Dan Kim

linkding is one of the best self-hosted apps you can run.

Some lovely bits from Sophie Alpert: Spending time on the writing process — on deciding what to emphasize and how to structure your ideas clearly — teaches you more about your topic.

This take by M.G.

Legit impressed by Kagi Assistant.

Finally got Pi-hole running in front of my network and good lord it’s wild/frustrating to see all the garbage traffic 2026 devices and software send.

Really interesting and relatable post, with stories that unfortunately sound eerily familiar.

This is one of those posts 1) you must read and 2) it’s hard to pull out any individual quotes because the whole thing is so good.

https://bubbles.town is kinda interesting!

Finally setup an OTA antenna in my attic.

You can keep saying “forward deployed engineer” all you want, but we all know a client-site consultant when we see it.

Been using Kagi for search now for a couple weeks and there’s no going back to Google.

Bought an app because on paper it had all the features I wanted.

Literally every day I’m trying to square the circle of using an LLM.

Man I love this song.

The phrase “big tent” is a new red flag phrase for me.

Saw a dude proclaim that xitter was “good again” so yeah I’m gonna go ahead and stop paying for your app now.

I kinda like this framing of how LLMs can do work for you, but it most definitely can’t exercise for you.

I lost my Kobo Libra 2, one of my favorite devices ever, on a flight a couple months back and couldn’t find a reasonably priced replacement (they don’t make it anymore).

So many good points in this post so I’d encourage you to read the whole thing (it’s long, but worth it!).

Really enjoyed the book “Scythe”, and this passage stuck out as particularly relevant (Thunderhead is an all knowing AI in the book).

Look up the owner, not the name.

I remain so fascinated/appalled by that design director dude that left Apple who was like “yes yes, absolutely fuck yes that’s exactly what I want it to look like!!!”

For the most part Claude artifacts are an abomination and just another type of AI generated slop.

I ended up discovering a whole bunch of music that way.

“Worse on Purpose” is a truly fascinating site.

I’ve found some genuinely interesting people and topics to follow on Mastodon that I doubt I ever would have found on other networks.

Took me an embarrassingly long time to start using/paying for Kagi, but now that I’m here it’s sooooo nice not seeing Google shit jammed into every corner of a simple search results page.

This, so much.

This has already been making the rounds but allow me to add my favorite part that I actually lol’d at… It turns out that chatbots are good at chat.

LinkedIn is the worst.

I wrote a document today.

When asked how Meta is tackling these privacy controversies, a spokesperson for the company told Vogue Business: “We have teams dedicated to limiting and combating misuse, but as with any technology, the onus is ultimately on the individual to not actively

Important stuff!

I talk about a bunch of things here with my good pal Huyen (Kotlin Multiplatform, Android, the web) but arguably the most important thing we chatted about was the role of AI/LLMs, how it’s a tool and should be treated as such, and why the human side of en…

It’s true at work as much as it is at home – model the behavior you want to see more of, fight for what you believe in, and hope for the best

Easy way to sniff out a bad leader: they use “I” language for accomplishments and achievements and “we” language for accountability and unfavorable outcomes.

People and the culture they build are your irreplaceable competitive advantages, period.

When it comes to managing people (and by association, the success of your team), your most valuable currency is trust.

I cannot overstate how important it’s been in my life to build friendships at work and in developer communities.

This post by Jonas Downey is a must read.

I’ve already had a long, fruitful career.

Sure I totally believe that white paper you wrote about AI adoption and related concerns, company that sells products and services that help with AI adoption and related concerns.

You should read this.

A VC NFT/crypto bro said he “100% disagreed” with one of my posts that was critical of blindly following the AI hype.

This piece from Anil Dash remains my absolute favorite take on AI.

VC guy who has never written a line of code in his life posting about how engineers are definitively the bottleneck and how AI is the answer.

I think a lot of times people mistake information for culture.

A little while back I tried fully embracing the “I want it my way and I want it now!”

People are going to start running with this idea that 1:1s aren’t needed now because AI Jensen says so.

Vibe coding is the equivalent of me sketching a drawing of my dream car, it materializing in front of me, and then proclaiming “I MADE A CAR IT’S 80% DONE”.