Brad Barrish

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:02:23 -0700

Robert, Angie, Shayna and I hiked Bronson Canyon on Saturday. Too many people with speakers, but some great views of the city and the Hollywood sign. I took the first two photos and Shayna snapped the other one.

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:06:18 -0700

Ai-generated punk songs from daughter’s texts to her mom. The whole family was crying.

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:49:18 -0700

I too believe headless is going to be a thing (it already is for me).

It turns out that the best place for personal AIs to run is on a computer. Maybe a virtual computer in the cloud, but ideally your computer. That way they can see the docs that you can see, and use the tools that you can use, and so what they want is not APIs (which connect webservers) but little apps they can use directly. CLI tools are the perfect little apps.

From Matt Webb’s latest post, Headless everything for personal AI.

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:14:35 -0700

I put up a Birdbuddy in our front yard this weekend. The most difficult part was figuring out where to put it, mostly to avoid squirrels, but I feel like that’s a nearly impossible task.

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:08:56 -0700

I’ve had this strong sense we’re nearing a point where physical media and local digital media are going to make a much bigger comeback than anyone expected. There’s going to be lots of talk about local everything. We’re seeing the beginnings of it now.

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:40:28 -0700

Praise the Internet gods. You can turn YouTube Shorts off!

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:30:12 -0700

Massive Attack x Tom Waits

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:54:30 -0700

We watched a few ~~Coachella~~ Couchella performances with the kids over the weekend. I ended up watching the Nine Inch Noize performance before bed last night and WOW! The production was absolutely stunning and the performance is, perhaps, one of the best in Coachella history.

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:10:19 -0700

Don’t you just love capitalism?

One company owns Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Reebok, Champion, Dockers, and 50+ other brands you grew up with. They don’t design anything. They don’t manufacture anything. They buy beloved brands out of bankruptcy, fire the people who made the products, and rent the logo to whoever pays. The stores close. The workers lose their jobs. The brand lives on as a zombie.

Found a great new (to me) newsletter that I instantly subscribed to after coming across this reddit thread.

Shadowy Rabbit Holes

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:03:52 -0700

Last night’s rabbit hole started began with Thom Yorke’s recent solo show at the Sydney Opera House. I love that it was made available. It was a great show, though I have to admit it was a bit weird seeing him play Radiohead songs without the band. The last time I saw him play solo (just him) was in 2002 at the Bridge School Benefit. I hadn’t heard Rabbit In Your Headlights in a while (great music video btw). It was the first single from Psyence Fiction, an incredible album/project from the late 90s that Josh Davis (a.k.a. DJ Shadow) and James Lavelle (founder of Mo’ Wax) put together. While I was on YouTube, I got served Zane’s interview with Josh from four years ago, which was one of the rare Zane interviews I watched until the end. Throughout the interview, I would pause and listen to tracks from Endtroducing….., which is one of the greatest albums in the history of music.

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:02:24 -0700

You know what would be really nice? If a company lowered prices! I am so sick of these subscription price increases where the apps and services provide no incremental value or delight. In most cases, it’s quite the opposite! Spotify, I’m looking your way.

I will say though that YouTube Premium is one of the best subscriptions I pay for.

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:56:24 -0700

Few do the kind of deep investigative reporting that Ronan Farrow is known to do. His latest piece on Sam Altman in The New Yorker is something.

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:34:33 -0700

Friday night is movie night in our house and we’ve gotten to the point where coming up with a movie is especially tough. Last Friday we chose Uncle Buck, but we ended up stopping it. The 13yo (daughter) was creeped out by it and the 11yo (son) didn’t think it was all that great, despite Kevin McCallister starring in it.

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:01:54 -0700

When you save the book for after the movie, it’s like getting an extended director’s cut that includes so much more material, and lets you dive into that world even deeper with characters and details that weren’t captured on screen.

From Don’t read the book before the movie

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:43:26 -0700

As is the case for many macOS users, I have an overcrowded menubar, especially since my MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have the notch. I’ve been a long-time user of a little macOS menubar utility called Ice, which hasn’t received updates for a while. It seems to still work pretty well, but I have been low-key looking around for something to replace it. To my surprise, I ran across a fork of Ice called Thaw, which is under active development and adds some welcome features.

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:12:27 -0700

So cool to see what artists wear. I love this. /via clone.fyi

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:36:48 -0700

Definitely installing the WarGames Terminal Fonts in iTerm.

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:55:43 -0700

One quick follow-up to my post about Leonard’s handy Twitter archiving tool. I ran into an issue where I had a couple older archives that were done with the Grailbird format, Twitter’s old archive format used before ~2018. I had Codex and Claude collab on a Python script that converts old archives like mine into the modern Twitter archive format so they can be imported into tweetxvault. It does a few things… Reads ‘’tweets.csv’’ from Grailbird archives, extracts account metadata from user_details.js, transforms the CSV data into the modern JSON structure Twitter uses today and generates the files tweetxvault expects: manifest.js, tweets.js, and account.js. I ended up submitting a PR to have this added since I’m probably not the only one with archives in the older format.

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:59:53 -0700

Thanks to my friend Leonard’s new tool and the fact that I archived my tweets before I deleted almost everything, I now have a database with all of my tweets, likes and bookmarks in a database. While I haven’t tweeted in a while, I do still log in for AI Twitter. Absolutely nothing else like it.

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:12:14 -0700

For some reason, the Quiche Browser surfaced in my feeds, despite not being new, having any big releases or being particularly popular. I’m downloading it again since I haven’t tried it in a long time. Lately I’ve been using Kagi’s Orion browser as my main mobile browser. Dia is what I continue to use and enjoy on macOS, but their new tag organization features really pissed me off recently.

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:27:05 -0700

The Jurassic Park Theme slowed down 1000% is lovely.

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:00:50 -0700

I did not sign up for this bullshit.

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:52:00 -0700

Feeling pretty good about having cancelled my Grammarly subscription. Been a happy Harper user for while now. If you need something more substantial because you’re a serious writer, try Sudowrite.

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:31:30 -0700

I like what Chris is doing with Miniroll.

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:30:19 -0700

Lucas Gelfond put togeher the (searchable) Whole Earth. What a cool project.