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I listened to a Podcast episode of Modern Wisdom with Cal Newport. There was an interesting idea of him feeling like Cassandra. He called the problem of the modern knowledge work environment early and, in his book Deep Work, gave a pretty straightforward manual on how to sol...

June saw tax measures fail at the ballot across the Bay Area. Transit advocates are betting that a mass transit tax will be different.

Queensborough-Bridge, 1913 #newrealism #edwardhopper

I’m an independent developer working in Claude Code, we’re in the endgame of a product cycle, where the core is working and it can be used for the thing it was designed to do (biggest consideration). This is the time when you need users banging on it and reporting problems. People who write good bug […]

I think AI is the perfect innovation as we reach the crash point of the climate crisis. Who cares if we burn more CO2 now, the effect is miniscule for the explosive crisis that could be coming any day or week. One that we have no ability to recover from. To say it’s unenvironmental would […]

Inside the big AI companies they are certainly AI-izing every app conceivable, and even teaching the AI’s how to AI’ize, because AI inside a standard productivity app which includes social network software will be one of the basic UI tools, and that means hidden technology like SQL databases can now be end user products, so […]

Sloan on Fable: “This is literally the core muscle of any/every language model: ‘I need to quickly and accurately understand what kind of document I am inside.’ Yet the sensitivity of that orienteering, the subtlety of it, has gotten so much better.”

You cannot fill your belly with illusions.

This is a follow-up to “How long before we stop reading the code?“, which argued that traditional code review is

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It is difficult to pin down an international team's true quality and character based on the results of one brief tournament. The games are too few, and the environment too variable, to come to any definitive conclusions. But the games are revealing nonetheless, and any team ...

“Our lives have become dematerialized.” That phrase – from author Ian Bogost in a short piece in Wired – struck at the center of something I’ve been trying to verbalize for years. Bogost argues that technologies of convenience and efficiency have destroyed our connection to the physical world. His primary example is the automobile – … Continue reading "Have We Lost The Plot?"

We’re going to remove the hardened, cloudy lenses from your eyes by breaking them up with an ultrasound device, and then sucking the particles out. We will then insert a flexible silicone based lens. Over the next eight weeks, we … Continue reading →

Let me tell you about technography, a subject pioneered by Bernie De Koven in the 80s, with Living Videotext outliners.

Gather a group of one or more people, in a conference room, projected on a screen everyone could see. In the corner was the technographer, usually Bernie, and he would start the meeting asking for the agenda. They would start naming topics. Then he'd asking where they'd like to start, and he would move that item to the top, and keep going, and someone would say we should talk about this, and so forth.

As some point if it worked, if there was suspension of disbelief, someone would tell Bernie to move that item down, move another item under Sales, and without realizing it they were using a new tool. 

In 2026, I could see an app that did that for you or a group. An outliner integrated with AI.

Another day more fixes.

in the editor, create a link using the link icon, then after the link in the text press Enter, to create a new line. the linebreak shows up in the wrong place. 

That was a bug I reported a while back. Let's see if its still there.

Yesterday I was listening to Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts and the first few times I listened to it, it really reached me. After 18 listens all I could here were the weird embellishments they put into it to make to so addictive? Who knows. 

Net result, not reproducible. I think we can remove 151 from the list.

One of the silver linings of AI use is that it makes you a better writer.

Rivian has commenced an underwritten public offering of 75 million shares of common stock, a raise worth roughly $1.5 billion based on the stock’s recent price.

The capital raise lands just days after Rivian’s stock rallied on stronger-than-expected Q2 delivery results and a raised full-year outlook.

You can clip a cover over the cameras, which could be a double-edged sword.

The brand’s UR9 competes with similar offerings from higher-end brands like Samsung and LG.