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Lines of Code Are Back (and It's Worse Than Before)
The metric we killed is back, and AI made it worse
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How to make a living as an artist
An essay by fnnch on making a living as an artist.
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Claude Code is being dumbed down?
A blog by Yoshi.
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Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for the non-tech people in my life on what AI is starting to change — why it's moving faster than you think, and what to do about it.
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The AI Vampire
This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.
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Competition is not market validation
How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit
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AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it
Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
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A brief history of oral peptides
Semaglutide is a peptide. Your stomach’s entire job is to destroy peptides.
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America has a tungsten problem
The US will need a lot more tungsten in the future. Where will it come from?
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Game Theory Patterns at Work
Foundations: Games, Rationality, and Traps In organizations, strategies and execution are interdependent. Outcomes depend not just on what you do, but on what others do, and what they expect you to…
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Sandwich Bill of Materials
SBOM 1.0: A specification for sandwich supply chain transparency.
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AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
AI handles writing code but leaves the hard work: investigation, context, validation. Why vibe coding has limits and AI assistance can backfire.
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My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder
In year 8, I discovered it takes longer than I think to write a book, found alignment with my business, and regained my love for life as an indie founder.
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Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.
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I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.
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US Immigration on the Easiest Setting
Having been through the US immigration process (I got my first work visa more than 25 years ago and became a citizen in 2022), it's obvious to me that Americans have no idea how weird and tortuous their immigration system is:
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Systems Thinking
A blog about software development and programming.
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Company as Code
Reimagining organisational structure for the digital age.
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OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Something strange is happening with Mac Minis. They’re selling out everywhere, and it’s not because people suddenly need more coffee table computers. If you browse Reddit or HN, you’ll see the same pattern: people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run AI agents with computer use. They’re setting up headless…
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AI is killing B2B SaaS
SaaS is the most profitable business model on Earth.1 It’s easy to understand why: build once, sell the same thing again ad infinitum, and don’t suffer any marginal costs on more sales. I have been writing software for more than half my life. In the last year itself, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders and operators…
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221 Cannon is Not For Sale
Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life. It’s annoying, but thankfully I’ve avoided some of the more catastrophic outcomes when criminals begin impe…
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A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
over the past week the discourse around openclaw (fka clawdbot) has absolutely exploded. it has felt to me like all threads of conversation have veered towards the extreme and indefensible. some are running openclaw with unlimited permissions on their main computers. others are running it in the cloud and blowing…
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Two kinds of AI users are emerging
A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.
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Margin Call
Discover how Apple defied expectations with record gross margins of 48.2%, showcasing strength in products and services despite industry challenges.
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Palantir: Financed by Epstein, Fueled by Thiel
Palantir took Epstein’s money, Thiel’s backing, and Trump’s blessing to build an AI war machine. If Gaza is the testing ground, America’s next. Are we ready to fight back?
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Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product
Building in consumer hardware as a software engineer
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Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe
Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/media/amazon-melania-trump-film-critics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.R85v.5ZtNe8FttfaD
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Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit
I was thrilled to be selected to design a custom typeface for Wallace & Gromit – Aardman’s most beloved and recognisable characters.
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Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
Last year I predicted there would be a significant (2008+) economic crash that year. The year is now 2026 and I was wrong. At the time my main argument was essentially this: The unemployment rate just follows these smooth curves, covid was an exception, and it was due to jump again. Not very scientific I […]
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Backseat Software
What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks: