Mar 13, 2026 from The Autodidacts Curation and its side effects Some fundamentals about how it works, and what to do when it doesn't
Mar 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts The butterfly effect of revenge bedtime procrastination Wasting time isn't bad because it wastes time
Mar 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts My criteria for a good Linux developer laptop Well-built, cheap, and fast: I pick all three.
Mar 10, 2026 from The Autodidacts Some thoughts about backing up, which occurred to me after my laptop abruptly expired I had other plans for what to write about, and also plans for the day that didn't involve disassembling my connection to the outside world with a screwdriver
Mar 09, 2026 from The Autodidacts Sheep Music & Wedding Bands On knowledge gaps and bookworm pronunciation syndrome
Mar 07, 2026 from The Autodidacts Old site, new site bookmarklets A small utility that’s surprisingly useful during website migrations
Mar 05, 2026 from The Autodidacts Ideas Evolve in Dialogue You can sort of have a conversation with a book. I sometimes write rude comments in the margins when I disagree with the author. But the Stoics recommend that when you’re insulted, you just ignore ...
Mar 04, 2026 from The Autodidacts An indie blog’s directory of indie blog directories Blogs are back. RSS is cool again. (Said the blogger to his RSS feed.)Here is a collection of small, independent directories of blogs, personal websites, and smol/indie/slow/human web sites that I’...
Mar 03, 2026 from The Autodidacts How I find the email addresses of public figures 🔒 This post is for paid members only
Mar 01, 2026 from The Autodidacts Underrated reasons to dislike AI The big arguments for and against AI have been endlessly discussed, and I don’t feel I have much to add. AGI and existential risk; human obsolescence; power use; cybersecurity; safety + censorship;...
Feb 27, 2026 from The Autodidacts We don’t know until the end, and it’s never the end Judging a book by its content doesn’t work either
Feb 25, 2026 from The Autodidacts It’s surprisingly hard to reliably paste the current date at the cursor on Linux Long, long ago, in a dotfiles directory far away, I had this snippet: bindsym control+semicolon exec date '+%Y-%m-%d' | tr -d "\n" | xsel -i -b && xdotool sleep 0.5 key "ctrl+v" Isn’t it a beauty? ...
Feb 25, 2026 from The Autodidacts Paste clipboard contents in places where you can’t paste Use AutoKey send_keys() to put clipboard content places where it can't normally be put
Feb 24, 2026 from The Autodidacts The Fewer Ingredients The Better Good quality ingredients hardly need seasoning. I only need to add spices if I’ve burnt the soup.
Feb 23, 2026 from The Autodidacts Social Cache Busting How do you ask questions that people don’t just hippopotamus?
Feb 22, 2026 from The Autodidacts The Evening Writing Effect Time for some night-owl counter-propaganda
Feb 20, 2026 from Boris Tane The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead AI agents didn't make the SDLC faster. They killed it. All that's left is context.
Feb 10, 2026 from Boris Tane How I Use Claude Code The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan.
Feb 01, 2026 from Boris Tane Ship types, not docs Types are the contract between services, docs are not
