A recommendation for: “The Last Gifts of the Universe” by Riley August

I love studying languages. Learning a new language takes time, and sometimes we assume we should be better at it. But learning to communicate with new groups helps us to understand and connect with the people around us.

Outsail the Royal Navy in your browser. Real sailing physics, 5-minute voyages, 30 historical treasures to recover. Free to play.

If there's one thing that the Kindle got right, it was made to endure. And endure it did.

Open Source before GitHub was reputation-driven and full of friction

Memory makers are only expected to meet 60 percent of demand by the end of 2027.

Many of the "thousands" of bugs and vulnerabilities it found are in older software, or are impossible to exploit.

Some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, an appreciation for folk music, and some other thoughts.

The virtuous circle is the most powerful pattern in developer tooling. And it's the myth of the 10x developer that makes it hard to see.

The story of the many people and communities that converged to build npmx together

I am grateful that time is passed. I regret that I walked into it at all.

If you're going to reach for AI, you are passing up learning opportunities, moments of struggle, and breakthroughs.

AI is potentially helpful, but always harmful to creativity and expression. We should not be relying on it, and yet we are.

The universe may never know we're there, but we can still enjoy its beauty in the quiet moments, watching starlight that has taken years to reach us.

“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”