Weekend reading since 2017
A weekend letter
about what I’m
learning.
I’m Jamie. Every weekend I send out the things I read and thought about during the week — technology, the indie web, vinyl, family, whatever’s caught my attention. It’s not a product. It’s a letter. I’d love it if you read along.
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What this is
A letter, not a product. Sharing what I’m learning — nothing more.
I’m not chasing growth. I’m not selling anything. The Weekly Thing is just a way to share what I read, what I’m working on, and what I’m puzzling over — with people who want to read along.
Range is the point. A single issue might cover agentic engineering, a cheeseburger review, an Ethereum deep dive, and family photos from Duluth. If something caught my attention, I’ll tell you why. That’s the whole pitch.
From readers
It’s the kind of letter you actually read.
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“It's a highlight of my morning. I read it on my home email — I checked and I forwarded 22 items in the last year to my work email for use there.”
“I like reading it to feel like I'm having coffee with someone who is curious — 'hey, did you see this?' — and then getting a short commentary.”
Readers say it makes them feel
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Hi, I’m Jamie.
Writing this from Minneapolis.
I’m a CTO by day at SPS Commerce, but this letter isn’t about my day job. It’s about the rest of it — the reading, the tinkering, the workshop projects, the family hikes, and the Wikipedia rabbit holes I keep falling into.
I’ve been writing the Weekly Thing every weekend since 2017. If any of that sounds like your kind of thing, I’d love to have you along.
How it sounds
Pulled verbatim from real issues.
“Two decades ago when I started publishing on the web I would have never guessed that linking to websites, with no URL redirection or tracking tags, would feel almost subversive now. I now find myself delighting in adding even more links to blog posts. Creating the web I want!”
“I didn't think the caffeine I was consuming was having any real impact on me -- but the impact that the removal had tells a different story.”
“Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape all of that. Plus your words build up over time. That's unique. Nobody else values your words like you do.”
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