And you’re done! Now run the following to get an impression of what it can do:
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A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
Own the source. Compose with anything. - The Way of Markdown
Websites, knowledge bases, blogs, even a Notion replacement — built from plain text files you own, with tools you can swap anytime. Markdown is quietly everywhere; here's the way to make it work for you.
Lexicon Service Docs - at:// pizza thoughts
Riffing on some ways to make network services more legible to humans and machines
The GNOME Way
This is a bloggified version of the talk that I gave at GUADEC 2017. In converting it into print, it has been elaborated and refined. When I first got involved in GNOME, one of the things that...
My AI Content Journey
I apologize ahead of time, what follows has no tooling applied to it. No grammar checks, no AI, and...
Readeck: Home
Save interesting articles, long read, pictures, videos. Read or revisit them later.
Joshua Gu on Twitter / X
Recent agentic systems (Claude Code, Codex, RLM, etc.) push context out of the prompt and into the environment (e.g., as files). This helps them maintain long-term knowledge about their goals and functionality.🚨 While this is a good idea, we show a surprising result: systems… pic.twitter.com/XHFVaDcr4l— Joshua Gu (@astrogu_) May 20, 2026
Maggie Appleton on Twitter / X
I've always wanted my own WYSIWYG editor for my website, and now I have one! Works locally, saves changes to MDX.But the better part is building semantic writing tools on top. Colour-coded sentence classification, flagging cliches, repetition, and claims that need citations pic.twitter.com/lvOMTZ4DUB— Maggie Appleton (@Mappletons) September 28, 2026
Lexicon Embed
How do we embed, display, and render different Lexicons across the ATmosphere?
A Text Renaissance
There is a renaissance underway in online text as a medium. The Four Horsemen of this emerging Textopia are: Roam , a hypertext publishing platform best…
Introducing Web Applets, Rupert Manfredi
Git in six hundred words
(This essay is a companion piece to Gitlet, my implementation of Git in JavaScript.)
Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?
The world is in the grip of ecological, meaning, and language crises that are converging into a metacrisis. Big AI is accelerating them all. LLM engineering sits at the core. Despite the public good motives of language engineers and the promise of LLMs, this work is being leveraged to create unprecedented wealth and power for a handful of individuals and corporations while causing existential harm to life on earth. As a profession, we urgently need to come together to explore alternatives and to design a life-affirming future for our field of natural language processing that is centered on human flourishing on a living planet.
