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I’m obviously a tiny, insignificant data point as a solo freelance dev, but I watch this space closely and I canceled my Claude Code subscription today.

Very nice! Care to share more technical details? Like others, I'd be curious to know how you're fetching the book covers. Personally, I dislike skeuomorphic design in digital inter…

Yeah, thanks for asking. My reasoning is this: That chatbot you're interacting with is not your friend. I take it as a fact (assumption? axiom?) that it can never be your friend. A…

I think the biggest problem with chatbots is the constant effort to anthropomorphize them. Even seasoned software developers who know better fall into acting like they are interact…

The fact that both offer a subscription is not ironic - it simply highlights the central point. In the end, those paying a subscription for thebaffler.com or for salesforce.com are…

I got one of those too, and I got it because I didn’t want to worry about this kind of garbage from HP. It’s also a bonus that I haven’t had to refill the ink in a LONG time. But o…

My daughter has a rare genetic disorder, cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome (CFC), and it was not until 2 years in that we were able to get a diagnosis after a whole gene sequence. It w…

Cannot overstate the significance and value of documentation.

This is your big mistake: there is no “adding” authority. Authority is always there. I have started to think of it like the conservation of energy: it changes forms, but you can ne…

No there is consensus, and it is real. But the hierarchies within that group (based on sex, ability, wealth, knowledge, etc) are also there and are also in play.

I'm not sure we can have it both ways. In other words, I'm growing in my conviction that freedom and privacy on the web require increased balkanization. Neil Postman (of whom I'm a…

Lightpaper looks like a fantastic markdown editor! But the landing page makes me feel like it isn't getting much love from the developers. The copyright notice at the bottom, for i…

Keep in mind that every culture has blasphemy laws. What you're seeing here is not the removal of blasphemy laws, but the culture's switch from one god to another.

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I really love Fastmail, but shared contacts have never seemed to work with the default Mac contacts app. According to Fastmail support as of a few years ago, the default Mac contac…

(This turned into a bit of a rant...) So, AFAICT, Hustle provides a service that's nearly as bad as robocalls. From their front page: "Hustle works because people read and respond …

I want to understand the Free/Libre Software movement. I'd like to get a better understanding of the ideas surrounding it from all the angles: technical, legal, political, economic…

I’ve been thinking about Stallman and Free Software recently, and there’s another point that doesn’t seem to get much air time. Ever since the Snowden revelations, we’ve been woke …

The prevalence of food allergies is increasing in the USA, at least, if not around the world. In my case, I have two daughters with serious food allergies and sensitivities. I’d li…

I love open source software, I hate Facebook and I dislike twitter. People in my community want to know what I think about technology, and I’m strongly inclined to recommend stuff …

MBP-quality trackpads and MBP-equivalent battery life. I can't understand why battery life isn't higher on the list of "must haves" for people who want a nice linux laptop.

A feature like this is automatically baked in to my Fastmail account. "myemail@mydomain.com" can become "banks@myemail.mydomain.com", and all that email automatically goes to a fol…