Topic
Mentioned in 66 issues, from May 2017 to Jan 2026.
Issues
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Weekly Thing 337 / Sunrise, Vision, Offline
Markdown takeover, Open Infrastructure Map, Oh My Zsh, anti-AI hype, ICE surveillance, MCP fad, Vision Pro, Claude Cowork, Ozempic food habits.
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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.
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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.
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Weekly Thing 325 / Platform, Agents, Legacy
Project Indigo camera app, Warp 2.0 agentic environment, MCP eating the world, Apple AI in Shortcuts, digital legacy planning, gold bull-market.
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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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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.
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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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Weekly Thing 300 / Traceroute, 34x34x34, Typst
ChatGPT search, 223 privacy settings, election results, traceroute isn't real, narrative thinking, auto-texting STOP to unknown numbers.
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Weekly Thing 295 / Links, Surveillance, POSSE
LG OLED screensaver ads, Bitcoin liquidity barometer, ChatGPT Canvas, PayPal data sharing, Meta smart glasses doxing.
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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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Weekly Thing 285 / Voyager, ActivityPub, Trackers
VASA-1, Voyager 1 resumes updates, Map of the Web, Ghost building ActivityPub, killed Google Search, cryptocurrency mixing arrested.
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Weekly Thing 283 / Betula, Blocky, Tables
IRC client in motherboard, go players after AI, Digital Equipment Corp saved Ethernet, Twitter pivot to X.com phishers, follow the CAPEX.
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Weekly Thing 264 / Dazed, Zany, Llama
Seeing our own faces, computational power and AI, Amazon Bedrock, Raspberry Pi 5, two types of PayPal dollars, synthetic social network, Google Pixel 8.
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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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Weekly Thing #249 / GPT, Privacy, Crypto
Steve Blank on ChatGPT, BloombergGPT, LinkedIn ghostwriters, S-GPT shortcut, Tim Cook on Apple, smart locks privacy, Stripe 2022 letter.
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Weekly Thing #242 / Stories, Volcano, Decemberists
Plan to write, write to learn, office startups grow faster, gasless DNSSEC, Unicode adopt a character, Yellowstone volcanic power.
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Weekly Thing #241 / Wildebeest, Reputation, Zero
Mastodon commons, Wildebeest Fediverse, Twitter plan, Google new CEO, Fed went broke, zero time habits, one-page calendar.
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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 →
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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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Weekly Thing #231 / UNIX Pipe, Slow Roads, Personal Brand
Sprint estimation, UNIX Pipe Card Game, Google email privacy, plastic recycling myth, macOS Ventura review, personal brand burnout, Focus Is Saying No.
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Weekly Thing #209 / PGP, Soulbound, Mosey
PGP origins, cracking a crypto wallet, Google FLoC replacement, covidtests.gov architecture, Roblox outage, personal velocity.
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Weekly Thing #196 / iPhone 13, iOS 15, watchOS 8
iPhone 13 Pro Tanzania, iPhones 13, machine learning, calendar as archive, Google location warrants, prehistory of DAOs, Bitcoin energy usage.
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Weekly Thing #191 / Decentralizing, Coffee, Future
Yield farming, NFT metadata, AWS Step Functions, iCloud Private Relay, Google FLoC, mRNA flu vaccines, Pulitzer for George Floyd reporting.
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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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Weekly Thing #186 / Blockchain, Pairing, Sharding
Blockchain matters, Apple Watch blood monitoring, America's broadband problem, iPhone ad tracking, Ethereum sharding, Signal grand jury subpoena.
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Weekly Thing #176 / Brave Search, Speed, Finger.Farm
Brave acquires search engine, Google FLoC, small web, NFTs and True Fans, Zoom fatigue, Fastmail spy pixels, ISO 8601, murex shell.
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Weekly Thing #172 / Blockchain, Bezos, Privacy
Tim Cook condemns Facebook, IBM Blockchain collapse, Generation X saves web, LAMBDA Excel function, simple HTML effectiveness, social media teen mental health.
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Weekly Thing #166 / Chess, Disruption, M1 Macs, Five Hindrances
M1 Macs, Intel's disruption, macOS Big Sur, iPhone 12 Pro Max, OpenStreetMap, personal data warehouses, Fairness Doctrine social networks.
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Weekly Thing #160 / Unlived Life, Disinformation, Snowflake ❄️
Unlived Life, hacking Apple, 100000 Stars, Snowflake value, QAnon ban, mail-in voter fraud disinformation, aerosol spread of Covid-19.
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Weekly Thing #157 / Superpower, Dune, Three Year Rule
Snowflake IPO, Apple One subscriptions, App Sprawl, Dune trailer, Ugh fields, Underwater datacenters, Brandi Carlile, Wikipedia Widgets.
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Weekly Thing #150 / Speed, Insane Videoconferencing, OmniFocus, LaTeX
Facebook algorithms divided users, Small Web, Obsidian, OmniFocus Omni Automation, Mongolia Covid-19 response, LaTeX.css, Deno guide, coronavirus bots.
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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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Weekly Thing #142 / Signaling, Zoom, Bill Gates, Decision Journal
Bill Gates coronavirus response, corporate socialism, government bailouts, signaling as a service, bailing out investors, managers not you.
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Weekly Thing #138 / Covid-19, Credibility, Clearview AI, Hair Freezing
Clearview AI facial recognition, stopping Facebook, First Amendment social media, OmniFocus floating time zones, Ulysses writing assistant.
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Weekly Thing #131 / GoatCounter, Hobbies, AR, Leadership, Ring
Ring firing employees, Marie Kondo minimalism, AR supremacy, Roam usage, first 90 days CTO, GTD weekly review, mind maps, Apache Pulsar.
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Weekly Thing #130 / Dec 14, 2019
TikTok privacy analysis, Ring's surveillance network, disaster.radio, Lightroom SD card importing, JSON-LD introduction, election news chaos.
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Weekly Thing #128 / Nov 30, 2019
Sacha Baron Cohen on Facebook, Contract for the Web, onboarding new hires, developing engineers, WeWork fall, home delivery habit.
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Weekly Thing #127 / Nov 23, 2019
Political ad targeting, engineering competency matrix, Google medical data whistleblower, America lost the bison, Why We Sleep errors.
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Weekly Thing #122 / Oct 19, 2019
Encryption privacy battleground, Google ambient computing, Amazon off Oracle, deconstructing monolith, Passion Economy future of work.
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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.
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Weekly Thing #119 / Sep 28, 2019
Getting Things Done author, Darkroom light mode, Google contractors unionize, WeWork fraud, watchOS 6 review, iOS 13 Shortcuts library.
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Weekly Thing #115 / Aug 31, 2019
Technical women careers, toxic internship interviews, Google tracking protection, GitHub SOC 2, Apple Card vs Chase Visa, nushell.
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Weekly Thing #107 / May 25, 2019
Tesla strategy, data moats, owning your blog, Playdate handheld gaming, human antivenom, Gmail purchase history, quitting Twitter, indie social media.
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Weekly Thing #97 / Mar 16, 2019
MBA myth, planned obsolescence coders, ACME Protocol IETF, SimCity city planners, DuckDuckGo guide, 800 million emails leaked.
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Weekly Thing #89 / Jan 19, 2019
Privacy online, Ring security cameras, Sprint location data, DuckDuckGo, Collection #1 data breach, Nike Adapt BB, engineering management.
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Weekly Thing #79 / Nov 10, 2018
iPad Pro A12X chip, Google Chrome users, Flickr free accounts, Google global walkout, Lua design, startup metrics, Apple's new map.
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Weekly Thing #77 / Oct 27, 2018
Tim Cook data privacy speech, Apple Shortcuts, Google Night Sight, Pixel 3, Minnesota startups, Little Free Library, infinite scroll.
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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.
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Weekly Thing #73 / Sep 29, 2018
Safari Content Blockers, Apple Watch healthcare, Cloudflare Registrar, Facebook shadow contacts, macOS Mojave review, OmniFocus 3 for Mac.
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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.
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Weekly Thing #69 / Sep 1, 2018
Centralized vs decentralized, Facebook real friends, product management mental models, GraphQL good and bad, WhatsApp privacy, IRC turns thirty.
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Weekly Thing #66 / Aug 11, 2018
Photography composition, gluten truth, network-wide ad-blocker, OmniFocus 3, Let's Encrypt trusted, Google China censorship, America's land use.
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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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Weekly Thing #61 / Jul 7, 2018
Scaling Agile, Apple rebuilding Maps, all code is technical debt, Facebook and Google personal data, Brave private tabs with Tor, one-on-one meetings.
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Weekly Thing #57 / Jun 9, 2018
Microsoft data center ocean, Safari privacy browser, Microsoft GitHub, macOS Mojave, iOS 12, watchOS 5, teens social media technology.
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Weekly Thing #53 / May 12, 2018
Against Facebook, Apple and Ive, Google Duplex, open plan office sexism, Android P, iOS 11.4 USB port, serverless learnings, Watchtower 2.0.
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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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Weekly Thing #51 / Apr 28, 2018
HomePod, Jaron Lanier dinner, dumber phone, 1Blocker X, iPhone passcodes, Kubernetes namespaces, GraphQL, software defined culture, Cal Newport Study Hacks.
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Weekly Thing #44 / Mar 10, 2018
International Women's Day, recruiting sessions, Americas unhappiness, cloud cost analytics, Rundeck orchestration, Modern Manager.
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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.
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Weekly Thing for December 30, 2017
Lowertown Line, Jeremy Messersmith, Trampled by Turtles, microservices pattern language, iPhone X, Apple AirPods, blockchain use, Santa Facts xkcd.
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Weekly Thing for December 9, 2017
Let's Encrypt SSL, ProtonMail Bridge, Google YouTube Fire TV, AlphaZero Stockfish, iPhone X camera, Facebook Messenger Kids, Oura Ring, Vanilla Mac menu bar.
21 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat →
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Weekly Thing for September 2, 2017
Google's Farm, Twitter bot intimidation, testing in production, software engineering rule of 3, Apple next iPhone, Sarahah uploads address book.
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Weekly Thing for August 26, 2017
Speech Commands Dataset, remote CEOs, pronouns and stock price, total solar eclipse 2017, Multi-Cloud AWS and GCP, PyGraphistry big graphs.
17 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat →
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Weekly Thing for August 5, 2017
Patreon economic engine, GraphQL with GitHub, Aziz Ansari quitting internet, minds hijacked by phones, tech culture change.
21 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat →
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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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