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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:base="https://www.shellen.com/"> <title>shellen dot com</title> <subtitle>Product leader and entrepreneur. Previously at Google, Blogger, Pinterest, Slack and more. Building things that matter.</subtitle> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/feed.xml" rel="self"/> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/"/> <updated>2025-10-08T08:40:03Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/</id> <author> <name>Jason Shellen</name> <email>jason@shellen.com</email> </author> <entry> <title>Photo from 10/8/2025</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2025/10/08/haim-sf-tour-stop-at/"/> <updated>2025-10-08T08:40:03Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2025/10/08/haim-sf-tour-stop-at/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>Haim &quot;i quit&quot; tour stop at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco with opener Dora Jar and surprise guest Kesha. Great set, dancing and overall vibe.</p></content> </entry> <entry> <title>How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2025/10/07/how-tiktok-keeps-its-users-scrolling-for-hours-a-day/"/> <updated>2025-10-07T19:38:34Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2025/10/07/how-tiktok-keeps-its-users-scrolling-for-hours-a-day/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>“After a month, more than three-quarters of the users who had typically spent roughly 30 minutes per day on TikTok were now spending nearly twice that much time on the app, on average.” via Dave Pell/NextDraft</p></content> </entry> <entry> <title>How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2025/10/07/how-im-using-coding-agents-in-september-2025/"/> <updated>2025-10-07T18:05:38Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2025/10/07/how-im-using-coding-agents-in-september-2025/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>Jesse Vincent goes deep on his process of working with AI, things are changing quickly and YMMV.</p></content> </entry> <entry> <title>Layover, Over</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2025/10/07/layover-over/"/> <updated>2025-10-07T04:08:12Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2025/10/07/layover-over/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>I've been to Charlotte, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, and Dallas. By which I mean I've seen their Hudson News locations and used their bathrooms. I got brave once in Miami International and told myself I'd take a cab to Miami Beach, just to say I'd been there but the automatic doors opened and a wall of wet heat hit my face like someone's breath. I went back inside and found a chair that appeared to have been designed by someone who'd never sat down before. The armrests were positioned for a species with wider shoulders and shorter torsos. One of those molded plastic numbers with a metal bar running across the lower back at exactly the wrong height, guaranteeing you'd wake up with a spine shaped like a question mark.</p><p>I slept there until the gate agent woke me by my last name over a loudspeaker.</p><hr /><p>People love a form input (technically a textarea). Give them one and they'll fill it. Back in 1999, when I started this site, that seemed like a beautiful truth. A couple of years later at Blogger, we'd roll out new features and people would immediately use them to criticize Blogger. The tools we built to democratize publishing were being used to hold us accountable for building them. It felt like democracy working exactly as intended.</p><p>While at Google I worked with a group of people to create the Atom feed format - a standard way to publish content to the web, then we created Google Reader. We thought that if people were exposed to more viewpoints they would understand each other better. We built pipes, essentially, believing that better plumbing meant cleaner water.</p><p>We never imagined that “more information” could be weaponized, that feeds designed for fun, personal updates and news could be gamed for engagement. That the loudest voices, the blowhards who discovered that certainty and bluster play better than nuance, would claim the best seats in the house while everyone else fought for the uncomfortable chairs. The platforms we built turned out to be very good at amplifying whatever generated the most heat, regardless of whether it produced any light.</p><p>Somewhere along the way, I stopped filling my own textareas. I've spent years in the terminal of technology discourse—observing, deplaning, snacking, just passing through. That terrible chair felt like an appropriate place to wait.</p><p>But a layover isn't a visit. The city's still out there. The gate's still open.</p><p>This time I'm walking out, even if the air hits hard. Layover, over.</p></content> </entry> <entry> <title>Monkeytype - A minimalistic, customizable typing test</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2024/04/20/monkeytype-a-minimalistic-customizable-typing-test/"/> <updated>2024-04-20T00:48:30Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2024/04/20/monkeytype-a-minimalistic-customizable-typing-test/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>Why not get better at a thing I do all the time? via @craigmod</p></content> </entry> <entry> <title>Carboncounter.com</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2023/12/29/carboncounter.com/"/> <updated>2023-12-29T06:49:28Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2023/12/29/carboncounter.com/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>Plot out how current cars compare to climate targets — and to other cars — based on its emissions and costs.</p></content> </entry> <entry> <title>AI Garage Sale</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2023/11/29/ai-garage-sale/"/> <updated>2023-11-29T13:41:19Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2023/11/29/ai-garage-sale/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>&quot;Haggle with AI to buy real products&quot; you might just end up with a great deal on a Billy Big Mouth Bass</p></content> </entry> <entry> <title>LoveFrom, Serif created by Jony Ive's LoveFrom Design Agency</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2023/05/30/lovefrom-serif-created-by-jony-ives-lovefrom-design-agency/"/> <updated>2023-05-30T10:22:11Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2023/05/30/lovefrom-serif-created-by-jony-ives-lovefrom-design-agency/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>Jony Ive (former Apple Design chief), Marc Newson and Peter Saville on LoveFrom, Serif, their elegant modernisation of influential and enduring early typeface Baskerville.</p></content> </entry> <entry> <title>3D printed plant-based meatballs from Ikea</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2023/05/12/3d-printed-plant-based-meatballs-from-ikea/"/> <updated>2023-05-12T04:25:22Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2023/05/12/3d-printed-plant-based-meatballs-from-ikea/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>Meatball recruitment video</p></content> </entry> <entry> <title>Tookski - Share things to Mastodon</title> <link href="https://www.shellen.com/2023/03/08/tookski-share-things-to-mastodon/"/> <updated>2023-03-08T09:35:25Z</updated> <id>https://www.shellen.com/2023/03/08/tookski-share-things-to-mastodon/</id> <content xml:lang="en" type="html"><p>Kent Brewster with a great Chrome Extension for those so inclined.</p></content> </entry></feed>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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