Blogs tagged "ai"

Sulayman Bowles — Writing

Essays on software, AI systems, and markets.

• Who owns veterinary clinics in Texas’s four biggest metros? Nov 11, 2026

  Mars accounted for 167 of 269 documented network clinics across four Texas metros. See the ownership counts and what ...

• Who collects Texas trash, and where is landfill space running out? Nov 11, 2026

  Fort Worth expects its city landfill to reach capacity in 2036. Austin’s disposal agreement runs to 2030. See who col...

• Who owns Texas’s retail electricity brands? Nov 11, 2026

  NRG and Vistra supplied about 69% of reported competitive residential accounts in 2025. Two Dallas plans from one lic...

tenticle

• 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...

The Autodidacts

Exploring the universe from the inside out

• Strategically compounding correlated variables Nov 10, 2026

  A reader read a draft of my essay on measuring early stage progress, and said, that’s cute, but a more interesting qu...

• Holistic prioritization requires sometimes working on lower priority tasks Nov 10, 2026

  At the risk of stating the obvious: always working on your #1 priority doesn’t work. I have learned this the hard way...

• The Psychology of Letting Go Nov 06, 2026

  Some time ago I drafted an essay on cutting words from essays, intended for a cheesy writing contest, and never submi...

Boris Tane

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.

Toni Notes

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...