{"id":24122,"date":"2026-07-12T15:47:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24122"},"modified":"2026-07-12T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:48:05","slug":"all-of-this-has-happened-before-and-all-of-this-will-happen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/12\/all-of-this-has-happened-before-and-all-of-this-will-happen-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;So says my friend Chris Perry, who welcomed me to Google 12 years ago and who was essential in shipping the first feature I worked on there\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/27\/world-cup-paint-your-face-through-google\/\">face painting for the 2014 World Cup<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BeachBrosUSA.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smash cut to 2026: Chris has just left Big G to start his own company, but we&#8217;re still inviting people to paint their faces\u2014and to do so much more\u2014for the World Cup. Opening <a href=\"https:\/\/gemini.google.com\/app\">Gemini<\/a> today, I saw this smorgasbord of Nano Banana-powered templates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/World-Cup-2026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"784\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/World-Cup-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24123\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/World-Cup-2026.jpg 784w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/World-Cup-2026-300x245.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/World-Cup-2026-768x627.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finn &amp; Henry (pictured up top) are now far too old and, critically, <em>too cool<\/em> to abide my applying any patriotic AI to them\u2014but you can give it a try with pics of you &amp; yours. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;So says my friend Chris Perry, who welcomed me to Google 12 years ago and who was essential in shipping the first feature I worked on there\u2014face painting for the 2014 World Cup: Smash cut to 2026: Chris has just left Big G to start his own company, but we&#8217;re still inviting people to paint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24125,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24122\/revisions\/24125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}