Reading

A lightweight record of articles and papers I read, revisit, or plan to read.

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  • Mar 07, 2026
    Post • by ynac
    tech ai-tools building

    Same here - it's like programming with a couple of buddies. Occasionally they goof off and wreck everything, but we put it back together and end up with a finished project. I'm literally going through my backlog of projects from the early 80s! There are parts of each of these projects that were black holes for me - just didn't know enough to get a toe hold. With Karl (that's my agent) he explains everything I don't understand, does stuff, breaks stuff, and so on. It's really a blast.

  • Mar 03, 2026
    Article • by Alex Chen
    communication engineering

    The developer clearly worked hard to investigate, but is giving a "stream of consciousness" update where they assume the listener knows as much about the problem as they do. They give a detailed list of what they did, but it would be more helpful to simply summarize the issue and make an actual plan.

  • Feb 28, 2026
    Video • by Mitchell Hashimoto
    tech ai-tools building

    Main takeaway: for demos, one person should now be able to build the full flow end-to-end, including design and implementation, with modern AI coding tools.

  • Feb 28, 2026
    Article • by Ben Mini
    reflection life

    "If I could give any advice to someone who needs it, I'd tell them to write down the things that have made them happy, and then explore why."

  • Feb 27, 2026
    Article • by Elizabeth Goodspeed
    design history data-viz turkiye

    Amazing vizs from early years of Turkish Republic -- a set of Ottoman-era data visualizations from Ceride-i Adliyye, 'The Justice Gazette,' a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Turkiye in the mid-1920s.

  • Feb 15, 2026
    Article • by Murat Demirbas
    tech ai writing

    "But as a perennial optimist, I think we are becoming architects. Deep work will not disappear, rather it will become the only work that matters. We get to design the blueprint, break down logic in high-level parts, set the vision, dictate strategy, and chart trajectory. We do the real thinking, and then we make the model grind."

  • Aug 05, 2014
    Article • by Sander Dieleman
    tech ml music-ai

    One of the pieces that originally pulled me into AI work.