20 years after I started my career in Flash, its still around and hard to kill 😂

https://youtu.be/KLSUFcjJCNE?si=dtRc8lbFMZF6Oz8K

Heh, kinda not surprised that even the rationale for a 5 day work week in the US was driven by Capitalism

Good conversations and great crowd at last night’s CursorPhilly event

I had never seen this clip before. Made me smile / slightly tear up. All I seem to see lately in my feeds is ugliness. This was a needed moment

https://www.koko.org/emails/when_robin_met_koko/

TIL the term “Social Facilitation”

Long but amazing! 5 stars!

I had posted a few links on long -running agents in my newsletter yesterday. Here is another interesting one by Cursor.

https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents

New Post

https://open.substack.com/pub/arpitmathur/p/recent-reads-long-running-coding?r=6efj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Monoliths are undervalued

https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/best-practices/goodbye-microservices

hot take: AI note takers are generally a bad idea, because the point of taking notes *is* to process them through your own understanding. the shortcut bypasses the entire point of taking notes.

Having spent 15 years in various incarnations of early-product teams, this resonated strongly …

Having spent 15 years in various incarnations of early-product teams, this resonated strongly …

I’m so not a fan of hiding functional affordances in a quest for visual simplicity.

https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/resizing_windows_macos_26

Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/meta-hires-former-doge-trump-election-lawyer-as-lobbyist
http://www.techmeme.com/260108/p45#a260108p45

Hey, whaddya know? I was on a podcast. You should listen to it, because I'm sure as hell not going to listen to my own voice! https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/making-problems/episodes/Computer-Art---Keith-Peters-e3d5mih Thanks @davebauerart for inviting me on for a chat!

I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.

“DeepSeek is more humane,” she said. “Doctors are more like machines.”

I have actually heard similar thoughts in other places where LLMs are being used as well. Sometimes fake empathy is better than no empathy at all.

https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-innovation-global-2025/

“DeepSeek is more humane,” she said. “Doctors are more like machines.”
I have actually heard similar thoughts in other places where LLMs are being used as well. Sometimes fake empathy is better than no empathy at all.

https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-innovation-global-2025/

@lehtimaeki Play Movies doesn’t exist but all your purchases can be accessed in the “Movies and TV” section on YouTube under the “Purchased” tab.

Starting the new year off with a cold and cough. Ugh