Justin Duke

the buttondown team is meeting this week to talk about 2027! what are the things that, if we do them, you would go "oh FINALLY_"?

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when they're right they're right bsky.app/profile/tang...

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Caro: His name was Emmett Doyle, and he was not a man who astonished easily, and he was not a man whose opinion anyone had ever requested. He had poured for aldermen and for the men who owned aldermen. He had poured, in 1934, for a go

forgot to mention but another underrated part of WHAS is david hyde pierce showing up like spiderman and absolutely crushing the vibe www.jmduke.com/posts/wet-ho...

www.jmduke.com/posts/a-mast... a film I will forever remember as the one that pushed me to listen to an episode of blank check

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two tools i am grateful for lately: op and mprocs www.jmduke.com/posts/two-to...

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maledictology: www.jmduke.com/posts/cursed...

Rope! www.jmduke.com/posts/Rope%2...

If I haven't somehow messed up the XSLT, I have officially joined the cool kids club by styling my RSS: www.jmduke.com/feed.xml

i would encourage you to watch THE DOUBLE, a film whose quality is aggressively out of proportion with its reputation www.jmduke.com/posts/the-do...

The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You're Going to Have to Leave Now, or, 'I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!'

The thing about The Killer is that that it's a farce. www.jmduke.com/posts/the-ki...

www.jmduke.com/posts/ocean-... on today's episode of i love films

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new bio bsky.app/profile/book...

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sitemaptorss: www.jmduke.com/posts/sitema...

on the first day of code freeze 🎶 disposables.app

Notes on SLEUTH (1972): www.jmduke.com/posts/sleuth...

number of words written into our support tool (I am in last place amongst the team)

a not-insignificant reason we invest in social media analytics/automations is because literally every single other tool we've tried is not particularly good for our use case bsky.app/profile/butt...

Wrote about Paris, Texas. www.jmduke.com/posts/paris-...

CONCLAVE (2024). www.jmduke.com/posts/concla...

blogroll.org This site by Manuel Moreale is not just lovely in the abstract, it might be the _calmest_ and most pleasant design I've seen in quite some time.

Playing around with my media section on the new personal site has been fun. Here's a variant (live right now but likely not for long) where its sorted by luminosity:

the industry is abound with "don't roll your own X" and analytics in particular is one of the things I like reaching to as a counterexample. finally wrote about it! bsky.app/profile/butt...

reviews are rolling in

doing two things a little different for this end-of-year, buttondown wise. one is an airbnb-style buildout of all the stuff we shipped. the other is a "raise-the-garage-door"-style series of posts about next year: bsky.app/profile/jmdu...

one of my goals this year has been to open source more of buttondown's internal sawdust. a little bit under the wire, but this is the first of a few end-of-year goodies bsky.app/profile/butt...

the SEO spammers are evolving

There are many very cogent arguments against LLMs, but I do think that some people end up arguing that all productivity-increasing technology is immoral because the benefits do not solely accrue to labor bsky.app/profile/tant...

Really proud of how often people write in about this little affordance for showing CSS selectors in the preview pane. Built it for myself because I was getting annoyed whilst dogfooding (which is why you should dogfood constantly.)

It took an embarrassing amount of dithering but I finally settled on a Starship format that I like.

Zach Lowe doing his first and probably only live show in Minneapolis is both incredibly on brand and deeply powerful

somehow this didn't make the cut but @kierongillen.bsky.social also was patient enough to put up with me asking questions about the difference between docx and odt on a support thread recently bsky.app/profile/butt...

one of my favorite @buttondown.com ships this year buttondown.com/blog/inbox

New post: October 2025.

New post: October, 2025.