Digital Seams
A blog about the connections in our often-online existence, written by Bobbie Chen.
- Posts
- 41 from 2 Dec 2024 to 19 Oct 2026
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- monthly (16 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 15
- Pray, Mr. Babbage, what about search?
- Should you give the scarcest things to the fastest coders?
- Most Googlebots are fake
- Zero-defects code: the prescient Microsoft memo from 1989
- Seth Larson on making things
- Nolen Royalty on making things
- Morry Kolman on making things
- Amit Patel on making things
- Making things: interview series
- Lighter, not faster
- The Phantoms of the Fraudpera: an overview of anti-detection tooling
- Assorted links (2026-03-01)
- Making a font with 9,999 ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals
- The behavioral cost of personalized pricing
- Computers that used to be human
2025 22
- Year one for Digital Seams
- Any decent error message is a kind of oracle
- A recent phishing attack on GitHub
- Image transcription humbled me
- Image descriptions on Bluesky
- The Gypsy document editor: celebrating 50 years
- Assorted links (2025-08-10)
- Interfaces for representing uncertainty
- What birdsong and backends can teach us about magic
- Why do Sublime Text and VS Code use Ctrl-Shift-P instead of Ctrl-K for the command bar?
- The AI lifestyle subsidy is going to end
- Skip the A/B test
- The dial-up modem lives on, in office meeting rooms
- When encryption works perfectly and still fails
- Assorted links (2025-04-20)
- Is backward compatibility even possible?
- Every app is a messaging app
- The siren song of infinite flexibility
- Microwave ovens, wi-fi, and HTTP
- What happens to your online accounts when you die?
- Introducing Digital Seams, a blog about connections
- Everyone can see what a horse is