If you insist on reading shit on Substack, at the very least install Jason’s browser extension and starve them of the attention. For the record, I trust Jason completely.

I got tired of Substack platforming Nazis, white supremacists, and convicted rapists, so I made a browser extension. Kill Yr Substack intercepts every Substack link and redirects it to `archive.is`. They never see your traffic. You still get to read the thing tho. jasoncosper.com/kill-yr-subs...

I've officially shipped We Spam Econo. It's got a 64k+ term comment blocklist in a custom table, which is 83x faster than #WordPress core's default implementation. Pair it with Simple Cloudflare Turnstile and Akismet starts to look optional. 😉 github.com/littleroomst...

I forked the Comment Blacklist Manager plugin for #WordPress and the performance gains are fucking bonkers. We Spam Econo moves 64k+ spam terms from Grant Hutchinson's blocklist into a custom table (instead of using the `disallowed_keys` array in `wp_options`) and now it's 83x faster!

🚨🚨 BOOK ALERT 🚨🚨 Your new favorite book is now OUT and available to order from various vendors around the world. Also, your local bookshop can order it. And if you’re in SF, @booksmith.bsky.social has it signed, and ON THE SHELF! www.mulebooks.com/how-to-die

I’m excited that the NBA is working on a Las Vegas expansion team. We’ll finally be able to smoke inside the arena during a game.

Turned off my "Open To Work" badge on #LinkedIn because someone convinced me that it was costing me consulting leads. What was LinkedIn's response? Flooding my inbox with job alerts. A whole mess of them. Every single day. They only want you when you're not looking, I guess.

Spending my Saturday making bootleg #Heathcliff comics. As one does.

Managed to cut ~26KB out of a web font I use (the variable version of Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) through subsetting to just English + proper quotes and dashes. 💪

Shout out to that one friend who sends you the kind of reels that keep your Instagram algorithm *really* fucked up.

🚨 ART AUCTION 🚨 This delightful FUCK ICE painting was made with hot wax and razor blades. Stunning purple and pink. 11x14 PLUS A STICK. Winning bid will go to help people in Minnesota. Food. Rent. Bid in the comments. Shipping extra.

So, I turn 48 today. 😅 And like I do every February, I’m going to ask y’all to donate to the Bakersfield Burrito Project instead of sending me birthday wishes or whatever.

I’ve heard that Bulgarian is a really beautiful language to be cyber bullied in.

Lowkey obsessed with the WHAT system from @joanwestenberg.com's "A Metabolic Workspace" post. In fact, I love it so much I built a quick and dirty web app for it. Now it lives on my new tab page, staring me down all day long. App: what.boogah.org Post: www.joanwestenberg.com/a-metabolic-...

If you’re in #Bakersfield, the Anti-Capitalist Computer Club is setting up shop at the Really Really Free Market tomorrow morning (Sun. 1/18) at Virginia Ave County Park. From 9am to 11am, we'll be there to help you troubleshoot your tech woes. No money. No bartering. Just knowledge sharing. ♥️

After decades of being a hoodie guy, I finally caved and grabbed a couple crewneck sweatshirts. They’re great. I mean, of course they are. Except I keep reflexively jamming my hands into pockets that don’t exist. The learning curve on this is genuinely embarrassing. 🙃

Watched the Marc Maron documentary last night at 2X. Out of respect for the podcast.

We're starting an Anti-Capitalist Computer Club in #Bakersfield. If you're nearby, sign up for updates at the bottom of the page. If you're not nearby, take a look at what we're doing consider and making your own version. anticap.makersfield.co

You ever see something *so stupid* that happened *months ago* but you can't let it go until you do something about it? Well… boogah.threadless.com/designs/halv...

Turns out I did say that. With my chest.

Let us not forget what an army of frogs is capable of.

Things I don’t feel bad lying about: telling the door-to-door solar salesman that we don’t own our house (we do) so they’ll go away.

About ¼ of the way through @jasonkpargin.bsky.social's "I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom" and I'd really like a "Repo Man" influenced adaptation of this ASAP, please and thank you.

Okay, friends… I’m tentatively "releasing" my punky little web app, HÜSKER TÜDÜ. If you happen to find something wrong with it, be nice. And don’t get too used to that domain! I’m moving it to one I own fairly soon. husker-tudu.netlify.app

Yesterday should have been my best friend's 43rd birthday. To honor his memory and process my own grief, I built a small web app. I'm sharing it in case it might help you too. jasoncosper.com/something-fo...

A lady (50ish) just said “Thank you, young man.” when I (47) held the door for her. Feels like I’m going to be riding on that for the rest of the week. 😅

This is where I post from

If he's such a genius why hasn't he discovered hats.

If anyone wants off Substack, I’m happy to help you get on WordPress, Ghost, or literally anything else. HMU! littleroom.studio

The award for the most 47 year-old white guy sentence I've said all month goes to: "Yeah… I got something on my Sonic Youth shirt, so I changed into my Talking Heads shirt."

Wasn’t expecting to spend my Saturday dealing with debit card fraud, but here we are. 🙃

You folks call your robot vacuum anything fun? We named ours Deebo. As in, "Here comes Deebo."

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Bluesky can do it. Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments Freelancers/contractors: get in comments Everyone else: boosts appreciated

I just tried out NVIDIA's Parakeet transcription model (via MacWhisper) and HOLY CRAP! A 1h24m WAV file transcribed in just 26 seconds on an M4 Mac mini with 16GB RAM. 🤯

Really wish that the MLB app had a "go live" button for when you're streaming audio. It's annoying to have to switch to the other team's feed and back again because you took a quick phone call and now find yourself behind on the game.

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

Just told our stupid robot vacuum to throw away its map of our house. We've moved enough furniture around that the old layout is utterly useless.

"I got bored when I didn't have a podcast. So I started a podcast, man."

I installed the Fair Package Manager (@fairpm) on my personal site last night. I'm excited to say it worked flawlessly. A couple of plugins were updated from Fastly's servers, & a paid plugin updated from its servers as normal. I'm excited to see what else comes from this interesting development.

SOON

"Right now, we have the opportunity to decide what kind of community we are and what kind of community we want to be." — @sereedmedia.bsky.social #WordPress www.thewpcommunitycollective.com/2025/06/06/t...

so when i’m not yelling about things, i write code. i’ve been part of a group working to decentralize WordPress and i can finally say so publicly.

“The FAIR Package Manager project gives the WordPress ecosystem a stronger, more independent foundation for delivering software. By decentralizing distribution, we’re ensuring the long-term sustainability of this open source content management platform.” ✊

“learn to code” they said

We podcasting again? Maaaaaaaaybe… Get on the email list to know when we're live! #WordPress

Love living in a future where I have to occasionally reboot our doorbell. 🙃

Really wish I didn’t have to explain my John Cage t-shirt as often as I do.

Man, I used to be *a lot* better at Fortnite on my phone. Keep getting merc’d by kids who probably have Backbones and whatnot while I’m derping around with the touch controls. 🙃

Feeling like I caught a couple (sadly, very accurate) strays from Apple Music this afternoon…

My site’s comments only are only open during business hours. No, really… jasoncosper.com/no-comments-...