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2026
How to Evaluate AI-Generated Assets for Client WorkJul 23The Codebase Was the BriefJul 14I Stopped Prompting AI and Started Managing It. A Paperclip Field Report on Agentic Workflows.Mar 28Give Your Agent a MailboxMar 25A Second Pair of Eyes (Made of API Calls)Mar 9Inbox UnsulliedFeb 25The CI That Fixes ItselfFeb 24I Let Claude Read My EmailFeb 20The Easiest Hard Thing I've Ever BuiltFeb 13A Hundred Commits and a NapFeb 10Vaporwave Sunglasses and the Polyend Play+Feb 4Back to GitHub ActionsFeb 1Self-hosted CI on Fly.io for $5/monthJan 31The Questions Shaped the AnswerJan 25The stack you know is probably the right stackJan 21
2024
Whenever I get down on my job, I need to remember I've incorporated command line tools called '...Jul 17HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is now punkMay 30the internet was good to me today...Apr 4Everything is amazing, nobody is happyFeb 22We moved to a JiT model for laundry and it a) is better and b) sure makes it look like I have t...Jan 31Full-stack engineer sure is a fancy way to write “generalist.”...Jan 30Visionless (a Vision Pro take)Jan 23How to enjoy yourself when you've been conned onlineJan 18The internet I care about has become a lot smallerJan 5How I try to emailJan 2
2023
I made music with John and put it on the streaming platformsDec 25I’m the Her (2013) guy now. ChatGPT and the whole AI thing… there’s some problems. Some real p...Dec 25My next OLED TV probably just gets strapped to my faceDec 15THE PURITANICAL EYE: HYPER-MEDIATION, SEX ON FILM, AND THE DISAVOWAL OF DESIRE this is so good....Dec 4Duke libraries drop Basecamp. Don’t fuck with librarians: they’re experts at reading between th...Dec 1self-merching / self-careOct 31regularly marking the whole inbox as read and moving things into a $currentYear folder is a hig...Oct 26chatgpt made an audio processing script for meOct 24reading these lamentations of the internet and social media of yore popular in the last month o...Oct 23the internet is broken and we can fix itOct 17I’m 38 and just starting to understand that I’m allowed to organize my clothes however my brain...Oct 16“Judah this is the heigth of musical accomplishment by Western civilization. It was Beethoven, ...Oct 8how to rebuild a read it later habit...Oct 6I see you toast, making Apple Pay less convenient because you want “express checkout with toast...Aug 2It’s an edge case until it isn’t: sharing an iCloud link edition. I’m uploading a 4m video to ...Aug 1The Bear s2e6 is god-tier TVJul 26The Bear is a mirror for America we don't want to look atJul 12Perpetual Static MachineJul 11I’d love to see a Tim and Eric style public service announcement with very calm, clinical indiv...Jul 8Safari Tab Groups: A Filing Cabinet for HypermediaJun 16Notification managementApr 5Sorry my phone wasn’t normal computer enough....Mar 28JTBD
Most people really don't want to use computers at all. They want to get a job done.
...Mar 24my bird feeder has been begging me to charge it for weeks.Mar 21I had to wish somebody a “Happy St. Paddy’s Day” today and I have no idea what that means. I’m ...Mar 17How to make a web app in 2023Mar 8It's okay to disengageMar 2robots & sunflowersJan 20
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2012
On Never Being Bleeding EdgeMay 29More Stylish Content with Typography & CSSMar 26The New iPadMar 8Bless this CSS Mess with CompassFeb 29Messages.app Gets Cross-Device Notifications Just RightFeb 16Above the Fold in 2012Feb 15Sublime Text 2 and Columns View and a WishFeb 7Bash Convert All Your SCSS (or CSS) to SASS in One LineFeb 1
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