🤏 Making my tiny e-reader practical: a guide to the Xteink X4
The tools and configs I use with my Xteink X4.
epistemic garden - mapping how ideas spread online
We're building tools to help communities understand their information landscape and protect against harmful coordinated narratives.
🤏 Making my tiny e-reader practical: a guide to the Xteink X4
The tools and configs I use with my Xteink X4.
Jake Lazaroff — Building more resilient local-first software with atproto
Saturation: How Your Software Will Fail at Scale - Lorin Hochstein | SSW 2026
DuckLake Architecture Deep Dive
DuckLake is a next generation data lakehouse and open table format. It is significantly simpler and faster than Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake because it uses a SQL database for storing the catalog and metadata. This post covers an architecture deep dive with a detailed Q&A section. DuckLake consists of 3 components: storage, catalog, and compute. Each can be scaled independently, hosted locally with ease, and deployed to the cloud for production. MotherDuck offers managed DuckLake lakehouses for additional simplicity and performance.
Panel: Biodesign x AI: Interactions in the Algorithmic Wet Lab
Search has its own bitter lesson
Human incentives to make content findable to your search matter more than technology
What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?
As somebody who writes a lot, I've always been interested in personal knowledge management systems and note-taking apps. But what do these frameworks and methodologies actually give to researchers and the broader world? Has there been a meaningful increase of wisdom since these became popular? I went to look for an answer.
‘The devil’s child’: the rise and fall of the only female yakuza
The long read: Mako Nishimura fought her way into the Japanese underworld, but drug addiction and the slow demise of organised crime gangs almost destroyed her
AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse
We study how generative AI, and in particular agentic AI, shapes human learning incentives and the long-run evolution of society’s information ecosystem. We bui
Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI
The HCI community has worked to expand and improve our consideration of the societal implications of our work and our corresponding responsibilities. Despite this increased engagement, HCI continues to lack an explicitly articulated politic, which we argue re-inscribes and amplifies systemic oppression. In this paper, we set out an explicit political vision of an HCI grounded in emancipatory autonomy - an anarchist HCI, aimed at dismantling all oppressive systems by mandating suspicion of and a reckoning with imbalanced distributions of power. We outline some of the principles and accountability mechanisms that constitute an anarchist HCI. We offer a potential framework for radically reorienting the field towards creating prefigurative counterpower - systems and spaces that exemplify the world we wish to see, as we go about building the revolution in increment.
The Skeleton Library
On Interpolatable Archives, Part 1: Compulsions to Connect, Warburg, Borges and Goldsmith, Cultural Technologies and Digital Oralities
The World Doesn’t Exist: William Gibson, William Blake, and Navigating an Algorithmic Hall of Mirrors | ODDCRITIC
Scrolling the TL revealed distorted realities, shaped by algorithms and biases.
When benchmarks go bad - what I learned from measuring performance wrong - Holly Cummins
The world of performance analysis is littered with flawed claims, cognitive biases, dangerous intuitions, and beguiling fallacies. Sadly…
Why we’re still obsessed with 90s aesthetics in 2026
Decoding the visual cycle: how tactile 90s aesthetics bridge the gap between sterile tech and human emotion in 2026.
Vincent Sitzmann -Modeling the world (and yourself) from vision
Stop Using Conventional Commits
You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people swear by it. I swear at it. Even though it is used by a large number of popular open source projects, Conventional Commits is an actively bad standard which encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises.
physics as a game loop. part 1: objects and waves - underreacted
Explorable Explanations
An active reader asks questions, considers alternatives, questions assumptions, and even questions the trustworthiness of the author. An active reader tries to generalize specific examples, and devise specific examples for generalities. An active reader doesn't passively sponge up information, but uses the author's argument as a springboard for critical thought and deep understanding.
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