2026 Week 08 - Weekly Browsing
Weekly Browsing - pairing down what I want to share.
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2026 Week 07 - Weekly Browsing
Weekly Browsing - Mitchell Hashimoto’s adoption journey, Anthropic (C compiler, coding skills, hive mind), Claude in Microsoft, agent skills, Elixir for AI; market jitters (shipping/freight).
Migrating from Arc to Zen Browser
Saying goodbye to Arc Browser and saying hello to Zen Browser.
2025 Week 10 - Weekly Notes
Weeknotes - the government dismantled. And not in a great way. And some things about algorithmic complacency.
2025 Week 09 - Weekly Notes
Weeknotes continue for catchups, which includes birding, more AI stuff, goals, and unexpected deaths.
2025 Week 08 - Weekly Notes
Catching up with week 8 and coming to terms with a presidency that hates us all.
2025 Week 07 - Weekly Notes
Interesting internet takes, fall of Black History Month, and other AI news.
2025 Week 06 - Weekly Notes
DOGE comes in like a wrecking ball, plane crashes, egg prices, and personal ontologies.
Refuting the claim that cultural holidays are not sustainable
Google claims cultural holidays are not sustainable. Are they true?
Newsletter - Some of my notebooks
Newsletter - Sharing the different notebooks I keep
2025 Week 05 - Weekly Notes
Pathetic billionaires, POTUS tracker, AI Computer, and so much more
2025 Week 04 - Weekly Notes
Lessons learned from LA Fires, a NATO alphabet converter, many book recommendations, and a closer look at vitamin D supplements.
2025 Week 03 - Weekly Notes
News updates for the week, being anti-social this century, complexity in robotics, and messing around with Cursor AI.
2025 Week 02 - Weekly Notes
Transclusion in Obsidian should help me view everything. Birding, financial literacy course from Khan Academy, Altman reflecting on ChatGPT, and complexity vs. complication.
2025 Week 01 - Weekly Notes
End of year news, RIP Jimmy Carter. I've changed the format so it's less emphasis on categories and more on the actual notes I take during the week.
2024 Week 52 - Weekly Notes
Christmas to NYE I took a bunch of notes. From AI to app recaps, from annual reviews to uplifting stories, a great way to catch up on all of my missed consuming for the year.
2024 Week 51 - Weekly Notes
Notes in the margins, AI, shut-downs, and Jesus models.
These are a few of my favorite things
An alternative to a gift guide and best of list. Showing my favorite things of this year, whether it be films, music, or ideas.
2024 Week 50 - Weekly Notes
Things learned in 2024, care packages, home library, and Notre Dame.
2024 Week 49 - Weekly Notes
Best of 2024, LLMs as choose your own adventure, the guide to estimations, and the LED lights that blind you.
2024 Week 48 - Weekly Notes
Bitcoin attacks, post-political feelings, principled, and newsletter recommendations.
2024 Week 47 - Weekly Notes
AIs appear better than doctors, influencer presented news, Bob Lee's murder trial begins, and poetry from Mary Oliver.
2024 Week 46 - Weekly Notes
Throw away that black spatula, fence sitting, web clipping made cool again, the rough parts of kubernetes, and a doggy election rigged.
2024 Week 45 - Weekly Notes
Week notes are back. There's a backlog of content. We are mostly busy from moving, so these will be more sporadic. We cover election week, a warning from the EFF, a look BTS for Google's NootbookLM, and some more obits and recommendations.
Newsletter - Closing on our house
Newsletter - A short, yet sweet newsletter about welcoming to a new neighborhood.
Newsletter - Advent of the Christmas Letter
Newsletter - an ode to the Christmas letter, talking of what it really means.
2024 Week 44 - Weekly Notes
Looking beyond ozempic, Dublic halloween hoax, my dive into fabrics, radical covenants, and obits.
2024 Week 43 - Weekly Notes
A break in format - the quiet art of attention, conferences, vercel and microfront-ends, and some recommendations.
2024 Week 41 and 42 - Weekly Notes
Strawberry debuts, Milton lands, as well as a Space X Rocket. We re-explore adult friendships, the northern lights, and how to love better.
2024 Week 40 - Weekly Notes
OpenAI shake-ups and announcement for Canvas, Hurricane season with Helene and Milton, new Meta AR glasses, a AI regulatory blow, Stackblitz bolt, and RIP Kris Kristofferson.
Newsletter - The Sisyphean Task of Writing
Newsletter - Why writing can be so difficult and an exploration of streaks. We talk about the two latest books I read and end on a somber note about note-taking for books.
2024 Week 39 - Weekly Notes
The Mom Test, making 50 things, 100 Days of Note-Taking, Crowdfunding a new country, WP Engine debacle, Duocon, Hyperkey, and surviving the misinformation age.
2024 Week 38 - Weekly Notes
Light because of house hunting. Churn, o1 news, Founder Mode reviewed, so long ad support, designing for your appropriate user size, and surviving misinformation.
2024 Week 37 - Weekly Notes
o1, Cursor, Townie, Software bookshelf, Senja, Postgres with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, unexpected endorsements, heightened security, and Mystery celebrity number six. RIP James Earl Jones.
2024 Week 36 - Weekly Notes
Seasonal Playlists, Margin, Latticework, how to say hello, AlphaProteo, and highlighting Amy Allen.
2024 Week 35 - Weekly Notes
!!Con 2024 recap, DIY Zines, the two-shot, Following Crypto's issues, How Townie was built, Listeria outbreak in Boar's Head, and RFK Jr. being someone's drug dealer. Also, a bunch of book recommendations.
Newsletter - An Ode to the Seasonal Playlist
Newsletter - We dive into my decade long habit of creating seasonal music playlists and lament on how music streaming services have made it harder to find and create original mixtapes.
2024 Week 34 - Weekly Notes
The Mike Lynch mystery, follow-ups from Burn Book, FLUX.1, doing the hard work instead of trusting AI, effective changelogs, and asteroid mining seeing the light of day.
2024 Week 33 - Weekly Notes
Bye bye, Chromecast, creating a personal Data Pipeline, heed the warnings of joining AI research, the new AI image generation king - Flux, a map of all bookstores, quitting spotify and starting self-hosting, and RIP Gena Rowlands.
Enshittification
Enshittification is when your product degrades over time because the company has spent more time squeezing out of the competition and curbing regulation. The product is gradually becoming less self-service and the employees no longer care about the product better.
2024 Week 32 - Weekly Notes
Current reading notes on Burn Book and Frostbite. Gallery of concept visualizations, transforming national park maps, how others use AI, doing quests, not goals, Intel’s Immiseration, going back on the high wire, and the first fitbit.
2024 Week 31 - Weekly Notes
Playing with htmx and migrating to the latest version of Ideaverse Pro. Using SQLite in CSV mode, bento slides, quantization visualized, and AI Friend domain sale. Using Little Sis, a photo of Gabriel Medina, Olympics long-term injuries, and welcoming Breaking.
Newsletter - Summer Ablaze
Newsletter - We talk about the fires and the heat. I share some website updates with the home page. Then we go over Hushpuppies and consulting. Finally, I give a recap of what I'm currently reading - Frostbite.
2024 Week 30 - Weekly Notes
A news break this week. Some old tidbits like the ten commandments of egoless programming, solitude and leadership. Some new things about knowledge management at NASA, visual programming, engaging over showing. Alexa is losing billions, and how large scale order emerges from complex systems.
2024 Week 29 - Weekly Notes
Taking a break from the politics talk this week as there are too many things to be enraged about, we look instead around the technosphere. City walks, reading A System for Writing and coming up new ideas for my workflow, choosing boring technology, looking at new Claude dev and engineer, and how story points being pointless. Around the globe, we examine the 100 books of the 21st century, where the…
Movies I should have seen - Reflections from 2010
I review a list I made back in 2011 of movies I wanted to watch. Here it is again, more than a decade later.
2024 Week 28 - Weekly Notes
Negative vibes from the media's stream of political turmoi, the AI threshold, NYT React 18 migration, Ladybird, Chemical recycling, loneliness from a low-ranking tennis player, and Bark Air - the airlines for dogs.
2024 Week 27 - Weekly Notes
Camp NaNoWriMo, blog updates, consulting firms are winning at AI, embeddings using Pokemon as an example, programming advice and beliefs, RIP Bill Cobbs and Martin Mull, why modern refridgerators don't last, and excitement for The Second short film.
Chicago Recommendations
Travel recommendations to Chicago. For anyone who is looking on going for the first time.
Newsletter - June Bugs
Newsletter - We talk about having COVID and some web shares around the web, including China's Internet being wiped, Inbox Ten, in praise of amateurism, and exploring Jhanas.