Ideas

A discussion of ideas on business, society and culture

Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech

published on 2024/09/15
Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

published on 2024/09/02
Founder mode

published on 2024/09/02
Quint is a an executable specification language

published on 2024/07/31
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab

published on 2024/05/05
Time-based CSS Animations

published on 2024/05/05
The Man Who Killed Google Search

published on 2024/04/24
Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing

published on 2024/03/04
The 14 pains of building your own billing system

published on 2024/02/27
On Tailwind

published on 2024/02/18
I didn't invent RSS. I did something much greater, I compromised.

published on 2024/02/12
Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media

published on 2024/02/07
The three types of time

published on 2024/02/04
Pinball Map

published on 2024/02/03
Agile as a micromanagement tool

published on 2024/01/30
👋 Boardzilla is a framework to make writing a digital board game easy

published on 2024/01/30
Why Everyone Hates The Electronic Medical Record

published on 2024/01/30
Future power systems with today's weather

published on 2024/01/24
Why isn't Bluesky a peer-to-peer network?

published on 2024/01/22
FSRS is a modern spaced repetition algorithm

published on 2024/01/16
Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior

published on 2024/01/14
HTML First

published on 2024/01/11
GodotOS - an OS like interface written in Godot game engine

published on 2024/01/11
HOCON (Human-Optimized Config Object Notation)

published on 2024/01/09
Where have all the websites gone?

published on 2024/01/09
Programming as Theory Building

published on 2024/01/09
Textcasting is applying the philosophy of podcasting to text

published on 2023/12/31
A simple, human-readable format for suggesting changes to plain text files

published on 2023/12/28
On documentation

published on 2023/12/28
10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning

published on 2023/12/27
Favorite blog posts of 2023 by Hacker News

published on 2023/12/26
BlueSky now has RSS feed

published on 2023/12/24
Why are things expensive

published on 2023/12/19
On Mastodon Support in NetNewsWire

published on 2023/12/18
The cult-like battles between E-Acc and the AI Doomers

published on 2023/12/13
Advent of distributed systems

published on 2023/12/13
omg.lol: an oasis on the internet

published on 2023/12/11
The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore

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Dobb·E - An open-source, general framework for learning household robotic manipulation

published on 2023/11/30
CUPID—for joyful coding

published on 2023/11/27
Refrain from investing in new vector database and instead expand the capabilities of existing ones

published on 2023/11/26
RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information

published on 2023/11/20
SpecLang: natural language to AI implemenation

published on 2023/11/12
The Future of RSS is Textcasting

published on 2023/11/05
Nota is a language for writing documents

published on 2023/10/20
Reorient GitHub Pull Requests Around Changesets

published on 2023/10/01
code.gov is the hub for US Federal system OSS

published on 2023/09/11
Developing better developers

published on 2023/09/11
The Glitch Gallery

published on 2023/09/03
Happy Starfield Eve

published on 2023/08/31
Orca is a two-dimensional esoteric programming language

published on 2023/08/30
100 year websites program

published on 2023/08/28
Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data

published on 2023/08/20
Do we really need a specialized vector database?

published on 2023/08/12
Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed

published on 2023/08/06
The Cryptographer Who Ensures We Can Trust Our Computers

published on 2023/07/31
Visualizing every job in the world

published on 2023/07/27
HTML Review

published on 2023/07/18
The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy

published on 2023/07/13
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes

published on 2023/07/06
Joins 13 Ways

published on 2023/07/04
GPT-Migrate - Easily migrate your codebase from one framework or language to another.

published on 2023/07/02
Culture eats policy

published on 2023/06/25
Worse practices in software

published on 2023/06/24
UI With Noria

published on 2023/06/21
Apple Vision Pro looks fantastic

published on 2023/06/06
Typst is a LaTeX alternative

published on 2023/06/01
OpenAPI v4 (aka Moonwalk) Proposal

published on 2023/06/01
My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated

published on 2023/05/16
Textcasting - Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text

published on 2023/05/16
A Flexible Type System for Fearless Concurrency

published on 2023/05/14
Strongly worded criticism of AT protocol

published on 2023/05/10
published on 2023/05/05
The internet of social media apps

published on 2023/05/05
scrapscript

published on 2023/04/29
Immutability Changes Everything

published on 2023/04/24
Authenticated Transfer Protocol

published on 2023/04/23
Game UI database

published on 2023/04/23
When should a decision be fast, or slow?

published on 2023/04/09
Trillian: The Crowdsourced Knowledge Graph for AI

published on 2023/04/06
editable-website is a svelte template to power editable website

published on 2023/04/06
PDF 2.0 standard is now available

published on 2023/04/06
Tim Cook on Shaping the Future of Apple

published on 2023/04/04
A skeptic on Chat GPT

published on 2023/04/01
Chat Thing is a service that allows you to create a ChatGPT AI chat bot based on your own data

published on 2023/03/29
The venture capitalist's dilemma

published on 2023/03/24
PocketBase

published on 2023/02/14
Dittytoy allows you to create generative music using a minimalistic javascript API.

published on 2023/01/24
Typs: Compose papers faster

published on 2023/01/18
How to draw ideas

published on 2023/01/15
Theory-building and why employee churn is lethal to software companies

published on 2023/01/11
The C4 model for visualising software architecture

published on 2023/01/05
The faker's guide to reading (x86) assembly language

published on 2023/01/04
You Want Modules, Not Microservices

published on 2023/01/04
Happy New Year 2023

published on 2023/01/01
Writers deserve better

published on 2022/12/29
Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone

published on 2022/12/28
Reflection for 2023

published on 2022/12/27
Marginalia Search

published on 2022/12/27
Building Hypermedia Systems

published on 2022/12/26
Ink is narrative scripting language for games

published on 2022/12/22
textcasting

published on 2022/12/15
How to rebuild social media on top of RSS

published on 2022/12/14
Why we love podcast and RSS

published on 2022/12/13
Djot is a markup syntax in similar to Markdown

published on 2022/12/06
A team that reduces costs of other teams is not on anyone’s critical path

published on 2022/12/01
Firefox Translation is an addon that perform translation offline

published on 2022/11/30
An interactive compiler tutorial

published on 2022/11/27
Stable Diffusion 2.0 released

published on 2022/11/24
Scaling Mastodon is Impossible

published on 2022/11/16
SpaceDrive is a cross platform file manager

published on 2022/11/07
A robust defense of programming language type system

published on 2022/11/02
Rediscovering the Small Web

published on 2022/10/31
Meadow is an embedded development kit based on .NET

published on 2022/10/29
The Twelve-Factor App methodology

published on 2022/10/28
NocoDB is an open source AirTable alternative

published on 2022/10/26
Report: 81% of IT teams directed to reduce or halt cloud spending by C-suite

published on 2022/10/19
Stripe is Paypal circa 2010

published on 2022/10/11
microblog.pub is a self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog.

published on 2022/10/10
On building a feed reader

published on 2022/10/06
In defense of apps that don’t need updates

published on 2022/09/27
Happy 20th Birthday to RSS 2.0

published on 2022/09/19
Increase.com provides banking API

published on 2022/09/14
Steve Job Archive

published on 2022/09/08
Time Till Open Source Alternative

published on 2022/08/28
What companies can learn from libraries about open spaces

published on 2022/08/08
A case of using Godot to make C# indie game

published on 2022/07/17
Electric vehicle battery capable of 98% charge in less than ten minutes

published on 2022/06/14
The balance has shifted away from SPAs

published on 2022/05/23
A great Web 3 critic blog

published on 2022/05/18
Cloudflare is becoming more viable as a development platform

published on 2022/05/15
Interesting design patterns for blogs

published on 2022/05/01
An interesting thought on technology ROI

published on 2022/04/28
RSS is a two way protocol

published on 2022/04/26
Khan Academy launches an online highschol

published on 2022/04/27
Various techniques to enable culture of writing

published on 2022/04/26
The gig workers fighting back against the algorithms

published on 2022/04/25
Architecture Decision Record

published on 2022/04/06
Building the tech instead of building the product

published on 2022/04/05
Apple Is in a League of Its Own

published on 2022/04/03
Don't outsource your competency away

published on 2021/05/03
Bad software sent postal workers to jail, because no one wanted to admit it could be wrong

published on 2021/04/24
Everything is a software company

published on 2021/03/21
500 million dollars lesson in UX

published on 2021/02/18
Security is hard #1934

published on 2021/02/15
Impressive growth on Microsoft Azure

published on 2021/02/11
Friendly XMPP messaging

published on 2021/02/11
The Web Project Guide - a fantastic resource

published on 2021/01/27
Why does it take so long to build software?

published on 2021/01/27
Welcome 2021

published on 2021/01/26
The affordable AI Sensors

published on 2019/07/12
Open source government

published on 2013/09/01
User hostility in Android mobile games

published on 2019/05/19
Refurbish, do not rebuild

published on 2019/05/12
The Crisis

published on 2019/08/24
A moral failure in tech

published on 2019/09/07
Happy New Year

published on 2020/01/01
Maybe there's a method in this insanity, maybe not

published on 2019/08/09
There are still much more to come

published on 2019/06/18
We Stan House of Mormont

published on 2019/04/29
Remote work is the future of work

published on 2019/05/08
What looks new, is new

published on 2013/10/13

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