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The real danger is not that AI destroys humanity.

The first website I ever built ran on a publishing system I wrote myself, and I'd already rebuilt it three times.

Tim Ferriss built the perfect nonfiction product for the pre-chatbot internet, and that is exactly why the chatbot can digest it.

iroh 1.0 shipped with the one idea I care about: dial the key, not the IP.

Anthropic shipped the most powerful model ever built.

Owen McGrann's Dead Economy Theory is the most coherent explanation of why everyone in Silicon Valley feels nervous even while the tech is working.

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today.

Today's Hacker News front page is not anti-AI or pro-AI.

A Murdoch bought New York Magazine.

Max Heyer quit writing code by hand.

The blog I tried to run alone in 2010 was the work of fifteen people.

Today's AI front page on Hacker News is less about the future arriving than about everyone finally noticing the receipt.

Mitchell Hashimoto said entire companies are under AI psychosis.

AI did make James Pain dumber.

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Forgejo is GitHub at home.

Running your own mailing list used to be a sysadmin job, then a weekend of engineering work, then a recurring fee.

The ghost can write code.

The point of vibe coding is not to prove you touched every line.

Yoga is not a productivity hack for LLMs.

Yes, this article was written by an AI.

The 2010 voice isn't gone.

You make a few reasonable decisions in a row, and one day you look up and you're just a person with stuff and a routine, same as everyone else.

The MacBook Air I sold in Berlin in 2012 was the moment minimalism broke.

I am trying to summon the ghost intelligence of myself.

The blog did not die.

A new convention for telling AI agents how to work on your project.

A first post to kick the tires on the new publishing pipeline.

GPT5.5 is not a chatbot upgrade.

My brother emails me today.

A few readers got in touch in various ways after my Debian post to ask the obvious question...

Please note: this was originally posted to Medium, then I deleted my account, and it was preserved and reposted to evbogue.com.

A month or two ago, I changed the name of my daily blog to free daily letters.

Clearing the decks, for me, is letting go of everything that doesn't serve me anymore.

November 12, 2011

As the year begins to end, I'm looking at which technologies have been rendered obsolete since the year began.

The primary way my writing travels is by word of mouth.

I've already forgotten what the old version of Gmail was like.

I get scared just before I'm about to launch a Thing.

If I can describe what I do in one sentence, and everyone gets it, then I assume what I'm doing isn't very valuable.

November 5th, 2011.

I outsource my food preparation, so I can focus on the work.

If I think I've created something that's worth $5.

Less overhead = less anxiety about supporting myself.

I find it fascinating to read about how far technology has come in just a few short years.

Every month, I start fresh with a new Scrivener file.

The single most important struggle of the artist in 2011 is staying alive in the minds of the people of the net.

I'm sitting in Cafe Oro Verde, the only cafe in Puerto Vallarta where they roast their own beans.

There are two types of offerings: Concrete and Ethereal.

How do I get from idea to publish every day?