Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.

A new way to group VMs, with shared resources and predictable pricing. Plus new Personal and Work plans.

A new way to group VMs, with shared resources and predictable pricing. Plus new Personal and Work plans.

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

Thoughts on how to DIY sustainably.

Alt: Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in The Matrix

Alt: Gandalf with his sword and staff saying “You Shall Not Pass”

Part 2 of a series on content strategy in the age of AI search. What the data actually says about AI traffic, zero-click searches, and the metrics that matter now.

Well over a decade ago, hundreds of conversations over a period of years crystalized into a book called The New Kingmakers. The core thesis of the book was simple: a constituency long thought to be po...

In the wake of the various recent allegations involving Neil Gaiman, people have been both very sad that someone who they looked up to as an inspiration has, allegedly, turned out to be something l…

'Never forget, because people are still struggling. People are still dying.'

Read the declaration and add your name.

Prototype designed using chemical in crustacean shells remains 99.7% efficient after about 400 hours

A humble kitchen waste might outlast the batteries powering your phone.

“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...

The Voice is sad, sincere, and holding the launch codes. Its demand is simple: deliver Peter Alan Mueller.

I'm seeing more and more neuroscience methods pop up in software research. In particular, I see a lot of EEG (probably because it's cheap, at least the low density less informative systems are cheap, ...

These are the four pillars that make the dimmer switch possible. You need to understand them so you know where to lean in, what to ask for, and how to provide the feedback that makes the whole system work.

Delete your features

Joel Spolsky's twelve questions still hold, but agents demand nine more. Call it the Shelley test.

Joel Spolsky's twelve questions still hold, but agents demand nine more. Call it the Shelley test.

On episode 11 of Third Loop, Chad Fowler explores regenerative software and what architecture looks like when AI makes code cheap enough to continually replace.

Alt: Transformers: Hot Rod, now named Rodimus Prime Unleashes the Matrix.

Complex software systems develop over timescales that exceed the lifespan of any individual coding agent. Most agentic software systems preserve continuity through persistent sessions, memories, manag...

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Why building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software

The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.