Topic

Twitter

Mentioned in 56 issues, from May 2017 to Mar 2025.

Issues

  1. Weekly Thing 314 / Interfaces, Ο€, Bubbles

    Normal engineers, Ozempocalypse, lost senses in interfaces, fooling self-driving cars, HTTP/3, Sam Altman interview, digital hygiene.

    18 links 3.7k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  2. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  3. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  4. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  5. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  6. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  7. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  8. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  9. Weekly Thing #257 / Nostr, Time, Bcrypt

    Nostr creator Fiatjaf, Snowden Revelations at ten, Japan AI copyright, Discord admins hacked, Bcrypt at 25, building with LLMs.

    24 links 3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  10. Weekly Thing #250 / LLM, Shanghai, Wing

    Free Dolly open LLM, Ethereum Shanghai staking withdrawals, ChatGPT Code Interpreter, Wing Programming Language, Tesla car cameras privacy.

    27 links 3.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  11. Weekly Thing #248 / Bicycle, Attention, Shapella

    ChatGPT Wolfram superpowers, Twitter dying, S3 eternal service, pause giant AI experiments, Ethereum Shapella, post-GPT world.

    25 links 4.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  12. Weekly Thing #247 / New York, Fingerprints, Snitch

    ChatGPT plugins, GPT-4, Age of AI, vocal deepfakes, web fingerprinting, Little Snitch Mini, DPReview shutdown, Internet Archive, Cloudflare DMARC Management.

    17 links 2.8k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  13. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  14. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  15. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  16. Weekly Thing #238 / Addiction, Disruption, Intentional

    GPT-3 journaling, YouTube addiction, blogging pioneers, evaluating character, Sam Bankman-Fried, Eurasia Group top risks.

    15 links 2.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  17. Weekly Thing #236 / ChatGPT, Reading, Legitimacy

    ChatGPT, need to read, time alone, social media without bullshit, FTX decentralized finance, hardware counters performance, scarce resource legitimacy.

    17 links 2.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  18. 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.

    17 links 2.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  19. Weekly Thing #234 / Distributed, Principles, Drivers

    Alameda Research, FTX house of cards, Sam Bankman-Fried regrets, Distributed Computing Manifesto, Ethereum roadmap, Solana FTX bankruptcy.

    20 links 2.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  20. Weekly Thing #233 / Versepad, "Just", Mastadon

    FTX collapse, tech layoffs, Zoom on Tesla, Portmaster 1.0, Apple Watch Ultra, decentralized email, Mastodon server, RSS privacy.

    22 links 3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  21. Weekly Thing #232 / Fiber, Decker, Privacy

    iPhone 14 Pro camera, Jony Ive after Apple, home fiber wiring, YNAB Together, iA Presenter, Moneyball American culture, Elon Twitter, Privacy Gateway proxy.

    21 links 2k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  22. Weekly Thing #229 / Time, Zolatron, Maigret

    Battle for the Soul of the Web, monetising misery, keeping the internet's time, Turnstile CAPTCHA alternative, Elon Musk texts, sauna healthspan.

    22 links 3.6k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  23. Weekly Thing #226 / Patagonia, Merge, Walrus

    Patagonia founder gives away, Vitalik Buterin Ethereum, Coin Metrics Merge update, Steve Jobs Archive, watchOS 9, iOS 16, Python walrus operator.

    27 links 3.8k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  24. Weekly Thing #224 / Self, Learning, Identity

    Sam Harris on self, software developer shortage, self-sovereign identity, Apple M2 die shot, CRISPR gene map, NounsDAO, crypto defense.

    26 links 3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  25. Weekly Thing #223 / Digital Identity, Finding a Mode, WWDC

    Reputation in Web3, Target's inventory problem, Tim Cook on privacy, watchOS 9, iOS 16, macOS Ventura, Unix pipelines, Thinking in Bets, Find A Mode.

    24 links 4.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  26. Weekly Thing #220 / Ukraine DAO, Nouns, Icebergs

    Ukraine DAO history, Kharkiv lives in ruin, billing systems nightmare, crypto crash post-mortem, DJI Mini 3 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro photography.

    26 links 2k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  27. 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.

    24 links 2.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  28. Weekly Thing #208 / GPS, Intel, Omicron

    GPS explainer, Intel split, Bitcoin price manipulation, NFT profile pictures, crypto browser, Omicron symptoms, hiring engineers, customer support stats.

    17 links 2.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  29. Weekly Thing #197 / Cloudflare, Bunches, Float

    Cloudflare disruption, AWS Step Functions, Masked Email, most important iPhone, absence of Scrum, internet's original sin.

    21 links 2.3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  30. Weekly Thing #192 / Endemic, Solidify, Zsync

    Bitcoin bubbles, Nassim Taleb, swallowed AirPods, Brave Search, smart contract security, Python future, data brokers, Leica smartphone.

    34 links 3.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  31. Weekly Thing #189 / TiddlyWiki, JsonLogic, Smiling

    Twitter Blue subscription, Starlink review, NFTs new frontiers, Timery Mac time tracking, Wikipedia fundraising, Unix Game, Uber app rewrite.

    35 links 2.7k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  32. 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.

    30 links 3.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  33. Weekly Thing #187 / AirTags, M1 iPad Pro, Flamingo

    Mailed AirTag tracked, M1 iPad Pro, 24-inch M1 iMac, geopolitics of cryptocurrencies, Sublime Text 4, Twitter Blue, cookie poisoned the web.

    35 links 3.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  34. Weekly Thing #167 / Production Oriented Development, Fathom

    Comcast data caps, Facebook sociopaths, Fathom Analytics attack, COVIDaware MN, ZFS introduction, Apple Mac silicon, Anki memory, Twitter @POTUS Biden.

    16 links 1.8k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  35. Weekly Thing #164 / Raspberry Pi 400, Time Blocking, Platform

    Raspberry Pi 400, Little Snitch 5, iOS 14.2 Emoji, eero 6 mesh wifi, time blocking, quitting Twitter, aerosol transmission.

    24 links 2.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  36. Weekly Thing #161 / Letter, Asterisk, You Should Write ✍️

    iOS 14 review, iPhone 12 lineup, Git scraping, Facebook Michigan kidnapping plot, Python 3.9, Northern Lights from U-2 spyplane.

    21 links 3.8k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  37. Weekly Thing #151 / George Floyd, I Can’t Breathe, Black Lives Matter

    Racial injustice confessions, white supremacy culture, 8 Can't Wait, Minneapolis police use of force, coronavirus vascular disease, ACLU sues Clearview AI.

    25 links 4.7k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  38. Weekly Thing #147 / Do The Work, Good Writing, Bye Amazon

    Facebook SDK iOS crashes, Tim Bray leaves Amazon, Airbnb layoffs, virtual WWDC June 22, murder hornets, Bill Gates on COVID-19 vaccine.

    30 links 4.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  39. Weekly Thing #146 / Stoics, Lockdown, MnTech, Learning a Language

    Raspberry Pi HQ Camera, skin in the game, hard part of learning a language, remote meetings, board games quarantine, Minnestar at fifteen.

    22 links 2.2k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  40. Weekly Thing #133 / Clayton Christensen, iPad at 10, Ukraine, Nintendo Switch, Apple Map Expansion

    Developer coefficient, global GDP impact, women in tech, Nintendo Switch sales, Apple Maps expansion, Tetris 99, sign stealing scandal.

    22 links 2.5k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  41. Weekly Thing #118 / Sep 21, 2019

    Apple A13 Bionic chip, iOS 13 review, iPhone 11 Pro camera, Apple Watch Series 5 titanium, Adam Neumann WeWork, Kickstarter union effort.

    17 links 2.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  42. 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 πŸ’¬ Chat →

  43. 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 2k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  44. Weekly Thing #86 / Dec 29, 2018

    Hyperlink to the Stream, government blocking on Twitter, Yoda of Silicon Valley, Facebook-free business, circuit breakers or retries, must-have iOS apps.

    14 links 1.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  45. Weekly Thing #76 / Oct 20, 2018

    Lightroom CC 2.0, Adobe Photoshop on iPad, Facebook Portal ad targeting, Hidden Tribes of America, Vue ecosystem growth, static site generators.

    14 links 1.8k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  46. Weekly Thing #67 / Aug 18, 2018

    Working with timezones, Kobayashi Maru Management, post-mortems, servant leaders, RSS, leaving Twitter, Anki Vector, Firefox privacy extensions.

    21 links 1.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  47. 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.

    14 links 1.2k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  48. Weekly Thing #62 / Jul 14, 2018

    Pseudo-AI humans, disposable straw capitalism, metadata identification, leadership style colors, REST vs GraphQL, brutalist web design.

    13 links 1.7k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  49. Weekly Thing #60 / Jun 30, 2018

    Formula 1 averages, Legend of Nintendo, a16z crypto, Atul Gawande health care, REST vs. GraphQL, Intel integration, machine learning.

    21 links 1.8k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  50. 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 2k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  51. Weekly Thing #42 / Feb 24, 2018

    Quitting Twitter, AWS network diagrams, serverless open source cloud, Steven Pinker interview, Hyper-Scheduling Experiment, SaaS as a business.

    1.7k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  52. Weekly Thing for February 3, 2018

    Python in Pythonista, Network Effects Manual, multitasking meetings, Micro.blog vs App.net, quitting Twitter, Chaos Engineering, Apple Watch.

    1.6k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  53. Weekly Thing for November 18, 2017

    Tesla Roadster, Toronto tech rise, Tim Berners-Lee on web, GTD guide, Daniel Kahneman, Atul Gawande, Datasette SQLite API, Firefox Quantum Era.

    16 links 1.3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  54. Weekly Thing for October 21, 2017

    Ethical minefields of technology, imposter syndrome, Facebook regrets, software architecture failing, Cardhop for Mac, ProseMirror 1.0, Micro.blog for Mac.

    25 links 2.3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  55. Weekly Thing for July 22, 2017

    Cosette database, serverless hosting comparison, GitHub diversity report, GhostCtrl Android backdoor, Quilt data package manager, Trump Twitter lawsuit.

    12 links 1.2k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  56. Weekly Thing for May 20, 2017

    Twitter privacy opt-out, iPhone 7 photography, Things 3 task manager, JSON Feed, Micro.blog, Machine Learning xkcd, NASA coding commandments.

    19 links 1.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →