Topic

Amazon

Mentioned in 35 issues, from June 3, 2017 to June 21, 2025.

Issues

  1. 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.

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  2. 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 💬 Chat →

  3. 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 💬 Chat →

  4. 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 💬 Chat →

  5. 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 💬 Chat →

  6. 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 →

  7. 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 →

  8. 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 →

  9. 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.

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

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

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  11. 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 →

  12. 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 →

  13. 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.

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  14. 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 →

  15. 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.

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  16. 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 →

  17. 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 →

  18. 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 →

  19. 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 →

  20. 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 →

  21. 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 →

  22. 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 →

  23. 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.

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  24. Weekly Thing #85 / Dec 22, 2018

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

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  25. Weekly Thing #82 / Dec 1, 2018

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

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  26. 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 →

  27. 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 →

  28. Weekly Thing #52 / May 5, 2018

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

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  29. Weekly Thing #50 / Apr 21, 2018

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

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  30. Weekly Thing #49 / Apr 14, 2018

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

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  31. 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 →

  32. 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 →

  33. 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 →

  34. 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 →

  35. 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 →