Articles 📚
Articles are important long reads where I have local comments and quotes I refer back to.
2025
- Obsidian’s CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI by [[Casey Newton]] #
- the-shape-of-what-you-meant by Index Network #
- malleable-software-essay by Ink & Switch #
- the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine by Fred Hebert #
- ai-2027 by #
- lets-fix-oauth-in-mcp by Aaron Parecki #
- Gecko. Mozilla. Thoughts. by Mark Mayo #
- The Revolution Will Be Decentralized by Joan Westenberg #
2024
- The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era by Sahar Mor #
- introducing-the-model-context-protocol by Anthropic #
- against-the-dark-forest by Erin Kissane #
- migrating-pds-account-with-goat by Bryan Newbold #
- third-wave-commercial-open-source by Steven Deobald #
- did-web by #
- cruising-the-atmosphere-together by Bryan Newbold #
- ai-interfaces by Silicon Jungle #
- open-sourcing-kinopio by Pirijan #
- The Death of the Junior Developer by Steve Yegge #
- how-to-build-an-ai-data-center by Institute for Progress (IFP) #
- Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud by #
- home-cooked-software-and-barefoot-developers by Maggie Appleton #
- situational-awareness by Leopold Aschenbrenner #
- initiative-on-sponsorship-forwarding by Anthony Fu #
- The Brazilianization of the Internet by Drew Austin #
- infrastructure-calibration-scale-for-blockchains by Venkatesh Rao #
- towards-software-commons by Chad Whitacre #
- paying-people-to-work-on-open-source-is-good-actually by Jacob Kaplan-Moss #
- knowledge-networks-and-the-politics-of-protocols by BlockScience #
2023
- in-search-of-hardness by Venkatesh Rao #
- The Proto-App Thesis by David Phelps #
- malleable-software-in-the-age-of-llms by Geoffrey Litt #
- The Internet Transition by Robin Berjon #
- Audience - Community - Product by Greg Isenberg #
2022
- a-guide-to-potential-liability-pitfalls-for-people-running-a-mastodon-instance by rahaeli #
- did by Manu SpornyDave LongleyMarkus SabadelloDrummond ReedOrie SteeleChristopher Allen #
- sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks by Varun Srinivasan #
2021
- john-macgaffey-below-the-api by John MacGaffey #
- how-organizations-are-changing by Simon Wardley #
2020
- when-tailwinds-vanish by John Luttig #
- The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web by Maggie Appleton #
2019
- Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech by Mike Masnick #
- local-first-software-essay by Martin KleppmannAdam WigginsPeter van HardenbergMark McGranaghan #
2018
- knowmad by John Moravec #
- activitypub by #
2017
2016
- how-algolia-uses-electron-to-improve-internal-productivity by Algolia #
- no-jobs-for-horses by Al Lee #
2015
- mb21-jobs-below-the-api by Mauro Bieg #
- pioneers-settlers-and-town-planners by Simon Wardley #
- Google Cabs And Uber Bots Will Challenge Jobs 'Below The API' by ForbesAnthony Wing Kosner #
- replacing-middle-management-with-apis by Peter Reinhardt #
2014
- Five ways to build a $100 million business by Christoph Janz #
- On Consensus and Humming in the IETF by Pete Resnick #
2013
- heroku-values by Adam Wiggins #
2011
- how-to-scale-a-development-team by Adam Wiggins #
2010
- stock-and-flow by Robin Sloan #
2009
- Bruce Sterling: Gothic Chic in the Future Favela by Bruce Sterling #
2002
- Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm by Yochai Benkler #