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New Jan 20, 2026
New Year, New Website — Same Old Me
I redesigned my www website. Why? The end of year / holiday break is a great time to work on such things. I wanted to scratch an itch. Websites are a worry stone [gestures at current state of the...
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New Jan 18, 2026
Easy Measures Doing, Simple Measures Understanding
In his talk, I like the way Jake Nations pits easy vs. simple: Easy means you can add it to your system quickly. Simple means you can understand the work that you’ve done. I like this framing. E...
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New Jan 11, 2026
In The Beginning There Was Slop
I’ve been slowly reading my copy of “The Internet Phone Book” and I recently read an essay in it by Elan Ullendorff called “The New Turing Test”. Elan argues that what matters in a work isn’t the to...
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New Jan 7, 2026
The AI Security Shakedown
Matthias Ott shared a link to a post from Anthropic titled “Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign”, which I read because I’m interested in the messy intersection of...
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New Jan 4, 2026
A Letter of Feedback To Anyone Who Makes Software I Use
I don’t much enjoy being a lab rat to your half-baked ideas. I can tell when your approach to what I use is: “Ship it and let’s see how people respond.” Well let me tell you something: I’m n...
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New Jan 4, 2026
Creating “Edit” Links That Open Plain-Text Source Files in a Native App
The setup for my notes blog looks like this: Content is plain-text markdown files (synced via Dropbox, editable in iA Writer on my Mac, iPad, or iPhone) Codebase is on GitHub Builds are triggered in...
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New Dec 28, 2025
To Make Software Is To Translate Human Intent Into Computational Precision
In “The Future of Software Development is Software Developers” Jason Gorman alludes to how terrible natural language is at programming computers: The hard part of computer programming isn’t expres...
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New Dec 21, 2025
Leading Global Research and Advisory Firm Recommends Against Using AI Browsers
I recommended against using an AI browser unless you wanted to participate in a global experiment in security. My recommendation did come with a caveat: But probably don’t listen to me. I’m not a...
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New Dec 18, 2025
You Might Also Like: My Notes Blog
If you subscribe to this blog, you must like it — right? I mean, you are subscribed to it. And if you like this blog, you might also like my notes blog. It’s where I take short notes of what I read...
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New Dec 16, 2025
The “A” in “AI” Stands For Amnesia
My last article was blogging off Jeremey’s article which blogged off Chris’ article and, after publishing, a reader tipped me off to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect which sounds an awful lot like Chri...