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On Privacy, Design & Career: 4 Essays
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On Writing, Craft & Thinking Clearly: 5 Essays
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On Power, Attention & Building What’s Actually Yours
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Trust, Ownership & the Open Web: 3 Essays on What We’re Losing
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Today’s recommendations: An agent is a model plus a harness, the coming loop, whether small software businesses survive AI, and why good money still feels like a treadmill
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Today’s recommendations: Engineering for a four-slot mind, why duplication beats the wrong abstraction, and knowing what not to build
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Today’s recommendations: Writing an effective design doc, winnowing sentences, naming the modal-popup scourge, and why blogging the obvious is worth it
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Today’s recommendations: AI, Openness & the Web: Five Essays on Where This Is Going
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Today’s recommendations: Rediscovering the Indie Web: Directories, Blogs & Launch Spots
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Today’s recommendations: On Writing & Reading: Craft, Memory, and Where Stories Go
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Today’s recommendations: Rewilding the web, pseudo-tech vs. real tech, tier lists, the best bird names, June sci-fi, and a New Zealand hike
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Today’s recommendations: The joy of scope creep, buying and running software businesses, mediocre men who shape history, and defending a personal site in 2026
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Today’s recommendations: Why a compute tax backfires, hard data on LLMs destroying value, big-jump software development, and whether AI is conscious
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Today’s recommendations: AI community hostility, the rsync maintainer’s rebuttal, the real AI skills gap, and what we lose when computers stop being pedantic
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Today’s recommendations: What doesn’t matter anymore in 2026, handwritten notes vs. digital, the lost art of taxonomy, an AI satirical farewell, and the case for just building something
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Today’s recommendations: Voice-redesigning a website, SaaS acquisition strategy, leading remote teams, the “vibe maintainer” role, and AI-era cultural commentary
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Today’s recommendations: Leaving engineering management, people as context (not friction), the design value of deliberate slowness, and becoming a morning person
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Today’s recommendations: Forward-deployed engineers, the “slow then suddenly” pattern, Paul Graham on brand as a moat, and the metric that predicts your SaaS ceiling
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Today’s recommendations: Science fiction’s identity crisis, pgAdmin’s new AI query assistant, digital PR basics, and reading in the age of AI
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Today’s recommendations: Scaling TTS without burning infrastructure, Markdown as the universal format, AI’s effect on team dynamics, ambient AI interfaces, and a road trip app with a great engineering backstory
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Today’s recommendations: AI as CMS, ethical lines around AI tools, what LLMs still can’t do, night shift coding culture, and a boredom roundup
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Today’s recommendations: Software that knows its limits, designing meetings like products, killing ideas fast with AI, Craig Mod going bonkers building things, and a definitive DevRel framework
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Today’s recommendations: High agency as a mindset, AI-assisted boredom, Obsidian vault setup, Phabricator nostalgia, and a family e-paper dashboard
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Putting out my collection of dev related bookmarked links