Topic

seths.blog

Mentioned in 17 issues, from August 4, 2018 to December 13, 2025.

Issues

  1. 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.

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  2. Weekly Thing 326 / Tempo, Seedship, Refraction

    Claude Code Interpreter, Etsy buyer profiles with LLMs, Tempo blockchain for payments, modernizing kernel drivers, Extreme Programming and AI.

    19 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  3. 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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  4. 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 →

  5. 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 →

  6. 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 →

  7. 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 →

  8. Weekly Thing #260 / Rash, Hashing, Arguably

    privateGPT, Safari 17 Profiles, styling RSS feeds, AI new UI paradigm, Richard Stallman, ChatGPT treating patients, Anti-Meta Fedi Pact, death in 7 gigabytes.

    26 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  9. Weekly Thing #255 / Lassie, Vore, Alby

    Technical debt careers, GitHub Copilot LLMs, Advanced Data Protection iOS, new TLDs, learning cryptography, Filecoin and IPFS, Web3 digital identity.

    16 links 2.6k words 💬 Chat →

  10. 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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  11. Weekly Thing #235 / TikTok, Busy, Stories

    China digital fentanyl, seven levels of busy, moving away from UUIDs, Bob Iger returns Disney, TikTok weaponization, Infosys AWS keys leak.

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  12. Weekly Thing #215 / Queues, Tor, Venting

    Twitter Tor version, Apple baseball deal, infinite scroll, Ukrainian vs Russian languages, Lincoln's humility, OmniFocus checklists, web3 webpage.

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  13. 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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  14. Weekly Thing #182 / Technical Debt, Identity, Neeva

    Technical debt, digital paper, 1Password secrets automation, JSON parsing, ad-free private search, FLoC testing, open source cooking.

    15 links 2.4k words 💬 Chat →

  15. 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.

    17 links 2k words 💬 Chat →

  16. Weekly Thing #141 / We provided 147,360 meals for those in need!

    COVID-19 grief, coronavirus treatments, iPad cursor, iOS 13.4, Amazon delivery delays, Netflix relief fund, hammer and dance.

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  17. Weekly Thing #65 / Aug 4, 2018

    Bullshit Web, Facebook evil, great employees leave, crypto firehose, FAST beats SMART, OKRs, Cost of Agile, M.C. Escher prints.

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