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I know a young student in Germany who needs to learn about relevance of the Entscheidungsproblem and Alan Turing to today’s work in computation—who should I put them in touch with?
I know a young student in Germany who needs to learn about relevance of the Entscheidungsproblem and Alan Turing to today’s work in computation—who should I put them in touch with?
Deshittifying the web, day 2
The perfect app for an AI to do for you is a demo app. Yesterday I wrote about making WordPress boom with new apps for writers that run in the web ecosystem, not as plug-ins, in JS running in the browser, or on the desktop, any desktop, that would work too. Probably would be...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
The Lost Art of the Amusing WiFi Hotspot Name, indeed
Dan Q wrote The Lost Art of the Amusing WiFi Hotspot Name and I have to say, among the apartment dwellers such as me, it’s not entirely a lost art. True, there are many very boring default wifi hotspot names. But there are are a handful which have the capacity to amuse. To wit: Casa...
For people who like the view from trains as much as I do, here is a minute and a half video of us just rolling through the French countryside.
The new ChatGPT Pro at $100/month seems essentially just as good as the previous $200/month plan. It appears to even include Pulse. I’m gonna try to switch to get a feel for the token limits. I could never come close to hitting limits before.
Garcia Coffee House.
Morning in Malaga.
How to use ways
Let's make WordPress boom
New ways to write with WordPress as the back-end.
Build an API that combines what wpcom does and storage.
Recruit devs to create products for this environment.
Anything that might require text editing is a good idea.
Gutenberg will be one of these editors.
I will provide W...
In yet another surprising turn of events, today I joined a library. And borrowed a book of fiction. To read.
The AI Great Leap Forward
leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
In 1958, Mao ordered every village in China to produce steel. Farmers melted down their cooking pots in backyard furnaces and reported spectacular numbers. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Thirty million people starved.
In 2026, every other company is having top down mandate on AI transformation.
Same energy.
Interesting points in this blog post by Andrew Murphy (via Nick Heer) about how writing code faster isn’t the problem. But most of it is really about large teams that have bureaucratic delay fish.
AI can be empowering for small teams. I’m probably shipping software twice as fast with half the bugs.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Wednesday Updates
I will start a new job on Monday. In the lead up to that I suspect posting to my own site will slow down–somewhat. But then again, maybe not. I’ve done a good job updating how my site works to an extent it’s super malleable for me. But things have been updated. I’ve made so...
I’m fixing several things in the iOS app for Micro.blog… If anyone wants to get on the beta, you can join TestFlight here. Will ship to everyone and Android in about a week.
A uBlock Origin custom rule to hide “Related Videos” (and more) on YouTube
michaelkupietz.com/a-ublock-origin-custom-rule-to-hide-related-videos-and-more-on-youtube/
Today has been utterly barmy, and not only the weather.
My salary history
Times are tough out there. I know that a lot of people are looking for work, which can be a very stressful experience.
One of the things that can make the job search stressful is uncertainty. There’s a real taboo around talking about salaries. This taboo ends up benefiting ...
Music, story(ies)
I was inspired by, of all things, a video monologue by a Scottish surfer [1] who said that the future for them was challenging themselves in new ways. My guitar was close by and I thought maybe I should give myself a bit of a challenge too. I picked up my guitar and looked up...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The bottleneck shifts to distribution
"There is a fixed amount of scarce attention to go around, and too many people want it. The metagame becomes: secure attention by any means necessary."