John Tinkelenberg

Well-deserved. Muggsy Bogues is small in stature but a large part of what made the Charlotte Hornets iconic in the 90s. hornets.com/news/charlot...

Charlotte Hornets fans sharing playoff memories

Live by the screen, die by the screen

The Social Reckoning is such a strange thing to make a movie about, mostly because there was no reckoning. In fact, I’m not sure anything really changed.

The tension between fighting the clankers and needing the clankers to look up how to do it

The irony of our age: I have nothing to say to the world. I have much to say to people.

Gimme one of these and I won't either.

I recently stumbled across a neat directory of independent blogs organized by geolocation. Share this with anyone who tells you the internet is dead. blogroll.blog

Me vibecoding: Amazing, the possibilities are endless. Other people vibecoding: Ew, look at that sloppity slop slop.

Ain’t gotta sell and drive down the price if you give it away.

Max Attractions Max, ND

I have no delusions of changing sentiment on this, but if we’re being honest and not street teamers, the accurate term is neither AI or SI. We have slices of real intelligence gathered and ground into an amalgamation. It’s quasi intelligence (QI). Maybe useful, maybe not.

A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.

People are praising the Panthers for being patient with Bryce Young and letting him develop. They gave up so much to get him there was no other choice. There was no Plan B.

What happens when I send a newsletter

Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend, I am almost mad myself.

New newsletter this morning: Is AI the end for us all? Let the clankers chase each other. We can go fishing. tinkelenberg.com/posts/the-do...

You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Charlotte Writers Club’s Best of Open Mic showcase this past weekend. It was great to perform for such an engaging crowd and soak in the work of other local writers. Writing is for humans.

Look! Something good in the world:

Not your mother's CSS As with any time spent fiddling with CSS, I had a good time writing this!

Such things may seem incredible; but, however wondrous, they are true.

This timeline is not remotely serious

Putting the :/ in https://

North Carolina has a surprisingly rich film history, and my friend Jesse Kale has long amazed me with his knowledge and stories of the silver screen. If you're a movie buff, check out his new Substack. jessekale.substack.com/p/that-belon...

"And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space. And meaning." — The Rocky Horror Picture Show One of my favorite lines of all time and a proper tribute to Tim Curry.

"Dad, what's that?" "Oh, it's the internet. We don't go there anymore."

i am a hunter-gatherer of the internet

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026. ordinaryabundance.com

Nothing changes if nothing changes

Nature loves a good pivot. We've all had moments when we want to give up on something or find a better way. Later, we look back on those times and call them turning points. We're all crooked trees. Read more here: tinkelenberg.com/posts/crooke...

"It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future—sub specie aeternitatis. And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task." — Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

We already have AI back on my home planet and it’s fine; we live rich creative lives at a standard of living that even the wealthy on Earth find hard to sustain, because our stress is a lot lower. Y’all need to chillax, the future is cool. Unless we die I mean some planets die here.

“Water which is too pure has no fish.” — Chinese proverb

A decade's gone by. Time for a new headshot.

Bert and Ernie should have their own show. I don't want to have to watch Sesame Street to see what they're up to. I'm not 5

There was a time when America asked itself how good something can be rather than how cost-effective it is. That's nostalgia worth dreaming about.

Heaven’s Gate website in 1996

When the Declaration got signed, how long did the signors expect that independence to last? Six months? A few years? There were no prediction markets back then. We somehow beat the odds. Though the American experiment still needs to be refined, it got some things right. Happy 250th 🇺🇸

One of the great pleasures of my life was going to college in a botanical garden.

I believe in open social and I've enjoyed experimenting with ATProto, but Bluesky is not going to make it if this is the strategy. Time to start preparing for that reality.

Oh look, the year's half over. Take that sheet of paper and fold it into two distinct parts. This summer is an opportunity for discovery and renewal. More on that below. tinkelenberg.com/posts/seasons/

Happy 100th Birthday, Mel Brooks. The secret to a long life is apparently the Schwartz.

Did Counting Crows ever give us a total number of crows

"Prompt the model and the model prompts you." I don't use AI to write prose, but damn if it doesn't make me think sometimes. Where will that lead us? tinkelenberg.com/posts/small-...