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2023 3

  1. Thoughts on LLMs as glue
  2. Maybe don’t regulate study pills like opioids
  3. How to buy 1 facebook ad in 5 months or less

2022 6

  1. Tinker twitter saturn spez
  2. Trying new serverless tools
  3. Moviepass all the way down
  4. Stop letting government build websites
  5. oauth 2.0 sequence diagram with RFC embeds
  6. Deltacron dispatches

2021 8

  1. Preemptive negative review of amazon’s Wheel of Time
  2. AR is wearable police
  3. Sweetgreen terms of service readthrough
  4. Obsolete labor, new new deals, and repair
  5. On waiting in line for 2 hours
  6. WFH is decentralized rezoning
  7. Hunches 2021
  8. Social media and private pains

2020 50

  1. Air taxis will turn cities inside out
  2. Only distributed fact-checking can keep up with democratized distribution
  3. Table of justworks aetna options and a rant about health insurance
  4. Scenarios for a soft coup
  5. Zoom pod schools will give us metrics, experiments and self-pacing
  6. Goog should run their antitrust case by AI
  7. App stores shouldn’t bundle distribution with updates
  8. Professional licensing isn’t a solved problem
  9. HTML templates should solve isomorphic web but don’t
  10. Whither zombie retail
  11. Talking with non-programmers about remote work and waste
  12. I want to outsource technical interviews
  13. Mind uploading, VHS and Anne Frank
  14. Dropbox is the anti-Sherlock
  15. Boilerplate generators are full-stack plugins
  16. Europe is pretty AMPed to break up Google
  17. Bad cache design can be a thorn as you grow
  18. Package managers need a permission model like mobile
  19. Mesh twitter for election week
  20. Dodd-Frank, american express and the apple app store
  21. One year of automatic DB migrations from git
  22. Non-lawyer readthrough of AWS TOS
  23. Index of all terms of service readthroughs
  24. Cricut TOS readthrough
  25. LAED loopholes: unaffiliated entities, on-device data
  26. Overton whiplash and bundled beliefs
  27. The use of ‘I told you so’ in advising gigs
  28. Memes, slang & search resistance
  29. Coup-proofing the startup
  30. Panic buttons and norm wizards
  31. Tech / future police
  32. Caching pip in docker sort of works now
  33. Slack is almost social media
  34. Something like civil war is a few bad rolls away
  35. Leakage paths for the Apple / Google bluetooth tracing system
  36. Terms of service readthrough: Mailchimp
  37. All of Slack’s core flaws require topic modeling to fix
  38. JITs are un-ergonomic
  39. Global warming, predictive catastrophe, and this month
  40. Terms of service readthrough: Substack
  41. Quarantine will normalize WFH & recession will denormalize full-time jobs
  42. Platforms invert collective action problems
  43. The coming IP war over facts derived from books
  44. Surveys help solo founders make sane product decisions
  45. Backdoored encryption will end open protocols and enthrone existing platforms
  46. Starting a business is like riding a bicycle
  47. Stripe can make automatic LLCs but a wire transfer from citi nearly ended me
  48. Privacy is impolite
  49. The internet runs on (dumb) contracts
  50. Yer a wizard wageworks! Bad UX indicates a broken value chain

2019 39

  1. The future of product is fraud
  2. Kube is ~3 different things that could be split out
  3. Should you even bother loadtesting
  4. Warrant-proof encryption isn’t a 4th amendment issue, it’s a 1st amendment issue
  5. Pretrospective on the failure of my B2D
  6. Typed javascript isn’t just a return to the past
  7. The OTT wars mean you can’t even buy amazon content from amazon
  8. Good process is a pact to ship bad stuff
  9. Firebase app distribution teaches people to get phished
  10. Docker needs to play nice with package management
  11. Babel import was the standard and node 12 broke compatibility
  12. Version numbers are meaningless and horrible and so is xcode
  13. You have to force quit because cache design is hard
  14. If a tweet declares war, is it illegal to take it down?
  15. Stop gerrymandering my push settings
  16. Good luck backdooring encryption without banning github
  17. ORMs are backwards
  18. Squash merge makes chaining PRs hard
  19. Picking rust for web
  20. For security and perf, connection pools belong in the std lib
  21. Docker failed because it didn’t launch with DNS
  22. Medical privacy is totally fucked by the payments model
  23. Are Linkedin data people allowed to trade stocks?
  24. FB and G can’t be split up vertically or horizontally without killing them
  25. DJI, dept of interior, and phone-home
  26. Kim Darroch affair, privacy & chilling effects
  27. Touch interfaces aren't just bad on phones
  28. Gmail really wants me to say yes
  29. Eggs that lay golden geese
  30. 12+ months with big redis
  31. Pasito, pasito: Europe’s anti-Google roadmap (in lyrics)
  32. Lulu's Christmas present & platform risk
  33. Encryption literacy is coming (I hope)
  34. Caffeine and hangover effects in conversion funnels
  35. API versioning needs actual semantics
  36. Platforms, identity, and the future of due process
  37. I’ve wanted enumerable classes for so long
  38. Can AAPL maintain market share in China with a BYO hardware model?
  39. Automatic categorization of text is a core tool now

2018 22

  1. F-35 jet = case study in product market fit
  2. Lessons in negotiation from Stalin at Yalta
  3. Instead of offering advice, rank priorities
  4. Hard arguments around legacy support
  5. Stigmergy, collective intelligence and the open office
  6. Soft skills for parachuting into a codebase in crisis
  7. Sales does more optimization than product
  8. Should github have drained its queues backwards?
  9. FOSS must abandon privacy to survive
  10. Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work
  11. Slack as group mind
  12. TWTR/FB have both peaked. Now what?
  13. Maps are bad at decision support
  14. ConEd online bill pay? Bring galoshes.
  15. Management & false certainty
  16. Leslie Groves as innovation manager
  17. UX animations are slowly killing me
  18. Congress should force FB to share the other half of users’ profiles
  19. Monitoring is a vampire, reporting is sunlight
  20. Blueprint for post-post-privacy saas
  21. Fun with glue and reliable integration
  22. Slack is the opposite of organizational memory

2017 4

  1. Perfection is a modern heresy
  2. Patton's sword and the future of work
  3. Instead of containerization, give me strong config & deployment primitives
  4. Android, evolvability & comcast