2026 Idea Dump
AF just went on its annual summer break in June, and I spent the most glorious two weeks up north for some much needed, off-the-grid time.
2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
Dean W. Ball on Twitter / X
The mood has been a bit dour lately, so here are some less-obvious things that I expect to take shape over the next decade that I am excited about:1. Space! Lots and lots of stuff is going to be happening in space by the mid-2030s, and right now the U.S. looks like it will be…— Dean W. Ball (@deanwball) October 9, 2026
Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass - The …
archived 30 Apr 2026 15:40:29 UTC
Silicon Valley’s Safe Space (Published 2021)
Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.
Welcome to 2026!
Hello Handmade Network, and happy new year! 2025 was a relatively quiet year for us where we focus…
It's Time To Rethink Everything by @t3dotgg
Director Michael Kratsios on Twitter / X
In response to @POTUS's call for a revival of America's scientific enterprise, today I’m releasing Science: A New Golden Age.This report is a blueprint for renewing American scientific leadership for the 21st century. pic.twitter.com/ikM6pX2ndP— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) July 21, 2026
Debt is Coming
Ten years from now, what seismic change will we reflect back on and think, “well that was pretty obvious, in retrospect”? Debt is going to finally come to the tech industry. We can hat…
Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World
It's our 23rd Anniversary! Nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists will convene at the 2026 Nonprofit Software Development Summit, 18-20 November, 2026, to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively envision the future of free, open and equitable digital tools and practices to support social change efforts.
Feel the ATmosphere: it's ‘95 all over again
In late April I was in Hamburg for Ahoy! 2025, the first European conference dedicated to the ATmosphere — the information ecosystem built…
Introducing Hubble! We got some support to build a really big mirror!!
Introducing Hubble: A Public Mirror for the Whole Atmosphere - microcosm
updates.microcosm.blue
AT Protocol Developers
Thrilled to be working with @bad-example.com, whom you know from the excellent @microcosm.blue tools, on making the atproto network ever more resilient atproto.com/blog/introducing-hubble-a-pub…
Introducing Hubble! We got some support to build a really big mirror!!
Introducing Hubble: A Public Mirror for the Whole Atmosphere - microcosm
updates.microcosm.blueAT Protocol Developers
Thrilled to be working with @bad-example.com, whom you know from the excellent @microcosm.blue tools, on making the atproto network ever more resilient atproto.com/blog/introducing-hubble-a-pub…
It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in. What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things would turn out differently. The research and thinking I came
