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arstechnica.com

Mentioned in 54 issues, from May 13, 2017 to January 24, 2026.

Issues

  1. Weekly Thing 338 / Authority, Humanizer, Left

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

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  2. 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 💬 Chat →

  3. 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 💬 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 💬 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 💬 Chat →

  6. 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 💬 Chat →

  7. 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 💬 Chat →

  8. 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 💬 Chat →

  9. 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.

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  10. Weekly Thing 319 / Embeddings, Passkeys, Macros

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

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  11. 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 💬 Chat →

  12. Weekly Thing 315 / Innovation, Yak, Calligraphr

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

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  13. 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.

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  14. 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 💬 Chat →

  15. Weekly Thing 296 / Awk, Fav, Alarmo

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

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  16. 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 💬 Chat →

  17. 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.

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  18. 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.

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  19. 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.

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  20. 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.

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  21. 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.

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  22. 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 →

  23. Weekly Thing 282 / Decentralized, Blobs, Rewards

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

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  24. 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.

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  25. 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.

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  26. 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.

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  27. 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.

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

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

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  29. 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.

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  30. 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.

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

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

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  32. 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.

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  33. 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.

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  34. 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 →

  35. 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.

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  36. 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.

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  37. 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.

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  38. 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.

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  39. 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.

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  40. 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.

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  41. 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.

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  42. 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.

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  43. 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.

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  44. 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.

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  45. 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.

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  46. 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.

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  47. 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.

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  48. 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.

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  49. 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.

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  50. 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.

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  51. 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.

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  52. Weekly Thing #64 / Jul 28, 2018

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

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  53. 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.

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  54. Weekly Thing for May 13, 2017

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

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