Blogs tagged ai

Sulayman Bowles — Writing

ai financial tech

Essays on software, AI systems, and markets.

Harris County’s toll-road cash Oct 21, 2026

HCTRA transferred $961 million to other county transportation funds over three years. Its accounts show why a toll do...
The school-tax dollar Austin keeps Oct 21, 2026

Austin ISD booked $1.51 billion in maintenance-and-operations taxes in FY2025. Recapture sent just over half away. Th...
Five cities, two balance sheets Oct 21, 2026

Five Texas cities report positive General Fund balances and negative governmental unrestricted net position. The diff...

ai tech variety

Pricing Rarity Oct 06, 2026

Unfinished; posting anyway. As a kid I lived through several collecting manias in the midst of my peers. Hockey cards...
Pizza Time Jul 31, 2026

Unfinished; posting anyway. Pizza and 2+1 offers go together like Apache Airflow and data engineering: Nobody knows w...
Tech Interview: Aftertaste Feb 25, 2026

Interviews take a lot of energy. In general but this one in particular. And getting through it also deserves a little...

ai tech

I'm Boris Tane, and I build software

Self-improving software is inevitable Oct 10, 2026

Production tells us exactly how to make our software better, we've just never had the tools to run this on auto-pilot.
On-Call Is Now Theatre Aug 21, 2026

On-call was calibrated to the cost of waking up a human. That cost just went to zero. Self-operating software is comi...
Slop Creep: The Great Enshittification of Software Mar 14, 2026

Coding agents didn't make poor engineers dangerous. They made them unstoppable.

ai tech variety writing

Exploring the universe from the inside out

Curiosity Traps Oct 13, 2026

On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people
Listening to music as an active process Oct 11, 2026

Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends. I generally work in...
TIL how to deeplink all the things Oct 07, 2026

I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words o...

ai tech writing

Toni Notes is for writers, creators, and indie builders who want better ways to publish and run their online work.

Why most blog advice does not apply to small publications Aug 15, 2026

Most blogging advice is built for marketing assets at a different scale. When a small publication imports that infras...
A small publication needs rhythm more than volume Aug 12, 2026

Readers do not feel a publication through raw output totals. They feel it through recognizable return, and a small pu...
A newsletter should extend a publication, not duplicate it Apr 30, 2026

A newsletter earns its place when it gives a publication a narrower, more direct return surface instead of just repea...