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aeon.co/essays/what-we-think-is-a-decline-in-literacy-is-a-design-problem
The choice isn’t between books and screens. The choice is between intentional design and profitable chaos. Between habitats that cultivate human potential and platforms that extract human attention.
Reading Finn Mac Cool by Morgan Llywelyn.
It feels like all my peers are experiencing Deep Blue and having to choose their future career path:
expert in a dying field
or
collaborator in a fascist project.
Eleven years ago, I wrote:
Sometimes I consider the explosive growth of computation and think that strong AI is a near-term inevitability.
Then I remember printers.
That was just a brainfart, but Robin tackles it seriously in his thoughtful essay.
A pleasing image: if indeed AI automation does not flood fill the physical world, it will be because the humble paper jam stood in its way.
Software cannot, in fact, eat this world. Software can reflect it; encroach upon it; more than anything, distract us from it. But the real physical world is indigestible.
Friday session
Having fun with https://pixelframe.design/dune-font-logo-generator/
Thursday session
These assholes https://www.openui.com/ did not do any due diligence before choosing a name.
The only Open UI that counts is https://open-ui.org/
I mean, I would ask for the country first (because not all countries have zip/postal codes), but the point stands…
remysharp.com/2026/03/18/web-of-state-of-the-browser-day-out
A lovely post from Remy about State Of The Browser and Web Day Out.
dehora.net/journal/2026/working-with-agents-doesnt-feel-like-flow
Related to Matt’s thoughts:
…working with agents feels much less like classic deep work, and much more like playing a game. Not to say the work is frivolous—it’s just because it feels like I’m in a game loop.
Flow, at least in the usual sense for me, feels smooth and continuous. The work and your attention starts to line up so cleanly that the experience becomes frictionless. You disappear into the work and meld with it. One notable aspect of flow has been I lose track of time. Working with agents on the other hand, is not like that at all. It’s highly engaging, but in a more jagged, reactive way. I’m focused, but not settled. I’m absorbed, but not merged with the task. I’m paying close attention the whole time, but the attention is dynamic and tactical rather than continuous. I don’t lose track of time at all.
Most of your screen time isn’t leisure. It isn’t addiction. It isn’t even a choice.
It’s maintenance.
Second St. Patrick’s Day session
‘’Tis Saint Patrick himself!
Interlude with dancers
First St. Patrick’s Day session
It’s weird how there’s a subgenre of time-dilation folklore in Japan and Ireland…
Urashima Tarō: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D
Oisín in Tir na nÓg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ois%C3%ADn
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh, a chairde!
Brian takes us back twenty years (which is when we first met):
To gather so many like-minded, energetic people in once place and not have it ruined by corporate greed felt unique.
Matt has some smart reckons on the relationship between time and technology:
The factory bell, the railway timetable, the telegraph wire, the always-on smartphone — each imposed a new temporal discipline, each produced its own characteristic form of exhaustion, and each was eventually (partially, imperfectly) domesticated through a combination of regulation, design, and collective action.
slop·py·pas·ta n. Verbatim LLM output copy-pasted at someone, unread, unrefined, and unrequested. From slop (low-quality AI-generated content) + copypasta (text copied and pasted, often as a meme, without critical thought). It is considered rude because it asks the recipient to do work the sender did not bother to do themselves.
Just heard the sad news of Dolores Keane’s passing.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a hanam.
Sunday evening session
Sunday afternoon session
Reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
Tea and tunes
What a fantastic bunch of speakers! Thank you all for making #WebDayOut so great!
