Josh Withers Blog

Treat your body like a data centre.

I believe that art only becomes art when it’s exposed to oxygen, by which I mean, when other people interact with it, enjoy it, comment on it, purchase it, or feature it.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Imagine if you productised a really cool technology that would absolutely change the way we live and work forever, would absolutely generate bazillions of dollars of revenue and profit, but you wanted to secure your spot in the market.

Logging on to a website in 2036: Username.

Ted Gioia on how our leisure time has become monetised by Silicon Valley: "Life is different now.

I’ve seen a lot of people commenting on this image today, comparing the (second) Steve Jobs era product releases to Tim Cook’s era as CEO and what products were released.

“No matter what you do, you will be criticised for it.

Gosh I hate marketing/advertising my business in 2026.

I can’t help but feel that this line will feature heavily in the documentary a future generation makes about this time in history: We unknowingly gave particularly high rewards for metaphors with creatures.

One consistent tension I’m navigating: The pull to be at the vanguard of technology (learn Claude Code, install OpenClaw, vibe code everything!)

First snow of the season on Sleeping Beauty

On this flight home from Sydney I achieve Qantas Lifetime Gold status. 14,000 status credits. 14,000 status credits means thousands of weddings around the world 830 flights with Qantas or its partners, 1.39 million km travelled, 2,140 hours or 89 full days

I’ve had Mark’s email sitting in my inbox all week and I just keep on reading this.

They’ve probably found weapons of mass distraction

The scariest thing I’ve realised today is that making a really good static website based on Astro makes me feel the same way as delivering an awesome wedding ceremony.

I’m offended seeing items I once used as part of my craft and art now in a museum display

C.S.

Only show work you like, or you’ll end up being hired to do things you don’t like. – Victoria Pater, Designer

I’m scared

Late last night I stopped at McDonald’s drive-through for a coffee while on the way to a late-night aurora tour.

Random Aurora Australis sighting on Mount Wellington/kunyani tonight

If I was getting paid $10 million a year to co-host a breakfast radio show with Kyle Sandilands you could watch a really cool slow-mo video of me gathering my thoughts in the space of about 5 seconds if Kyle was a dick to me.

It’s cool how really high tech streaming platforms make it seem like the placement of ads is a mistake or an error as they abruptly interrupt a program instead of gracefully crossfading like the olden days.

Astronomy is cool

Is Carl Lentz the King David of this era?

I’m “yelling at chickens to be kind to each other at 10pm” old

Is red bad?

You shouldn’t worry about criticism from someone that you would never ask advice from. – Aaron Rodgers

Brian Halligan on people: The older I get, the more I think outstanding taste in people is the only real alpha.

Please sign my petition to have the title of the Greatest Generation reassigned from people born from 1901 to 1927 to people who were in their twenties in 2009 and got to live through the release of The Lonely Island’s I’m On A Boat.

I love the green tail of the Qantas A220 VH-X4A

I love how much my kids love museums

Today I used the satellite emergency feature (which launched in Australia in 2023) on my iPhone for the first time.

I have moved this blog from micro.blog to Astro hosted on Cloudflare Pages via Github and honestly I’m freaking out to try and post this status via Apple Shortcuts …

I’ve never publicly admitted it but the main reason I was sad about leaving Twitter is because Yoko Ono, President Nixon, and a guy who knew Chris Hemsworth followed me.

List of countries where I feel like I have delivered an enthusiastic “G’Day!”

Self-proclaimed “not a professional historian” Peter Timms begins his 2009 book, In Search of Hobart with the most captivating line: 'Too far south for spices," Abel Tasman wrote dismissively in 1642 on sighting the island now bearing his name, “and too c…

Took my Canon R5 with a 35mm plus Mike Stevens to The Hague’s Louwman Museum on Saturday and you wouldn’t believe it but I made photos.

People at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, finding things beautiful.

Monday’s WWDC 2025 keynote event in California delivered plenty of excitement for tech enthusiasts, but it was a particular announcement about Apple Wallet that caught my attention as a frequent flyer.

📍Sarakiniko Desert, Milos, Greece

“Have ABC or the Courier-Mail run it yet?"

How I create a ceremony

Here’s my big idea for the day: A music festival of one-hit wonders.

I was asking for a Mac app recommendation from Claude but now I’m a Mac developer.

An ounce of originality is worth a pound of imitation. – Orson Welles

There is only one thing worse than being imitated, and that is not being imitated. – Coco Chanel

I sat next to a young honeymooning couple from Guatemala on my flight home to Tassie tonight.

New blog post on my wedding celebrant website: The long and gradual cancellation of Josh Withers