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Giving a shit as a service
A mental model for service businesses.
Allen Pike
Allen Pike writes about making nice software, building teams, and other tricky things.
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Burying the URL
Chrome considers hiding the location field.
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An Unreasonable Amount of Time
A method for magic.
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Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster
Some highlights and lowlights.
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Do something, so we can change it
A habit for addressing two-way decisions.
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LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore
A path to continued model improvement.
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The Curse of Dialup World
An acquisition gets weird.
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A Broken Heart
Or, getting a 100x speedup with one dumb line of code.
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Spending Too Much Money on a Coding Agent
On making use of large thinking models.
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Unprofessionalism
Being real brings the haters.
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iOS 7: Catch me if you can
iOS 7 throws CSS a curveball.
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Humans Need Play
On a vicious pattern that breeds burnout.