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ponder.us

Mentioned in 49 issues, from September 30, 2023 to June 7, 2025.

Issues

  1. Weekly Thing 322 / Banff & Lake Louise

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

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  2. Weekly Thing 312 / Tangled, Graphing, Starlink

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

    17 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat →

  3. Weekly Thing 310 / Signals, Research, Playlist

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

    21 links 4.2k words 💬 Chat →

  4. 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.

    16 links 3k words 💬 Chat →

  5. Weekly Thing 308 / Tapestry, Terminal, Tab

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

    28 links 3.2k words 💬 Chat →

  6. Weekly Thing 307 / Attention, Goose, Pulse

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

    24 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  7. Weekly Thing 306 / Spell, McLarens, Lynch

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

    19 links 3.3k words 💬 Chat →

  8. Weekly Thing 305 / Lighthouse, Willow, Artemis

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

    24 links 3.4k words 💬 Chat →

  9. Weekly Thing 304 / Connections, Vince, Markwhen

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

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  10. Weekly Thing 303 / Petnames, Synapse, jless

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

    15 links 2.8k words 💬 Chat →

  11. Weekly Thing 302 / Recipe, Poetry, OnAir

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

    23 links 5.6k words 💬 Chat →

  12. Weekly Thing 301 / TinyTroupe, Monarch, Leaving

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

    23 links 4.5k words 💬 Chat →

  13. 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 →

  14. Weekly Thing 299 / Apples, Abundance, Australia

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

    14 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  15. 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 →

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

    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.

    16 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  17. Weekly Thing 296 / Awk, Fav, Alarmo

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

    21 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  18. 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 →

  19. 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.

    32 links 4k words 💬 Chat →

  20. 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.

    17 links 2.7k words 💬 Chat →

  21. 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 →

  22. 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 →

  23. 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.

    14 links 2k words 💬 Chat →

  24. 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.

    19 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  25. 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 →

  26. Weekly Thing 286 / Cypherpunk, Printing music, Rabbit

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

    14 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat →

  27. 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 →

  28. Weekly Thing 284 / Playdate, Tetris, Calvin

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

    16 links 2.1k words 💬 Chat →

  29. 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.

    16 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat →

  30. Weekly Thing 282 / Decentralized, Blobs, Rewards

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

    13 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat →

  31. Weekly Thing 281 / Fediverse, Odyssey, Echo Chess

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

    28 links 4.3k words 💬 Chat →

  32. Weekly Thing 280 / Canvas, Undersea, Documents

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

    18 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat →

  33. Weekly Thing 279 / Nushell, BlackCat, Daemons

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

    12 links 2.3k words 💬 Chat →

  34. Weekly Thing 278 / Groq, GraphRAG, Gasless

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

    27 links 3.9k words 💬 Chat →

  35. 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 →

  36. Weekly Thing 276 / Contextual, Copilot, Collections

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

    24 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat →

  37. Weekly Thing 275 / Vision, Sense, Magic

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

    16 links 3k words 💬 Chat →

  38. 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.

    30 links 6.6k words 💬 Chat →

  39. Weekly Thing 273 / Trippy, Buffalo, Bitkey

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

    16 links 2.9k words 💬 Chat →

  40. 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 →

  41. Weekly Thing 271 / Imperfectionist, Zeitgeisty, Inko

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

    11 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  42. 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.

    17 links 3k words 💬 Chat →

  43. Weekly Thing 269 / Phind, Textcasting, Tailspin

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

    18 links 2.5k words 💬 Chat →

  44. Weekly Thing 268 / Schema, Achtung, Gamification

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

    17 links 3.2k words 💬 Chat →

  45. Weekly Thing 267 / Generative, Ghibli, Mermaid

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

    23 links 3.5k words 💬 Chat →

  46. Weekly Thing 266 / Obsessed, DiceRight, Omnivore

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

    19 links 3.7k words 💬 Chat →

  47. Weekly Thing 265 / Magic, Copilot, Shortery

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

    12 links 2.7k words 💬 Chat →

  48. 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.

    23 links 4k words 💬 Chat →

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

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

    17 links 4k words 💬 Chat →

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