A Great Story Capturing the Essence of Being Online in 2026 🔗
I made a note of it, but Bryan Cantrill wrote a post about the ex-Anthropic employee who pegged the probability of AI killing humanity in the next dec [...]
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The iPhone Model Hall of Fame 🔗
John Gruber makes his picks for the iPhone Hall of Fame: iPhone (original) iPhone 4 iPhone 5S iPhone X iPhone 17 Pro Ok, my turn. Here’s my iPhone Hal [...]
Do You Prefer Artificial? 🔗
“Artificial” things can get a bad rap next to their counterparts, but they have their place. For example, artificial light (i.e. not from the sun)? Su [...]
Bottlenecks Get a Bad Rap 🔗
Poor bottlenecks. Always seen as problematic, antithetical to efficiency. But bottlenecks aren’t universally bad. Think about it: a bottle’s neck is d [...]
Preserving Netlify Analytics Data Beyond 30 Days 🔗
I’ve got Netlify Analytics turned on for a few of my websites. I use it send myself a little daily digest that alerts me when folks link to my writing [...]
An Ode to Links 🔗
A URL is a technical thing: a hostname, a path, a port, an origin, some query parameters, etc. But a link is a cultural thing: an invitation, a citati [...]
Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables 🔗
Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just me!” I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw: I just du [...]
The Bulldozing of an Interface 🔗
Marcin Wichary has a lovely article titled “Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2”. If you’re into the minutiae of interface design, this is a good [...]
Can We Stop With the Uptime Percentages? 🔗
I was reading Jason Gorman’s article “The Wall Confronting Reliable Coding Agent Autonomy” and he says: the journey from 90% to 99% reliability is jus [...]
Nobody Believes It, Everybody Does It 🔗
Speaking of things we know individually, but let slide collectively, here’s Jeremy Keith talking about how we all used Flash: Remember when almost eve [...]