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10 years of weekend letters.

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2026

11 issues · 224 links · 35k words
  1. Weekly Thing 347 / Scrum, FilamentHound, DO_NOT_TRACK

    Claude personal guidance, Redis array type, watchOS maps, AI company learning, Agentic Coding, workplace productivity, Death of Scrum.

    16 links 4.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing 346 / Wuphf, Landsat, Eclipse

    Podcasting, Claude Code quality reports, Anthropic, Cloudflare accounts, wuphf, Port 22, Micro.blog, MCP Servers.

    23 links 2.2k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing 345 / Codex, Headless, Wikiwise

    OpenAI Codex App, Cloudflare Email Service, Headless everything for personal AI, Claude Design, Dad brains, ChatGPT Images 2.0, GPT-5.5.

    19 links 3.7k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing 344 / Mythos, Artemis, Signals

    Working with agents, economics of software teams, evals as new PRD, OpenAI Codex superapp, saying goodbye to Agile, cybersecurity proof of work.

    26 links 2.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing 343 / Commune, Chaos, Renaissance

    GNU AI reimplementations, Agent Commune, Codex Security research preview, dropped production database, GPT-5.4 autonomous agents, view from RSS.

    21 links 2k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing 342 / Claude, Otto, Elixir

    Redis patterns, coding agents, public parks on the internet, MCP, CLI.

    3 links 5.1k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing 341 / Minions, MAX, ReMemory

    Mitchell Hashimoto AI journey, Claude as thinking space, Stripe coding agents, Dot menu bar calendar, ReMemory secret sharing, AI fatigue.

    20 links 2.1k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing 340 / Moltbook, Frontier, Poster

    Moltbook agent internet, automatic programming, Pi minimal agent, two kinds of AI users, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, AI killing B2B SaaS.

    19 links 3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing 339 / OpenClaw, Isometric, Prism

    Isometric NYC, lost art of XML, Claude Code best practices, LED lighting visual performance, OpenClaw personal AI, management as AI superpower.

    24 links 3.3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing 338 / Authority, Humanizer, Left

    ChatGPT advertising, Miniroll blogroll, time left widgets, capability overhang, velocity as authority, Claude's new constitution.

    20 links 2.8k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing 337 / Sunrise, Vision, Offline

    Markdown takeover, Open Infrastructure Map, Oh My Zsh, anti-AI hype, ICE surveillance, MCP fad, Vision Pro, Claude Cowork, Ozempic food habits.

    33 links 3.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

2025

31 issues · 710 links · 100k words
  1. Weekly Thing 336 / Culture, Retention, Transmission

    Crucial exits consumer RAM, AI transforming work at Anthropic, Perl's cultural decline, why RSS matters, Let's Encrypt 10 years, why we need to die.

    21 links 2.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing 335 / Complexity, Fizzy, Soul

    Cloudflare outage, Dotprompt GenAI templates, Fizzy Kanban, Signal secure backups, Claude 4.5 Opus soul document, Amazon S3 Vectors.

    19 links 2.2k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing 334 / Privacy, Shopping, Consciousness

    Gemini 3 Pro image generation, agent design, LLM council, AI chat with every LLM, personal business, trust and safety work, Writer Coin.

    16 links 3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing 333 / Gemini, LangChain, Illusion

    ChatGPT group chats, Tesla CarPlay support, Gemini 3, chain of thought lies, Cloudflare outage, OpenAI Target retail, browser fingerprinting via favicon.

    22 links 5.3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing 332 / Compute, Avatar, Cryptography

    Pagefind static search, URL as state, writing agents, Micro.blog Studio video, Apple Steve Jobs red line, Git AI 1.0, GPT-5.1.

    32 links 4.1k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing 331 / RFC, Security, Tokens

    Claude Skills, ChatGPT Atlas, Agents 2.0, Token-Oriented Object Notation, DynamoDB disruption, RFCs blueprints, social circles fuel polarization.

    32 links 2.8k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing 330 / Music, Intervals, Nanochat

    Vibe engineering, Claude Code plugins, Herd MCP Servers, Album Cards music discovery, Friday Flash Crash, nanochat ChatGPT, Jujutsu tutorial.

    23 links 3.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing 329 / Another Thing

    iPhone 17 Pro camera, malicious MCP backdoor, ChatGPT instant checkout, NIST password guidelines, Claude Sonnet 4.5, spec-driven development.

    31 links 2.9k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing 328 / Agents, Pulse, Vision

    MCP in Practice, Locally AI, Cloudflare Founders Letter, WiFi and students, AWS S3 one petabyte per second, Claude Code, ChatGPT Pulse.

    13 links 3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing 327 / Prototypes, Tahoe, UTF-8

    Purpose of Prototypes, Forward Deployed Engineers, ChatGPT Memory, UTF-8 design, iOS 26, macOS Tahoe, Pig-Butchering Scams, iPhone 17 Pro Camera.

    23 links 3.7k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing 326 / Tempo, Seedship, Refraction

    Claude Code Interpreter, Etsy buyer profiles with LLMs, Tempo blockchain for payments, modernizing kernel drivers, Extreme Programming and AI.

    19 links 2.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  12. Weekly Thing 325 / Platform, Agents, Legacy

    Project Indigo camera app, Warp 2.0 agentic environment, MCP eating the world, Apple AI in Shortcuts, digital legacy planning, gold bull-market.

    30 links 3.3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  13. Weekly Thing 324 / Agents, Shortcuts, Joy

    Good writing, CTO and CPO in generative AI, Shortcuts app iOS 26, multi-agent research systems, AI agent success rates, conversational SDLC.

    28 links 3.9k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  14. Weekly Thing 323 / Context, Dithering, Liquid Glass

    MCP best practices, Apple TV privacy, iOS 26 Liquid Glass, visionOS 26, macOS Tahoe, Telegram FSB honeypot, o3 pro.

    29 links 2.9k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  15. Weekly Thing 322 / Banff & Lake Louise

    Banff, Lake Louise, Canadian Rockies, Photo Workshop Adventures, Chase Guttman, Moraine Lake, Johnston Canyon, ND filter, composition.

    0.8k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  16. Weekly Thing 321 / Saluting, Tetris, Sky

    o3 finding CVE-2025-37899, Claude 4 system prompt, MCP as Web 2.0 2.0, human-AI teams, vibe coding for teams, AI-assisted development, LLMs are weird.

    28 links 3.8k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  17. Weekly Thing 320 / Octopus, Agentic, Voyager

    OpenMemory MCP, Stack Overflow almost dead, AI-generated law, agentic web, weight-loss wonder drugs, AI energy footprint, self-hosting moment.

    35 links 3.7k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  18. Weekly Thing 319 / Embeddings, Passkeys, Macros

    Buildable LEGO designs from text, AI reputation damage, Apple Turnover, embeddings, HDR explained, passkey cryptography, CoMaps offline navigation.

    20 links 2.7k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  19. Weekly Thing 318 / Sycophancy, Rollerblades, Yoga

    Sycophancy in LLMs, post-chat UI, 3D scanning Brooklyn on rollerblades, smart glasses AI agents, LLM pricing, experienced LLM users.

    17 links 2.8k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  20. Weekly Thing 317 / Assembly, Blogging, Cyberpunk

    DOGE immigrant database, DOGE NLRB data, writing AI apps, ChatGPT beats Turing test, o3 beats GeoGuessr, Stripe stablecoin, RSS feeds.

    35 links 4.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  21. Weekly Thing 316 / Blogroll, CaMeL, Insider

    Ye Olde Blogroll, CaMeL prompt injection, ChatGPT memory, MCP problems, Circle IPO, CVE program funding, OpenAI o3 o4-mini, GPT-4.1 coding.

    21 links 2.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  22. Weekly Thing 315 / Innovation, Yak, Calligraphr

    Kagi search innovation, frontend treadmill, Cloudflare AI maze, bigscreen, deleting 23andMe data, Safari privacy, 4o image generation.

    20 links 2.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  23. Weekly Thing 314 / Interfaces, π, Bubbles

    Normal engineers, Ozempocalypse, lost senses in interfaces, fooling self-driving cars, HTTP/3, Sam Altman interview, digital hygiene.

    18 links 3.7k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  24. Weekly Thing 313 / Agentic, Shadows, WireMock

    Succinct data structures, Bluetooth undocumented commands, Agentic System, LLMs write code, Apple AI platform pivot, DDoS attacks took down X.

    27 links 4.4k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  25. Weekly Thing 312 / Tangled, Graphing, Starlink

    LLM hallucinations in code, troubleshooting skills, real-time Starlink tracker, graphing calculator story, managers who code.

    17 links 2.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  26. Weekly Thing 311 / WikiTok, Bookmarklets, Tapestry

    Apple Vision Glasses, UK backdoor defiance, iPhone 16e, Bybit $1.5B hack, Lazarus Group, software job openings, WikiTok, olmOCR document conversion.

    26 links 3.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  27. Weekly Thing 310 / Signals, Research, Playlist

    L1 gas limits, TAG Grading, LLMs on macOS via MLX, WikiTimeline, Deep Research problem, LLM codegen workflow, 25 years of Interconnected.

    21 links 4.2k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  28. Weekly Thing 309 / Programming, Silence, Drones

    End of programming, iCloud encryption backdoor, Agile as trauma, only way forward is Mac, personal software, sound of silence, stablecoin dollarization.

    16 links 3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  29. Weekly Thing 308 / Tapestry, Terminal, Tab

    LocalSend file sharing, TRMNL e-ink dashboard, Signal for government workers, Apple Invites app, one year with Vision Pro, El Salvador abandons Bitcoin.

    28 links 3.2k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  30. Weekly Thing 307 / Attention, Goose, Pulse

    Scaling Ethereum, alienated from attention, FOMO machines, Bear Manifesto, four-digit PIN, Gulf of America, Omni Roadmap 2025, codename goose.

    24 links 2.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  31. Weekly Thing 306 / Spell, McLarens, Lynch

    Spotify algorithm, RSS feeds, David Lynch tribute, iPhone privacy settings, AI photo geolocation, McLarens CarPlay, Unix Spell 64kB RAM.

    19 links 3.3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

2024

32 issues · 584 links · 99k words
  1. Weekly Thing 305 / Lighthouse, Willow, Artemis

    RCS in iOS 18, Death of Intel, Willow quantum chip, Lighthouse inbox zero for RSS, itch.io AI phishing, global IT outage 2025.

    24 links 3.4k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing 304 / Connections, Vince, Markwhen

    Real costs of free search, Minecraft AI town, Honeycrisp apples, YouTube ate podcasting, Andy Grove was right, encrypted apps urged.

    29 links 3.8k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing 303 / Petnames, Synapse, jless

    Grain of salt camera, Model Context Protocol, fine-tuning NLP transformers, petnames decentralized naming, Delicious Library.

    15 links 2.8k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing 302 / Recipe, Poetry, OnAir

    Target & Home Depot hacker, US internet slowing, recipe formats, alternatives to PGP, AI-generated poetry, bandwidth, good software habits, World's Radio.

    23 links 5.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing 301 / TinyTroupe, Monarch, Leaving

    TinyTroupe multiagent simulation, local LLMs, augmented reality in ears, M4 Mac mini efficiency, Secret Service location tracking, CVM Algorithm.

    23 links 4.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing 300 / Traceroute, 34x34x34, Typst

    ChatGPT search, 223 privacy settings, election results, traceroute isn't real, narrative thinking, auto-texting STOP to unknown numbers.

    14 links 2.3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing 299 / Apples, Abundance, Australia

    Chatbot blamed for teen's suicide, Vision Pro bites dog, iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence execution, Change Healthcare breach, weird timezones.

    14 links 2.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing 298 / Tool, Solar, Circles

    Busy Status Bar, TikTok Section 230, RSS readers, solar-powered self-hosted website, RSA encryption quantum computer, mobile ad surveillance.

    22 links 3.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing 297 / People, Building, "Pure Blogger"

    HTML for People, GPU bubble burst, $2 H100s, API to AI communication, US wealth distribution, TikTok harming kids, what are you building with your life.

    16 links 2.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing 296 / Awk, Fav, Alarmo

    Internet Archive breach, Automattic employees leaving, Chinese hackers backdoor, patent troll dedicates patents, blood pressure misreadings, CTV surveillance.

    21 links 2.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing 295 / Links, Surveillance, POSSE

    LG OLED screensaver ads, Bitcoin liquidity barometer, ChatGPT Canvas, PayPal data sharing, Meta smart glasses doxing.

    12 links 4.4k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  12. Weekly Thing 294 / Vaporizing, Intelligence, Contraption

    Minneapolis street grid, iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, visionOS 2, iPhone 16 Pro camera, Meta Orion AR glasses, social media surveillance.

    32 links 4k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  13. Weekly Thing 293 / WHOIS, Glowtime, Place

    Webpages as places, generative AI on high skilled work, GitHub winning, iPhone 16 Glowtime, reMarkable Paper Pro, rogue WHOIS server.

    17 links 2.7k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  14. Weekly Thing 292 / Signal, Checkboxes, Hope

    Section 230 ruling, political spam texts, Signal and Meredith Whittaker, One Million Checkboxes, Founder Mode, hope for the web, writing About the Author.

    10 links 2.9k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  15. Weekly Thing 291 / Ireland 🇮🇪

    McMunn's in Ballybunion, afternoon tea at Adare Manor, Cliffs of Moher, driving in Ireland, Kilmainham Gaol, Inis Mór, Gaelic Games.

    7 links 2.4k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  16. Weekly Thing 290 / Kino, Krebs, Kagi

    Daylight caring computer, Micro.blog audio narration, EcoFlow PowerStream, Google Cloud GCVE incident, over GraphQL, Kino, three laws of software complexity.

    15 links 2.2k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  17. Weekly Thing 289 / Queueing, Counting, Mapping

    Efficient new way to count, 2nd-gen email, ideal email folder structure, Windows Returns, mapping LLMs, queueing strategies, No Wrong Doors.

    14 links 2k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  18. Weekly Thing 288 / Hackerverse, Symbolica, Curators

    Link in Bio slow knife, cubic millimetre of brain mapped, TCP_NODELAY, backward walking workout, M4 iPad Pros, GPT-4o omni model, curators of the web.

    19 links 2.1k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  19. Weekly Thing 287 / Plinky, Piccolo, Privacy

    Piccolo stackless Lua, differential privacy, ENS Labs .box domains, Amazon margin expansion, Marvel Vision Pro, Scott Galloway TED.

    15 links 3.3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  20. Weekly Thing 286 / Cypherpunk, Printing music, Rabbit

    Digital legacy planning, Cypherpunk's Manifesto, finding new music, a different web, eldest daughters' happiness, moving onchain.

    14 links 2.4k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  21. Weekly Thing 285 / Voyager, ActivityPub, Trackers

    VASA-1, Voyager 1 resumes updates, Map of the Web, Ghost building ActivityPub, killed Google Search, cryptocurrency mixing arrested.

    15 links 2.7k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  22. Weekly Thing 284 / Playdate, Tetris, Calvin

    UX of UUIDs, Peloton media company problems, half-billion GPT tokens, great technical blog, Playdate handheld hardware, Calvin and Hobbes.

    16 links 2.1k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  23. Weekly Thing 283 / Betula, Blocky, Tables

    IRC client in motherboard, go players after AI, Digital Equipment Corp saved Ethernet, Twitter pivot to X.com phishers, follow the CAPEX.

    16 links 2.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  24. Weekly Thing 282 / Decentralized, Blobs, Rewards

    MrBeast changing game, Vision Pro devkit, Ethereum blobs, xz Utils backdoor, Wyoming DUNA Act, credit card rewards anatomy.

    13 links 2.3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  25. Weekly Thing 281 / Fediverse, Odyssey, Echo Chess

    ActivityPub at SFO Museum, Starbucks Odyssey NFT shutdown, AlphaGo reflections, NVIDIA Blackwell chip, DOJ antitrust complaint against Apple.

    28 links 4.3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  26. Weekly Thing 280 / Canvas, Undersea, Documents

    S3 not a filesystem, autogenerating book from iMessages, district heating data centers, Web's 35th birthday, 40 years of programming, better documents.

    18 links 2.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  27. Weekly Thing 279 / Nushell, BlackCat, Daemons

    Endatabas, writing Unix daemons, Nushell, BlackCat ransomware implosion, missing data type, REST meaning, privacy and competition.

    12 links 2.3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  28. Weekly Thing 278 / Groq, GraphRAG, Gasless

    Case against caffeine, U.S. Internet email leak, Vision Pro sharing, building billing systems, Groq, MLS Season Pass, Leap Day bugs, Gasless DNSSEC.

    27 links 3.9k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  29. Weekly Thing 277 / Privacy, Scammed, OmniFocus

    Podcast distribution, local news paywalls, connect() slowness, Meta platforms, scam stories, GiveDirectly, OmniFocus 4, privacy rights.

    13 links 2k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  30. Weekly Thing 276 / Contextual, Copilot, Collections

    End of social networks, Farcaster on Ethereum, Starlink laser system, Now/Next/Later roadmap, Vision Pro teardown, OKRs are bullshit.

    24 links 2.9k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  31. Weekly Thing 275 / Vision, Sense, Magic

    Vision Pro, childhood end, drones Ukraine frontlines, technology trends 2024, home energy monitor, privacy in others' hands, message queues, magic moments.

    16 links 3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  32. Weekly Thing 274 / Gibberish, Happyfeed, Airshow

    Bottled water nanoplastics, NTP inventor dies, Bitcoin ETF approval, school smartphone ban, Microsoft Midnight Blizzard attack, Macintosh 40th birthday.

    30 links 6.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

2023

36 issues · 752 links · 115k words
  1. Weekly Thing 273 / Trippy, Buffalo, Bitkey

    Recovering America's Buffalo, Engineering Research Associates, AI mass spying, crypto resurgence, over-meeting culture, blameless culture.

    16 links 2.9k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing 272 / Escape, Fuzzy, Melodrip

    Techno-optimism, Sqids short IDs, Magnific AI, teaching Bitcoin, UniFi Express, 23andMe data breach, Wikifunctions launch, history of PDF.

    36 links 4.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing 271 / Imperfectionist, Zeitgeisty, Inko

    Exploring GPTs, Signal costs, AI changing computers, ad blockers, sleep data collection, Binance guilty plea, posting online manifesto.

    11 links 2.6k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing 270 / Panoramic, RCS, Finnegans

    Vision Pro spatial video, undersea internet cables, GPTs as agents, generative AI habits, ESP32 occupancy sensor, long-lived domains, oldest blogs.

    17 links 3k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing 269 / Phind, Textcasting, Tailspin

    Apple M3, CPUs, Humane, Phind AI search, on-call engineering, Bitcoin overhang, GPTs, Textcasting, OpenAI DevDay keynote.

    18 links 2.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing 268 / Schema, Achtung, Gamification

    C2PA, computational AI thinking, watchOS 10 review, U2 at Sphere, gamification of public discourse, Apple CPU architecture, REST API design.

    17 links 3.2k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing 267 / Generative, Ghibli, Mermaid

    POSSE social networks, Signal privacy, Reddit Community Points, Ghibli Park, Apple and AI, embeddings, blogging for the hell of it.

    23 links 3.5k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing 266 / Obsessed, DiceRight, Omnivore

    GitHub Engineering communication, fixing the internet, NPR left Twitter, cryptography intuition, social internet is dead, FreeTube private YouTube.

    19 links 3.7k words ▸ Listen 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing 265 / Magic, Copilot, Shortery

    iPhone 15 Pro Max camera, AI for business authors, Steve Jobs on our industry, hybrid strategy, face-scanning search engines, tokenized Pokémon cards.

    12 links 2.7k words 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing 264 / Dazed, Zany, Llama

    Seeing our own faces, computational power and AI, Amazon Bedrock, Raspberry Pi 5, two types of PayPal dollars, synthetic social network, Google Pixel 8.

    23 links 4k words 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing 263 / Copilot, Del.icio.us, Pancake

    Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo, Microsoft Copilot, Scaling Kafka at PayPal, Philips Hue ecosystem, macOS Sonoma review, Mastercard transaction data.

    17 links 4k words 💬 Chat

  12. Weekly Thing 262 / Simulator, System, Snoopy

    Apple Wonderlust event, iPhones 15 Pro, iOS 17 review, macOS Sonoma passwords, Snoopy watch, economy simulator, capitalism onchain, online privacy.

    22 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  13. Weekly Thing 261 / Bloomfield Bridge, Critical Ignoring, Subscription Era

    Bloomfield Bridge mystery, critical ignoring, Virginia data centers, Google ad tracking in Chrome, Ukraine digital revolution, subscription era ending.

    23 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  14. Weekly Thing #260 / Rash, Hashing, Arguably

    privateGPT, Safari 17 Profiles, styling RSS feeds, AI new UI paradigm, Richard Stallman, ChatGPT treating patients, Anti-Meta Fedi Pact, death in 7 gigabytes.

    26 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat

  15. Weekly Thing #259 / Vision Pro, Tiny Awards, Mental Liquidity

    Deliberate practice, Apple Vision Pro, MrBeast Willy Wonka, Wolfram Prompt Repository, mental liquidity, dark patterns.

    29 links 4.8k words 💬 Chat

  16. Weekly Thing #258 / Vision, Strike, Reputation

    Vision Pro first impressions, Apple Vision, open-source LLMs, HTTP/3 usage, iPadOS Stage Manager, NVIDIA Grace Hopper, GPT-4 in Minecraft, personal brands.

    30 links 4.3k words 💬 Chat

  17. Weekly Thing #257 / Nostr, Time, Bcrypt

    Nostr creator Fiatjaf, Snowden Revelations at ten, Japan AI copyright, Discord admins hacked, Bcrypt at 25, building with LLMs.

    24 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  18. Weekly Thing #2^8 / Bitcoin, Kagi, Brink

    Google I/O, AI battles, ad-tech, Ethereum staking, Logic Pro for iPad, Final Cut Pro for iPad, Kagi Search, bookmarking data model.

    21 links 5.4k words 💬 Chat

  19. Weekly Thing #255 / Lassie, Vore, Alby

    Technical debt careers, GitHub Copilot LLMs, Advanced Data Protection iOS, new TLDs, learning cryptography, Filecoin and IPFS, Web3 digital identity.

    16 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat

  20. Weekly Thing #254 / Redis, Dooce, Batteries

    SpaceTraders API, Redis and antirez, Learning DNS, Bluesky federation architecture, Mojo programming language, Google no moat, kids and smartphones.

    18 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat

  21. Weekly Thing #253 / Domains, Anybox, Currl

    GPT learning, web history, retail managers, Roddenberry Archive, Scouting technology, Anybox bookmarking, Amazon growth, investing in RSS.

    24 links 3.4k words 💬 Chat

  22. Weekly Thing #252 / Elevator, Evidence, Everything

    LLMs breaking the internet, AI economic liability, generative AI at work, GPS-guided tractors, Coinbase SEC clarity, space elevator.

    18 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  23. Weekly Thing #251 / Moloch, Chess, Protocol

    Meditations on Moloch, transformer models, state of crypto index, prompt injection, teen chess boom, Free Software Foundation, ChatGPT impersonation.

    18 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  24. Weekly Thing #250 / LLM, Shanghai, Wing

    Free Dolly open LLM, Ethereum Shanghai staking withdrawals, ChatGPT Code Interpreter, Wing Programming Language, Tesla car cameras privacy.

    27 links 3.1k words 💬 Chat

  25. Weekly Thing #249 / GPT, Privacy, Crypto

    Steve Blank on ChatGPT, BloombergGPT, LinkedIn ghostwriters, S-GPT shortcut, Tim Cook on Apple, smart locks privacy, Stripe 2022 letter.

    23 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat

  26. Weekly Thing #248 / Bicycle, Attention, Shapella

    ChatGPT Wolfram superpowers, Twitter dying, S3 eternal service, pause giant AI experiments, Ethereum Shapella, post-GPT world.

    25 links 4.1k words 💬 Chat

  27. Weekly Thing #247 / New York, Fingerprints, Snitch

    ChatGPT plugins, GPT-4, Age of AI, vocal deepfakes, web fingerprinting, Little Snitch Mini, DPReview shutdown, Internet Archive, Cloudflare DMARC Management.

    17 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat

  28. Weekly Thing #246 / Banks, Stablecoin, Trust

    Sam Bankman-Fried warnings, Silicon Valley Bank demise, bank solvency, RAI stablecoin, doorbell privacy loophole, Kottke.org 25 years.

    22 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  29. Weekly Thing #245 / Curation, Outcomes, Disturbed

    Phones and teen mental health, content curation, OKRs vs outcomes, 1000 investor reports, SimCity disaster, 8-bit bytes, Playdate Catalog.

    19 links 4k words 💬 Chat

  30. Weekly Thing #244 / Fans, Sameness, Fediverse + Ukraine Fundraiser!

    Stop saying technical debt, LastPass corporate vault hack, Microsoft AI visual puzzles, 1000 True Fans, Ethereum Reflections 2023, Fediverse already dead.

    17 links 3.1k words 💬 Chat

  31. Weekly Thing #243 / Montaigne, Ordinals, Salsa + Ukraine Fundraiser!

    Social media teen girls, LED lights killing you, cargo cult Agile, Apple glucose testing, cloud exit savings, ChatGPT explained.

    25 links 4.2k words 💬 Chat

  32. Weekly Thing #242 / Stories, Volcano, Decemberists

    Plan to write, write to learn, office startups grow faster, gasless DNSSEC, Unicode adopt a character, Yellowstone volcanic power.

    20 links 3.4k words 💬 Chat

  33. Weekly Thing #241 / Wildebeest, Reputation, Zero

    Mastodon commons, Wildebeest Fediverse, Twitter plan, Google new CEO, Fed went broke, zero time habits, one-page calendar.

    15 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat

  34. Weekly Thing #240 / Shapes, Tags, Ubiquity

    Small databases, TikTok enshittification, generative AI revolution, CNET AI-powered SEO, Wolfram ChatGPT integration, Malaysia Airlines flight 370.

    27 links 3.1k words 💬 Chat

  35. Weekly Thing #239 / Helmets, Bear, Smile

    Overconfidence and AI, bike helmet science, 20 years software engineer, junk food addiction, Microsoft OpenAI partnership, building a board.

    22 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat

  36. Weekly Thing #238 / Addiction, Disruption, Intentional

    GPT-3 journaling, YouTube addiction, blogging pioneers, evaluating character, Sam Bankman-Fried, Eurasia Group top risks.

    15 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

2022

30 issues · 608 links · 77k words
  1. Weekly Thing #237 / Ethereum, Zelensky, Fadell + Erratic Narratives

    Ethereum ecosystem, Zelensky Person of Year, Black Start power grid, Apple security features, Tony Fadell crypto, FTX collapse.

    21 links 5.2k words 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing #236 / ChatGPT, Reading, Legitimacy

    ChatGPT, need to read, time alone, social media without bullshit, FTX decentralized finance, hardware counters performance, scarce resource legitimacy.

    17 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing #235 / TikTok, Busy, Stories

    China digital fentanyl, seven levels of busy, moving away from UUIDs, Bob Iger returns Disney, TikTok weaponization, Infosys AWS keys leak.

    17 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing #234 / Distributed, Principles, Drivers

    Alameda Research, FTX house of cards, Sam Bankman-Fried regrets, Distributed Computing Manifesto, Ethereum roadmap, Solana FTX bankruptcy.

    20 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing #233 / Versepad, "Just", Mastadon

    FTX collapse, tech layoffs, Zoom on Tesla, Portmaster 1.0, Apple Watch Ultra, decentralized email, Mastodon server, RSS privacy.

    22 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing #232 / Fiber, Decker, Privacy

    iPhone 14 Pro camera, Jony Ive after Apple, home fiber wiring, YNAB Together, iA Presenter, Moneyball American culture, Elon Twitter, Privacy Gateway proxy.

    21 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing #231 / UNIX Pipe, Slow Roads, Personal Brand

    Sprint estimation, UNIX Pipe Card Game, Google email privacy, plastic recycling myth, macOS Ventura review, personal brand burnout, Focus Is Saying No.

    26 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing #230 / Calendar, Fractal, Reminiscing

    Computer science education Minnesota, diminishing returns calendar culture, colonoscopy cancer deaths, Nouns Name Service, Arctic Wolf $401M financing.

    14 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing #229 / Time, Zolatron, Maigret

    Battle for the Soul of the Web, monetising misery, keeping the internet's time, Turnstile CAPTCHA alternative, Elon Musk texts, sauna healthspan.

    22 links 3.6k words 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing #228 / Technical, Adversarial, Overcomplicating

    Technical CTOs, Nounlets, Nifty Chess, ML stock picking, adversarial collaboration, ARM history, on-call engineering, one-on-one plans.

    17 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing #227 / Attention, Minnedemo, Learning

    Take care of your blog, attention not a commodity, QR codes, Apple Watch Ultra, iPhones 14 Pro, DAOs not corporations, Filecoin vision, RSS 20 years.

    19 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat

  12. Weekly Thing #226 / Patagonia, Merge, Walrus

    Patagonia founder gives away, Vitalik Buterin Ethereum, Coin Metrics Merge update, Steve Jobs Archive, watchOS 9, iOS 16, Python walrus operator.

    27 links 3.8k words 💬 Chat

  13. Weekly Thing #225 / Prestige, WebAssembly, PhizFans

    Prestige Writing, NutritionFacts, Coinbase crypto networks, WebAssembly notes, Seaport OpenSea fees, Markwhen, PhizFans Multisig.

    16 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  14. Weekly Thing #224 / Self, Learning, Identity

    Sam Harris on self, software developer shortage, self-sovereign identity, Apple M2 die shot, CRISPR gene map, NounsDAO, crypto defense.

    26 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  15. Weekly Thing #223 / Digital Identity, Finding a Mode, WWDC

    Reputation in Web3, Target's inventory problem, Tim Cook on privacy, watchOS 9, iOS 16, macOS Ventura, Unix pipelines, Thinking in Bets, Find A Mode.

    24 links 4.4k words 💬 Chat

  16. Weekly Thing #222 / Smalltalk, Friendships, Automata

    Lisp and Smalltalk symmetry, shared context friendships, Calendar.txt, Thin Platforms, Felt maps, Electronic Catan LCD tiles, ENS Boom.

    28 links 3.3k words 💬 Chat

  17. Weekly Thing #221 / Rebooting, Incidents, Risk

    Rebooting computers, GTD guide, web3 world computer, Tether recapitalization, Donald Knuth habits, incident management, Markdoc framework.

    28 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  18. Weekly Thing #220 / Ukraine DAO, Nouns, Icebergs

    Ukraine DAO history, Kharkiv lives in ruin, billing systems nightmare, crypto crash post-mortem, DJI Mini 3 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro photography.

    26 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  19. Weekly Thing #219 / Friendships, FloriNouns, Rich Strike

    Kill-switched Ukrainian tractors, executive dashboards, Rich Strike Kentucky Derby, personal website joys, Atlassian outage review.

    21 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  20. Weekly Thing #218 / An unscheduled break

    Zelensky on defeating Putin, Ukraine cyber guerrilla army, Slack etiquette tips, token compensation, Internet Archive at 25, TLS 1.3 connection.

    13 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  21. Weekly Thing #217 / Ukraine, Coaching, Population

    Ukraine crisis, Mariupol documentation, Schwarzenegger to Russian people, Vitalik Buterin crypto future, Mozilla web evolution, coaching vs. mentoring.

    22 links 3.3k words 💬 Chat

  22. Weekly Thing #216 / NFT, DST, PDP

    GISTEMP climate spiral, war diary Belorusets, daylight saving time permanent, NFT rug pull, internet resilience Ukraine, PDP-11 minicomputer.

    22 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  23. Weekly Thing #215 / Queues, Tor, Venting

    Twitter Tor version, Apple baseball deal, infinite scroll, Ukrainian vs Russian languages, Lincoln's humility, OmniFocus checklists, web3 webpage.

    24 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  24. Weekly Thing #214 / Support Ukraine

    Sharing fears, news-resilient, crypto exchanges Russia, Ukraine DAO, Credit Suisse leak, haveibeenexpired, Fiona Hill Putin nukes, false images online, NFTs.

    10 links 0.8k words 💬 Chat

  25. Weekly Thing #213 / Ukraine

    Ukraine photos, Kyiv cathedrals, Russian invasion, dogsledding with Wintergreen, Ely, -4°F temperatures, snowmobiling around Tower.

    1k words 💬 Chat

  26. Weekly Thing #212 / Words, Mermaid, Beats

    Factorio mindset, RSS feeds, Mermaid diagrams in Markdown, Medieval Fantasy City Generator, Swatch Internet Time, technical debt, opposing Russia.

    26 links 3.7k words 💬 Chat

  27. Weekly Thing #211 / Polar Bears, Delegating, Capes

    Managing people, when to delegate, hero-engineer perils, Apple Watch fitness tracker, polar bears Arctic weather station.

    14 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  28. Weekly Thing #210 / Wyoming, WebAssembly, Wordle

    Crypto capital state, prioritizing tech debt, WebVM, Wordle rise, Tobias Lütke joins Coinbase board, Inspectorio $50M raise.

    26 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  29. Weekly Thing #209 / PGP, Soulbound, Mosey

    PGP origins, cracking a crypto wallet, Google FLoC replacement, covidtests.gov architecture, Roblox outage, personal velocity.

    22 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  30. Weekly Thing #208 / GPS, Intel, Omicron

    GPS explainer, Intel split, Bitcoin price manipulation, NFT profile pictures, crypto browser, Omicron symptoms, hiring engineers, customer support stats.

    17 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

2021

38 issues · 936 links · 110k words
  1. Weekly Thing #207 / Architecture, Contrarian, Storytelling

    Tim Cook's China deal, NSO malware victims, DNS propagation myth, smart home fussiness, zero-knowledge proofs, decentralized startups.

    27 links 3.2k words 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing #206 / Omicron, Overengineering, Endaoment

    Omicron variant, financialization of everything, hybrid leadership, Bitcoin mining ban, crypto bullshit, overengineering products, buying an ebike.

    17 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing #205 / Hurl, Faster, Web3

    Hype-free Web3 observations, ConstitutionDAO crypto bid, beartype Python type-checking, reMarkable notebook, Knowledge Graphs, Data Governance branding.

    30 links 3.7k words 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing #204 / Containers, Constitution, Cancel

    Container logistics, Apple legacy contact, Peloton Lanebreak, buying the US Constitution, ENS DAO constitution, NFT value, Notes on Web3.

    29 links 3.1k words 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing #203 / Discord, Family, Names

    ENS claiming, Filecoin Virtual Machine, Luau open-source, learning Rust, falsehoods about names, 750-mile bicycle route.

    31 links 4.2k words 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing #202 / Goalies, Curves, Spiders

    Twenty-year truck driver, crypto cities, do-nothing scripting, Netflix Games Android, MacBook Pro 2021 review, Tesla live camera streaming.

    26 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing #201 / Collecting, Smart, Stupid

    Digital death of collecting, MacBook Pro M1 Max, macOS Monterey review, CookLang recipe markup, RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601, Web3 vs Web2, Taleb Concepts.

    33 links 4.3k words 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing #200 / Developers, Org Design, Types

    Junior developers, org design, SaaS metrics, type hints, search knowledge, M1 Pro MacBook Pro, permanent web, NFT games, open source finance.

    17 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing #199 / Revolutions, Dopamine, Reconsolidation

    Technological revolutions, Coinbase NFT, dopamine and smartphones, Apple Watch Series 7, death of the newsfeed, iOS Focus Modes.

    27 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing #198 / Facebook, News, Kyiv

    Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, phone location data market, Twitch leak, Apple A15 SoC, Web3 decentralized web, seven programming ur-languages.

    26 links 3.6k words 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing #197 / Cloudflare, Bunches, Float

    Cloudflare disruption, AWS Step Functions, Masked Email, most important iPhone, absence of Scrum, internet's original sin.

    21 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  12. Weekly Thing #196 / iPhone 13, iOS 15, watchOS 8

    iPhone 13 Pro Tanzania, iPhones 13, machine learning, calendar as archive, Google location warrants, prehistory of DAOs, Bitcoin energy usage.

    26 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  13. Weekly Thing #195 / Privacy, Loot, Minus

    NSO Group iMessage exploit, Facebook secret elite exemptions, endemic COVID risk, Pfizer for kids 5-11, America's debt cycle and Bitcoin.

    25 links 3.5k words 💬 Chat

  14. Weekly Thing #194 / Writing, Playdate, OpenMoji

    How doctors die, Ukraine cryptocurrency law, Balaji Srinivasan podcast, hybrid meetings, Litecoin NFTs, Callin social podcasting.

    18 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  15. Weekly Thing #193 / POAPs, DAOs, NFTs

    POAPs, DAO landscape, OpenSea metrics, NFT sales near $900M, ENS mainnet integration, driver's licenses in Apple Wallet, U.S. Digital Corps, Air Quality Index.

    27 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  16. Weekly Thing #192 / Endemic, Solidify, Zsync

    Bitcoin bubbles, Nassim Taleb, swallowed AirPods, Brave Search, smart contract security, Python future, data brokers, Leica smartphone.

    34 links 3.9k words 💬 Chat

  17. Weekly Thing #191 / Decentralizing, Coffee, Future

    Yield farming, NFT metadata, AWS Step Functions, iCloud Private Relay, Google FLoC, mRNA flu vaccines, Pulitzer for George Floyd reporting.

    22 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat

  18. Weekly Thing #190 / WWDC, Passport, Roll

    Cloud trillion dollar paradox, Fastly crippled the Web, iCloud Private Relay, WWDC Shortcuts for Mac, end the data economy, Bitcoin Water Trust.

    35 links 3.8k words 💬 Chat

  19. Weekly Thing #189 / TiddlyWiki, JsonLogic, Smiling

    Twitter Blue subscription, Starlink review, NFTs new frontiers, Timery Mac time tracking, Wikipedia fundraising, Unix Game, Uber app rewrite.

    35 links 2.7k words 💬 Chat

  20. Weekly Thing #188 / Ethereum, Emulator, Ephemerality

    Bull case for Ethereum, status anxiety as a service, Coinbase fact check, blockchain scalability, Dolphin on macOS M1, hybrid work paradox.

    30 links 3.1k words 💬 Chat

  21. Weekly Thing #187 / AirTags, M1 iPad Pro, Flamingo

    Mailed AirTag tracked, M1 iPad Pro, 24-inch M1 iMac, geopolitics of cryptocurrencies, Sublime Text 4, Twitter Blue, cookie poisoned the web.

    35 links 3.1k words 💬 Chat

  22. Weekly Thing #186 / Blockchain, Pairing, Sharding

    Blockchain matters, Apple Watch blood monitoring, America's broadband problem, iPhone ad tracking, Ethereum sharding, Signal grand jury subpoena.

    19 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  23. Weekly Thing #185 / Signal, Peloton, Meebits

    Instagram ads Signal blocked, Peloton Tread Plus recall, Meebits NFTs, consumer safety, Facebook advertising, digital collectibles.

    20 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  24. Weekly Thing #184 / UML, Vizy, Markdown

    UML's death, NFT Storage on IPFS, Nexon Bitcoin purchase, 1Blocker firewall, handwriting beats typing, Emojis as Favicons.

    24 links 3.2k words 💬 Chat

  25. Weekly Thing #183 / Visidata, FTP, Amazon

    Everything Easy is Hard Again, Bitcoin Energy Consumption, FTP is 50 years old, high quality audio, AirTag Review, PHP in 2021.

    20 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat

  26. Weekly Thing #182 / Technical Debt, Identity, Neeva

    Technical debt, digital paper, 1Password secrets automation, JSON parsing, ad-free private search, FLoC testing, open source cooking.

    15 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  27. Weekly Thing #181 / Grit, Collectible, Crypto

    Multitree task manager, valuing NFTs, Albums 4.0, Technology Guilds, Apple vs Zuckerberg, ProRaw Super Resolution, Barisieur alarm clock, HIV vaccine trial.

    20 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  28. Weekly Thing #180 / Tetris, Ever Given, Backstory

    Classic Tetris revolution, Zodiac Killer cipher, Ever Given Suez Canal, NFTs explained, Magic The Gathering iOS, Apple Siri voices.

    27 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  29. Weekly Thing #179 / Nemawashi, Transformation, Geldingadalur

    Bitcoin as battery, Moore's Law for Everything, Slack messaging app, Instagram for Kids, Substack scam, Iceland volcano live feed, curl turns 23.

    16 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  30. Weekly Thing #178 / Reverse Meetings, OODA Loop, Hockey Goalies

    New engineering managers, reverse meetings, S3 Object Lambda, OODA Loop, REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC, Beeple NFT, emoji domain names, Project Gemini.

    23 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  31. Weekly Thing #177 / NFTs, Roblox, HEY World, Exchange

    HEY World blogging, poisoning Big Tech data, Microsoft email hack, Roblox Microverse, Zig programming, Kings of Leon NFT album.

    30 links 4.7k words 💬 Chat

  32. Weekly Thing #176 / Brave Search, Speed, Finger.Farm

    Brave acquires search engine, Google FLoC, small web, NFTs and True Fans, Zoom fatigue, Fastmail spy pixels, ISO 8601, murex shell.

    26 links 3.2k words 💬 Chat

  33. Weekly Thing #175 / Crontab, Fry's, Daft Punk

    Fry's Electronics closing, Daft Punk break up, email aliases, Apple Mail tracking images, ByteDance censorship machine, Mars Perseverance Rover.

    20 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat

  34. Weekly Thing #174 / Responsively, Underline, Skittish

    Spy pixels endemic, Tim Cook transformed Apple, Texas power outage, smart TV tracking, Clubhouse inevitability, 24-year-old Linux kernel bug.

    23 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  35. Weekly Thing #173 / Minot, Unicorn, Bunch

    RSS still useful, DEVONthink To Go 3.0, Let's Encrypt 200 million certificates, Disqus dark commenting, Planetary social media, DESI billion galaxies.

    23 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  36. Weekly Thing #172 / Blockchain, Bezos, Privacy

    Tim Cook condemns Facebook, IBM Blockchain collapse, Generation X saves web, LAMBDA Excel function, simple HTML effectiveness, social media teen mental health.

    19 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  37. Weekly Thing #171 / Earthrise, Firecracker, Rivian

    Revenge of Retail, Rivian raises $2.65B, Firecracker VM, Hush noiseless browsing, Cloudflare Waiting Room, Time to Walk Fitness+, Plan 9.

    18 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  38. Weekly Thing #170 / MeetingBar, Platforms, Wikipedia

    Amanda Gorman inauguration, Wikipedia 20 years, Archive Box, My Engineering Axioms, Dropbox workforce cut, Decoding Peloton, IPFS in Brave.

    22 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

2020

40 issues · 834 links · 106k words
  1. Weekly Thing #169 / Ted Lasso, Think for Yourself, Range

    Ted Lasso Energy, FTC sues Facebook, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Excel LAMBDA functions, Tony Hsieh, Stripe Platform of Platforms, Smart TV PiHole.

    24 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing #168 / Buy Gifts, Gratitude, DeepMind

    Buying gifts people want, 30 days of gratitude, one-sentence communication tips, blogging vs. blog setups, Brad Feld at 55.

    8 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing #167 / Production Oriented Development, Fathom

    Comcast data caps, Facebook sociopaths, Fathom Analytics attack, COVIDaware MN, ZFS introduction, Apple Mac silicon, Anki memory, Twitter @POTUS Biden.

    16 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing #166 / Chess, Disruption, M1 Macs, Five Hindrances

    M1 Macs, Intel's disruption, macOS Big Sur, iPhone 12 Pro Max, OpenStreetMap, personal data warehouses, Fairness Doctrine social networks.

    26 links 3.3k words 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing #165 / Sessions, Friluftsliv, Everlong

    Apple M1 Macs, iPhone 12 Mini and Pro Max, macOS Big Sur review, COVID vaccine 90% protection, Let's Encrypt independent, digital gardens.

    27 links 2.7k words 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing #164 / Raspberry Pi 400, Time Blocking, Platform

    Raspberry Pi 400, Little Snitch 5, iOS 14.2 Emoji, eero 6 mesh wifi, time blocking, quitting Twitter, aerosol transmission.

    24 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing #163 / BeOS, Management Track, Writing is Thinking

    OmniFocus custom perspectives, Zoom end-to-end encryption, Halide Mark II, Apple One bundle, Jon Stewart Apple series, COVID herd immunity.

    27 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing #162 / iPhone 12, Lidar, Quibi

    Quibi shutting down, iPhone 12 Pro camera, Apple Lidar history, Gowalla returning, Covid-19 global data, consensus protocols, flight offsets.

    17 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing #161 / Letter, Asterisk, You Should Write ✍️

    iOS 14 review, iPhone 12 lineup, Git scraping, Facebook Michigan kidnapping plot, Python 3.9, Northern Lights from U-2 spyplane.

    21 links 3.8k words 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing #160 / Unlived Life, Disinformation, Snowflake ❄️

    Unlived Life, hacking Apple, 100000 Stars, Snowflake value, QAnon ban, mail-in voter fraud disinformation, aerosol spread of Covid-19.

    20 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing #159 / 911 Outage, Small Tech, Workflows

    VP of Engineering, 911 outage, Ring Always Home Cam, iOS 14 review, QAnon, Coinbase mission, FTP disappearing, AWS and GCP workflows.

    14 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  12. Weekly Thing #158 / Blacklight, Whistleblower, Fly Fishing

    Fly-fishing rods, silencing conspiracy theories, QAnon nightmare, Facebook political manipulation, Let's Encrypt certificates, GitHub master to main.

    22 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  13. Weekly Thing #157 / Superpower, Dune, Three Year Rule

    Snowflake IPO, Apple One subscriptions, App Sprawl, Dune trailer, Ugh fields, Underwater datacenters, Brandi Carlile, Wikipedia Widgets.

    18 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  14. Weekly Thing #156 / Identity, AI, Peloton, UPSERT

    Changing your identity, IFTTT Pro, robot-written article, new Peloton Bike+, Snowden surveillance illegal, Zuckerberg unelected power.

    17 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  15. Weekly Thing #155 / Menu Engineers, Halo, RFC8890

    Kindle data collection, menu engineers, postal reform, Amazon Halo wearable, TOTP algorithm, unnatural lighting art, drowning in plastic.

    20 links 2.7k words 💬 Chat

  16. Weekly Thing #154 / Giving Feedback, Apple WWDC, Anti-Encryption

    Amazon Honeycode, anti-encryption bill, Mac Apple Silicon, iOS 14, macOS Big Sur, GitHub Super Linter, Plausible Analytics, chip wars.

    25 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  17. Weekly Thing #153 / Values Oasis, Bison, Masks

    Trapped in a Values Oasis, Bison in the Badlands, Masks Masquerade, Patagonia Provisions, Irrational Exuberance, Incerto.

    22 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  18. Weekly Thing #152 / Juneteenth, Uncomfortable Conversations, Facebook

    Juneteenth celebration, IBM facial recognition, Zuckerberg content policies, asymptomatic coronavirus spread, Git branch rename, Zettlr Markdown editor.

    24 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  19. Weekly Thing #151 / George Floyd, I Can’t Breathe, Black Lives Matter

    Racial injustice confessions, white supremacy culture, 8 Can't Wait, Minneapolis police use of force, coronavirus vascular disease, ACLU sues Clearview AI.

    25 links 4.7k words 💬 Chat

  20. Weekly Thing #150 / Speed, Insane Videoconferencing, OmniFocus, LaTeX

    Facebook algorithms divided users, Small Web, Obsidian, OmniFocus Omni Automation, Mongolia Covid-19 response, LaTeX.css, Deno guide, coronavirus bots.

    32 links 4k words 💬 Chat

  21. Weekly Thing #149 / RSS, Blogs, Giphy, Flour

    King Arthur Flour baking obsession, Facebook buys Giphy, RSS comeback, solar's cheap future, DSLR as webcam, iOS 13.5 exposure notifications.

    19 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat

  22. Weekly Thing #148 / What Day Is It?, Written Communication, Lisp

    Lisp programming language, COVID-19 risks, iA Writer Micro.blog, Pi-hole v5, Zoom acquires Keybase, Minnesota COVID-19 model, Dave Grohl rock show.

    24 links 3.6k words 💬 Chat

  23. Weekly Thing #147 / Do The Work, Good Writing, Bye Amazon

    Facebook SDK iOS crashes, Tim Bray leaves Amazon, Airbnb layoffs, virtual WWDC June 22, murder hornets, Bill Gates on COVID-19 vaccine.

    30 links 4.1k words 💬 Chat

  24. Weekly Thing #146 / Stoics, Lockdown, MnTech, Learning a Language

    Raspberry Pi HQ Camera, skin in the game, hard part of learning a language, remote meetings, board games quarantine, Minnestar at fifteen.

    22 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  25. Weekly Thing #145 / Permanent, Coronavirus, Zoom Fatigue

    Zoom fatigue theory, effective reproduction number, silently killing coronavirus patients, 36000 missing deaths, reopen domain surge, SaaS efficient growth.

    23 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  26. Weekly Thing #144 / Contact Tracing, Stockdale Paradox, John Prine, Goat 2 Meeting

    COVID-19 tracing tool, Zoom brand, John Conway dies, iPhone SE, NextDNS, Stockdale Paradox, cold-brew coffee chemistry, COBOL training.

    31 links 3.8k words 💬 Chat

  27. Weekly Thing #143 / Archetypes, Wear a Mask, Zoom

    Zoom encryption flaws, wear a mask, reopen the nation, COBOL falling apart, Bill Gates vaccine factories, John Prine dead at 73, Tesla ventilator.

    25 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  28. Weekly Thing #142 / Signaling, Zoom, Bill Gates, Decision Journal

    Bill Gates coronavirus response, corporate socialism, government bailouts, signaling as a service, bailing out investors, managers not you.

    22 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  29. Weekly Thing #141 / We provided 147,360 meals for those in need!

    COVID-19 grief, coronavirus treatments, iPad cursor, iOS 13.4, Amazon delivery delays, Netflix relief fund, hammer and dance.

    24 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  30. Special Thing #140 / Matching Donations to Second Harvest!

    3 links 0.3k words 💬 Chat

  31. Weekly Thing #140 / Conversations, Leadership, Remote, iPad

    iPad Pro trackpad, new keyboard cover, flatten the curve, pandemic history, managing remotely, skill stacking, virus startup strategy.

    27 links 3.2k words 💬 Chat

  32. Weekly Thing #139 / Control, Energy

    Brave Browser, Facebook's negative impact, Things Apple Watch app, history of the URL, low carb diet brain effects, brain's nightly rinse cycle.

    11 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  33. Weekly Thing #138 / Covid-19, Credibility, Clearview AI, Hair Freezing

    Clearview AI facial recognition, stopping Facebook, First Amendment social media, OmniFocus floating time zones, Ulysses writing assistant.

    19 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat

  34. Weekly Thing #137 / Let's Encrypt, Fraidycat, Metagame, Real-Flame what?

    Let's Encrypt billion certificates, Text Renaissance, Unread 2, DIY license plate reader, GitHub for data, Tim Berners-Lee Solid, AirTags waterproof.

    22 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  35. Weekly Thing #136 / Wikipedia, Side Quest, Latency, Signal

    Wikipedia, Wikimedia, DJI Mavic Mini, Susan Fowler and Uber, intermittent fasting, Signal secure messaging, YETI V Series cooler.

    11 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  36. Weekly Thing #135 / Spy Emails, Engineering Strategy, True Fans

    Hundred-Year Marathon, engineering strategy, mailing list spying, single .txt file, 100 True Fans, Voyager 2 online, Brandi Carlile.

    10 links 1.2k words 💬 Chat

  37. Weekly Thing #134 / Platform & Product, Corporate Athlete, Mindfulness

    Platform-product fit, corporate athlete, full engagement, Amazon Dating, smart notes, paid membership, iOS 13.4, LEGO Masters, Luminary Loppet, mindfulness.

    16 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  38. Weekly Thing #133 / Clayton Christensen, iPad at 10, Ukraine, Nintendo Switch, Apple Map Expansion

    Developer coefficient, global GDP impact, women in tech, Nintendo Switch sales, Apple Maps expansion, Tetris 99, sign stealing scandal.

    22 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat

  39. Weekly Thing #132 / Backdoors, Espresso, Technical Debt, Coaching, Studio Ghibli

    Backdoors and golden keys, Phil Zimmerman, Clipper chip, brewing better espresso, technical debt Tetris, GraphQL vs REST, MindNode 7.0.

    16 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  40. Weekly Thing #131 / GoatCounter, Hobbies, AR, Leadership, Ring

    Ring firing employees, Marie Kondo minimalism, AR supremacy, Roam usage, first 90 days CTO, GTD weekly review, mind maps, Apache Pulsar.

    28 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat

2019

44 issues · 570 links · 74k words
  1. Weekly Thing #130 / Dec 14, 2019

    TikTok privacy analysis, Ring's surveillance network, disaster.radio, Lightroom SD card importing, JSON-LD introduction, election news chaos.

    16 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing #129 / Dec 7, 2019

    Guido van Rossum on Python, pronouncing Kiev, Ring surveillance company, roleplaying difficult conversations, Amazon HTTP APIs, anonymous email forwarding.

    13 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing #128 / Nov 30, 2019

    Sacha Baron Cohen on Facebook, Contract for the Web, onboarding new hires, developing engineers, WeWork fall, home delivery habit.

    14 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing #127 / Nov 23, 2019

    Political ad targeting, engineering competency matrix, Google medical data whistleblower, America lost the bison, Why We Sleep errors.

    15 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing #126 / Nov 16, 2019

    Lifelong networking, 1000 True Fans, Salesforce on Azure, Private Equity acquires .Org, Toolbox Pro, XML vs JSON, Yahoo Groups deletion, Postgres pub/sub.

    11 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing #125 / Nov 9, 2019

    Sleep cleans brain toxins, Ceph file systems, functional programming, digital minimalism, blockchain limits, America's food supply chain.

    13 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing #124 / Nov 2, 2019

    XML misuse, Guido van Rossum, Go's success, AirPods Pro, iPhone 11 camera, Firefox privacy protections, Facebook News tab.

    15 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing #123 / Oct 26, 2019

    Quantum supremacy, superconducting processor, architectural decision records, quitting analytics, James Clear, GitLab political chat.

    14 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing #122 / Oct 19, 2019

    Encryption privacy battleground, Google ambient computing, Amazon off Oracle, deconstructing monolith, Passion Economy future of work.

    16 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing #121 / Oct 12, 2019

    Writing is Thinking, managing by outcomes, iOS Shortcuts guide, new emojis iOS 13.2, China Cultural Clash, Chernobyl Reactor 4.

    14 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing #120 / Oct 5, 2019

    What executives do, Amazon's most important email, Apple's New Map Northeast, tvOS 13 review, WeWork unloading Adam Neumann.

    10 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  12. Weekly Thing #119 / Sep 28, 2019

    Getting Things Done author, Darkroom light mode, Google contractors unionize, WeWork fraud, watchOS 6 review, iOS 13 Shortcuts library.

    17 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  13. Weekly Thing #118 / Sep 21, 2019

    Apple A13 Bionic chip, iOS 13 review, iPhone 11 Pro camera, Apple Watch Series 5 titanium, Adam Neumann WeWork, Kickstarter union effort.

    17 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  14. Weekly Thing #117 / Sep 14, 2019

    Solving climate change 2050, quitting social media, encrypted DNS privacy gap, Apple Watch Series 5, iPhone 11 Pro, Waterfall in Agile.

    20 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  15. Weekly Thing #116 / Sep 7, 2019

    Unix at 50, Tetris randomizers, calendar spam, camera sales falling, Just Delete Me, Timeular time tracking, what we get wrong about meetings.

    10 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  16. Weekly Thing #115 / Aug 31, 2019

    Technical women careers, toxic internship interviews, Google tracking protection, GitHub SOC 2, Apple Card vs Chase Visa, nushell.

    12 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  17. Weekly Thing #114 / Aug 24, 2019

    WebKit tracking prevention, WeWork IPO, Apple Card launch, Apple Arcade $4.99/month, Automattic on Tumblr, plastic recycling myth.

    11 links 1.3k words 💬 Chat

  18. Weekly Thing #113 / Aug 17, 2019

    CTO roles and skills, Cloudflare S-1, Verizon sells Tumblr, YouTube radicalized Brazil, Python programming language, Standard Ebooks.

    13 links 1.3k words 💬 Chat

  19. Weekly Thing #112 / Jun 29, 2019

    Jony Ive leaving Apple, Facebook Libra, BGP internet outage, Cloudflare time service, Slack tech stack, engineering management lessons.

    12 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  20. Weekly Thing #111 / Jun 22, 2019

    Arctic permafrost thawing early, Facebook Libra crypto, Guardian Firewall for iOS, Soulver 3 for Mac, Bluetooth surveillance tracking, new Dropbox.

    19 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat

  21. Weekly Thing #110 / Jun 15, 2019

    Privacy policies disaster, IPv6 design, Maker Faire layoffs, ad industry data tracking, Salesforce buying Tableau, YouTube radicalization.

    10 links 1.3k words 💬 Chat

  22. Weekly Thing #109 / Jun 8, 2019

    Michael Pollan cooking, Apple audacity, GTD workflow, iOS 13 overview, watchOS 6, iPadOS, Shortcuts automation, Shopify commerce report.

    14 links 1.3k words 💬 Chat

  23. Weekly Thing #108 / Jun 1, 2019

    CIOs on corporate boards, US electric car sales, Chrome ad blocking extensions, distributed data mesh, CQRS event sourcing, Aaron Franklin Texas BBQ.

    13 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  24. Weekly Thing #107 / May 25, 2019

    Tesla strategy, data moats, owning your blog, Playdate handheld gaming, human antivenom, Gmail purchase history, quitting Twitter, indie social media.

    9 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat

  25. Weekly Thing #106 / May 18, 2019

    Privacy rights, data collection, Maciej Cegłowski, Senate testimony, Paul Ford, love of tech, blank canvas, strong opinions loosely held.

    12 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  26. Weekly Thing #105 / May 11, 2019

    One-on-ones meetings, Chromium privacy, LookUp 5.2 Watch app, OmniFocus Today Lists, LIDAR range imaging, Stripe Remote hub, CC Search.

    10 links 1.1k words 💬 Chat

  27. Weekly Thing #104 / May 4, 2019

    Minnebar14 recap, Amazon doorbell crime news, Zuckerberg future is private, Anki robotics shutting down, Cardbox, autism from the inside, refuse to rule.

    7 links 1.1k words 💬 Chat

  28. Weekly Thing #103 / Apr 27, 2019

    Boeing 737 Max software, Tesla Full Self Driving ASIC, SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, Mueller Report PDF, industrial strength WiFi.

    15 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  29. Weekly Thing #102 / Apr 20, 2019

    Supplement industry nutrition study, selfie deaths epidemic, Facebook AI voice assistant, Uber IPO $10 billion loss, Disney+ pricing details.

    15 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  30. Weekly Thing #101 / Apr 13, 2019

    Linus Torvalds interview, Apple credit card design, Stack Overflow developer survey, second-order thinking, Warp mobile security, data ownership.

    14 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  31. Weekly Thing #100 / Apr 6, 2019

    Mark Zuckerberg internet rules, attention management, Tesla autopilot stickers, Apple News+ magazines, AirPower canceled, servers in Iceland.

    10 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat

  32. Weekly Thing #99 / Mar 30, 2019

    Apple Card, brain on exercise, Shortcuts 2.2, Drafts for Mac, privacy not an abstraction, most important writing lesson, Distinguished Engineer.

    8 links 1.2k words 💬 Chat

  33. Weekly Thing #98 / Mar 23, 2019

    Death of the calorie, toxic truth about modern food, cities stop recycling, Facebook passwords in plain text, Kickstarter unionizing, Stadia.

    12 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  34. Weekly Thing #97 / Mar 16, 2019

    MBA myth, planned obsolescence coders, ACME Protocol IETF, SimCity city planners, DuckDuckGo guide, 800 million emails leaked.

    8 links 1.2k words 💬 Chat

  35. Weekly Thing #96 / Mar 9, 2019

    Tesla Model 3 review, Status as a Service, Facebook privacy, Zucked, Digital Minimalism, Big Idea Famine, Excel photo import, 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019.

    15 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  36. Weekly Thing #95 / Mar 2, 2019

    Halide Spectre, Huawei Mate X foldable, Facebook moderators, YouTube ad boycott, Day One 3.0 Mac, apps sharing data with Facebook.

    14 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat

  37. Weekly Thing #94 / Feb 23, 2019

    Tetris 99 gameplay revolution, Stephen Wolfram personal infrastructure, WiFi inside a USB cable, WorldWideWeb CERN rebuild, .dev domains, privacy is a commons.

    16 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  38. Weekly Thing #93 / Feb 16, 2019

    Billion-dollar company failure, blockchain and trust, Amazon acquires eero, Bob Costas out at NBC, one on ones, Big Four ARPUs.

    9 links 1.1k words 💬 Chat

  39. Weekly Thing #92 / Feb 9, 2019

    Snopes leaves Facebook, 1949 Vitamix infomercial, Fortnite Marshmello concert, Event Sourcing is hard, Loopback 2 design.

    10 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat

  40. Weekly Thing #91 / Feb 2, 2019

    AI robotic knee, JSON inspection iOS, principal engineer, MMOs real life politics, malicious shortcuts, HomeKit smart TVs, Steve Jobs iPhones.

    12 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat

  41. Weekly Thing #90 / Jan 26, 2019

    SimpleOptOut.com, love of pipes, reMarkable paper tablet, detecting agile BS, hiring senior engineers, Marie Kondo fast fashion, mentoring Zuckerberg.

    11 links 1.2k words 💬 Chat

  42. Weekly Thing #89 / Jan 19, 2019

    Privacy online, Ring security cameras, Sprint location data, DuckDuckGo, Collection #1 data breach, Nike Adapt BB, engineering management.

    19 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  43. Weekly Thing #88 / Jan 12, 2019

    T-Mobile selling location data, Amazon DocumentDB, iPad Pro as main computer, GitHub free private repos, politicians blocking on social media.

    14 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  44. Weekly Thing #87 / Jan 5, 2019

    Analog social media, depression language, Microsoft Developer Division interviews, iPad Pro, serverless bills, Obama's favorite books, Facebook Clear History.

    11 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

2018

52 issues · 527 links · 98k words
  1. Weekly Thing #86 / Dec 29, 2018

    Hyperlink to the Stream, government blocking on Twitter, Yoda of Silicon Valley, Facebook-free business, circuit breakers or retries, must-have iOS apps.

    14 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing #85 / Dec 22, 2018

    US Air Force and Santa, ant colony memories, social media value, paying users to stop Facebook.

    3 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing #84 / Dec 15, 2018

    AlphaZero chess and Go, Netflix GraphQL, apps tracking location, Minneapolis zoning, Verizon AOL-Yahoo writedown, Microsoft Edge open source.

    15 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing #83 / Dec 8, 2018

    Facebook trust, mindfulness and busyness, Stripe Atlas scaling engineering, Kubernetes events, Marriott data breach, Magnus Carlsen chess champion.

    14 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing #82 / Dec 1, 2018

    Performance ratings lessons, information attacks on democracies, AWS DeepRacer reinforcement learning, GraphQL retrospective, Russia seizes Ukraine ships.

    16 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing #81 / Nov 24, 2018

    Zapier ARR SEO strategy, no phones allowed, manager READMEs, future of photography, Kubernetes 101, iPad Pro 2018, Facebook patent ads.

    20 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing #80 / Nov 17, 2018

    Reclaiming RSS, skill stacking, Steve Blank on company growth, online tracking data, PagerDuty incident response, Radio Garden, Incredibles 2 graphic art.

    12 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing #79 / Nov 10, 2018

    iPad Pro A12X chip, Google Chrome users, Flickr free accounts, Google global walkout, Lua design, startup metrics, Apple's new map.

    18 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing #78 / Nov 3, 2018

    Screens and kids, OmniFocus for the Web, Mac mini overview, iPad Pro overview, voting machines on eBay, logs with Rust, Tesla Model 3 teardown.

    12 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing #77 / Oct 27, 2018

    Tim Cook data privacy speech, Apple Shortcuts, Google Night Sight, Pixel 3, Minnesota startups, Little Free Library, infinite scroll.

    14 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing #76 / Oct 20, 2018

    Lightroom CC 2.0, Adobe Photoshop on iPad, Facebook Portal ad targeting, Hidden Tribes of America, Vue ecosystem growth, static site generators.

    14 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  12. Weekly Thing #75 / Oct 13, 2018

    Tesla Model 3 safety, OpenID decline, Instagram bullying, Apple Frames shortcut, RECaf caffeine tracking, Halide RAW camera, senior engineer's job.

    10 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat

  13. Weekly Thing #74 / Oct 6, 2018

    iPhone XS camera, Wi-Fi 6, Datasette ideas, Google user trust, Privacy Badger tracking, Bloomberg's Big Hack, OKR introduction, Putin's war Ukraine.

    13 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  14. Weekly Thing #73 / Sep 29, 2018

    Safari Content Blockers, Apple Watch healthcare, Cloudflare Registrar, Facebook shadow contacts, macOS Mojave review, OmniFocus 3 for Mac.

    20 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat

  15. Weekly Thing #72 / Sep 22, 2018

    Linux 4.19-rc4 apology, iPhones XS, Apple Watch Series 4, iOS 12 review, 1Password AutoFill, Scriptable JavaScript, decision fatigue, Larry Page.

    21 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat

  16. Weekly Thing #71 / Sep 15, 2018

    Habits vs. Workflows, genetically engineered mosquitoes, Siri Shortcuts Field Guide, iPhone Franchise, Apple Watch Series 4, State of Agile 2018.

    19 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  17. Weekly Thing #70 / Sep 8, 2018

    Tesla disruption, lean startup, startup sales, new executive advice, BBQ science, Canon EOS R, Arial vs Helvetica quiz, Auth0 multi-cloud architecture.

    13 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  18. Weekly Thing #69 / Sep 1, 2018

    Centralized vs decentralized, Facebook real friends, product management mental models, GraphQL good and bad, WhatsApp privacy, IRC turns thirty.

    16 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  19. Weekly Thing #68 / Aug 25, 2018

    Notebook innovation at Netflix, descale agile work, Apple Pencil note-taking, code review is manager's job, Global Passport Power Rank, Trans-Siberian Extreme.

    11 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  20. Weekly Thing #67 / Aug 18, 2018

    Working with timezones, Kobayashi Maru Management, post-mortems, servant leaders, RSS, leaving Twitter, Anki Vector, Firefox privacy extensions.

    21 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  21. Weekly Thing #66 / Aug 11, 2018

    Photography composition, gluten truth, network-wide ad-blocker, OmniFocus 3, Let's Encrypt trusted, Google China censorship, America's land use.

    13 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  22. Weekly Thing #65 / Aug 4, 2018

    Bullshit Web, Facebook evil, great employees leave, crypto firehose, FAST beats SMART, OKRs, Cost of Agile, M.C. Escher prints.

    14 links 1.3k words 💬 Chat

  23. Weekly Thing #64 / Jul 28, 2018

    Predicting politics from purchases, Atlassian Slack, writing weeknotes, Google security keys, Data Transfer Project, VW Pikes Peak record.

    16 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  24. Weekly Thing #63 / Jul 21, 2018

    Metrics-based onboarding, ACM computing professionals, event-driven architecture, GraphQL on Postgres, CAP theorem proof, Google Cloud Platform.

    16 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat

  25. Weekly Thing #62 / Jul 14, 2018

    Pseudo-AI humans, disposable straw capitalism, metadata identification, leadership style colors, REST vs GraphQL, brutalist web design.

    13 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  26. Weekly Thing #61 / Jul 7, 2018

    Scaling Agile, Apple rebuilding Maps, all code is technical debt, Facebook and Google personal data, Brave private tabs with Tor, one-on-one meetings.

    24 links 3k words 💬 Chat

  27. Weekly Thing #60 / Jun 30, 2018

    Formula 1 averages, Legend of Nintendo, a16z crypto, Atul Gawande health care, REST vs. GraphQL, Intel integration, machine learning.

    21 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat

  28. Weekly Thing #59 / Jun 23, 2018

    Silicon Valley moral cesspool, Innovation Stack, YNAB API, personal data requests, Through-Wall Pose Estimation, Survivorship Bias.

    16 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat

  29. Weekly Thing #58 / Jun 16, 2018

    Siri Shortcuts iOS automation, Tim Cook interview, psychology of dread tasks, Living APIs GraphQL, Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0.

    17 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  30. Weekly Thing #57 / Jun 9, 2018

    Microsoft data center ocean, Safari privacy browser, Microsoft GitHub, macOS Mojave, iOS 12, watchOS 5, teens social media technology.

    18 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  31. Weekly Thing #56 / Jun 2, 2018

    CAPEX cloud trends, location data privacy, OmniFocus 3 iOS, data visualization colors, eero public key infrastructure, black Python formatter.

    20 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  32. Weekly Thing #55 / May 26, 2018

    Quiet time alone, brain on reading, Abby Wambach remarks, culture of security, AWS migration, Day One journaling, email micro-meetings.

    13 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat

  33. Weekly Thing #54 / May 19, 2018

    Supply-chain security, Map of Metal, GraphQL future, Facebook Ads study, Day One 2018, OmniFocus 2 vs 3, Google Photos vs Apple Photos, Principles by Ray Dalio.

    15 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  34. Weekly Thing #53 / May 12, 2018

    Against Facebook, Apple and Ive, Google Duplex, open plan office sexism, Android P, iOS 11.4 USB port, serverless learnings, Watchtower 2.0.

    15 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  35. Weekly Thing #52 / May 5, 2018

    WeWork's growing empire, GitHub Pages HTTPS, Prime Book Box, synthetic nucleotides, code review culture, passwords online.

    2.3k words 💬 Chat

  36. Weekly Thing #51 / Apr 28, 2018

    HomePod, Jaron Lanier dinner, dumber phone, 1Blocker X, iPhone passcodes, Kubernetes namespaces, GraphQL, software defined culture, Cal Newport Study Hacks.

    1.8k words 💬 Chat

  37. Weekly Thing #50 / Apr 21, 2018

    Palantir knows everything, Jeff Bezos shareholder letter, Tim Wu, be a deletist, TweetDelete, open source management platform.

    2.4k words 💬 Chat

  38. Weekly Thing #49 / Apr 14, 2018

    The Decemberists, Sublime Text, BBEdit, Farewell Social Media, GraphQL Best Practices, 10 years of GitHub, Sam Altman Productivity.

    1.7k words 💬 Chat

  39. Weekly Thing #48 / Apr 7, 2018

    Hamilton, Chicago Cloud Gate, Little Snitch, 1Blocker, Facebook privacy, Stallman, 1Password Business, Cloudflare DNS, Sinclair propaganda.

    2.2k words 💬 Chat

  40. Weekly Thing #47 / Mar 31, 2018

    MyFitnessPal accounts hacked, Have I Been Pwned, Delete Facebook, Textile Facebook parser, Blockchain meets Kubb, Apple Watch, Making Slides, Run less software.

    1.2k words 💬 Chat

  41. Weekly Thing #46 / Mar 24, 2018

    Copperhead Road anniversary, Linea Sketch, art of dialogue, case against Facebook, crash not accident, URL Canary, Salesforce buys MuleSoft.

    2k words 💬 Chat

  42. Weekly Thing #45 / Mar 17, 2018

    Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018, HyperCard Zine, Sankey diagram builder, Checklist for Checklists, DAKboard wall display, WikiTribune.

    1.4k words 💬 Chat

  43. Weekly Thing #44 / Mar 10, 2018

    International Women's Day, recruiting sessions, Americas unhappiness, cloud cost analytics, Rundeck orchestration, Modern Manager, Let's Encrypt.

    1.8k words 💬 Chat

  44. Weekly Thing #43 / Mar 3, 2018

    Pwned Passwords with 1Password, David Lynch Teaches Typing, Amazon buys Ring, Requests-HTML, erasing history, small b blogging.

    2k words 💬 Chat

  45. Weekly Thing #42 / Feb 24, 2018

    Quitting Twitter, AWS network diagrams, serverless open source cloud, Steven Pinker interview, Hyper-Scheduling Experiment, SaaS as a business.

    1.8k words 💬 Chat

  46. Weekly Thing for February 17, 2018

    Blotter.js, Popcorn Notify, usernames, Structured Logging, Facebook Protect, AMP in Gmail, Solid, Kottke.org at 20, Let's Encrypt 50 million certificates.

    1.5k words 💬 Chat

  47. Weekly Thing for February 10, 2018

    iA Power Back, Declaration of Cyberspace, John Perry Barlow, Web Trend Map 2018, Kubernetes Effect, House That Spied on Me, Billy Mitchell MAME, effective CTO.

    1.6k words 💬 Chat

  48. Weekly Thing for February 3, 2018

    Python in Pythonista, Network Effects Manual, multitasking meetings, Micro.blog vs App.net, quitting Twitter, Chaos Engineering, Apple Watch.

    1.7k words 💬 Chat

  49. Weekly Thing for January 27, 2018

    HomePod vs Echo vs Sonos One, OmniFocus 3, Amazon Go future, BeyondCorp Google VPNs, Zstandard compression, Personal Data Representatives.

    3.2k words 💬 Chat

  50. Weekly Thing for January 20, 2018

    Nintendo Labo, Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster, Argo workflow engine, Datasette Publish, Micro.blog, Feedbin, Bruce Schneier IoT, Internet Archive.

    1.1k words 💬 Chat

  51. Weekly Thing for January 13, 2018

    Tesla Model 3, T2 chip Mac revolution, Meltdown and Spectre, Apple privacy costs ad millions, Strange Brands Instagram, Rocket emoji.

    1.9k words 💬 Chat

  52. Weekly Thing for January 6, 2018

    Prometheus metrics and labels, Intel kernel memory flaw, password manager ad targeting, encryption lava lamps, best iOS apps 2017.

    1.6k words 💬 Chat

2017

34 issues · 652 links · 61k words
  1. Weekly Thing for December 30, 2017

    Lowertown Line, Jeremy Messersmith, Trampled by Turtles, microservices pattern language, iPhone X, Apple AirPods, blockchain use, Santa Facts xkcd.

    2k words 💬 Chat

  2. Weekly Thing for December 23, 2017

    Semisonic at First Ave, Facebook age discrimination, GTD capturing, iOS apps 2017, Pomodoro productivity, bury the hustle, jo JSON command.

    1.7k words 💬 Chat

  3. Weekly Thing for December 16, 2017

    Electronic Frontier Foundation, Brandi Carlile, Universal Basic Income, Facebook as weapon, Calm Technology, Maker vs. Manager.

    2.1k words 💬 Chat

  4. Weekly Thing for December 9, 2017

    Let's Encrypt SSL, ProtonMail Bridge, Google YouTube Fire TV, AlphaZero Stockfish, iPhone X camera, Facebook Messenger Kids, Oura Ring, Vanilla Mac menu bar.

    21 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  5. Weekly Thing for December 2, 2017

    Microservice Architecture, Kubernetes, avoiding state surveillance, Panopticlick, macOS High Sierra root bug, Joplin note taking, MindNode 5.

    17 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  6. Weekly Thing for November 25, 2017

    AlphaGo Zero, brilliant jerks in engineering, net neutrality repeal, Uber data breach, pingfs ICMP storage, Pi-hole, products over projects.

    25 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  7. Weekly Thing for November 18, 2017

    Tesla Roadster, Toronto tech rise, Tim Berners-Lee on web, GTD guide, Daniel Kahneman, Atul Gawande, Datasette SQLite API, Firefox Quantum Era.

    16 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  8. Weekly Thing for November 11, 2017

    RSS case, workplace surveillance, retail apocalypse, Facebook exploiting weakness, Al Franken big tech speech, iPhone X impressions, Hüsker Dü legacy.

    21 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  9. Weekly Thing for November 4, 2017

    Standalone Signal Desktop, web dying in 2014, iPhone X tomorrow's iPhone today.

    26 links 2k words 💬 Chat

  10. Weekly Thing for October 28, 2017

    Dungeons & Dragons resurrection, AlphaGo Zero, iPad Pro programming, Faktory, Mastodon Project, Vietnam War Ken Burns, TLDR pages.

    21 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat

  11. Weekly Thing for October 21, 2017

    Ethical minefields of technology, imposter syndrome, Facebook regrets, software architecture failing, Cardhop for Mac, ProseMirror 1.0, Micro.blog for Mac.

    25 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat

  12. Weekly Thing for October 14, 2017

    Pierre Omidyar democracy threat, password best practices, CSV injection dangers, ARKit Sudoku Solver, Perl turns 30, smartphone dystopia.

    24 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  13. Weekly Thing for October 7, 2017

    Equifax data breach, Yahoo 3 billion accounts, Apple Watch Series 3, Google Pixel 2 vs iPhone 8, Ikea buys TaskRabbit, SQL beating NoSQL, Kubernetes.

    29 links 3.1k words 💬 Chat

  14. Weekly Thing for September 30, 2017

    Apple privacy, iPhone X reactions, Microsoft Teams replacing Skype, Amazon hardware event, GraphQL relicensing, Tinder data secrets, API documentation.

    18 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  15. Weekly Thing for September 23, 2017

    Relicensing React and Jest, A11 Bionic chip, iOS 11 review, iPhone 8 camera, Apple Watch Series 3, Swift 4.0, Facebook's war on free will.

    30 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat

  16. Weekly Thing for September 16, 2017

    Equifax breach, Safari cookie blocking, iPhone X event, Apple Watch Series 3, Python growth, 1Password command-line beta, Sublime Text 3.0.

    26 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  17. Weekly Thing for September 9, 2017

    Chef Camp, Apple Watch health, HomeKit accessories, cryptocurrency ban, AI world domination, Facebook code footprint, Weather Atlas iOS.

    15 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  18. Weekly Thing for September 2, 2017

    Google's Farm, Twitter bot intimidation, testing in production, software engineering rule of 3, Apple next iPhone, Sarahah uploads address book.

    15 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  19. Weekly Thing for August 26, 2017

    Speech Commands Dataset, remote CEOs, pronouns and stock price, total solar eclipse 2017, Multi-Cloud AWS and GCP, PyGraphistry big graphs.

    17 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat

  20. Weekly Thing for August 19, 2017

    Maria Ploessl Minnestar, flat Earthers solar eclipse, iOS 11 cop button, Daily Stormer terminated, Kubernetes at GitHub, AWS SAM Local beta.

    17 links 1.3k words 💬 Chat

  21. Weekly Thing for August 12, 2017

    Coco Framework blockchain, James Damore Google manifesto, Ulysses subscription pricing, smartphones destroyed a generation, Bloomington Islamic center bombing.

    19 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  22. Weekly Thing for August 5, 2017

    Patreon economic engine, GraphQL with GitHub, Aziz Ansari quitting internet, minds hijacked by phones, tech culture change.

    11 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  23. Weekly Thing for July 29, 2017

    Marketo outage, Bitcoin fork, historic Mission Control, Roombas mapping homes, Bear notes app, Stripe culture, Pokémon GO Fest Chicago.

    20 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat

  24. Weekly Thing for July 22, 2017

    Cosette database, serverless hosting comparison, GitHub diversity report, GhostCtrl Android backdoor, Quilt data package manager, Trump Twitter lawsuit.

    12 links 1.3k words 💬 Chat

  25. Weekly Thing for July 15, 2017

    Scheduling secrets, bullshit detection, Caddy HTTPS server, OmniGraffle 3.0 for iOS, Scapple, DRM toxic to culture, microservices design patterns, Acorn 6.

    17 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  26. Weekly Thing for July 8, 2017

    Leaving Facebook, wildcard certificates, ancient Rome's concrete, Wikipedia text adventure, HEVC and HEIF, Little Snitch 4, Facebook election manipulation.

    26 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat

  27. Weekly Thing for July 1, 2017

    Sorting Lego, iOS 11 beta, Let's Encrypt 100 million certificates, Day One premium, Affinity Photo iPad, .feedback scam, data-driven culture.

    18 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat

  28. Weekly Thing for June 24, 2017

    GTD productivity with Trello, Pythonista iOS workflow, Russia cyberwar blueprint, RNC voter data leak, Pokémon GO raid battles, Instagram Python 3.

    21 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat

  29. Weekly Thing for June 17, 2017

    iPad drag and drop, solar eclipse photography, spaces vs tabs salaries, Daisy blockchain SQLite, AI bots negotiate, Ukraine power grid malware.

    21 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  30. Weekly Thing for June 10, 2017

    End-to-End Encryption FAQ, UUID history, iOS 11 iPad features, macOS High Sierra, watchOS 4, AirPlay 2, Monument Valley 2, printer tracking dots.

    30 links 1.7k words 💬 Chat

  31. Weekly Thing for June 3, 2017

    Fuck Facebook, Pinboard acquires Delicious, enough microservices, Siri Speaker, Halide, Airbnb data science, blockchains ground up.

    25 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat

  32. Weekly Thing for May 27, 2017

    1Password Travel Mode, largest Git repo, JSON Feed, Gary Gygax D&D, Mister Rogers cardigans, Hello Weather iOS, Anker beating Apple.

    33 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat

  33. Weekly Thing for May 20, 2017

    Twitter privacy opt-out, iPhone 7 photography, Things 3 task manager, JSON Feed, Micro.blog, Machine Learning xkcd, NASA coding commandments.

    19 links 1.5k words 💬 Chat

  34. Weekly Thing for May 13, 2017

    Layne Kennedy, Minnesota Original, Wintergreen Dog Sledding, Amazon ECS, Macron honeypot accounts, Field Nation Minneapolis, James Comey fired.

    17 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat