Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code(liquidbrain.net)

43 points by evakhoury 24 days ago | 18 comments

A personal blog post describing assigning friends custom phone vibration patterns for text messages based on Morse code, to identify who is texting.

The Failed Commodification of Technical Work(ludic.mataroa.blog)

285 points by M2Ys4U 2 years ago | 156 comments

I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars(ludic.mataroa.blog)

851 points by softskunk 3 years ago | 375 comments

Blog post from Ludicity describing how the author saved their company half a million dollars in minutes by changing a configuration setting, and criticizing industry dysfunction.

Flexible schemas are the mindkiller(ludic.mataroa.blog)

63 points by l0b0 2 years ago | 38 comments

Spoonbill (2016–2023)(applied-cartography.com)

35 points by firloop 2 years ago | 5 comments

Hackerrank was broken – but now it's harmful(segfaulte.mataroa.blog)

39 points by lunarcave 1 year ago | 41 comments

Accountability Sinks(250bpm.substack.com)

537 points by msustrik 1 year ago | 328 comments

Martin Sustrik's 250bpm Substack essay on accountability sinks and accountability engineering in the design of institutions.

MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System(worksonmymachine.substack.com)

729 points by Stwerner 1 year ago | 322 comments

A Substack essay by Scott Werner arguing that Anthropic's Model Context Protocol works as an accidental universal plugin system, using a USB-C analogy.

Can gzip be a language model?(nathan.rs)

384 points by networked 1 month ago | 149 comments

A blog post by Nathan Barry exploring whether gzip compression can be used as a language model to generate text, with an interactive beam search demo.

Personal Computing 2.0: It's time for a personal computing revolution(ideas.imbue.com)

12 points by raybb 24 days ago | 2 comments

An essay by Josh Albrecht on Imbue's Substack arguing for a new personal computing revolution that restores user control, free of subscriptions, ads and dark patterns.

Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video](brightonruby.com)

639 points by vinnyglennon 1 year ago | 227 comments

Brighton Ruby 2024 conference talk video by Nadia Odunayo on reaching two million users as a one-woman development team.

"A computer can never be held accountable"(simonwillison.net)

380 points by zdw 1 year ago | 253 comments

Simon Willison blog post sharing a 1979 IBM training page stating a computer can never be held accountable and so must never make a management decision.