Weekly Thing 336 / Culture, Retention, Transmission
After 30 years, Crucial exits consumer RAM. Anthropic shares how AI is reshaping work. Exploring the indieweb and calm tech. Perl’s cultural decline. The enduring value of RSS. A decade of Let’s Encrypt. Childhood creativity in “67.” Reflecting on why we need to die.
Weekly Thing 335 / Complexity, Fizzy, Soul
Good morning! ☕️ I hope you're having a great start to your weekend. The r/WeeklyThing subreddit is seeing some folks stopping by and checking it out. Over...
Weekly Thing 334 / Privacy, Shopping, Consciousness
Good morning! ☕️ If you were celebrating Thanksgiving like we did I hope you had a great one. We have so much to be thankful for! Some year I will cook...
Weekly Thing 333 / Gemini, LangChain, Illusion
Good morning, or mostly!? ☕️ I’m a little later than usual sending this morning. Last night I had three things to do and time for two of them: the Las Vegas...
Weekly Thing 332 / Compute, Avatar, Cryptography
Good morning! ☕️ Missed y'all last weekend. This time I feel like I had a better reason though as it was our annual Things 4 Good Candle Fundraiser. We had a...
Weekly Thing 331 / RFC, Security, Tokens
Good morning! ☕️ At this point you might start thinking that I’m now sending these emails every other week. Nope… just had another busy weekend and wasn't...
Weekly Thing 330 / Music, Intervals, Nanochat
Good morning — or mostly morning. ☕️ We are in the midst of the arrival of fall. The trees are filled with wonderful reds and oranges and the evenings are...
Weekly Thing 329 / Another Thing
Good morning! 👋 Hmm, wondering about last week? No your spam filter didn’t intercept my email. We just had a ton going on with fun and family and I wasn't...
Weekly Thing 328 / Agents, Pulse, Vision
Good morning! ☕️ It is very Minnesotan of me to start with the weather, but I feel like I have to. We have had an amazing start to fall. Even my allergies...
Weekly Thing 327 / Prototypes, Tahoe, UTF-8
Good morning! 👋 Hope your fall is starting off well! We are starting to get things put away and shut down — winter is coming. Did you upgrade all your Apple...
Weekly Thing 326 / Tempo, Seedship, Refraction
Hey there! 👋 Good morning! ☕️ How has your summer been? Mine was packed. We did some travel including our Quebec - Montreal - Stowe - Bismarck trip. I paired...
Weekly Thing 325 / Platform, Agents, Legacy
Good morning! ☕️ TL;DR? Please take the 2025 Reader Survey! 😎 Ahh summer is in full swing now. I hope your weekend is starting off great. We are at the end...
Weekly Thing 324 / Agents, Shortcuts, Joy
Hey there! 👋 Hope you're great. The summer continues to start with a bang here. Very busy! 💥 This week's email was mostly written on my phone. I haven't done...
Weekly Thing 323 / Context, Dithering, Liquid Glass
Good morning! 🫡 This recent blog post from Seth Godin deserves to be quoted in full. There are people and organizations that are working overtime to redirect...
Weekly Thing 322 / Banff & Lake Louise
Hello from the Canadian Rockies! 🏔️ Tammy and I spent this week exploring beautiful and awe inspiring places around Banff and Lake Louise with our cameras in...
Weekly Thing 321 / Saluting, Tetris, Sky
Good morning! 👋 You may notice that I've been going deep on a lot of AI topics in the links lately. I definitely am going through a bit of a brain on fire...
Weekly Thing 320 / Octopus, Agentic, Voyager
Hello and welcome to Summer! It is Memorial Day weekend and here in Minnesota that is the official beginning of warm weather, biking and hiking, summer...
Weekly Thing 319 / Embeddings, Passkeys, Macros
Good morning and welcome to the eight-year anniversary of the Weekly Thing — Wow! 😲 Thank you for inviting me to your inbox! In the last couple of weeks I've...
Weekly Thing 318 / Sycophancy, Rollerblades, Yoga
Good morning! ☕️ What a week for the technology community in the Twin Cities! On Saturday we had Minnebar 19 and it was absolutely incredible. On Wednesday...
Weekly Thing 317 / Assembly, Blogging, Cyberpunk
Good Morning! ☕️ I missed ya last week! It was Tammy's birthday, I was behind on a number of things after my trip to Poland, had blog backlog and link...