Topic

Google

Mentioned in 52 issues, from May 13, 2017 to November 23, 2025.

Issues

  1. 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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  2. 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 →

  3. 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 →

  4. Weekly Thing 315 / Innovation, Yak, Calligraphr

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

    20 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  5. 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.

    14 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat →

  6. 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 →

  7. 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.

    15 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat →

  8. 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.

    15 links 2.7k words 💬 Chat →

  9. 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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  10. 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.

    21 links 5.4k words 💬 Chat →

  11. Weekly Thing #241 / Wildebeest, Reputation, Zero

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

    15 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  12. 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 →

  13. 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.

    22 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat →

  14. 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.

    26 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat →

  15. Weekly Thing #209 / PGP, Soulbound, Mosey

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

    22 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat →

  16. 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.

    26 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat →

  17. 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.

    22 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  18. 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.

    19 links 3k words 💬 Chat →

  19. 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.

    26 links 3.2k words 💬 Chat →

  20. 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.

    26 links 3.3k words 💬 Chat →

  21. 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.

    20 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat →

  22. 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.

    18 links 3k words 💬 Chat →

  23. 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.

    31 links 3.8k words 💬 Chat →

  24. 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.

    22 links 2.2k words 💬 Chat →

  25. 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.

    28 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat →

  26. 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.

    16 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat →

  27. 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.

    14 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  28. Weekly Thing #127 / Nov 23, 2019

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

    15 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  29. 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 →

  30. 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 →

  31. 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.

    17 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat →

  32. 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 →

  33. 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.

    9 links 1.6k words 💬 Chat →

  34. Weekly Thing #89 / Jan 19, 2019

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

    19 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  35. 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.

    18 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat →

  36. 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.

    14 links 2k words 💬 Chat →

  37. 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 →

  38. Weekly Thing #73 / Sep 29, 2018

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

    20 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  39. 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 →

  40. 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.

    16 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  41. 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.

    13 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat →

  42. Weekly Thing #64 / Jul 28, 2018

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

    16 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  43. 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.

    24 links 3k words 💬 Chat →

  44. 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.

    18 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  45. 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.

    15 links 1.8k words 💬 Chat →

  46. 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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  47. 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.

    1.8k words 💬 Chat →

  48. 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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  49. 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 2k words 💬 Chat →

  50. 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.

    15 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat →

  51. 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 1.7k words 💬 Chat →

  52. Weekly Thing for May 13, 2017

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

    17 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat →