JayCruz
@jaycruz.bsky.social
👨🏻💻 Writes Functions and Occasionally Sentences
Still cries at a good film, still kisses with saliva.
Blog: https://thread-pool.com/
Portfolio: https://portfolio-2024-swart-nu.vercel.app/
Github: https://github.com/yarocruz
Still cries at a good film, still kisses with saliva.
Blog: https://thread-pool.com/
Portfolio: https://portfolio-2024-swart-nu.vercel.app/
Github: https://github.com/yarocruz
New post on why calling LLM's and Neural Networks “Black boxes" has added so much confusion to the normies about AI. thread-pool.com/llms-arent-b...
LLMs Aren’t Black Boxes — They’re Just Not Written in English
As someone that knows a few computer programming languages, and who’s been an aspiring software engineer for some years, I understand the…
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February 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
New post on why calling LLM's and Neural Networks “Black boxes" has added so much confusion to the normies about AI. thread-pool.com/llms-arent-b...
The problem with the critique of cancel-culture is that it just leads to saying that “Nazis are people too.” Sure, if you voted and support Trump your a person too, but you are also a total piece of a shit of a person too.
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 AM
The problem with the critique of cancel-culture is that it just leads to saying that “Nazis are people too.” Sure, if you voted and support Trump your a person too, but you are also a total piece of a shit of a person too.
Just Write, Even if No One's Watching. thread-pool.com/just-write-e...
Just Write, Even If No One’s Watching
Just write. Even if only one person learns something from your article, you’ll feel great, and that you’ve contributed — even if just a…
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February 4, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Just Write, Even if No One's Watching. thread-pool.com/just-write-e...
I'm old you guys. thread-pool.com/stuck-in-the...
Stuck in the Middle
I’ll be 48 years old in a few months. That’s a big number. I can feel the weight of that number. In terms of physical health, I still feel…
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January 25, 2026 at 12:02 AM
I'm old you guys. thread-pool.com/stuck-in-the...
Carrying your phone in a bag is an overlooked and surprisingly effective way to use your phone less. Wrote a bit about this. thread-pool.com/the-best-way...
The Best Way to Use Your Phone Less Is to Stop Carrying It
The average time people spend staring at their phones is about five hours a day. Most of this time is spent on algorithm-driven social…
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January 18, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Carrying your phone in a bag is an overlooked and surprisingly effective way to use your phone less. Wrote a bit about this. thread-pool.com/the-best-way...
Watched that Counting Crows documentary from HBO and realized that the singer all this time was actually Kevin Smith with dreads.
January 5, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Watched that Counting Crows documentary from HBO and realized that the singer all this time was actually Kevin Smith with dreads.
They are watching. #birds #photography
December 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
They are watching. #birds #photography
Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface
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December 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Conveniences and tools. thread-pool.com/conveniences...
Conveniences and Tools
It’s been a month since I started using an Apple Watch as my main daily device and leaving the iPhone at home. I wrote about my experience…
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November 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Conveniences and tools. thread-pool.com/conveniences...
No One is Making a Documentary About You thread-pool.com/no-one-is-ma...
No One Is Making a Documentary About You
You are young. You are naive. You think you know how the world works, but you have absolutely no idea how the world works. You think you’re…
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November 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
No One is Making a Documentary About You thread-pool.com/no-one-is-ma...
New post: First week with the Apple Watch as my daily driver. thread-pool.com/my-first-wee...
My First Week Using an Apple Watch as a Dumbphone
The Rise of the Dumbphone Movement
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November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
New post: First week with the Apple Watch as my daily driver. thread-pool.com/my-first-wee...
Wrote about why you should read Newspapers, instead of watching TV News, or god help you, get your news from Social Media. thread-pool.com/thats-just-l...
“That’s just like, uh, your opinion man.”
I grew up in a family that watched the news. They would turn on the Tv early in the mornings to learn about the weather, how much traffic…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Wrote about why you should read Newspapers, instead of watching TV News, or god help you, get your news from Social Media. thread-pool.com/thats-just-l...
What's your Myers-Briggs Type? thread-pool.com/introversion...
Introversion Isn’t an Identity. It’s a Battery.
I’m re-reading the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. I read it when it came out over 10 years ago…
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November 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
What's your Myers-Briggs Type? thread-pool.com/introversion...
Me at work, having this conversation with myself, every day.
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Idiocracy - Einstein
YouTube video by Jake C
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October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Me at work, having this conversation with myself, every day.
youtu.be/uL73xItRtio
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On Not being Boring thread-pool.com/on-not-being...
On Not Being Boring
I don’t want to be boring. Particularly, I don’t want my writing to be boring. I want to write good sentences. I want to be entertaining. I…
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October 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
On Not being Boring thread-pool.com/on-not-being...
“TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a screen showing hours and hours of video made by people we don’t know. Social media has turned into television.”
www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...
www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...
Everything Is Television
A theory of culture and attention
www.derekthompson.org
October 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a screen showing hours and hours of video made by people we don’t know. Social media has turned into television.”
www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...
www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...
On coding bootcamps and software engineering as a career. thread-pool.com/confessions-...
Confessions of an Ex Teaching Assistant for a Coding Bootcamp
After nearly three years, my time as a Teaching Assistant at the 2U/edX Coding Bootcamp officially ended on March 13, 2025. And with it…
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October 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
On coding bootcamps and software engineering as a career. thread-pool.com/confessions-...
I struggle to write profiles, bios, and about me stuff because I don't know how to freeze myself in time.
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Please Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself
This post is and updated version of my About page
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October 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I struggle to write profiles, bios, and about me stuff because I don't know how to freeze myself in time.
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thread-pool.com/please-allow...
How convenient is it really to carry a little computer? thread-pool.com/convenience-...
Convenience vs. Necessity — On Smartphones, Social Media, and Sanity
I was late to getting my first mobile phone. In the early ’00s I didn’t have many friends to fill up a contact list, so I didn’t see the…
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October 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
How convenient is it really to carry a little computer? thread-pool.com/convenience-...
Another blog bites the dust. thread-pool.com/the-math-ain...
The Math ain’t Mathing
It’s been almost a year since I quit Medium and started this blog here with the Ghost platform and I’m finding it hard to justify the cost to keep this going. On Medium I payed 5 bucks a month to be o...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Another blog bites the dust. thread-pool.com/the-math-ain...
Learning to code to get a high paying job is like learning to dance about architecture.
September 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Learning to code to get a high paying job is like learning to dance about architecture.
I want to say something snarky about this, but I’m all out of things to say. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...
Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I want to say something snarky about this, but I’m all out of things to say. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...