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Jay 🆘
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Art-house goon

Developer, designer, writer, and @wmbr DJ living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · Apr 17
Hitchcock movies on sale for $5 apiece right now on iTunes:

- Rope
- Rear Window
- Vertigo
- Psycho
- The Birds
February 18, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Every lunch place just sells "bowls" now
February 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM
A BESPOKE PORTILLO'S TYPEFACE WITH THREE WEIGHTS AND ITALICS https://www.avondaletypeco.com/atc-tillotype #chicago #Portillos #typography
ATC TilloType
Drawn from hand-painted signs, neighborhood scripts,and decades of Chicago grit —this typeface doesn’t whisper.It calls your order from across the room.
www.avondaletypeco.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Media Log: Eyes of Fire (1983)

Watched: Feb 13, 2026

#nowwatching #movies #medialog
February 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Media Log: Postmortem (Patricia Cornwell)

Started: Jan 5, 2026
Finished: Feb 14, 2026

#nowreading #books #medialog
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Zombies: Like vampires, only boring
February 15, 2026 at 1:21 AM
February 14, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Always love to see a capitalized "Dumpster" in a book, when the copy editor knows it's a trademark and it can only be assumed begrudgingly fixes it
February 14, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Mina the Hollower, "Spring 2026" (26:23 in this video): https://www.youtube.com/live/P0e5YEXtZu0?t=26m23s
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 AM
In iOS 26.3:

> Apple is allowing notifications to be forwarded to a single connected device, so turning on notifications for a third-party watch disables notifications on the Apple Watch.

Wow! That was one of the annoying things about using a #pebble -- both your watch *and* your phone […]
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February 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
1. Replace a legacy service with a new one at unsustainably low prices, burning investor money

2. Get everybody to adopt your cheap new service, killing the legacy one

3. Increase your prices to match the now deceased legacy service, and profit from the lock-in […]
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February 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Whatever your opinion of US football, the scoring math makes for some really high drama.

A touchdown being worth two field goals, plus the opportunity for one or two extra points, not to mention the touchback — it just results in so many different varieties of decisive moments.
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
February 8, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I *knew* this movie was going to open with expository text #svengoolie
February 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
LOL the Turning Points USA “All-American Halftime Show” (“celebrating faith, family, and freedom”) finally has a lineup.

An absolute barn burner!!
February 7, 2026 at 3:57 PM
[Trump racist AI Video]

LOL it isn’t “the Streisand Effect” when an attempt to expose the blatant racism happening on Twitter *succeeds in exposing it*, you idiot
February 7, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I absolutely love this device of a narrator introducing each character in sequence. #thelastdrivein
February 7, 2026 at 2:15 AM
I would commit murder for Blathers #animalcrossing
February 7, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I'm trying out Lucida Console as a coding font and I'm finding that it's extremely legible at small sizes.

There are also bold and italic variants available these days.
February 5, 2026 at 10:01 PM
‘Understanding how much Epstein clearly loathed [Lawrence] Krauss is essential to truly appreciating this next email from 2017, which reveals that at some point, Krauss assumed that Epstein was going to help him make a vampire movie called “Vampire Noir.”’

Oh I would love to see this script […]
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February 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
At a bar watching a Brit watch Bob Ross for the first time. Blowing his mind.
February 4, 2026 at 2:27 AM
A "full-stack developer" is a back-end developer who kinda knows Bootstrap
February 3, 2026 at 9:41 PM
I mean he’s just gonna tear down the Kennedy Center like he did the East Wing, right? Out of sheer spite? #uspol
February 3, 2026 at 3:50 AM
I wonder if when people say "em dashes are a sign of AI," they mean a true em dash character rather than two hyphens.
February 3, 2026 at 3:41 AM