Jordan Hornblow

Studio by Spotify Labs is a macOS desktop agent that generates personal podcasts, daily briefings and playlists.

I updated a connector configuration and asked Claude to use it.

Someone sent me The Way of Code last week, and they knew exactly what they were doing.

Anthropic's own engineering lead just said the quiet part out loud: building with Claude Code made her team lonely.

My annual Copilot Pro+ subscription ran out almost exactly as GitHub changed what Copilot feels like to use.

Over the last ten years, nearly every system I built kept converging into the same shape.

After almost two months of silence, NZ Post replied to my disclosure on the same day I sent a firmer follow-up.

Back in September 2025, I wrote a short post called Reality Is Contested.

I pushed three commits over a few hours.

Google Analytics wasn't useful for this product.

Most systems expose a write API over HTTP.

I've been building on AWS for over a decade.

Most writing about AI-assisted development falls into two camps: vibe-coding hype ("I built an app in 30 minutes with ChatGPT") or shallow tool comparisons (Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude).

After generating a few dozen songs with Suno, something counter-intuitive becomes obvious.

When you create a new AWS account, you're offered $100 in credits for completing five "Explore AWS" activities, things like launching an EC2 instance, creating a Lambda function, and setting up a budget.

I've been a software engineer for over 15 years.

<YouTube id="ngZ0K3lWKRc" title="Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence" /> Just read Joshua Drummond's essay via David Farrier's Webworm...

<YouTube id="52ToK1R1kzI" title="Joey Bada$$ - Dark Aura" /> Joey Bada$$'s Dark Aura hits different when you've been through the chaos of tech.

What a strange, fascinating direction the world is heading.

I paid $400 NZD for a year of Claude Pro.

<Vimeo id="289455954" title="Lessons from Suicide Research" /> Today is heavy.

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No shit Sherlock... here comes the Great 2025-26 Software Security Lapse affecting anything and everything that is powered by software from the vibers.

Recently, I made an emotional post on LinkedIn.

Two weeks after a minor crash on black ice that left me with a fractured metacarpal, I was on my way to an orthopaedic follow-up when things got... interesting.

For the better part of a decade, I was prescribed more than 100mg of morphine-equivalent opioid medication every day: 40–60mg oxycodone, equivalent in strength to heroin, 1.5x stronger than morphine 240mg codeine Plus other non-narcotic medications All do…

<Instagram url="https://www.instagram.com/p/QNYh6P-NT5F/" title="Englewood grandmother on policing" /> This video proves it: a grandmother in Englewood, half a mile from O-Block, believes more cops = more safety.

"Don't speak unless your words are more beautiful than silence." - Ab-Soul <Spotify src="album/4h3I43cFQyDqezGcREnTK6" height={352} /> In his own words "I pretty much finished the album before I did what I did," he explained.

<Vimeo id="289455954" title="Lessons from Suicide Research — AFSP" /> This morning I read some shocking statistics straight from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati and Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew, both veterans at the AI company, are leaving.

<YouTube id="AeOcNtiTqRg" title="Telegram's Encryption Deception" /> As mentioned by many news sources around the globe, Telegram will better cooperate with law enforcement agencies and hand over the IP addresses and phone numbers of users in response to…

<YouTube id="25LUF8GmbFU" title="MIT Educated Neurosurgeon on chronic pain and the medical system" /> Absolutely amazing watch.