Hark, a link blog!

Excitedly trying out Skyreader's new link blog and opinions on link blogging

Buying another miniPC

GMKtec Nucbox G10 for $400CAD

Case is Waiting for the Future to Load

Since @case.bsky.social sent me down a rabbit hole from her recent share…

Bluesky's Find Friends Contact Import

Screenshot step-by-step on iOS

MacBook Air Fresh Install

Notes on a fresh MacOS 26 Tahoe setup October 2025

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT

Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.

Add to Dock Safari web apps in MacOS Tahoe 26

From Patchwork to ATProto

Using jj instead of git with Claude

A write up of how jj can be great to use with generative coding.

You don't look for evidence of horse droppings when cars are being built

A lot of people are looking for evidence of software abundance - that AI is making it dramatically easier to make more apps.

JesterKit - Tools for digital artisans to build and distribute standalone Software

First tool is EXE to Distribute Standalone Web Apps:

A world of rapid change…enabled by software is not one in which programmers will be idle

Programming In The Age Of Abundance, by Guyren G Howe

With AI software abundance, where is the value?

Mehmet Yilmaz writes about the Barbell of Software Value

Martin Fowler on LLMs and Software Development

OpenAI burns the boats (to go all in on advertising?)

Ethan Ding describes OpenAI’s order of magnitude pricing drop as both an attack on Anthropic and a move that means they have to get into advertising

Open Source is one person

7 million projects of the 11.8M projects tracked by ecosystems are maintained by one person.

Spreading misinformation by trusting ChatGPT

A long read of using ChatGPT for research, which has wrong information, and then publishing it in a blog which further cements the information even though it links only to ChatGPT output.

ml5.js - Friendly machine learning for the web!

A neighborly approach to creating and exploring artificial intelligence in the browser.

Leaflet posting

Moving off micro.blog, moving onto Leaflet for tech links

Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI

Stephan Go was interviewed by Casey Newton for the Verge's Decoder Podcast.