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latest reads

  • (01/09/26) How I Turned My Security Cameras Into an Automatic Bird Identification System with BirdNet-Go

  • (01/09/26) The Safest Job from AI may be Writing

  • (01/09/26) State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations

  • (01/09/26) ¿Los lectores dejaron de leer o las editoriales dejaron de encontrarlos?

  • (01/09/26) Libreros, atrapados en la guerra de precios de plataformas

  • (27/08/26) Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively With Agents - exe.dev blog

  • (20/08/26) Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.

  • (20/08/26) How to Hold Death and Carry Life: A Zen Master Explains Existence to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind

  • (20/08/26) Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern

  • (20/08/26) The Kids Are Really Alright

  • (18/08/26) I don’t enjoy the Internet any more

  • (18/08/26) Anthropic’s Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing

  • (14/08/26) Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

  • (14/08/26) Seven books I keep close because I love them

  • (13/08/26) Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling

  • (13/08/26) My rules for using spreadsheets

  • (12/08/26) AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

  • (07/08/26) Software is about people, not code

  • (30/07/26) Morel y compañía - Literal Magazine

  • (30/07/26) The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

  • (30/07/26) The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores

  • (16/07/26) The Lost Joy of Music Piracy: WhatCD, Oink, and Spotify | Pigeons and Planes

  • (14/07/26) Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

  • (06/07/26) Completing A Computer Science Degree On Coursera

  • (25/06/26) Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?

  • (17/06/26) The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear - Minid.net

  • (01/10/25) My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too

  • (01/10/25) This is where The Booker Prize nominees write: from kitchen tables to a cemetery bench

  • (30/09/25) Remember: Kurt Vonnegut was 47

  • (30/09/25) Cuentos imprescindibles del siglo XX de América Latina - Literal Magazine

  • (24/09/25) Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube

  • (18/09/25) KDE is now my favorite desktop — kokada

  • (17/09/25) Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE – Jonathan Riddell’s Diary

  • (17/09/25) Slow social media

  • (17/09/25) The old SF tech scene is dead. What it’s morphing into is far more sinister.

  • (17/09/25) What happened when teens tried out tech-free bedrooms?

  • (09/09/25) The Last Programmers || Xipu Li

  • (18/08/25) It’s the Housing, Stupid

  • (18/08/25) Who does your assistant serve?

  • (18/08/25) Why I prefer rST to markdown

  • (14/08/25) Optimizing Your Debian 13 Desktop

  • (08/08/25) Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole | Bytemash

  • (22/07/25) TODOs aren’t for doing – Sophie Alpert

  • (22/07/25) 🦊 How to Firefox - Kaushik Gopal’s Website

  • (21/07/25) I Used Arch, BTW: macOS, Day 1 - @yberreby

  • (21/07/25) Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project - and ditch the crufty MPA and complex SPA

  • (19/07/25) I’m rebelling against the algorithm

  • (09/07/25) Astro is a developers f***ing dream — Websmith Studio

  • (27/06/25) My Lights Run on Bash - Tomasz Kramkowski

  • (27/06/25) Thomas Aquinas — The world is divine

  • (27/06/25) You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

  • (24/06/25) how i use my terminal

  • (17/06/25) Hack the Planet: 90s Hacker Culture vs. Today’s AI Devs

  • (17/06/25) La sombría primavera de Unica Zürn - Literal Magazine

  • (16/06/25) Start your own Internet Resiliency Club – Bow Shock Systems Consulting

  • (04/06/25) Why I Wrote the BEAM Book

  • (02/06/25) Not So Common Thoughts

  • (02/06/25) Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?

  • (27/05/25) You share a house with Einstein, Hawking and Tao

  • (16/05/25) A Nice Cup of Tea | The Orwell Foundation

  • (16/05/25) Gateway Books | The Point Magazine

  • (14/05/25) I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search - Bloggeroo

  • (08/04/25) The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets

  • (02/04/25) An E-Bike Transformed My Family’s Life

  • (26/03/25) Stoop Coffee: How a Simple Idea Transformed My Neighborhood

  • (03/03/25) A Few of the Birds I Love

  • (03/03/25) Enfrenta Chihuahua un déficit de 6 metros cuadrados de áreas verdes por habitante: alerta el IMPLAN - El Heraldo de Chihuahua | Noticias Locales, Policiacas, de México, Chihuahua y el Mundo

  • (01/03/25) The Digital Packrat Manifesto

  • (23/02/25) Why Ruby on Rails still matters

  • (30/01/25) Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog

  • (07/01/25) Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet

  • (07/01/25) Software is eating the world, … all right

  • (04/01/25) Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE

  • (02/01/25) My favourite computer ergonomics hack

  • (02/01/25) Walter Isaacson: “My So-Called Writing Life”

  • (23/12/24) Feel, don’t think | nicole@web

  • (20/12/24) APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI

  • (12/12/24) When Your Hero Is A Monster

  • (11/12/24) Don’t Get Distracted

  • (11/12/24) Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) | nicole@web

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