latest reads

(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