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Settling in, and looking ahead - pckt - Dev Journal

Hey Bloggers ! A lot has happened since our last post. Which always seems to be the case... We've been hard at work crafting new features and refining existing...

pckt: a blog in your pocket

A distraction-free space to write and share your story. Just you, and your words.

Writing Is Thinking

When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you. Done well, this kind of sharing means you’re contributing signal, instead of noise. But writers are made, n…

The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer - T.R Napper

I’m obsessed with the craft of writing. I write every day, I read about the craft often, and in my...

Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours

Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post called Dropbox: the First Dead Decacorn. At the time, it was the most widely shared take I’d ever written. I learned several things from writing this piece, and no…

Text Editing Hates You Too

Alexis Beingessner's Text Rendering Hates You, published exactly a month ago today, hits very close to my heart.

Toward a durable writing stack – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

I have benefited over the years from others who have documented their writing setups, and so I feel some obligation to pay the favor forward by doing so with my own. The stack I’ll describe here is one I’ve been iterating on for about twenty years, starting from when I began discovering the pleasures of plain-text writing. Every aspect of it has changed over that period, but the some basic goals and flows have been with me through the writing of my college thesis, five books, and hundreds of articles. I am quite happy with where I am, and others might benefit from what I’ve come up with.

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A writing tool that won't write for you.

Writing is Thinking: Learning to Write with Confidence

Learning to write is learning to think, because writing is thinking. They are two peas in a powerful pod. This article goes over my writing process, focused on minimizing the activation energy to get started.

Blogging Made Easy

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On Writing #3

Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.

Writing With and Beyond AI: Fieldnotes from Computer-Mediated Poetry

Apr 10, 2026, 12:15 pm - Large language models can make writing mind-numbingly efficient — but the point of writing with AI should be to write what we couldn’t have written alone (without generating bland, derivative “slop”).

Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers

Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …