If you’re not using Kagi SmallWeb, you’re missing the best of the internet. While two-thirds of posts are currently, “I accidentally wiped my Keychain, deleted my backups, and posted my ‘weird porn’ folder to Instagram with OpenClaw, and you can too!” inbetween are the sort of thoughtful, obsessive, or just plain charming human blogs that will always be the saving grace of the web.
File under: Bookmark now
The Disney Weirdness Blog
What it says on the tin. You didn’t really need to do anything this year, did you?
File under: Delightful obsessives
Bidding Farewell To The Ganz-MÁVAGs
A detailed love-letter to a disappearing Hungarian train type built in the 1970s-80s? Yes, please. I don’t even care about trains.
All the Radios
It’s all his radios. It’s just all his radios.
File under: Thoughtful commentary
Whoops, The Tech Press Mythologized Another Unethical Asshole
I got a lifetime’s worth of startup puffery in my eight years as a bank analyst on the PE, VC & hedge fund industry beat. Nothing changes, just the scale and blatancy. Yes, the board was right to fire Sam Altman. Watching his mask slip should surprise no one.
I outsourced my thinking to the same brain as everyone else
Collaboration is friction. Friction is powerful. Everyone “force multiplying” their cognitive output with the same tool is outsourcing to the same nobody.
OpenAI has the governance structure of a unicorn – it does not exist
Ridiculous amounts of self-dealing from a billion-dollar startup? Did we learn nothing from WeWork? And how!
File under: Forgotten tomes
Definitely Maybe by The Strugatskys
Reviewing an obscure Soviet science fiction novel in which the very universe seems to be opposing scientific progress. How many metaphors escaped the censors?
File under: Birding
rufous-crowned sparrows?
It’s not even a birding blog. It’s just someone birding. And this must be supported.
File under: WTF?
Pissgoblins
The sort of hard-hitting content that makes decent monster manuals blush.
File under: The built world
Doors of Turin
Crawling out from under the drunken hutt of door conformity.
File under: Coding for real
Stoppability in Code Design
Part of a series that appears equally worthwhile. A reminder that programming is bimodal communication: You to the machine and you to the next a-hole reading it—even if the next a-hole is guaranteed to be you in four months.*
*Write It So the Next A-hole Can Read It. WIStNACRI is not the best acronym, but I’m not the best person.