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2026 24

  1. A few assorted thoughts about LLMs in November 2026
  2. Use date trees to organize chronological notes in Obsidian
  3. Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
  4. Data locality (sometimes) beats algorithmic complexity
  5. Your analytics are lying to you
  6. Deno Desktop
  7. What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
  8. Nobody clicks your share buttons
  9. So you want to write a GUI framework
  10. Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-assed App in 2026
  11. The "land and expand" strategy explains why software grows unnecessary features
  12. Selling to practitioners vs. selling to technical decision makers
  13. Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
  14. Using LLMs to find Python C-extension bugs
  15. A broken 404 template in Django can swallow your backtraces
  16. I'm no longer using coding assistants on personal projects
  17. Waiting is fun
  18. I built a programming language using Claude Code
  19. I used a local LLM to analyze my journal entries
  20. The only correct recipe for making chai
  21. Write quickly, edit lightly, prefer rewrites, publish with flaws
  22. Generative AI and the era of increased gatekeeping
  23. Pushing the smallest possible change to production
  24. I'm not listening to full albums anymore

2025 22

  1. Tech predictions for 2026, presented without nuance, context, or evidence
  2. Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
  3. My first online shopping experience, at the tender age of twelve
  4. Using LLMs for web search
  5. The solace of work
  6. Everything is index cards
  7. Just read
  8. Tech hot takes presented without nuance, context, or evidence
  9. The ducks incident
  10. PKM apps need to get better at resurfacing information
  11. How to avoid writing
  12. I'm trying to change my relationship with my desk
  13. Writing without a plan
  14. How I use my computer and phone while minimizing distractions
  15. Social media is a threat to my psychological sovereignty
  16. Results are a side effect of doing the work with love
  17. ChatGPT is not a reliable source of information, but also web search sucks
  18. I learn best when I'm part of a community
  19. Re: The question of language
  20. There’s no rational explanation for why I want to make art
  21. The tools I love are made by awful people
  22. It only gets worse from here