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Mark Jaquith

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Mark Jaquith

@markjaquith

Making things on the web since the dial-up days. Values: truth, curiosity, and improvement. ❤️ @sarcasmically (Jaquith is pronounced JAKE-with)

Tampa, FL

Joined March 2007

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Mark Jaquith
@markjaquith
Aug 12, 2025
I started a newsletter! I wanted a place to write medium-length content that was less ephemeral than a tweet but more conversational than a blog. I’ll cover everything from web dev and nerd stuff to family and culture. I’d be honored if you subscribed:
Only Good Takes
From onlygoodtakes.com
Mark Jaquith
@markjaquith
23h
You need to be creating and continuously updating an authoritative task artifact as you go. Don’t let your context live in some specific harness’ database.
Tomek Czajecki
@tchayen
Aug 9
Has anyone coined the 'sunken context fallacy' yet? When you realize the model is acting dumb and you need to jump but the convenience of all the things that are already in the context make you hesitate.
Mark Jaquith
@markjaquith
Aug 9
The no-cart Costco method in action. Can’t buy what you can’t carry.
Mark Jaquith
@markjaquith
Aug 8
The other day this low wall of yellow cloud came screaming past at like 30mph when the other clouds were moving in other directions. Parts of it started rotating and I really thought a tornado was about to form right over my head. Temp dropped 10 degrees in 30s.
Mark Jaquith
@markjaquith
Aug 7
Horror movie where someone has to defeat a runaway AI and in the scene where they shotgun blast the CPU the hero is like: “it’s not a reboot — it’s an execution. Load-bear this.” ::blammo::