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Growth will kill strong opinions

We recently switched over to Linear to manage our work, after some years getting by with GitHub Issues. The team onboarded and transitioned. Two weeks in, a few questions were discussed about some specific pieces we introduced into our workflow. Later, one of my colleagues…

I think dopamine hits from buying or anticipating the next pen or stationary is a symptom of the world we live in where things are easily available and we are bombarded with dopamine hits all day, every day and it causes a cycle that we repeat subconsciously.

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Picked up this jacket at a vintage popup on my way back from therapy for $35. Feeling myself. Also, it got chilly so now I’m grateful for the extra layer.

Some of the news out of Microsoft Build is what developers hope Apple will do: access to AI models in the cloud, on devices, or even from web apps inside Edge. There’s also MCP everywhere. I’m reading through NLWeb, created by RV Guha, whose semantic web work for decades…

Don’t believe the Chinese AI open-source hype, warns good friend, Pete Warden. Their large language models come at a price — the models are programmed to deliberately obscure historical truths, he writes on his blog. He points out that this isn’t just censorship; it’s engineered misinformation at scale, baked…

OK, yes, more interesting than I expected, about a bird in 'Charlie's Angels'. (via Kottke)

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I switched to the Hack programming font in my terminal and IDE, and really enjoying it. Functional, readable, and nice to look at.

If you use Chrome or Arc with Micro.blog, check out the latest update to our Chrome web extension for bookmarking web pages. It improves on the last version, now better saving HTML to archive the page. Still working on making it compatible with Safari and Firefox.

Not gonna lie, I’m close to dropping $200 to try OpenAI’s Codex. But I don’t think most of my code is well suited to it. Not enough automated tests! It figures that would come back to bite me.

I mostly use AI as a machine that can generate unlimited example…