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2026 3

  1. The Problem With LLMs
  2. Artificial StupidIntelligence and Airport Sinks
  3. LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word

2025 1

  1. 2025 Reading List

2024 3

  1. I am looking for work. (Taylor's Version)
  2. Optimistic Computing
  3. Third Wave (Commercial) Open Source

2022 1

  1. Trucks, Tubes, and Truth

2021 2

  1. Blockchain Without the Crypto
  2. The Strength of the Record

2020 1

  1. 2020 Reading List

2019 9

  1. Ethical Software For Everyone
  2. Hacker Villages
  3. Compassion For Donald
  4. I started meditating... now what?
  5. Silent Spaces
  6. Universal Spaces
  7. India Has A Three-Body Problem
  8. How To Disconnect
  9. Does Smoking Marijuana Harm Your Meditation Practice?

2018 5

  1. Steve Yegge, You Are Half Right (Part Two: Software Ethics)
  2. Steve Yegge, You Are Half Right (Part One: An Ethical Void)
  3. The Toxic Notification Bubble
  4. What is Siggu.org?
  5. Finances in an Employee-Owned Technology Co-operative

2016 2

  1. Menstrual Leave: 'I Have Cramps'
  2. How To Bicycle Commute in Bangalore

2015 5

  1. Bangalore 2030
  2. Salaries in a Cooperative
  3. Patient Charts
  4. Emergent Continuous Design
  5. Why Ayurveda? Because Science!

2014 3

  1. Drugs, Meditation, Warnings
  2. What is a Software Cooperative?
  3. Welcome, Gratitude

2013 2

  1. Ceci n'est pas une pipe
  2. An Atheist's Glimpse of God

2008 3

  1. Cartoons and Comic Books
  2. We Need More -onomy
  3. Dupies (Dollar-Rupees)

2007 6

  1. Not Getting Things Done
  2. The Gap
  3. Fidget Weights
  4. Google is My New Microsoft
  5. A Walk
  6. Making It Look Easy