JayCruz

Sunshine State of Mind #sunrise #sunrisephotography #photography

State Bicycle Co. Klunker - Black & Metallic (27.5") The Klunker. What is it? A beautiful, retro-inspired, mash-up of part beach cruiser, part mountain bike, and part BMX. The perfect “DGAF” bike, for neighborhood cruises, trips to the corner store, and...

I had this bike for a few years. It’s been my commuter to work. Some “transient” stole the whole damn back wheel/tire, but today I took it to a local bike shop. Bike parts have gone up so much tho. It's gonna be pricey, but I love my Klunker. www.statebicycle.com/collections/... #Bicycles

Dogs and cats are very narcissistic animals. Sure, there are service animals, but that doesn't count because they were tricked with treats to do stuff for people. But think about it; when has a dog done anything for anyone, animal or human, without expecting something in return?

LLMs Aren’t Black Boxes — They’re Just Not Written in English As someone that knows a few computer programming languages, and who’s been an aspiring software engineer for some years, I understand the…

New post on why calling LLM's and Neural Networks “Black boxes" has added so much confusion to the normies about AI. thread-pool.com/llms-arent-b...

The problem with the critique of cancel-culture is that it just leads to saying that “Nazis are people too.” Sure, if you voted and support Trump your a person too, but you are also a total piece of a shit of a person too.

Just Write, Even If No One’s Watching Just write. Even if only one person learns something from your article, you’ll feel great, and that you’ve contributed — even if just a…

Just Write, Even if No One's Watching. thread-pool.com/just-write-e...

Stuck in the Middle I’ll be 48 years old in a few months. That’s a big number. I can feel the weight of that number. In terms of physical health, I still feel…

I'm old you guys. thread-pool.com/stuck-in-the...

The Best Way to Use Your Phone Less Is to Stop Carrying It The average time people spend staring at their phones is about five hours a day. Most of this time is spent on algorithm-driven social…

Carrying your phone in a bag is an overlooked and surprisingly effective way to use your phone less. Wrote a bit about this. thread-pool.com/the-best-way...

Watched that Counting Crows documentary from HBO and realized that the singer all this time was actually Kevin Smith with dreads.

They are watching. #birds #photography

Rubio Deletes Calibri as the State Department’s Official Typeface

Calibri is woke?

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

Conveniences and Tools It’s been a month since I started using an Apple Watch as my main daily device and leaving the iPhone at home. I wrote about my experience…

Conveniences and tools. thread-pool.com/conveniences...

No One Is Making a Documentary About You You are young. You are naive. You think you know how the world works, but you have absolutely no idea how the world works. You think you’re…

No One is Making a Documentary About You thread-pool.com/no-one-is-ma...

My First Week Using an Apple Watch as a Dumbphone The Rise of the Dumbphone Movement

New post: First week with the Apple Watch as my daily driver. thread-pool.com/my-first-wee...

“That’s just like, uh, your opinion man.” I grew up in a family that watched the news. They would turn on the Tv early in the mornings to learn about the weather, how much traffic…

Wrote about why you should read Newspapers, instead of watching TV News, or god help you, get your news from Social Media. thread-pool.com/thats-just-l...

Introversion Isn’t an Identity. It’s a Battery. I’m re-reading the book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking. I read it when it came out over 10 years ago…

What's your Myers-Briggs Type? thread-pool.com/introversion...

Idiocracy - Einstein YouTube video by Jake C

Me at work, having this conversation with myself, every day.
youtu.be/uL73xItRtio

Nobody Cares The general wisdom is that it shouldn’t matter if no one cares what you do with your life. The thing you decide on doing should be based on…

Nobody Cares thread-pool.com/nobody-cares...

On Not Being Boring I don’t want to be boring. Particularly, I don’t want my writing to be boring. I want to write good sentences. I want to be entertaining. I…

On Not being Boring thread-pool.com/on-not-being...

Honest question here, but you don’t see here why the other tribe would call you a “woke libtard” for the vague premise of anything that’s not “lefty/liberal” as “nazi phase”?

Everything Is Television A theory of culture and attention

“TikTok and Meta are trying to become the same thing: a screen showing hours and hours of video made by people we don’t know. Social media has turned into television.”

www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...

Confessions of an Ex Teaching Assistant for a Coding Bootcamp After nearly three years, my time as a Teaching Assistant at the 2U/edX Coding Bootcamp officially ended on March 13, 2025. And with it…

On coding bootcamps and software engineering as a career. thread-pool.com/confessions-...

Please Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself This post is and updated version of my About page

I struggle to write profiles, bios, and about me stuff because I don't know how to freeze myself in time.

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Convenience vs. Necessity — On Smartphones, Social Media, and Sanity I was late to getting my first mobile phone. In the early ’00s I didn’t have many friends to fill up a contact list, so I didn’t see the…

How convenient is it really to carry a little computer? thread-pool.com/convenience-...

Giving Medium Another Shot Giving Medium Another Shot After trying to do things on my own with a self-hosted blog using the Ghost platform, I’ve decided to come back here to Medium. I tried it for a least a year and I had an …

Back on Medium. #blogging #medium #writing medium.com/@jaycruz/giv...

Ow My Balls! YouTube video by JDankens

Meanwhile, on the AI Slop platforms. (Idiocracy is a documentary)

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The Math ain’t Mathing It’s been almost a year since I quit Medium and started this blog here with the Ghost platform and I’m finding it hard to justify the cost to keep this going. On Medium I payed 5 bucks a month to be o...

Another blog bites the dust. thread-pool.com/the-math-ain...

Learning to code to get a high paying job is like learning to dance about architecture.

Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.

I want to say something snarky about this, but I’m all out of things to say. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...

Convenience vs. Necessity: On Smartphones, Social Media, and Sanity I was late to getting my first mobile phone. In the early '00s I didn't have many friends to fill up a contact list, so I didn't see the use case for having a cell phone. The few friends I did have, i...

New #blog post. Wrote a bit about the intelligent telephone and social media. I think it's a good one. I'm proud of this one. thread-pool.com/convenience-...