If you use Google as spell check, has it gotten worse lately? Tapping the “Did you mean ___?” link looks correct at first glance, but the search box reverts once you tap into it.

Living in Chicago means you don’t need to follow sports for a home game to turn traffic or transit into chaos. So, I built a single-serving site that answers the question: Is there a home game today? homegame.today/cubs.

All these Wordle clones, but imagine an alderman guessing game for Chicago. Call it: Wardle

I’m working on a project that displays Unicode characters like “☰ Trigram For Heaven.” Turns out that the names aren’t available in JavaScript, so I added a dependency to fetch them. It’s kinda wild how much bigger it is than the rest of my codebase. 🤯

Upgrading to oversized towels at home ruined hotel showers for me. I repeatedly forgot to lower my expectations. Then my first shower of each trip ends with a disappointing reality check.

Podlink just got a major upgrade 🚀 Faster, more reliable, and easier to use. • New platforms like YouTube Music, Audible, and more. • Smarter OP3-powered sorting. • Listeners can set a default podcast app for instant redirects. blog.podlink.com/posts/a-new-...

Today, I’m thrilled to share that Spotify has returned Podlink to my care! After four and a half years, Podlink is back with its original founder, and I’m excited about what’s ahead.

After 3.5 years in Printer's Row, it's time for a new view 😍

🌌🏕️🔭❄️

Hopefully, each night here will stay this clear!

🧊❄️🥶

brb, off to see the Northern Lights!

@grafera.zone FYI, the Bluesky link on your website is pointing to your old handle. (Switching to a custom domain doesn’t hold it for you.)

Opening Slack for the first time after a holiday break and seeing the ⚠️ icon over my workplace’s instance will always create a pit in my stomach.

On my flight today, I watched The Departed (2006) and M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap (2024) simultaneously via passengers in the row before mine. I may not have heard any of the audio, but I feel entitled to partial credit in Letterboxd.

Linktree is hiring! If we’re mutuals, please reach out for a referral. ✨ Staff Product Designer, Growth (West Coast) ✨ Webflow Developer (Remote) ✨ Staff Frontend Engineer (West Coast) ✨ Staff Software Engineer, Authentication (West Coast or AUS) linktr.ee/careers

I’m so unnecessarily annoyed with this article. After reading 1300 words, I don’t think the average reader could accurately articulate *why* Bluesky has taken a different approach to verification.

I’ve got less than 50 posts on Bluesky, but somehow, my following count has just surpassed my Twitter. 🤷‍♂️

@johnspurlock.com ICYMI, Firesky was featured in @t3.gg’s video on Bluesky: youtu.be/cIoYUQhKJUo?...

Nothing humbles me like losing something I was literally just holding. Spent hours hunting for my mug—checked every room, every surface, even the fridge. Eventually found it in the microwave, proving I still haven't quite mastered object permanence. 🤦‍♂️

I have a lot of fun shooting product photography of my partner’s ceramics, and it kills me that no one gets to see them in their hi-res glory.

Marvel Snap for PC ran just fine on my old Intel NUC—until updates made it lag. Thought it'd finally push me to build a real PC… Until I realized I'm so Apple-pilled that I forgot I could just upgrade my RAM 🫠 Three hours and $50 later, I've got 4× more RAM, and problem solved!

Her, talking from the next room: "SeatGeek is reputable, right? 🧐" Me, mishearing her: "Beautiful? 🤔 Yeah I like their UX and aesthetic better." Her, exasperated: "😅 This kind of misunderstanding could only happen with you."

At some point, I started ignoring my laptop's Low Battery warnings. Que sera, sera. When it inevitably dies, I close the lid, plug it in, and move on. However, macOS refuses to stop chiming every few seconds until I wake it up and log back in. Does anyone know how to solve this?

Overhead at brunch in Brooklyn: "We're so old, we're like…twenty one"

In NYC and our waiter assumed we were local cause we had "city energy." I'll be riding that high all weekend.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #4,925!

Starting off the #xoxofest conference talks with @molly.wiki

✈️ I’ll be in Portland Thursday through Monday for the very last #XOXOFest 😭 Who else is going? I’m attending solo and terrible at approaching people at events like this. Hit me up if you wanna hang out!

Hypothetical Google DOJ case outcome: Apple removes search engine choice and builds its own. Instead of Google paying 36% of search ads to Apple, Apple pays 64% of the revenue to license Google results and manage ad inventory. Right back where we started, but with more lock-in. 🤔

I built a little puzzle game! Guess the 4-digit code to win. As you enter each digit, the numeric keyboard will update to show only the digits that are still viable. crackthecode.xyz

I launched Podlink in 2018 to make sharing podcasts easier. Today, I’m excited to announce an early preview of @episodes.fm https://nathangathright.com/introducing-episodesfm/

Introducing Episodes.fm: https://nathangathright.com/introducing-episodesfm/

Just realized I never kept track of all the concerts I've seen. Naturally, this resulted in a spreadsheet w/ 50+ shows including the full lineup, venue, city, and links to lastfm/bandsintown/songkick. Now, I’m just resisting the urge to design my own “Letterboxd for concerts.” 😅

I’m recording a live podcast this week, and I wanted to ensure that my mic would be loud enough. I use a Shure MV7 + Wave XLR and record next to a huge window facing downtown Chicago. Not ideal. I bought a FetHead to boost my gain and started picking up radio interference. 😅

Apple’s added support for transcripts! And surprisingly, it’s not just their own auto-generated transcripts They’re also supporting the `<podcast:transcript>` tag! podcasters.apple.com/support/5316...

Shower Idea: A Reverse Astrology Quiz - answer dozens of personality questions and it’ll tell you your birthday.

The podcast police are here to stop white guys from starting podcasts for no reason www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8yUtA7R/

Who all’s doing AI-generated chapters for podcasts? For listeners • https://fathom.fm • https://snipd.com For podcasters • https://podium.page (powering Buzzsprout’s CohostAI) • https://auphonic.com B2B • https://assemblyai.com Who am I missing?

Listening to cynics bend over backwards to concoct the most convoluted conspiracies is exasperating, especially when Occam’s razor provides a much more likely answer and they just refuse to recognize it.

Inside you, there are two wolves. One doesn’t want to eat leftovers. One doesn’t want to spend money ordering out for lunch.

With all the hype around AI tech and YouTube adding support for podcast ingestion, how long before some startup will generate a video version with “talking portraits?”

Skills ✅ Photoshop ✅ Illustrator ✅ After Effects* * I can stabilize footage, but I WILL end up crying in frustration 😢

You, an amateur: I’m taking Friday off for Zelda! Me: I’m renting a cabin in the woods through Tuesday

Help me pick the colors for this branding

My deep-seated desire to be a ✨cool internet person✨ is always at war with my deep-seated fear of being cringe on main.

FYI: if you have an Apple Silicon Mac, you can install the Bluesky iOS app on your desktop. Unfortunately, Apple scales everything down to 77% by default. So it feels like a social network for ants.

In April 2021, Apple Podcasts introduced Update Frequency. Two years later, I wanted to revisit the topic, analyze the adoption, and propose a way to bring this feature to all podcast apps. https://nathangathright.com/frequency/

My AirPods Pro have been crackling for a while, and I’ve been holding out on replacing them until Apple releases a new USB-C version this fall. But! It looks like a free repair program covers mine! https://support.apple.com/en-in/airpods-pro-service-program-sound-issues