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Kevin Lin

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Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.

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132 from 26 Aug 2013 to 8 Oct 2026
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2026 6

  1. AI, Work, and the Means Towards All Ends ↗
  2. On Innocence
  3. A quote from Grace Hopper
  4. Thoughts on AI Slop and Writing ↗
  5. OpenClaw as the Universal Operating System for Agents ↗
  6. On Making Hard Decisions

2025 13

  1. Thoughts on Claude Skills ↗
  2. The Feynman Algorithm
  3. Unlimited Power
  4. On Wanting
  5. Why We Build
  6. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
  7. The Drama of the Gifted Child
  8. My Values
  9. TypeScript Paths
  10. 2025 Open Source Llm Interfaces
  11. On Purpose
  12. 2024 Review
  13. Migrating from Webflow to S3

2024 34

  1. On the Two Arrows
  2. On Pain
  3. Making Peace
  4. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
  5. The Power of Now
  6. On Near Death Experiences
  7. Longcuts
  8. Address Mapper
  9. Seattle to Sf Guide
  10. How to Work With Me
  11. Nonviolent Communications
  12. Crucial Conversations
  13. The Untethered Soul
  14. Scaling Stateful Aggregations ↗
  15. Learned Optimism
  16. Memory DB
  17. Martha Beck interview
  18. Email Deliverability
  19. Notes from YC W21 to W24, with Love
  20. Yc App
  21. Context Dependent Painkiller
  22. Save 90% on Datadog Egress
  23. Hugh Howey Interview
  24. Warpstream Pricing
  25. The Tao Te Ching
  26. Frugal Architect
  27. Claire Johnson
  28. Glucose Monitoring and Level
  29. Gmail Alias Bad for Delivery
  30. Hn Launch
  31. Product Hunt Launch
  32. Storyworthy
  33. Datadog Tagging Best Practices
  34. What is a cloudwatch custom metric?

2023 21

  1. The Body Keeps Score
  2. To Be Seen
  3. Across the Obelisk Review
  4. Datadog Log Search
  5. Vector Gotchas
  6. Weekly Review
  7. Build
  8. Purple Cow
  9. Disabling Auto Markdown Link Formatting in VScode
  10. On Logs
  11. On Observability
  12. Cloudformation Vs Apis
  13. Some notes on code generation
  14. Pruning (git) history
  15. Stdout in Vscode
  16. Natural Language SQL
  17. Gpt Link Organizer
  18. Docs Related Ideas
  19. Some thoughts on static site generators
  20. Simon TIL
  21. ECS Deployment with Github Actions

2022 17

  1. tim-ferris-tara-b-ryan-h-maria-p
  2. Slack Is the Modern Knowledge Base
  3. Product Market Fit
  4. chef interview
  5. Cloud Wars, Company Wars, and Innovating Through Change
  6. How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit
  7. Path Handling in VSCode
  8. Learning from Open Source Communities
  9. Ebpf
  10. Rakuten
  11. Ed Thorp
  12. Event Marketing
  13. Russ Roberts
  14. Luis von Ahn
  15. moderating discussion
  16. SaaStr 573: Scaling from $1 to $10M, an AMA with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
  17. On Suffering

2021 4

  1. An Iterative Approach to Writing
  2. Dendron - Super Fast Open Source Note-Taking inside VSCode
  3. Avenging Software Development
  4. Google Cloud vs AWS Onboarding Comparison

2020 11

  1. A Hierarchical Tool for Thought
  2. A Hierarchy First Approach to Note Taking
  3. 2020-06-21 Weekly Review
  4. 2020-06-07 Weekly Review
  5. 2020-05-31 Weekly Review
  6. 2020-05-24: Weekly Review
  7. 2020-05-17: Weekly Review
  8. 2020-05-10: Weekly Review
  9. 2020-05-03: Weekly Review
  10. It's Not You - It's Your Knowledge Base
  11. Everything I Learned from One Year of AWS Consulting

2019 9

  1. AWS re:Invent 2019 Recap
  2. The Open CDK Guide
  3. A Tale of Two Buckets
  4. CDK All The Things: A Whirlwind Tour
  5. No Reservations: A Definite Guide to EC2 Reserved Instances
  6. Building Scalable Serverless Applications on AWS
  7. My Podcasting Setup
  8. Benchmarking Lambda's Idle Timeout Before A Cold Start
  9. Giving Third Parties Limited Access to your AWS Account

2018 2

  1. Luck and Chance
  2. Why I Write

2017 3

  1. Abstractions - Part1
  2. Peloton
  3. Reflections on Asia

2016 2

  1. Some Thoughts on VR
  2. What Losing My Luggage in Nepal Taught Me About Decision Making

2015 2

  1. Why I Choose Vim
  2. Sunk Costs

2014 5

  1. Do you remember?
  2. Personal (Cloud) Computing
  3. Of Growing Up
  4. How are you?
  5. Update S3 DeletionPolicy in Cloudformation

2013 3

  1. Noticing the trees among the forest
  2. I have a plan
  3. Uno