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The first draft of my "Full-breadth Developers" post included a throwaway line like "Forget 10x developers; think 100x" but then I came to my senses and deleted it. https://www.businessinsider.com/surge-ceo-ai-100x-engineers-2025-7

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

A step-by-step guide to building your own database server. Learn about SQL and improve your programming skills.

Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell! - oils-for-unix/oils

Building community-driven public media for the post-federal funding era.

In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse, and power far beyond the 8-bit machines that came before. It looked like nothing…

XMLUI brings a fresh, declarative approach to building web interfaces using native, composable components—no heavy frameworks required. It's a promising path toward giving Picos the ability to serve their own UIs again, natively and autonomously.

We loved keygens back in the day. Our lawyers advise us to clarify that that’s all because of the demo-scene style music embedded in them, not because we used them for piracy. must feel the s…

The future of software development might just be jazz. Everyone improvising. Nobody following the sheet music.

A Journey Through Complexity Toward Hope Beneath the Chaos

The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.

Technopoly by Neil Postman, published in 1993 “Can language models be too big? asked the researchers Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Margaret Mitchell in their famous…

Noah Kalina is uploading videos of the “long photograph” variety of peaceful & contemplative nature scenes to YouTube. 4K. No AI. “Press play and walk away.”

AMETEK EIP produces a broad variety of military connector types suited for use in countless applications, across all major defense verticals.

The best Stratechery content from the week of July 14, 2025, including the economic future of the web, Greatest of All Talk in Las Vegas, and how we cool computers.

Chatbots are out, browsers are in.

How Blu-ray Won the War but Lost the Future

Before social media brought the Internet to the masses, and before even Napster, ICQ, and AIM gave those with a phone line a reason to connect online at all, those who went online often went to a B…

What has 8 ARM cores, 8 GB of RAM, fits in a pocket, and runs NixOS? It’s no pi-clone SBC, but [MWLabs]’s smartphone– a OnePlus 6, to be precise. The video embedded below, and the…

Film maker [David Greelish] wrote in to let us know about his recent documentary: Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa. The documentary covers the life of the Apple Lisa. It starts with the genesis of …

Today brought so many stories worth “notes and observations” that I thought I’d try something new – a flash newsletter of sorts, with commentary on stories that pushed my ey…

What happens when demand exceeds supply? A 3X: Explore/Expand/Extract Perspective

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

The hidden architectural choice that makes big platforms bigger—and how we could change the rules for AI

There’s a fundamental architectural flaw in how the internet works that most people have never heard of, but it explains nearly every frustration you have with modern technology. Why your pho…

An off the cuff ramble