Children are notoriously bad at delaying gratification to achieve later, greater rewards (e.g., Piaget, 1970)—and some are worse at waiting than other…

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Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

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It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

In the fast-evolving landscape of ecommerce, WooCommerce has long stood out as a flexible and powerful platform, largely thanks to its deep extensibility. Developers (like myself), agencies, and store...

Linux Foundation announces FAIR Package Manager project, creating simplicity, security and consistency for the WordPress ecosystem

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"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

Convex is now self-hostable. We’ve open sourced the dashboard, added support for storing data in Postgres in addition to SQLite (plus MySQL very soon!), and packaged it all up in a docker container yo...

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I've seen a lot of talk recently about all the work that we need to do to help usher in the new age of "AI Agents." That really begs the question, does our technology still work for us or are we worki...

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Journalists’ flawed math and ignorance of crypto markets turn tokens into fake fortunes

A naive equation works well when estimating the value of small quantities of popular crypto tokens, but it's also being used to estimate values of illiquid tokens and the market capitalization of all ...

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Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.

Figured I’d follow last week’s post about metrics being misused with a list of numbers taken out of context ;) • Wrote 14 15 blog posts (here and the work blog)...

This last year at my job has been a crash course in team ownership and vision-setting. At the beginning of 2024, I took on responsibility for defining a new path...