Sean Harding

If my goal was to design a product to absolutely MAXIMIZE the number of times it would get dropped… I'm not sure I could do better than the AirPods case.

The way we were…

Since switching to Apple Music as my primary service, the one thing that continues to drive me up the wall is the inability to completely stop it from ever playing a certain artist. Why is there no block feature?!

Coming up on four months since I left my tech job. Not missing it yet…

One of my least favorite skills I picked up in my decades working in tech is the ability to immediately see when a feature has been made worse for users in order to improve some metric that the company (or an individual PM) has decided is important.

As I've been returning to film photography, I am reflecting on how, in the late 90s I was desperate for a digital camera that could approach the quality of 35mm film. And now, I am looking for the combination of film stock and scanner that can get me close to the quality of current digital cameras…

One of the worst things about modern software is constantly being experimented on. I don't want features appearing and disappearing, buttons moving, and copy changing every day or two as various A/B tests run to see if they can squeeze a statistically significant 0.01% more engagement out of me.

Remember when we needed Flash to watch most video on the web? Those were the days…

Is it a conspiracy that all of the manufacturers of power stations have websites that are terrible in the same way, and make it nearly impossible to understand what all of the options are?

I never thought I'd be happy to see high temps in the 40s on the 10-day forecast…

Solid cap of ice on top of the pillar at the end of our driveway.

Wind is picking up in downtown Franklin, and has started blowing down branches and things from trees. #tspotter

The weather influencers are in full clickbait mode... (I don't consider @nashseverewx.com a weather influencer; that's not who I am talking about.)

Can I go home at halftime? Wait, I already am home. Sigh... #goducks

In November, I left my tech job. Today's tech industry is unrecognizable compared to what it was when I started at Amazon in 1999. I'm looking forward to a 2026 filled with more human connection and creativity than algorithms and models.

Finally got off my butt and decided to change/consolidate banks, which I've been meaning to do for years. I knew it would be a bit of a pain but I underestimated how much work it would be. My to-do list to get everything moved over is up to 40 items…

I'm getting tired of rain. Official request to @nashseverewx.com to please turn the water off.

This is such a miserable process. I started it almost 12 hours ago.

Sometimes it blows my mind to recall that there was a time that I made my way through the world without instant access to constantly-updating turn-by-turn directions…

It's been a while since something so trivial has annoyed me as much as the insistence that any use of an em dash is a sure sign of AI. Next we're going to claim that writing in complete sentences or spelling correctly means you must have used AI. How low our standards for writing have become…

I've had to reauthenticate to Bluesky in Safari 8 times in the last week 🤬

It's kind of amazing the industry that has popped up around "link in bio" just because Instagram is so restrictive about links. They truly have created the worst of both worlds; people still link to outside stuff, but the UX friction is awful.

You'd think that as online shopping grew, apparel brands would have had strong incentives to make their sizing more predictable and consistent. After all, incorrect sizing is a big driver of returns, and returns kill margin. And yet, it seems to keep getting worse.

Ah yes, this year's shade of grey.

My cat apparently now understands what the tornado warning sound from my phone means. When the last one happened, he started heading toward the basement on his own.

Definitely hitting tornado warning fatigue here...

This long string of red boxes is not a recipe for any sleep at all tonight....

There goes my attempt at sleep. Stay safe, friends.

I'm retired from griping about travel on social media but I have to temporarily come out of retirement to say: how is the Miami airport so bad???

@nashseverewx.com Downtown Franklin just now. Heavy precipitation but the hail is small. #tspotter

Some day, I hope we get a case study on how the FedEx website got so bad and stayed that way for so long.

Not a quote I like hearing from a weather veteran like David, but I'm glad they're giving it to us straight.

This is a niche gripe, but it is so dastardly for the owner of HiFiEngine / VinylEngine to spend years getting people to upload vintage audio equipment manuals, and then put them all behind a login gate, turn off signups, and start disabling accounts. Basically stealing community contributions.

Why is AXS so bad? We thought Ticketmaster was terrible, but AXS has taken it to a new level.

For all the complaints I can make about Apple software, I really appreciate that it at least always gives informative and actionable error messages.

I used to joke that the internet was a mistake. But now I actually believe it.

Update: he now has his own dedicated water glass on my side table. I give him a fresh one every evening after dinner.

Are profiles like this against the rules? If we report them, will they get taken down? It seems clearly to be automated and/or spammy. The photos are of a celebrity and the content is somewhat nonsensical. But it's not literal impersonation because it's not using the celebrity's name...

Retired my U-Turn Orbit and replaced it with a table older than I am. It's more in line with the Sansui amp it's hooked up to, so this feels like the right move. It has some cosmetic imperfections, but don't we all when we get to this age?

It's ok. I wasn't going to drink that anyway.

Why do I feel like I am in trouble?

It's a rare TV show where I watch an episode and immediately want to watch it again. #Severance

Sample Gates at Indiana University Bloomington. Shot on film.