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2026

19 posts
Oct 1

Quoting Pranav Desai: 10 Tells of a Slop UI

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Aug 24

Turn Apple Music Playlists Into Mixtapes With AppleScript, Markdown & JavaScript

Aug 19

AI;DR or Don't Be a Meat Proxy

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Aug 6

The Monthly Dispatch - The Lighter Summer Edition

Jul 3

The Monthly Dispatch - June 2026

Jun 20

Wait, Midjourney Is Building a What Now?

May 31

The Monthly Dispatch - May 2026

May 17

Quoting Sameer Al-Sakran: Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of Open Source Security

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May 9

Notes From Inside China's AI Labs

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Apr 30

The Monthly Dispatch - April 2026

Mar 30

The Monthly Dispatch - March 2026

Feb 28

Curious & Confused: TIL in February 2026

Feb 12

Quoting Ethan Mollick: A Lot Is Going to Change

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Feb 10

AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

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Feb 2

Curious & Confused: TIL in January 2026

Jan 31

Moltbook Is Fascinating, and Kind of Terrifying

Jan 21

Hilary Gridley's AI Steering Wheel

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Jan 8

The Camera You Have on Hand: Using Codex Web to Act on Ideas Instantly

Jan 3

Quoting Ethan Mollick: Managing Agents Is Really a Management Problem

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2025

49 posts
Dec 30

Quoting Jason Gorman: The Future of Software Development Is Software Developers

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Dec 29

My Writing Workflow: From Reading to Publishing

Dec 26

From 9 Posts to 47: Building, Breaking, and Learning With AI in 2025

Dec 25

Curious & Confused: TIL in December 2025

Dec 11

Quoting Bryan Newbold: Why Leaving X Makes Sense

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Dec 6

Quoting Johann Rehberger: The Normalization of Deviance in AI

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Dec 6

Quoting the Resonant Computing Manifesto

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Nov 30

Curious & Confused: TIL in September - November 2025

Nov 20

A First Look at Prototyping With Gemini 3 and Google AI Studio

Nov 17

Quoting Elena Verna: My Beef With AI Credit Pricing

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Nov 3

Experimenting With Codex CLI, Agents.md, and PRDs

Oct 24

Quoting Geoffrey Litt: Code Like a Surgeon

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Sep 22

On Vibe Coding Cleanup as a Service

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Sep 2

Curious & Confused: TIL in July - August 2025

Sep 2

Quoting Michael Bassili: I Miss Using Em Dashes

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Aug 27

Quoting Bruce Schneier: We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs

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Aug 20

Prototyping a Tag Manager Component With ChatGPT and Cursor

Aug 19

Quoting Anu Atluru: Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling

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Aug 8

GPT-5 First Impressions

Aug 6

What Is Slopsquatting?

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Aug 4

Quoting Orta Therox: Programming’s ‘Introduction to Photography’ Moment

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Jul 16

Quoting Vincent Schmalbach: My LLMs Have Personalities

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Jul 7

Curious & Confused: TIL in May - June 2025

Jul 5

Quoting Simon Willison: Identify, Solve, Verify

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Jul 2

Quoting John Rush: Building a Personal AI Factory

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Jun 17

Quoting Simon Willison: The Lethal Trifecta for AI Agents

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Jun 12

Quoting Devansh: Fine-Tuning LLMs Is a Huge Waste of Time

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May 3

Curious & Confused: TIL in April 2025

Apr 27

Quoting Sean Goedecke: Debugging, Emotional Resilience, and Mental Models

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Apr 26

Watching o3 Guess a Photo’s Location Is Kinda Scary

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Apr 11

Quoting Drew Breunig on Domain Experts & Developers

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Apr 7

How Secure Is MCP, Really?

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Apr 5

Matt Webb, Interview for People and Blogs:

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Apr 2

Curious & Confused: TIL in March 2025

Mar 2

Curious & Confused: TIL in February 2025

Feb 13

The Future Belongs to Idea Guys Who Can Just Do Things

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Feb 10

The Anthropic Economic Index by Anthropic

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Jan 31

Curious & Confused: TIL in January 2025

Jan 29

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data They Stole First

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Jan 28

Your Very Own Benjamin Gates With ChatGPT

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Jan 22

Think of Local-First as a Hardening Function.

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Jan 19

Digital Sovereignty Is More Important Than Ever

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Jan 16

A Guide to AI Prototyping for Product Managers

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Jan 14

ChatGPT Reveals the System Prompt for Tasks

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Jan 14

The 2025 AI Engineering Reading List

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Jan 10

Street-Fighting RAG: Chain-of-Thought Prompting

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Jan 4

Challenging the "LLMs Are Just Next-Token Predictors" Take

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Jan 4

Tracking Flights Over My House With ChatGPT and Claude

Jan 3

Can LLMs Write Better Code If You Keep Asking Them to “Write Better Code”?

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2024

9 posts
Dec 31

Things We Learned About LLMs in 2024

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Dec 29

OpenAI’s Board: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’

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Dec 15

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really?

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Nov 8

Perfect Is the Enemy of Good

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Nov 1

To Auto-Save or Not to Auto-Save?

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Oct 24

Art Display With Real-Time Image Diffusion

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Oct 18

What I Should Have Focused on When Picking Freelance Gigs

Oct 10

The Web Is Too Big, or Scaling Down

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Jul 25

The Lost Charm of the Early Internet

2022

1 post
Jan 28

Get Your Raindrop.io Bookmarks Into Obsidian Using Pandoc

2021

1 post
Oct 9

2021 Podcasts Recommendations

2020

1 post
Feb 6

The Brand New 2020 Aspiring Nerd Blog Has Arrived!

2017

32 posts
Dec 27

Net Neutrality Is Dead, Cryptojacking Keeps Spreading & the Mirai Botnet Isn’t What You Think

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Nov 15

Parts of the US Internet Broke Down, a Poor Guy Stole and Lost $300m in Cryptocurrency by Accident

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Oct 23

WiFi Is Broken, Big Brother Lives in China and Robots Are Coming for Wall Street!

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Oct 17

Disqus Leaks User Data, Equifax Still Struggles With Cybersecurity

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Oct 10

AIM Shuts Down After 20 Years, Kaspersky Lab Might Be Working With the Kremlin

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Oct 2

Deloitte Leaks Clients’ Secret Emails, Uber Wants to Leave Quebec and the New Firefox Quantum Is Out

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Sep 25

Uber Loses Licence in London, Google Buys HTC Talents for $1.1B & CCleaner Distributes Malware Million Users

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Sep 17

Equifax Breach Exposes Millions of US Consumers’ Data, China Bans Cryptocurrencies & Bluetooth Flaw Puts Billions at Risk

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Sep 5

Google Breaks Japan’s Internet, DDoS Botnets Keep Growing & Central Banks Get Interested in Cryptocurrencies

Aug 28

HBO Keeps Getting Hacked, Cryptocurrencies Are Not Currencies & Robots Won’t Take All Our Jobs

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Aug 18

The Daily Stormer Sucks, Trumps Disbands Business Councils & China’s Headed for AI World Domination

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Aug 11

Google’s Diversity Memo Shakes the Web, Walt Disney's Leaving Netflix & Researchers Infected a Computer With DNA

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Aug 4

China Censors Apple and Amazon, Cryptocurrencies Are the New Gold & Hyperloop Is the Future of Public Transportation

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Jul 28

Sweden Leaks Massive Data, Amazon Misleads Consumers & the Library of Congress Opens Its Catalogs

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Jul 21

$31M+ Stolen in Cryptocurrencies, New Blockchain Challenges & Japan Sent a Drone to Space!

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Jul 14

Internet Fights for Net Neutrality, Bacteria Can Store Animated Gifs & AI Is at War With Journalists

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Jul 7

Fake News Is Scarier Than Ever, Blockchain Struggles With Scaling & Online Privacy Still an Issue

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Jun 30

Petya Breaks Computers, EU Fines Google €2.42B

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Jun 23

Amazon Buys Whole Foods, Uber’s CEO Resigns and the NSA Goes Open Source

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Jun 16

Internet Trends 2017 Are Out, Hacking Power Grids Is Possible & the Blockchain Keeps Growing

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Jun 9

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #12

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Jun 2

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #11

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May 26

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #10

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May 19

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #9

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May 12

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #8

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May 7

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #7

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Apr 27

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #6

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Apr 21

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #5

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Apr 14

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #4

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Apr 7

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #3

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Mar 31

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #2

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Mar 24

The Aspiring Nerd — Issue #1

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2010

2 posts
Mar 15

Discovery: Google Public Data Explorer

Jan 24

What's Going on Inside the Brains of Internet Users?

2009

10 posts
Oct 3

Posterous: My Ideal Publishing Format?

Aug 3

BruTwestival Is Back—and Needs You!

Jul 20

Thesis: Rumors 2.0 or Just a Matter of Semantics

Jul 14

Social Media Releases for the Music Industry

Jun 16

Social Media and the Iranian Elections

Jun 4

What Could Google Wave Change for Students?

May 22

Are iPhone Apps Better Than Flash Ecards!?

Mar 22

How Would I Use Twitter If I Had an Indie Band?

Mar 20

Underground Record Labels and Twitter

Feb 10

Brussels Twestival 2009

2008

18 posts
Nov 30

Alien Links Are Taking Over the Web!

Oct 24

Belgian Usability Day 2008: Program

Oct 22

Dissertation About Electronic Rumours: I Need Your Help!

Oct 19

Bright One: Communication With a Social Purpose

Sep 20

Why We Use Facebook to Promote Our Concerts

Aug 18

Design Help via Twitter

Jul 29

Some Tips for Using Social Media Well

Jul 9

Google’s Ad Targeting Gets Sharper

Mar 22

EuroBlog 2008: What’s Next

Mar 9

EuroBlog 2008: Final Countdown

Feb 28

interMedias: It's On!

Feb 24

Download 'The Future of Reputation' for Free!

Feb 23

Buzz Marketing, According to Kapferer (in 1987)

Feb 16

Study From TNS Sofres: Web 2.0 and Business

Feb 13

I Don't Seek News Anymore—It Finds Me!

Feb 11

Can User-Generated Content Predict Music Sales?

Feb 11

Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales

Feb 7

Euroblog 2008: Social Media and the Future of PR