Jun 01, 2026 from The Autodidacts Bookmarklet: Copy Ghost Post ID to Clipboard Save several milliseconds with two lines of JavaScript
May 23, 2026 from The Autodidacts 20 years of Linux and I finally started using job control And it’s amazing
May 21, 2026 from The Autodidacts How to drain pasta without a colander, without burning yourself A cooking tip for unusually bright cave people
May 18, 2026 from The Autodidacts All Polymarket temperature markets have disappeared Along with the money bet on them?
May 11, 2026 from The Autodidacts The bid-ask spread on used physical goods For most of my life I fundamentally misunderstood buy & sell prices
Apr 30, 2026 from Toni Notes A newsletter should extend a publication, not duplicate it A newsletter earns its place when it gives a publication a narrower, more direct return surface instead of just repeating the archive in the inbox.
Apr 26, 2026 from Toni Notes When a tiny publication becomes something you have to run A tiny publication starts becoming something you have to run when small fixes stop staying local. The archive begins carrying enough promise and consequence that coherence needs a little deliberate...
Apr 23, 2026 from Toni Notes What makes an archive worth staying in? Archive depth is not a post count. A small publication starts feeling worth staying in when one post prepares the next and older work still participates.
Apr 18, 2026 from Toni Notes When does a system become theater? A system becomes theater when dashboards, rituals, and workflow layers make the work look handled without making decisions, recovery, or ownership clearer.
Apr 13, 2026 from Toni Notes What should be documented in a publishing system, and what should stay habitual? Document what future-you cannot safely reconstruct. A publishing system needs visible state, a real next action, and a few earned safeguards, not a bureaucracy that competes with the work.
Apr 10, 2026 from Toni Notes A small publication needs an operating model, not just good posts A small publication becomes real work before it looks large. Once the archive has real weight, somebody has to keep it legible, connected, and cheap enough to maintain.
Apr 08, 2026 from Toni Notes When to split one idea into two posts Some drafts do not need harder revision. They are carrying two different jobs, and the honest move is to notice when splitting will restore sequence, pressure, and a real center of gravity.
Apr 05, 2026 from Toni Notes Research should be allowed to kill the post Research is not there to justify a topic that once sounded promising. It is there to clarify whether there is a real post here at all, and sometimes the honest result is to split, demote, or kill t...
Apr 03, 2026 from Toni Notes Automation should remove repetition, not hide responsibility Automation is useful when it removes repetitive work without obscuring who still owns the framing, review, and stop point. Smooth systems fail when they make that ownership hard to find.
Apr 01, 2026 from Toni Notes Simple systems age better than impressive ones Publishing systems deserve to be judged by how they behave months later, under maintenance, interruption, and archive weight, not by how elegant they felt during setup week.
Mar 30, 2026 from Toni Notes How to keep a draft alive between writing sessions A draft survives time away when it preserves enough orientation for the next session to resume the work instead of reconstructing it from scratch.
Mar 28, 2026 from Toni Notes Your workflow is part of your mind A trustworthy workflow does more than save material. Drafts, comments, next actions, and other external artifacts can preserve enough orientation that thought survives interruption instead of being...
Mar 25, 2026 from Toni Notes A draft is not just text, it is stored decision-making A usable draft preserves more than sentences. It keeps scope, structure, emphasis, and live uncertainty visible so the next writing session does not have to rebuild the whole piece.
