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AI's Affordability Crisis
A year ago in The Back Of The AI Envelope I pointed out that the AI platforms were running the drug-dealer's algorithm, "the first one's fr...
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Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday.\nI have to say being fired from AWS is actually a relief. There have been a lot of changes to the company since I joined in 2022, and the company I wanted to work for is no longer the same company.\nThis past year, while I was doing my best to make…
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OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft’s new deal.
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The truth behind the 2026 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
2.8k words, 13 minutes reading time
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The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)
My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I've watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I've watched the show…
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Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”
Update: this post generated some interesting discussion on Hacker News. Friendly fraud is the laundered name for something that the payment system is not really able to prevent. Even though I’m pretty sure they can do way better. Particularly big and sophisticated payment providers like Stripe, with a mountain of…
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LinkedIn Larpmaxxing
rant and building of the slop YOLO project to detect other slop YOLO projects
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Software Pump and Dump
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
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Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated
With the release of Claude Fable, it is clear that Anthropic is progressing from poems to enterprise-scale narrative objects.
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libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license .
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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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Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
Releasing Town Square. Bring back the feeling that real people are browsing your site with you.
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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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VC isn't VC anymore
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Why jet engines aren't made in China
What China’s jet engine program tells us about the limits of industrial policy
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The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat
The Tech Market is Fundamentally Fucked Up - AI is Just a Scapegoat
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I Stopped “Creating Content”
Why did we all start talking about content, traffic, distribution, and conversions?
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America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings
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Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …
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Running a law firm on Free software
I started running decoded.legal - a small English law firm, focussing on Internet, telecoms, and tech law - on Free software, both client and server side, around five years ago. I have used Free software in my personal life for a lot longer than that.
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Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last 7 years. While GPT-2 could only do software engineering tasks t
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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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The Cold Email
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Apple and a hacker's future
I was happy for years in Apple’s walled garden; with AI, however, their protections feel like limitations.
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RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google
Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly…
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California is chasing wealth that has feet
California has $8.14 trillion in land sitting right under its feet. It's chasing billionaires instead.
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Canceling "Hey"
cancelling-my-hey - Chad Nauseam Home