# 50th birthday (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover 50th birthday. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Counterforce No. 81](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-81-hal-hartley) _2026-07-28 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Hal Hartley, Last Life In The Universe, The Linguini Incident, Dory Previn, Mollie Ray ## [On leaving Cornwall this year](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/on-leaving-cornwall-this-year) _2026-07-09 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ and why it feels a little tougher than normal ## [BMC Next with Agentic Coding](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2026/06/28/bmc-next-agentic-coding/) _2026-06-29 · Boris Mann's Homepage_ I've avoided going deep with LLM usage, including for agentic coding. This is has been for a number of reasons. I don't want to be sending data to US tech platforms is a big one. I don't want to start there, and I don't want to get used to it. And I didn't want to have a mental model that was "these… ## [The BEST Songs](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-best-songs) _2026-06-16 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ I’ve been completely in love with the song Closer by Cold Specks ever since she released her album Light For The Midnight last year. ## [Russian Spoken Here](https://augstone.substack.com/p/russian-spoken-here) _2026-06-12 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Reflections Down The Family Line ## [The Counterforce No. 80 - Iron Maiden](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-80-iron-maiden) _2026-05-20 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Up The Irons! ## [The 11:11 to Sheffield](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/the-1111-to-sheffield) _2026-05-18 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ Connecting to my Dad and the landscape ## [London Week Two Recap](https://augstone.substack.com/p/london-week-two-recap) _2026-05-11 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ 50th Birthday Trip Third & Final Part ## [London Recap Birthday Weekend](https://augstone.substack.com/p/london-recap-birthday-weekend) _2026-05-07 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ 50th Birthday Trip Part Two ## [London Week One Recap](https://augstone.substack.com/p/london-week-one-recap) _2026-04-23 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ 50th Birthday Trip Part One ## [One Cloud, Every AI Layer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PtMtlKmbCmEG) _2026-04-23 · **Sponsored**_ Run agents, inference, and infrastructure on one stack — economics improve as you scale. ## [The Counterforce No. 79](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-79-mark-forward-material-issue) _2026-04-09 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Mark Forward, Chantal Akerman, Pierre-Henry Gomont, Material Issue, thoughts on turning 50 ## [A dialogue between design and organization](https://www.vinishgarg.com/a-dialogue-between-design-and-organization/) _2026-04-08 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ We often see that organizations consistently build products that cause unintended suffering, and do not care how our digital infrastructure actually makes people feel. When Kevin Richard of Design and Critical Thinking called for contributions to their annual project, I thought of a proposal. A dialogue between design and an organization. The dialogue is not about design or interactions or … ## [Me to Claude: Assuming that I am AI and you are human, can we chat?](https://www.vinishgarg.com/me-to-claude-assuming-that-i-am-ai-and-you-are-human-can-we-chat/) _2026-04-03 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ Whenever I used Claude in the past, I got a feeling that it was a golden trap. Since it is a well-designed trap and I have a bias towards well-designed products, I thought of a small experiment within those walls. We had a small conversation, you can see it here. This experience can make our relationship stronger—I can think how … ## [The Counterforce No. 78](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-78-the-kinks) _2026-04-01 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Thoughts on music, making art, and The Kinks ## [The Counterforce No. 77](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-77-awp-lina-wertmuller) _2026-03-26 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Lina Wertmüller, AWP, Stephanie Austin's Burn, Lauren Lavín's The Third Beat, album update ## [A cheque that could sign itself on its 50th birthday](https://www.vinishgarg.com/a-cheque-that-could-sign-itself-on-its-50th-birthday/) _2026-03-04 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ (I am celebrating my 50th birthday today. For the day, I am celebrating momentum more than the structure. If you are missing the context somewhere while reading the post, the context is right at the end in the post. Thank you for starting reading the post.) Human intelligence is so overrated when it involves only humans. Imagine a cheque that … ## [The Counterforce No. 76](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-76-hanoi-rocks-ramones) _2026-03-02 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Magazines, Hanoi Rocks, The Ramones... ## [The Counterforce No. 75](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-75-pop-kkuurrtt-tex-gresham-scott-laudati-play-the-devil-funny-books) _2026-02-19 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Pop!, Play The Devil, some music, and a whole bunch of Aug Stone stuff ; ) ## [Prompt reuse should be part of content strategy](https://www.vinishgarg.com/prompt-reuse-should-be-part-of-content-strategy/) _2026-02-11 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ In the 2010 decade, many content strategists spoke and wrote about content models and content reuse, for designing the right user experience in digital products. For example Marcia Riefer Johnston wrote about it extensively here and here, and see another example if you are new to this practice. The content reuse discussions and the frameworks—DITA, COPE, chunking, and structured content … ## [My thoughts on product testing and QA](https://www.vinishgarg.com/my-thoughts-on-product-testing-and-qa/) _2026-02-09 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ Software QA and testing are a huge industry in itself. We saw the category of bug-tracking tools in the very early days, from Bugzilla and Mantis to the modern day tools such as Linear. Early in my career as a technical writer, I saw how QA were so meticulous about their job—identifying the granular use cases to find issues in … ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/eEWkJh57l52D) _2026-02-09 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and start investing with low-cost global access. ## [The Counterforce No. 74](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-74-resistance) _2026-02-08 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Resistance ## [The Counterforce No. 73](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-73-kirsti-mackenzie) _2025-12-21 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Kirsti MacKenzie, Xymox, liar, flower, Deliver Me From Nowhere, Daniel Kitson & Gavin Osborn, Tex Gresham & KKUURRTT's Pop!, a fun night at Best Video ## [The Counterforce No. 72](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-72-katiejane-garside-maggie-cheung) _2025-11-26 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ KatieJane Garside, Maggie Cheung songs from Clean, The Bureau Of Lost Culture, Arthur Machen, London, RIP Mani & Jimmy Cliff ## [The Counterforce No. 71](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-71-dolly-mixture) _2025-11-17 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Dolly Mixture, Tresa Leigh, Ani Glass, The Studio System, David Ryder Prangley ## [P.G. Bauhaus](https://augstone.substack.com/p/pg-bauhaus-wodehouse-goth) _2025-10-16 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ The Cape Of Abandoned Hope ## [The Counterforce No. 70](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-70-thomas-pynchon) _2025-10-09 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Pynchon, Pynchon, Pynchon ## [The Counterforce No. 69](https://augstone.substack.com/p/the-counterforce-no-69-spearmint) _2025-09-17 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ Spearmint, sticking to your guns, and rediscovering my car's cd player ## [Rachel On The Rooftops](https://augstone.substack.com/p/rachel-on-the-rooftops) _2025-09-09 · Aug Stone · The Counterforce_ My first ever solo single under my own name is released today. ## [Your own Howard Roark](https://www.vinishgarg.com/your-own-howard-roark/) _2025-09-08 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ You are your own Howard Roark. ## [Finding my way back to beautiful](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/finding-my-way-back-to-beautiful) _2025-09-04 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ Or, time to stop waiting to be told and instead feeling it for myself. ## [Sync bookmarks across every browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6ixER5HLz1eb) _2025-09-04 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync across Chrome, Firefox and Safari; built-in ad and tracker blocker. ## [In students’ career counselling services—a student is not the hero in their journey](https://www.vinishgarg.com/in-students-career-counselling-services-a-student-is-not-the-hero-in-their-journey/) _2025-08-31 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ When a student says that they want to study forests, that forest is the hero of their story. If a student says that they want to design a new category of robots to do complex procedures in surgeries, that robot is the hero. ## [Content design or writing?](https://www.vinishgarg.com/content-design-or-writing/) _2025-06-18 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ Content is what you see about me on my LinkedIn profile, as below. Writing is writing. See the same LinkedIn profile content in a text file, as below. (For reference, I have included the text of this post in the above text file screenshot too.) A few weeks ago, an organization changed the name of their team from UX to … ## [AI Content on bradycardia](https://www.vinishgarg.com/ai-content-on-bradycardia/) _2025-06-14 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ When the interface automatically generates content, there is no smell. ## [Product positioning and the product—two short stories](https://www.vinishgarg.com/product-positioning-and-the-product-two-short-stories/) _2025-06-11 · Vinish Garg · Vinish Garg_ I had two contrasting experiences about how founders think about their product positioning, recently. In the first story, a founder who is building a modern UX research tool reached out to me for my thoughts and feedback. They shared the URL and offered to do a demo. As I always prefer it to be, I told them that I would … ## [June 9th, 2025 Daily](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2025/06/09/daily/) _2025-06-10 · Boris Mann's Homepage_ Today was a heck of a day. I was supposed to fly out to Barcelona, for an Ink & Switch team retreat.\[^inkandswitchwork\] \[^inkandswitchwork\]: I haven't really talked about it or announced it very publicly, but I've been working with Ink & Switch (which is an industrial research lab focused on buildin… ## [I thought I’d have this sorted by now](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/i-thought-id-have-this-sorted-by) _2025-03-29 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ Day 10 of 50 - 50 pieces before my 50th birthday ## [Is that all there is?](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/is-that-all-there-is) _2025-03-04 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ Day 9 of 50 before 50 - 50 pieces until my 50th birthday ## [My 50th Birthday](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2025/02/22/my-50th-birthday/) _2025-02-22 · Boris Mann's Homepage_ Today is my 50th birthday. I've been putting words on the Internet in blog form for close to 25 years\[^domain\]. I feel good. I don't feel "old", although tweaking my back carrying some bags out to the cab for the trip to Berlin in October 2024 is when I realized that yes, my physical being was maybe… ## [Day 8 and it’s all gone a bit meh](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/day-8-and-its-all-gone-a-bit-meh) _2025-02-18 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ Day 8 of 50 before 50 - A piece a day until my 50th birthday ## [If I wanted a boat](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/if-i-wanted-a-boat) _2025-02-15 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ Day seven of 50 before 50 - A piece per day until my 50th birthday ## [Is feminism posh?](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/is-feminism-posh) _2025-02-14 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ Day six of 50 before 50 - A piece per day until my 50th birthday ## [The street where I lived](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/the-street-where-i-lived) _2025-02-13 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ Day five of 50 before 50 - A piece a day until my 50th birthday ## [I think the 80’s infected me](https://kareny2m3p.substack.com/p/i-think-the-80s-infected-me) _2025-02-12 · Karen Staniland · ALL THE WILD IN ME_ Day four of 50 before 50 - A piece a day until my 50th birthday