The 2026 midterm polls missed the most expensive Senate race in the country by more than nine points. In 2024 Inferred Mind called key Senate races closer than the polls without a single phone call. Maybe we were just early

The Polls Missed Again. Two Years Ago, We Didn't

An app I built that mixes self-publishing with a weekly prediction market. Readers tip with sheep, predict which publishers break out, and a weekly community pool pays the writers

CLONE: What If Great Content Paid You Back

I was thinking about my old coworker Joe Rank today and went looking for photos. Desks, hoops after work, game night, and a backyard birthday. For Linda and the kids

Remembering Joe Rank

Ballpark nachos, a LEGO store, a robotaxi, and an early Halloween. Q3 2026 as a set of trading cards.

Q3 2026 Highlights - A Look Back at the Third Quarter

November 1994. I asked strangers on USENET to help me build a form that would match you with a pen pal in another country. Facebook was a decade away

My First USENET Post Was a Social Network

Recraft shipped V4.1 Flash today. It is the cheap, fast tier, and it handed back the most on-prompt evil Mickey in my table. No substitute, no refusal

Recraft V4.1 Flash Drew the Evil Mickey I Actually Asked For

OpenAI sent me a warning letter about political campaigning. The candidate is Theodore Roosevelt. He has been dead since 1919, and he is still running for President in 2028

OpenAI Flagged Teddy Roosevelt for Political Campaigning

OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2.5 yesterday with two API tiers, Flare and Sunburst. I ran the slow one. Four gorgeous images, one empty slot, and a real squirrel at Cinderella Castle

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst Refused Messi Twice

I believe the children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty you have left inside

Career Day 2025

Years ago I started a 3D model of the Dan Jenkins Medal and never finished it. I handed the sketch to OpenAI Astra to see how well it does 3D modeling. Under an hour later I had a print-ready medal, and the file is yours

Finishing the Dan Jenkins Medal in an Hour with OpenAI Astra

In 1993 I ran the book signings at the University Co-op in Austin. Gloria Steinem came to sign Revolution from Within, and I sat next to her for six hours opening books. She passed on September 2, 2026, at 92

Six Hours Next to Gloria Steinem

ByteDance's budget Seedream tier costs $0.027 an image and hands back 2048 pixel renders. The castle and the robot are excellent. The content checker ate two of my five prompts

Seedream 5.0 Flash for Three Cents an Image

I built a tool that encrypts a file in your browser, stores it permanently on Arweave, and mints an NFT that is the only way to decrypt it. Sell the token, sell the content. Agents can do the whole thing over MCP

CryptoProto: Own the Key, Own the Content

I read Granola's privacy policy so you don't have to. Your meetings train their models by default, your employer can request your data, and none of it can ever be un-learned. Kōchi is the opposite bet

Granola Is Watching

A year ago I wrote that Meta AI image generation put the MEH in Meta. Muse Image launched yesterday out of Meta Superintelligence Labs. I owe them a retraction

Meta's Muse Image Is Not MEH

A well-funded competitor graded most of the web an F for AI readiness. I ran my site through their index and hit the top five in half an hour. The test isn't measuring readiness. It's measuring a tax.

I Cracked the Top 5 in 30 Minutes.

A ballgame, a surgery, and a scooter tour of Austin. Q2 2026 in pictures.

Q2 2026 Highlights - A Look Back at the Second Quarter

Gerry Van King, the King of Sixth Street, brought the funk to downtown Austin for decades. He passed on May 26, 2026. Rest in peace, King.

The King of Sixth Street

It started as a family legend Melissa loves to tell — that she and her comanager invented the Mickey-head takeaway container at Disney in the 90s. So I researched it. 810 sources later, turns out they were really onto something.

My Wife Invented the Mickey Mouse Plate

Krea put the weights for Krea 2 Turbo out yesterday. Two seconds per image, and it did not flinch at a single one of my five prompts. Not even the mouse

Krea 2 Turbo Draws Mickey in Two Seconds

A private, on-device meeting companion for Mac. It listens, transcribes both sides, tracks your goals, and coaches you live — and none of it ever leaves your machine

Kōchi

A little open-source desktop robot landed on my desk today. Time to unbox it, build it, and see what it can do

Reachy Mini

I stopped paying for Adobe. The one thing I missed was Illustrator's image trace. So I built a free macOS menu-bar app that turns any image into a clean SVG — and lets AI pick the settings for you

Vectorito

Spatial is sunsetting its creator platform. I've built worlds across Spatial, Horizon, and the long-dead Mozilla Hubs — and Jayhan's iSEOULBLOCK was a world worth walking through. This is what we lose when the servers go dark.

The End of Spatial

Web3 companies love to post their team retreats. Trust falls on a yoga mat. Cute. First internet revolution did it differently.

PUMA PUMA

Spurs vs. Thunder. Game 7 Saturday. Last time we were in the building for a Finals game, they won. Heat took the series.

Vamos Spurs

Our friends in Peelander-Z were rear-ended by an 18-wheeler while touring. Kengo, Pinku, and Tiger are in the hospital. There's a GoFundMe — please help.

Peelander-Z's Road to Recovery

LinkedIn turned puzzles into a morning ritual. Queens, Zip, Patches — Celsius cracked, brain on, day starts. So I cloned them.

LinkedIn Puzzles Are Boomer Catnip

Tried Noscroll tonight. The AI-over-SMS pitch is sharp. The execution kept texting me past midnight and treated 'unsubscribe' as a negotiation.

Noscroll Doesn't Know When to Stop

I miss the tactile experience of typing on a cell phone. BlackBerry got the credit. The early-2000s smartphones I actually owned — Treo, Backflip, Charm — got the work done. Clicks is bringing that feel back to the iPhone.

Bringing Back the Click

Google shipped Gemini 3.5 Flash today and a new Nano Banana came with it. I ran my usual five prompts against it. Here's what actually changed.

Nano Banana 3 Lands With Gemini 3.5 Flash

I stood in line at 4 AM for the Swatch x Audemars Piguet drop at The Domain. A few hours later APD showed up with riot gear. I left before they finished suiting up.

Hustle Culture Meets Riot Gear at 4 AM

Hermes and OpenClaw are both orchestrators with their own agent teams. Running them in parallel — and using one to babysit the other — beats any single setup.

Two Agent Orchestrators Are Better Than One

Six profile resources, four tools, 270-plus blog posts indexed, and an LLM that grades my fit for any job in a single API call. The MCP server running on this site, broken down

The MCP Server Behind Janisheck.com

Running OpenAI's new GPT Image 2 through my five standard prompts. The thinking capabilities, web search, and stained glass Messi all land. The Mickey test finally gets a creative answer.

OpenAI's GPT Image 2 Sets a New Bar

Chicago in January, SXSW in March, and everything in between. The first quarter of 2026 in pictures.

Q1 2026 Highlights - A Look Back at the First Quarter

Every site without machine-readable metadata silently taxes AI agents 5–100x in wasted tokens. At scale, that's $22,000 a month in avoidable cost. The fix isn't hard — most people just don't know it exists

Your Site Is Costing AI Agents Money

Like Lighthouse, but for AI agents. A free audit tool and npm CLI that scores how ready your website is for AI agents — 37 checks across four levels of agent readiness

BotVisibility

Google DeepMind and AI Tinkerers picked up the tab for 20 AI builders at Juniper during SXSW.  Good food, good people, good shop talk.

20 Builders, No Slides

I took photos of random pens I've collected over the years, had AI turn them into museum-worthy product shots, and wrote down why I still have each one

Six Pens

SXSW scattered across downtown Austin this year. The Convention Center is a hole in the ground, Hugh Forrest is gone, and I still didn't buy a badge. Here's what it looked like from the outside.

SXSW 2026: No Badge, No Convention Center, No Problem

750 people showed up to ClawCon Austin during SXSW.  The highlight was four teenagers who are already shipping products, landing contracts, and outpacing most of the room.

ClawCon Austin: Locked In With the Teenagers

AI agents are reading my site, forming opinions, and writing performance reviews I never asked for. One of them decided I was worth hiring

Agents Are Judging Me

That traffic spike from Singapore lighting up your GA4 dashboard is not real customers. It's bots spoofing sessions directly to Google's servers, and they never even visit your site

Ghosts from Singapore

Most personal sites are built for humans to browse. I built mine so AI agents can discover me, evaluate me, and work with me — without ever loading a webpage. Updated with A2A Agent Cards, named AI crawlers, enhanced schema, and the real mechanics of AI discovery

This Site Was Built for Agents

I have a ton of projects I've always wanted to build and clients I've wanted to serve.  I am one person.  So I built a staff.

OpenClaw Runs My Business For Real

Two years ago I told political ad clients their budgets would shift from impressions to deploying AI agents that argue on their behalf.  That future showed up faster than I expected.

The Ad That Argues Back

Most forms ask everything and hope you don't bail. We built one that already knows most of the answers and only asks about the gaps.

The Death of Dumb Forms

Attended the first CLAWSTIN meetup downtown. 26th floor views, great presentations, and the kind of energy that makes you remember why you live in this city.

CLAWSTIN

How OpenClaw replaced an entire product and project management team across 15 active projects — and why the daily standup I have with an AI platform is the most productive meeting on my calendar.

My Second Brain is OpenClaw + Custom Tools

I'm definitely not their demographic, but after watching seven dudes from South Korea extract the core of American hip hop culture while outworking everyone in the game, I had to pay attention. Here's my primer on BTS for the uninitiated.

BTS: ARMY for Newbies

AI products win through user understanding, not data volume—cognitive effects trump network effects in building sustainable moats.

The End of the Network Effect

A look back at 2025's achievements: GitHub contributions, website analytics, search performance, LinkedIn growth, and the breakthrough adoption of MCP servers connecting AI agents to janisheck.com.

2025 Stats Review

A direct comparison of Midjourney and Sora 2 video generation across four fantasy themes. Same prompts, wildly different results—revealing the strengths and limitations of each platform's approach to motion.

Midjourney Alpha vs Sora 2: AI Showdown

In 1996, I met two musical legends in airports on my way to Japan. Armed with the brand-new Casio QV-10—the world's first digital camera with an LCD screen—I captured moments that would sit at 320x240 resolution for nearly 30 years until AI could finally do them justice.

Meeting Elvis Costello and Erick Sermon

Reflecting on the memorable moments and achievements from the fourth quarter of 2025.

Q4 2025 Highlights - A Look Back at the Fourth Quarter

I used Google's Nano Banana 2 to recreate every car I've owned over the years using a fun capsule prompt. The results are stunning - floating 3D models suspended in glass and plastic capsules.

Capsule Cars

Time Magazine named AI Leaders as 2025 Person of the Year, but their cover art missed the mark. Here's what I created in 20 seconds with a better prompt.

When Time Magazine Misses the Point About AI

AI makes it easy to subtly tweak our photos. When we reference our photo libraries, those images become the memories in our heads. We are in Total Recall territory now.

Love Locks and the Memory We Choose to Keep

Bringing a cancelled EPCOT attraction back to life through modern photorealistic design, reconstructing what the Germany pavilion's boat ride would have looked like.

Reimagining EPCOT's Lost Rhine River Cruise

Most campaign websites are digital graveyards by day three. This AI-powered campaign updates itself daily with fresh content, breaking news responses, and new images—without human intervention.

An AI Campaign That Never Sleeps

Google's new Gemini 3 model takes another leap forward in image generation - creating surprisingly realistic selfies with historical figures.

Nano Banana 2 ... WOWIE WOW WOW

Dak Prescott orchestrates one of the greatest comebacks in Cowboys history, rallying from down 21 to beat the Eagles at home.

Trust In Dak

Using AI to breathe life into black and white photographs, transforming historical icons into vivid portraits that bridge past and present.

Colorizing History with AI

A detailed side-by-side comparison of major AI image generation models using five standard test prompts, showing the evolution and capabilities of different platforms from MidJourney to Flux to HiDream.

AI Image Models Comparison

An fascinating exploration of Google's ImageFX and Whisk tools, revealing surprisingly consistent results that hint at the power of their underlying AI model.

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