/03/01/an-hour-o

I am a sucker for pricey upgrades: https://json.blog/2026/03/01/i-am-a-sucker

I added a new Release Notes page with all the updates about blog features that are reader-visible, for those interested in all the ways you can use this site. We'll see if I keep this up-- I think it depends on whether anyone seems interested.

I feel like dress codes have become increasingly impossible to understand.

Sometimes the greatest gift is to not be an enthusiast.

There seems to be a new trend of cancelled Kennedy Center performers or DC art events ending up in Baltimore, and I love this for me (us).

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

How has it been over three years?: https://json.blog/2026/02/22/how-has-it-been-cdmx

Zed is fast becoming my favorite text editor on Mac.

Still a lot to do, and still some pieces not working. But, I did get to add one new feature today that is visible to other folks-- a new Archive Page now with updated year filters. I also updated the About Page.

My favorte of what we saw today at the BMA, Planes, Rockets, and the Spaces in Between by Amy Sherald.

There seem to be three kinds of people: Those who talk about what they love. Those that talk about why you should hate what you love. And worst of all, those who want you to believe it’s immoral to love the things you love.

My plan for dramatic democratic reform includes: - SCOTUS expansion - DC statehood - PR settlement of status - Codify DOJ independence - Constitutional amendment(s) to reverse SCOTUS decisions, abolish Electoral College, restrict presidential pardon power

I’ve suddenly made it significantly further building my own CMS for my site than I thought I would. It’s been quite the project so far.

It’s going to be 40 degrees in Baltimore tomorrow and I want to wear a t-shirt and shorts in celebration.

One of the core concerns about age identification has gone predictably from theory to reality.

I need people to stop talking about chips and salsa and guac in relation to Bad Bunny. Arroz con pollo and platanos are right there.

I wonder if ISBNDB is any good. Kind of a bummer they lack a free tier or something closer to hobbyest levels.

When a guitar player buys a bass…

What kind of world do we live in that being murdered by a literal Klansman isn’t enough to call your killer racist?

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

Clear parallel between Trump tactics to control federal personnel processes and immigration. You tell the courts that the unitary executive is in charge, and must be given more power & use it to politicize internal executive processes intended to provide due process and a fair hearing (e.g. MSPB).

So, is it still generally true that you leave a guitar in the box for 24 hours after it arrives in cold weather? Asking for a friend.

Democrats should be blanketing every airwave with ads about how Trump is killing affordable energy and raising your prices.

But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.

Just the conditions of his confinement: https://json.blog/2026/02/04/just-the-conditions-of-his.html

I can’t remember what event it was 1 or 2 or maybe 3 years ago that caused me to say goodbye to the Washington Post. But I’m quite happy to support my local Baltimore Banner and Liberal Currents (among others).

"Every time we counted more things, the numbers changed! Checkmate, Democrats!"

I generally don’t like ads and I generally pay to remove them wherever possible. However, I’m not sure I’d ever take the stance of “we’ll never do ads; ads are evil” because it’s a hell of a business model because it works for everyone, consumers included, when implemented not like shit.

A good response to support “anti-popularism”. I think the key thing for Democrats to recognize is that what voters reward is claiming, showing, and then acting on moral authority. This is the loop Republicans have gotten right, but then keep losing because they are judged for failing.

A note from our editors:

Fuck, my Studio Display now has the flickering bug with my Mac Mini. This is really bad.

I didn’t have time until today to watch the Tech Connections video. It’s more than I expected, and I expected a lot. I implore you, even if where it begins feeling like it’s not for you, watch every second of this video. I’m in tears.

So, this is the Speaker of the House a) raising doubts about legitimate election outcomes, b) presenting legal voting processes (mail-in ballots) as illegal, and c) endorsing Trump's practice of focusing only on Dem majority voting sites. He is on board with Trump's plans to control the midterms.

I’ve reached the sad point in my life where my hobbies being computer things means I don’t feel like doing them very much after the work week. Unfortunately, this has extended to the producing part of music creation, where I’ve been avoiding mixing and laying down a bass track for 2 weeks.

I’ve been a consistent casual reader of The Verge since launch. I think it’s worth noting how on top of the political moment they have been. It’s a real testament to their editorial voice, vision, and ethics.

Who had Stasi-Barbie is an anti-Semite on their bingo card? Literally everyone.

Targeting Haitians in Ohio and sending them back to Haiti is just more cruelty.

Her grandfather was a physician with a high rank in the army. Her father and aunt are both doctors. Their home basically had a food kitchen and clinic on the first floor– when we stayed there, starting at 5am, people lined up for food and medical care, free of charge. That’s the home they burnt.

The very well-accepted term for "stripping the legal protections of a minority group and then sending a paramilitary force to carry them away" is "ethnic cleansing." They are planning to ethnically cleanse Springfield, Ohio.

Elsa’s family home in Port-au-Prince– three generations lived there– has been burned to the ground this week. Trump, Vance, and Noem are about to go after Haitians, whose home country is in disarray in no small part due to continuous US meddling. I don’t have the words.

Again, there is no legislative fix for the magnitude of the authoritarian crimes being committed daily. Everyone is just pretending at this point: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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The Katherine Hahn of Fascism: https://json.blog/2026/01/26/the-katherine-hahn-of-fascism.html

I’m so tired laying down on the couch. This will in no way translate to being tired in bed.

Snow Day afternoons

I’m not moving my blog, or really even planning on it I don’t think, but I did finally start to make some progress on my Elixir/Phoenix CMS yesterday, even if a lot of it was just thinking through more thoroughly what I’d want and how I’d get there.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

Pretty sure I’ve got a microphonic pickup. Now I get to decide if I’m going to repair it or use this an excuse to replace the pickups.

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.