TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, With Ads Built In
TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy with ads baked in that no person will ever see. I fetched one ordinary…
mokeyish/obsidian-code-emitter
An obsidian plugin that allows code blocks executed interactively in sandbox like jupyter notebooks. Supported language rust、kotlin、python、Javascript、TypeScript etc.
MercuryOS
Mercury is a reimaging of the operating system as a fluid modeless experience drive by human intent.
The case against conversational interfaces
Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go "This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We'll only use natural language going forward!". But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way w
LLMs reward expertise
In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out there on the internet. Today, everyone can write sort-of-okay CSS by delegating the task to an LLM. LLMs make everybody into a generalist.
Programming (with AI agents) as theory building
Back in 1985, computer scientist Peter Naur wrote “Programming as Theory Building”. According to Naur — and I agree with him — the core output of software engineers is not the program itself, but the theory of how the program works. In other words, the knowledge inside the engineer’s mind is the primary artifact of engineering work, and the actual software is merely a by-product of that.
Biidaasige Park expansion
The portion of Biidaasige Park west of Cherry Street opened this weekend. Had to see if for myself. It was great to see plenty of people walking and biking about to check it out. Here is a view of …
goals-based universal paywalls - pivot point - Obsidian Publish
goals-based universal paywalls - pivot point - Powered by Obsidian Publish.
Introducing Sponsorware: How A Small Open Source Package Increased My Salary By $11k in Two Days
<p>After digging deep on SQLite during a pair programming session with a client/friend, I had an idea…</p> <p>About 45 minutes later, a proo...
The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing
The Subscription Model Has Maxed Out
Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat
The hard part of writing software has never been the writing. It was building a working model of the domain in your head first. Before you could ship a payroll…
Designing for Colour-Blindness
As always, I’ve been tinkering with the site over the last few weeks. One of the adjustments I made was to remove the underlines from links, which I felt mad...
On an Atmosphere OS - Scott's Thoughts
What if an Atmosphere account could handle email, groupware, and device-level identity without putting Google or Apple at the center?
LeBron James Should Just Take The Train To His New Job | Defector
LeBron James is coming to Philadelphia, a fact anyone who lives in Philly would have learned from interacting with strangers on the street, no matter their interest in basketball. This is salient because, according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst, James will not be among the ranks of those living in Philly. Instead, he will be living…
