Weekly Thing

WT349 — Owning the Rails

2026-05-23T12:00:00.000Z

Internet of AI, Flipcash community coins, agentic LLM harnesses, RCCF method, adult friendship, productivity apps and agents, zerolang, Shortcuts Playground, Claude Code monorepo.

WT348 — Agents as Collaborators

2026-05-17T11:00:00.000Z

Mythos kernel exploit on Apple M5, Firefox hardening, curl vulnerability, AI maintenance costs, flow state lament, Claude for Legal, Signal Foundation.

Weekly Thing 347 / Scrum, FilamentHound, DO_NOT_TRACK

2026-05-10T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 346 / Wuphf, Landsat, Eclipse

2026-05-03T13:54:35.604Z

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

Weekly Thing 345 / Codex, Headless, Wikiwise

2026-04-26T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 344 / Mythos, Artemis, Signals

2026-04-19T12:39:11.789Z

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

Weekly Thing 343 / Commune, Chaos, Renaissance

2026-03-15T13:54:58.792Z

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

Weekly Thing 342 / Claude, Otto, Elixir

2026-03-08T13:39:25.075Z

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

Weekly Thing 341 / Minions, MAX, ReMemory

2026-02-15T20:53:02.714Z

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

Weekly Thing 340 / Moltbook, Frontier, Poster

2026-02-08T14:44:36.479Z

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.

Weekly Thing 339 / OpenClaw, Isometric, Prism

2026-02-01T14:23:01.200Z

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

Weekly Thing 338 / Authority, Humanizer, Left

2026-01-24T13:48:16.711Z

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

Weekly Thing 337 / Sunrise, Vision, Offline

2026-01-18T23:38:09.178Z

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

Weekly Thing 336 / Culture, Retention, Transmission

2025-12-13T12:00:00.000Z

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.

Weekly Thing 335 / Complexity, Fizzy, Soul

2025-12-06T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 334 / Privacy, Shopping, Consciousness

2025-11-29T14:07:53.633Z

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

Weekly Thing 333 / Gemini, LangChain, Illusion

2025-11-23T15:08:05.936Z

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

Weekly Thing 332 / Compute, Avatar, Cryptography

2025-11-16T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 331 / RFC, Security, Tokens

2025-11-02T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 330 / Music, Intervals, Nanochat

2025-10-19T13:17:15.822Z

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

Weekly Thing 329 / Another Thing

2025-10-11T11:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 328 / Agents, Pulse, Vision

2025-09-27T14:14:06.316Z

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

Weekly Thing 327 / Prototypes, Tahoe, UTF-8

2025-09-20T11:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 326 / Tempo, Seedship, Refraction

2025-09-14T11:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 325 / Platform, Agents, Legacy

2025-06-28T12:31:52.684Z

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

Weekly Thing 324 / Agents, Shortcuts, Joy

2025-06-21T11:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 323 / Context, Dithering, Liquid Glass

2025-06-15T14:14:05.003Z

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

Weekly Thing 322 / Banff & Lake Louise

2025-06-07T15:49:26.513Z

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

Weekly Thing 321 / Saluting, Tetris, Sky

2025-05-31T15:43:21.901Z

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.

Weekly Thing 320 / Octopus, Agentic, Voyager

2025-05-24T14:01:57.424Z

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

Weekly Thing 319 / Embeddings, Passkeys, Macros

2025-05-17T16:10:14.428Z

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

Weekly Thing 318 / Sycophancy, Rollerblades, Yoga

2025-05-10T11:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 317 / Assembly, Blogging, Cyberpunk

2025-05-03T12:47:46.075Z

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

Weekly Thing 316 / Blogroll, CaMeL, Insider

2025-04-20T11:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 315 / Innovation, Yak, Calligraphr

2025-03-30T11:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 314 / Interfaces, π, Bubbles

2025-03-22T16:55:55.513Z

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

Weekly Thing 313 / Agentic, Shadows, WireMock

2025-03-15T15:08:33.653Z

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

Weekly Thing 312 / Tangled, Graphing, Starlink

2025-03-08T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 311 / WikiTok, Bookmarklets, Tapestry

2025-03-01T16:00:56.135Z

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

Weekly Thing 310 / Signals, Research, Playlist

2025-02-23T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 309 / Programming, Silence, Drones

2025-02-16T19:26:11.676Z

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

Weekly Thing 308 / Tapestry, Terminal, Tab

2025-02-09T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 307 / Attention, Goose, Pulse

2025-02-01T16:40:44.101Z

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

Weekly Thing 306 / Spell, McLarens, Lynch

2025-01-25T13:20:36.911Z

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

Weekly Thing 305 / Lighthouse, Willow, Artemis

2024-12-15T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 304 / Connections, Vince, Markwhen

2024-12-08T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 303 / Petnames, Synapse, jless

2024-12-01T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 302 / Recipe, Poetry, OnAir

2024-11-24T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 301 / TinyTroupe, Monarch, Leaving

2024-11-17T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 300 / Traceroute, 34x34x34, Typst

2024-11-09T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 299 / Apples, Abundance, Australia

2024-11-04T01:45:48.042Z

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

Weekly Thing 298 / Tool, Solar, Circles

2024-10-27T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2024-10-19T12:00:00.000Z

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.

Weekly Thing 296 / Awk, Fav, Alarmo

2024-10-13T14:17:02.439Z

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

Weekly Thing 295 / Links, Surveillance, POSSE

2024-10-06T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 294 / Vaporizing, Intelligence, Contraption

2024-09-28T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 293 / WHOIS, Glowtime, Place

2024-09-14T12:20:58.332Z

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

Weekly Thing 292 / Signal, Checkboxes, Hope

2024-09-07T13:54:31.713Z

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

Weekly Thing 291 / Ireland 🇮🇪

2024-08-04T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 290 / Kino, Krebs, Kagi

2024-06-01T13:54:38.227Z

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

Weekly Thing 289 / Queueing, Counting, Mapping

2024-05-25T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 288 / Hackerverse, Symbolica, Curators

2024-05-19T13:49:05.893Z

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.

Weekly Thing 287 / Plinky, Piccolo, Privacy

2024-05-11T14:28:41.217Z

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

Weekly Thing 286 / Cypherpunk, Printing music, Rabbit

2024-05-04T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 285 / Voyager, ActivityPub, Trackers

2024-04-28T12:27:19.603Z

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

Weekly Thing 284 / Playdate, Tetris, Calvin

2024-04-20T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 283 / Betula, Blocky, Tables

2024-04-13T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 282 / Decentralized, Blobs, Rewards

2024-04-06T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 281 / Fediverse, Odyssey, Echo Chess

2024-03-31T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 280 / Canvas, Undersea, Documents

2024-03-16T12:29:21.202Z

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

Weekly Thing 279 / Nushell, BlackCat, Daemons

2024-03-10T12:30:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 278 / Groq, GraphRAG, Gasless

2024-03-02T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 277 / Privacy, Scammed, OmniFocus

2024-02-18T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 276 / Contextual, Copilot, Collections

2024-02-11T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 275 / Vision, Sense, Magic

2024-02-04T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 274 / Gibberish, Happyfeed, Airshow

2024-01-27T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 273 / Trippy, Buffalo, Bitkey

2023-12-17T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 272 / Escape, Fuzzy, Melodrip

2023-12-10T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 271 / Imperfectionist, Zeitgeisty, Inko

2023-11-25T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 270 / Panoramic, RCS, Finnegans

2023-11-18T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 269 / Phind, Textcasting, Tailspin

2023-11-12T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 268 / Schema, Achtung, Gamification

2023-11-05T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 267 / Generative, Ghibli, Mermaid

2023-10-29T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 266 / Obsessed, DiceRight, Omnivore

2023-10-21T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 265 / Magic, Copilot, Shortery

2023-10-14T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 264 / Dazed, Zany, Llama

2023-10-07T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2023-09-30T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing 262 / Simulator, System, Snoopy

2023-09-23T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2023-09-16T13:29:03.976Z

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

Weekly Thing #260 / Rash, Hashing, Arguably

2023-07-01T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2023-06-18T12:34:58.103Z

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

Weekly Thing #258 / Vision, Strike, Reputation

2023-06-11T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #257 / Nostr, Time, Bcrypt

2023-06-04T13:54:32.821Z

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

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

2023-05-27T12:55:31.595Z

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

Weekly Thing #255 / Lassie, Vore, Alby

2023-05-20T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #254 / Redis, Dooce, Batteries

2023-05-13T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #253 / Domains, Anybox, Currl

2023-05-07T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #252 / Elevator, Evidence, Everything

2023-04-29T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #251 / Moloch, Chess, Protocol

2023-04-24T01:14:21.760Z

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

Weekly Thing #250 / LLM, Shanghai, Wing

2023-04-16T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #249 / GPT, Privacy, Crypto

2023-04-08T13:37:17.093Z

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

Weekly Thing #248 / Bicycle, Attention, Shapella

2023-04-01T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #247 / New York, Fingerprints, Snitch

2023-03-25T18:14:04.877Z

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

Weekly Thing #246 / Banks, Stablecoin, Trust

2023-03-18T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #245 / Curation, Outcomes, Disturbed

2023-03-11T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2023-03-04T14:29:53.320Z

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

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

2023-02-26T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #242 / Stories, Volcano, Decemberists

2023-02-19T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #241 / Wildebeest, Reputation, Zero

2023-02-11T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #240 / Shapes, Tags, Ubiquity

2023-02-05T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #239 / Helmets, Bear, Smile

2023-01-29T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #238 / Addiction, Disruption, Intentional

2023-01-21T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #237 / Ethereum, Zelensky, Fadell + Erratic Narratives

2022-12-11T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #236 / ChatGPT, Reading, Legitimacy

2022-12-03T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #235 / TikTok, Busy, Stories

2022-11-27T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #234 / Distributed, Principles, Drivers

2022-11-19T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2022-11-13T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #232 / Fiber, Decker, Privacy

2022-11-05T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2022-10-29T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #230 / Calendar, Fractal, Reminiscing

2022-10-15T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #229 / Time, Zolatron, Maigret

2022-10-08T13:28:15.514Z

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

Weekly Thing #228 / Technical, Adversarial, Overcomplicating

2022-10-02T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #227 / Attention, Minnedemo, Learning

2022-09-24T12:00:00.000Z

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.

Weekly Thing #226 / Patagonia, Merge, Walrus

2022-09-17T13:35:27.387Z

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

Weekly Thing #225 / Prestige, WebAssembly, PhizFans

2022-06-25T14:00:13.068Z

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

Weekly Thing #224 / Self, Learning, Identity

2022-06-18T18:42:47.546Z

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

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

2022-06-11T13:24:52.312Z

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.

Weekly Thing #222 / Smalltalk, Friendships, Automata

2022-06-05T13:45:54.710Z

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

Weekly Thing #221 / Rebooting, Incidents, Risk

2022-05-29T12:51:56.314Z

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

Weekly Thing #220 / Ukraine DAO, Nouns, Icebergs

2022-05-21T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #219 / Friendships, FloriNouns, Rich Strike

2022-05-14T13:44:25.921Z

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

Weekly Thing #218 / An unscheduled break

2022-04-02T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #217 / Ukraine, Coaching, Population

2022-03-27T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #216 / NFT, DST, PDP

2022-03-20T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #215 / Queues, Tor, Venting

2022-03-13T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #214 / Support Ukraine

2022-03-06T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #213 / Ukraine

2022-02-26T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #212 / Words, Mermaid, Beats

2022-02-19T20:43:05.052Z

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

Weekly Thing #211 / Polar Bears, Delegating, Capes

2022-02-12T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #210 / Wyoming, WebAssembly, Wordle

2022-02-05T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #209 / PGP, Soulbound, Mosey

2022-01-29T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #208 / GPS, Intel, Omicron

2022-01-22T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #207 / Architecture, Contrarian, Storytelling

2021-12-11T13:10:58.996Z

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

Weekly Thing #206 / Omicron, Overengineering, Endaoment

2021-12-04T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #205 / Hurl, Faster, Web3

2021-11-27T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #204 / Containers, Constitution, Cancel

2021-11-20T13:24:44.617Z

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

Weekly Thing #203 / Discord, Family, Names

2021-11-13T13:40:57.439Z

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

Weekly Thing #202 / Goalies, Curves, Spiders

2021-11-06T11:55:59.533Z

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

Weekly Thing #201 / Collecting, Smart, Stupid

2021-10-30T13:16:16.080Z

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

Weekly Thing #200 / Developers, Org Design, Types

2021-10-23T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #199 / Revolutions, Dopamine, Reconsolidation

2021-10-16T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #198 / Facebook, News, Kyiv

2021-10-09T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #197 / Cloudflare, Bunches, Float

2021-10-02T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2021-09-25T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #195 / Privacy, Loot, Minus

2021-09-18T21:26:54.597Z

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

Weekly Thing #194 / Writing, Playdate, OpenMoji

2021-09-11T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #193 / POAPs, DAOs, NFTs

2021-09-04T12:00:00.000Z

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.

Weekly Thing #192 / Endemic, Solidify, Zsync

2021-06-26T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #191 / Decentralizing, Coffee, Future

2021-06-19T13:06:01.794Z

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

Weekly Thing #190 / WWDC, Passport, Roll

2021-06-12T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #189 / TiddlyWiki, JsonLogic, Smiling

2021-06-05T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #188 / Ethereum, Emulator, Ephemerality

2021-05-29T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2021-05-22T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #186 / Blockchain, Pairing, Sharding

2021-05-15T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #185 / Signal, Peloton, Meebits

2021-05-08T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #184 / UML, Vizy, Markdown

2021-05-01T13:00:52.183Z

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

Weekly Thing #183 / Visidata, FTP, Amazon

2021-04-24T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #182 / Technical Debt, Identity, Neeva

2021-04-17T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #181 / Grit, Collectible, Crypto

2021-04-10T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #180 / Tetris, Ever Given, Backstory

2021-04-03T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #179 / Nemawashi, Transformation, Geldingadalur

2021-03-27T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2021-03-21T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2021-03-13T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2021-03-07T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2021-02-27T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #174 / Responsively, Underline, Skittish

2021-02-20T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #173 / Minot, Unicorn, Bunch

2021-02-13T16:55:35.260Z

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

Weekly Thing #172 / Blockchain, Bezos, Privacy

2021-02-06T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #171 / Earthrise, Firecracker, Rivian

2021-01-30T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #170 / MeetingBar, Platforms, Wikipedia

2021-01-23T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #169 / Ted Lasso, Think for Yourself, Range

2020-12-12T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #168 / Buy Gifts, Gratitude, DeepMind

2020-12-05T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #167 / Production Oriented Development, Fathom

2020-11-29T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-11-21T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #165 / Sessions, Friluftsliv, Everlong

2020-11-14T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-11-07T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-10-31T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #162 / iPhone 12, Lidar, Quibi

2020-10-24T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-10-18T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-10-10T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-10-03T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #158 / Blacklight, Whistleblower, Fly Fishing

2020-09-26T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-09-19T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-09-12T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #155 / Menu Engineers, Halo, RFC8890

2020-09-05T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-06-27T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #153 / Values Oasis, Bison, Masks

2020-06-20T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #152 / Juneteenth, Uncomfortable Conversations, Facebook

2020-06-13T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-06-06T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-05-30T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-05-23T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-05-16T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-05-09T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-05-02T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #145 / Permanent, Coronavirus, Zoom Fatigue

2020-04-25T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-04-18T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-04-11T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-04-04T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-03-28T12:00:00.000Z

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

Special Thing #140 / Matching Donations to Second Harvest!

2020-03-23T23:00:00.000Z

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

2020-03-21T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #139 / Control, Energy

2020-03-14T12:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-03-07T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-02-29T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-02-22T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-02-15T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-02-08T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-02-01T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-01-25T13:00:00.000Z

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

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

2020-01-18T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #130 / Dec 14, 2019

2019-12-14T13:00:51.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #129 / Dec 7, 2019

2019-12-07T13:00:10.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #128 / Nov 30, 2019

2019-11-30T13:00:04.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #127 / Nov 23, 2019

2019-11-23T13:00:47.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #126 / Nov 16, 2019

2019-11-16T13:00:17.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #125 / Nov 9, 2019

2019-11-09T13:00:12.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #124 / Nov 2, 2019

2019-11-02T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #123 / Oct 26, 2019

2019-10-26T12:00:44.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #122 / Oct 19, 2019

2019-10-19T12:00:17.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #121 / Oct 12, 2019

2019-10-12T12:00:58.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #120 / Oct 5, 2019

2019-10-05T12:00:15.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #119 / Sep 28, 2019

2019-09-28T12:00:29.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #118 / Sep 21, 2019

2019-09-21T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #117 / Sep 14, 2019

2019-09-14T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #116 / Sep 7, 2019

2019-09-07T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #115 / Aug 31, 2019

2019-08-31T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #114 / Aug 24, 2019

2019-08-24T13:31:40.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #113 / Aug 17, 2019

2019-08-17T12:17:40.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #112 / Jun 29, 2019

2019-06-29T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #111 / Jun 22, 2019

2019-06-22T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #110 / Jun 15, 2019

2019-06-15T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #109 / Jun 8, 2019

2019-06-08T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #108 / Jun 1, 2019

2019-06-01T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #107 / May 25, 2019

2019-05-25T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #106 / May 18, 2019

2019-05-18T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #105 / May 11, 2019

2019-05-11T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #104 / May 4, 2019

2019-05-04T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #103 / Apr 27, 2019

2019-04-27T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #102 / Apr 20, 2019

2019-04-20T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #101 / Apr 13, 2019

2019-04-13T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #100 / Apr 6, 2019

2019-04-06T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #99 / Mar 30, 2019

2019-03-30T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #98 / Mar 23, 2019

2019-03-23T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #97 / Mar 16, 2019

2019-03-16T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #96 / Mar 9, 2019

2019-03-09T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #95 / Mar 2, 2019

2019-03-02T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #94 / Feb 23, 2019

2019-02-23T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #93 / Feb 16, 2019

2019-02-16T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #92 / Feb 9, 2019

2019-02-09T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #91 / Feb 2, 2019

2019-02-02T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #90 / Jan 26, 2019

2019-01-26T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #89 / Jan 19, 2019

2019-01-19T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #88 / Jan 12, 2019

2019-01-12T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #87 / Jan 5, 2019

2019-01-05T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #86 / Dec 29, 2018

2018-12-29T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #85 / Dec 22, 2018

2018-12-22T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #84 / Dec 15, 2018

2018-12-15T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #83 / Dec 8, 2018

2018-12-08T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #82 / Dec 1, 2018

2018-12-01T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #81 / Nov 24, 2018

2018-11-24T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #80 / Nov 17, 2018

2018-11-17T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #79 / Nov 10, 2018

2018-11-10T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #78 / Nov 3, 2018

2018-11-03T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #77 / Oct 27, 2018

2018-10-27T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #76 / Oct 20, 2018

2018-10-20T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #75 / Oct 13, 2018

2018-10-13T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #74 / Oct 6, 2018

2018-10-06T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #73 / Sep 29, 2018

2018-09-29T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #72 / Sep 22, 2018

2018-09-22T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #71 / Sep 15, 2018

2018-09-15T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #70 / Sep 8, 2018

2018-09-08T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #69 / Sep 1, 2018

2018-09-01T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #68 / Aug 25, 2018

2018-08-25T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #67 / Aug 18, 2018

2018-08-18T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #66 / Aug 11, 2018

2018-08-11T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #65 / Aug 4, 2018

2018-08-04T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #64 / Jul 28, 2018

2018-07-28T12:50:16.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #63 / Jul 21, 2018

2018-07-21T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #62 / Jul 14, 2018

2018-07-14T12:57:10.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #61 / Jul 7, 2018

2018-07-07T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #60 / Jun 30, 2018

2018-06-30T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #59 / Jun 23, 2018

2018-06-23T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #58 / Jun 16, 2018

2018-06-16T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #57 / Jun 9, 2018

2018-06-09T12:18:52.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #56 / Jun 2, 2018

2018-06-02T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #55 / May 26, 2018

2018-05-26T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #54 / May 19, 2018

2018-05-19T12:00:00.000Z

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.

Weekly Thing #53 / May 12, 2018

2018-05-12T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #52 / May 5, 2018

2018-05-05T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #51 / Apr 28, 2018

2018-04-28T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #50 / Apr 21, 2018

2018-04-21T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #49 / Apr 14, 2018

2018-04-14T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #48 / Apr 7, 2018

2018-04-07T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #47 / Mar 31, 2018

2018-03-31T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #46 / Mar 24, 2018

2018-03-24T12:56:15.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #45 / Mar 17, 2018

2018-03-17T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #44 / Mar 10, 2018

2018-03-10T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #43 / Mar 3, 2018

2018-03-03T13:28:23.000Z

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

Weekly Thing #42 / Feb 24, 2018

2018-02-24T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for February 17, 2018

2018-02-17T17:08:59.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for February 10, 2018

2018-02-10T14:43:06.000Z

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.

Weekly Thing for February 3, 2018

2018-02-03T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for January 27, 2018

2018-01-27T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for January 20, 2018

2018-01-20T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for January 13, 2018

2018-01-13T21:23:30.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for January 6, 2018

2018-01-07T01:28:21.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for December 30, 2017

2017-12-30T16:11:42.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for December 23, 2017

2017-12-23T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for December 16, 2017

2017-12-16T13:42:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for December 9, 2017

2017-12-09T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for December 2, 2017

2017-12-02T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for November 25, 2017

2017-11-25T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for November 18, 2017

2017-11-18T13:08:06.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for November 11, 2017

2017-11-11T14:20:43.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for November 4, 2017

2017-11-04T13:17:27.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for October 28, 2017

2017-10-28T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for October 21, 2017

2017-10-21T14:00:04.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for October 14, 2017

2017-10-14T12:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for October 7, 2017

2017-10-07T00:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for September 30, 2017

2017-09-30T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for September 23, 2017

2017-09-23T13:00:00.000Z

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.

Weekly Thing for September 16, 2017

2017-09-16T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for September 9, 2017

2017-09-09T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for September 2, 2017

2017-09-02T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for August 26, 2017

2017-08-26T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for August 19, 2017

2017-08-19T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for August 12, 2017

2017-08-12T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for August 5, 2017

2017-08-05T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for July 29, 2017

2017-07-29T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for July 22, 2017

2017-07-22T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for July 15, 2017

2017-07-15T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for July 8, 2017

2017-07-08T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for July 1, 2017

2017-07-01T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for June 24, 2017

2017-06-24T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for June 17, 2017

2017-06-17T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for June 10, 2017

2017-06-10T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for June 3, 2017

2017-06-03T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for May 27, 2017

2017-05-27T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for May 20, 2017

2017-05-20T13:00:00.000Z

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

Weekly Thing for May 13, 2017

2017-05-13T13:00:00.000Z

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