Topic

The Economist

Mentioned in 13 issues, from Nov 2017 to Sep 2025.

Issues

  1. 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 →

  2. 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.

    30 links 3.3k words 💬 Chat →

  3. 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 →

  4. 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 →

  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 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 →

  7. Weekly Thing #221 / Rebooting, Incidents, Risk

    Rebooting computers, GTD guide, web3 world computer, Tether recapitalization, Donald Knuth habits, incident management, Markdoc framework.

    28 links 3k words 💬 Chat →

  8. Weekly Thing #218 / An unscheduled break

    Zelensky on defeating Putin, Ukraine cyber guerrilla army, Slack etiquette tips, token compensation, Internet Archive at 25, TLS 1.3 connection.

    13 links 1.4k words 💬 Chat →

  9. Weekly Thing #193 / POAPs, DAOs, NFTs

    POAPs, DAO landscape, OpenSea metrics, NFT sales near $900M, ENS mainnet integration, driver's licenses in Apple Wallet, U.S. Digital Corps, Air Quality Index.

    27 links 3k words 💬 Chat →

  10. 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 →

  11. 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 →

  12. Weekly Thing #45 / Mar 17, 2018

    Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018, HyperCard Zine, Sankey diagram builder, Checklist for Checklists, DAKboard wall display.

    1.3k words 💬 Chat →

  13. Weekly Thing for November 4, 2017

    Standalone Signal Desktop, web dying in 2014, iPhone X tomorrow's iPhone today.

    26 links 1.9k words 💬 Chat →