The Boring Internet
The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.

What Sort of AI Bubble Are We In?
Think broadband. Or, potentially, the 2008 housing market.

The Design of the Internet, Revealed by Conversation
Internet architecture principles revealed by IETF conversation analysis using vCons
I Tried Every iOS Terminal Emulator So You Don't Have To
(that support Mosh because otherwise what are we even doing)

Building games that can be understood at a glance
Building games that can be understood at a glance - Zach Gage, GDC 2018

A Liability Framework for AI Companions
<p><span>Every day tens of millions of people engage in online conversations. These virtual interactions range from casual chats about daily life to deeply pers
AI and Doctrinal Collapse
Artificial intelligence runs on data. But the two legal regimes that govern data—information privacy law and copyright law—are under pressure. Formally, each re
Meet the Author: Alicia Solow-Niederman
Alicia Solow-NiedermanAssociate Professor of LawGeorge Washington University Law School

Mouth Coding
Lately, I've been talking websites into existence. Not metaphorically, but actually sitting in important meetings with people — clients, collaborators, my wife, friends, neighbors — watching real websites materialize in front of us as we converse. I've been half-jokingly call it mouth coding, and


I Reverse-Engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab From Marketing Photos. Here's Why Your $1,400 Is Probably Gone.
A $1.7M Kickstarter built on forked academic research, undisclosed MoE architectures, split memory pools behind PCIe bottlenecks, and a company that won't tell you who they are. I did the math. The math doesn't care.

Turning a Gaussian Splat Into a Videogame | PlayCanvas Blog
How I turned a photogrammetric 3D Gaussian Splat scene into a playable browser FPS - with collision, pre-baked lighting, navmesh-driven NPCs and behavior-tree AI, all in PlayCanvas.

Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem
A ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had thought of. Experts believe it may have further uses

Fluidstack selected by Anthropic to deliver custom data centers in New York and Texas - Fluidstack: Leading AI Cloud Platform for Training and Inference
The $50 billion investment in American computing infrastructure will create approximately 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations
A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

crawshaw - 2026-04-22
Today is fundraising announcement day. As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily become impersonal at scale. But I would like to write something personal about why I am doing this. What is the goal of building exe.dev? I am already the co-founder of one startup that is doing very well, selling a product I love as much as when I first helped design and build it.