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Essays and stories by Paul Ford. Since 1997.
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- There’s this ad everywhere for an advent calendar of UGLY MEDIEVAL CATS and they look AMAZING but th...
- I wrote about how it would be better to discuss the bitter lesson and its tradeoffs today, instead o...
- Both Rush and Emacs are 50 which really lines up when you think about it www.technologyreview.com/20...
- A thought I kept having last night was that, in some way that’s hard to pin down, Rush now passes th...
- The Great Firmware Flowering
- Allison Fine: Making AI-Driven Change Less Scary
- everyone is like “it will achieve sentience and kill us all” but THIS is what’s gonna kill us
- I think of these two improvised girders holding up our crumbling subway station as baba yaga legs
- The Web Is More Than Enough
- Ask Aboard: AI Security, Bad Clients, and Yacht Rock
- can you imagine what it was like to be at the first performance of spem in allium in 1570 people mus...
- I genuinely appreciate the way Rush fans are like, “Oh no, they’re terrible. It’s going to be a terr...
- This is early days but super interesting. It’s good to see something focused on building instead of ...
- The special feeling of being in The Register but it’s not because you failed catastrophically.
- Climate/data friends: We’re hosting an event next Thurs 4PM in with Harvard’s Public Data Project, a...
- I kind of forgot what launching websites is like.
- let’s not forget the real mvp which is cloudflare‘s free tier
- I built a thing. I LOVED making it. It’s called TinyLittleOffice. It’s a web office suite (word proc...
- whats weird is with all the fucked up surgeries you don’t need special glasses to see the lizard fac...
- Introducing TinyLittleOffice.com
- The sheer velocity of content right now is unbelievable.
- this is just to say I have stomped on the plums on the 6 train fuck them plums
- If feels like they’re putting the foot down on the gas pedal in order to leap the chasm. But they fi...
- Jason Goldman: From VC Pitches to AI Kill Switches
- let’s visit Julianne Moore’s apartment www.youtube.com/watch?v=eewE....
- Most New York City moment of my entire life happened yesterday. I was sitting on a bench outside of ...