Jason Weill

I laugh when people complain about the price of RAM skyrocketing. I’ve paid $50 a MEGAbyte for memory when building a PC in the ’90s. Adjusted for inflation, that’s over $100,000 per GB!

Bring On Defunct: The iPod Enthralls Young Music Listeners

The iPod is also coming back into fashion as kids realize they can listen to music without disruptive push notifications. Discs, too. Imagine media without monthly fees and rights expiration dates!

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Sony Digital Mavica digital camera, photographed in much higher resolution than the camera itself is capable of

A 3.5" floppy diskette, the storage medium used by this Sony Mavica

I enjoy that the youths are discovering old tech, warts and all. I picked up the first digicam I’ve ever been photographed by at a thrift store recently. $1000 in 1998, $28 now, and it still works!

How timely, I just got email from eBay congratulating my account on its 27th birthday. I’ve had many coworkers and classmates younger than that.

A Vestaboard! Looks beautiful, but it’s $3500, and there’s a waitlist to buy one right now. We missed the crowdfunding discounts.

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is now Seattle Streets Alliance!

After 15 years of organizing for safer streets, our work has grown far beyond neighborhood greenways.

Our new name reflects a broader mission: making every Seattle street safer and more welcoming for people who walk, bike, and roll.

It's targeting people who are _against_ ICE, and who want to opt out of a "Support ICE" footer message

Yet another reminder to be vigilant about clicking links. Scammers are now using politically charged messaging to bait users into clicking on phishing links.

Denshattack! 10 Minutes of Early-Campaign Gameplay YouTube video by IGN

Denshattack! might push me to get a modern game console or Steam Machine. Looks like Densha de Go! crossed with a Tony Hawk game, with a soundtrack straight out of Jet Set Radio.

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Pressing 2 for Spanish, for months, when calling the @wadol.bsky.social resulted in bizarre accented English messages. The link below includes a recording you have to hear to believe.

A screenshot of an Android app. Text: ▲ Nearby Glasses Smart Glasses are probably nearby Device: Unknown RSSI: -42 dBm Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E) Company: Meta Platforms, Inc. This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning. Debug Log [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:41] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-57 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-63 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)

I made an app.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple
github.com/yjeanrenaud/...

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

Turnout in King County's February 2026 special election, based on final data, is available here: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

King County, Washington held a special election earlier this month. Multiple propositions, none in Seattle. Final results per precinct are available here: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Every card is welcome aboard 🚅 🚌 🛳️ 

Tap to Pay is now live across Puget Sound! Tap your contactless credit or debit card, physical or in a digital wallet, to pay your transit fare. Easy.

Learn more: info.myorca.com/contactless/

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Image of the annual report cover. Orange background with text: "Annual Report 2025. With multi-family buildings and a Housey graphic, and a photo of volunteers from Prop 1A

We're so proud to share our very first annual report! 2025 was the first year our organization pivoted from short-term campaigns to long-term organizing. We achieved a lot and are so thankful for everyone who has stayed plugged in beyond initiatives! www.houseourneighbors.org/annual-reports

So glad to see that the Seattle area is finally getting support for contactless cards to ride transit!

Seems like we are officially seeing a youth movement for Women's USA Hockey.

Turnout in King County's February 2026 special election, based on mid-election data, is available here: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

King County, Washington held a special election last week. Multiple propositions, none in Seattle. Mid-election results per precinct, based on ballots counted through Feb. 13, are available here: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Take as much time as you need, and read "The Midas Plague", a short story from the 1950s. Remarkably prescient science fiction about a world in which the have-nots are forced to consume an endless supply of low-quality goods, while only the rich can actually enjoy a minimalist life.

Turnout in King County's February 2026 special election, based on election night data, is available here: public.tableau.com/views/KingCo...

King County, Washington held a special election last week. Multiple propositions, none in Seattle. Preliminary results per precinct, based on election night data, are available here: public.tableau.com/views/KingCo...

A Sony Digital Mavica camera in a Hawaiian thrift shop

I now own the first digital camera I’ve been photographed by. This Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD81 saves images to 3.5" floppy disks. Found it in a thrift shop on Maui, of all place. Working battery, charger, and diskettes sold separately.

I wasn’t expecting to see Portuguese labeling on a product for either the Japanese or California market!

I’m not saying that #SuperBowlLX is a blowout, but we’re in the 3rd quarter and people in Seattle are already shooting off fireworks

This is the Casio #WQV-1, the world's first camera watch. Originally you would sync via an IR serial dongle on Win98, but most of the IR pods are long gone. I made a device that syncs, converts, and mounts as a USB drive to get your photos!

Ring's Search Party helps reunite more than one lost dog a day—now available to everyone The AI-powered feature, now accessible to anyone through Neighbors on the Ring app, uses cameras to help communities find missing dogs faster than ever before.

When Dave Eggers wrote in "The Circle" about a giant tech company using a global network of amateurs to find any person in minutes, it seemed like dystopian satire. Amazon just announced a similar feature for its Ring doorbell cameras, but to find lost dogs.

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Partial screenshot of two vague Chess app notifications on iOS 26, one in English and one in Russian.

@chess.com recently changed its notifications for my daily games. They used to tell me what move my opponent made, but now they generally tell me what piece moved, sometimes in Russian. I’m confused.

A new "no" in my LinkedIn profile: I'm not interested in building "public safety" tech that surveils the public and enables authoritarian leaders to do even more damage.
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