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Huh. I’ve been thinking about what makes great software for a while. medium.com/message/the-...original ↗

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I feel like I am constantly inventing new ways to convince my kids to do the laundry, eat lunch, or ...original ↗

12 Sept 2026

You know the Milgram experiment where people hit a button and heard people screaming in the other ro...original ↗

12 Sept 2026

Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I...original ↗

12 Sept 2026

looks like the singularity is here folks original ↗

11 Sept 2026

I wish David Bowie was alive to narrate this moment back to us. I just think he’d have it nailed.original ↗

11 Sept 2026

On the bright side, if the robots kill us all, it means that your sworn enemies are in for it too.original ↗

11 Sept 2026

I vibed up a weird music screensaver a month ago, but I kept thinking, “What if it was an imaginary ...original ↗

8 Sept 2026

The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard University: “Binoc is a command-line tool and library that, gi...original ↗

8 Sept 2026

AI Versus…Talking to People?original ↗

8 Sept 2026

Bluesky provides a mobile web view that runs great on my four-year-old phone and never pushes me to ...original ↗

5 Sept 2026

If you’re a Flatbush-area mutual aid type, this self-organizing distro happens every Friday at 5PM a...original ↗

4 Sept 2026

We’re doing an event September 15 with the brilliant Julia Stoyanovich of NYU, who is trying to get ...original ↗

4 Sept 2026

A neat project at work: We built an archive for Lapham’s Quarterly as part of its (gradual, ongoing)...original ↗

3 Sept 2026

I firmly believe all online discourse reduces to this Perry Bible Fellowship comic. pbfcomics.com/co...original ↗

3 Sept 2026

The humans do this ceremony where they enter a dark room and are forced to account to some sort of p...original ↗

2 Sept 2026

Josh Tyrangiel: Media, Moats, and Middle School original ↗

1 Sept 2026

Not seeing much mention in the discourse of Hard Candy Christmas, a modern holiday classic. youtu.be...original ↗

28 Aug 2026

It’s Fun to Ship Software original ↗

25 Aug 2026

Kate Lee: Can AI Replace Editors Like Me?original ↗

18 Aug 2026

“Contentbeheerder” is much better job title than “Content Manager.” Once again the Dutch have beat u...original ↗

14 Aug 2026

I’m at work emailing people who downloaded a white paper, in order to introduce our company. I’m wor...original ↗

14 Aug 2026

Wrote meta about Meta in the Aboard newsletter aboard.com/the-shapeshi...original ↗

12 Aug 2026

Why Is It So Hard To Ship With AI?original ↗

11 Aug 2026

worst chili peppers album ever original ↗

8 Aug 2026

Person inventing the bread slicer: “This is superb. This is the best thing since...I actually can’t ...original ↗

6 Aug 2026

In our workplace newsletter I was permitted to write about how the new AI, LLM, might be a trojan ho...original ↗

5 Aug 2026

Leading thoughts, by Paul Ford original ↗

1 Mar 2026

The Bike Shop original ↗

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Ftrain at 20 original ↗

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2011

Paul Ford's "Nanolaw"original ↗

16 May 2011

Paul Ford on interacting with his archived self original ↗

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Why Wasn't I Consulted?original ↗

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