Jon Schneider

I miss the pre-AI days, during which if I posted a nice bit of (human-authored) writing, readers' meta-reactions might be "hey, that guy is a pretty decent writer!" ...instead of "hey, I wonder what AI model and prompt that guy used."

I really like this brief " #AI Writing Policy," including such guidelines as "You must stand behind every idea and sentence" and "Longer is not better". lnkd.in/p/gcZD8VDp

I've taken to prefixing my handwritten GitHub pull request descriptions with the heading "Description by Jon the Human 👨‍💻" to help differentiate them from the now-ubiquitous AI-generated PR summaries.

Why doesn't Amazon have the search field on the amazon.com homepage get the input focus automatically on page load?? It's got to be an intentional design choice. I suppose Amazon wants to get users to look around at the products on the homepage as they're looking for the search field?

In ~35+ years of occasionally running "chkdsk /f" to take a stab at fixing PC hard drive problems: I had it ACTUALLY WORK for the first time ever, and restore a Windows 11 computer from unbootable to a usable running state.

$27.20 to Michigan in the #CharitibundiBowl. Beating Ohio State is always fantastic -- and Michigan wouldn't have been IN this game without an OSU win, something sadly no longer true in the current expanded playoffs -- but the 27-20 Rose Bowl win over Alabama was HISTORIC.

Congratulations to @firefox.com on Firefox 150! I still remember back circa 2011 when it was a huge deal when Firefox 4 came out to replace Firefox 3.x. 😅

Well, that was good. #GoBlue

My current desktop wallpaper, courtesy of Laysara by @quiteokgames.bsky.social! (Completed scenario "Splintered Soul" on Veteran difficulty, for the "True veteran" achievement!)

As someone who both writes in Markdown, and is a gamer: The failure of various Markdown flavors to agree on whether bold/italic text should be bounded by _, or *, or **, is annoying. But less annoying than the failure of Microsoft and Nintendo to agree on the order the A/B and X/Y buttons go in.

I highly recommend grabbing a copy of Laysara! It's my favorite city builder ever -- while not being a traditional city builder! Laysara's just-released Campaign Mode is a really great set of "rails," providing just enough guidance to keep you moving forward while still affording plenty of freedom.

My name rhymes with "con" and "don" -- but not with "son" or "won". Yay, English!

At work today, here in 2026.

Hello, fellow Jo(h)n Schneider. 👋

I've been burned enough times by copying text with Cmd+C (or Ctrl+C), then pasting it -- only to find that that text somehow didn't actually make it onto the clipboard -- that I've developed a compulsion of hitting Cmd+C several times in a row. Even though there's no reason that should help.

Just noticed that the #hades2 game over music ditty is different if you're defeated by Scylla & the Sirens. Normally, the music is baroque-style, with a ticking clock sound in the background. ("Time Cannot Be Stopped") Vs Scylla, you instead get a rock music version of the same tune. Amazing.

My retired Dad is currently on a cruise near Antarctica. It's fully 45 degrees (F) warmer where he is there than here in Michigan currently.

Seeing “IU NATIONAL CHAMPIONS” on the TV screen is so weird. (Cool, yes! But also weird!)

It seems unfair that there are only 5 eligible receivers on offense, but 11 on defense.

To software developers implementing undo/redo in text fields: Please always add an undo breakpoint immediately after the user pastes text! It's annoying to paste text; hit Cmd+Z to undo; and have text I had entered *prior to the paste* also be removed. Thanks in advance, I appreciate y'all! 😅

Unserious opinion: All December holidays should be moved to February instead, so that _all_ of winter can be the "holiday season!"

Another year of #AdventOfCode is in the books! adventofcode.com/2025 github.com/jschneid/adv... Just 12 2-part problems this year, instead of the 25 of prior years.

The wait is over! My take on the the fastest way to search/filter and copy-to-clipboard emoji characters, clipemoji.com, is now updated with the latest Unicode 17.0 / 2026 emoji set!

There was an early era of the WWW in which most traffic was unsecured HTTP -- not secured HTTPS -- as bad actors hadn't quite worked out how to weaponize the ability to read, and alter-during-transit, that clear text content. My guess is that we're in a similar early era with generative AI tools.

If your team has a 98% chance to win, then that means they have a 2% chance to lose. And, on occasion, that 01 comes up on the percentile dice. XCOM players know this.

As a software developer who is not (primarily) a user experience designer, this is the best advice for user experience designers that I've read today. www.grug.design/know

Tabletop RPG players, need a fantastic dice-rolling app? (Or, being honest, you don't NEED one, but dropping US $4 on a great one sounds fun?) I recommend "Sophie's Dice"! sophiehoulden.com/dice/ It's easy to use, has a good UI, and is super powerful / customizable / programmable if you want that!

Why in the world doesn't the amazon.com homepage automatically set the input focus to the search field on page load? #ux

I only notice that my eyeglasses have smears on them when I'm in Zoom meetings -- never while I'm coding.

It continues to surprise me how much of a lift of psychic weight it feels like to mark all Slack messages as read, across all channels, via Shift+Esc.

Old and new. #nintendo #switch2