Josiah Cole

JSAUX Online Store
Accessories for handheld gaming devices that you didn’t know you needed until you saw them. Their Steam Deck accessories are particularly clever – solving problems Nintendo should have solved years ago.

Amazon: Beach Umbrella Base
A beach umbrella base that’s compliant with safety standards I didn’t know existed. The fact that beach umbrellas need safety standards suggests there are stories behind this product that I don’t want to know.

Amazon: Grumpy Animals Book
A book called “100 Grumpy Animals” by Beast Flaps. Sometimes you bookmark things because the title alone brings you joy. This is one of those times.

Barnes & Noble: Atlas of Middle-earth
Because apparently I need maps of fictional places. Karen Wynn Fonstad’s cartography work is genuinely impressive – turning Tolkien’s descriptions into actual usable maps. Sometimes obsessive fandom produces beautiful results.

Hacker News: ChatGPT Saved My Life
Someone credits ChatGPT with literally saving their life by helping diagnose a medical condition. It’s the kind of AI success story that makes you simultaneously hopeful about technology and concerned about healthcare accessibility.

Consumer culture: where every want becomes a need and every need becomes a purchase. And sometimes, just sometimes, the internet actually helps save lives.

Ironically, here are some internet tools for people who want to use the internet less. The digital equivalent of buying a book about decluttering.

Trends24
Twitter trending topics without actually having to use Twitter. It’s like having a window into the collective consciousness without getting pulled into the chaos. Sometimes you just want to know what people are talking about, not participate in the conversation.

Tom’s Guide: I Ditched My Laptop
Someone replaced their laptop with a mini PC and AR glasses. It’s the kind of computing experiment that either represents the future or expensive masochism. The tech journalism angle makes it feel more legitimate than it probably is.

Tom’s Hardware: Ryzen PC in Keyboard
Someone crammed a full AMD Ryzen PC into a folding keyboard. It’s the kind of engineering that makes you question both practicality and sanity, but also deeply respect the commitment to miniaturization.

Hacker News Discussion
The inevitable Hacker News discussion about unusual computing setups. Reading the comments is like watching engineers debate the merits of building a race car out of LEGO – technically fascinating, practically questionable.

Digital minimalism: using technology to use less technology. The irony is not lost on anyone.