The Tower Keeps Rising

Vibe Coding: The Final Form of Hyper-Individualism

A few days ago, I had to deal with the first "vibe coded" PR to my software. In this article, I reflect on this encounter, and analyze the social …

Skyscraper - Bluesky Tools: iOS App, Trending Hashtags & Keyword Alerts

Skyscraper is a suite of Bluesky tools: a native iOS app, trending hashtag leaderboard, keyword alerts, and account backups. Everything you need to explore and monitor Bluesky.

Vibe Maintainer

Some attendees at an AI Tinkerers meetup in early Feb were asking me what it’s like to be the maintainer of a big OSS project where the…

The Lexicon Interop Problem - anuj's leaflets

Competing AT platforms are using different lexicons. Should we be worried?

This Is Your Brain on X

Shifting the Vibes Again

The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future

The long read: Our buildings are monuments to extraction and extreme emissions. But what if we turned from destructive concrete to timber?

PoliSim@CHI 2026

Large Language Models are rapidly evolving from text generators into reasoning systems that can act as autonomous agents. When placed in social contexts, these agents display emergent behaviors such as forming coalitions, spreading information, and making collective decisions.

Village-scale resilience

The end-of-the-world already happened, it's just not evenly distributed. But with every end is a new beginning.

Opinion | The A.I. Disruption Has Arrived, and It Sure Is Fun

We’re entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.

The Story Behind our Brand Illustration

Our brand illustration shows three layers: the foundation being built, the valley we're stuck in, and the world waiting above. Here's what it all means.

We need a PIT Crew for news

Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a radically collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to building internal technology capacity. News has a lot to learn from it.

Linguistic aporia - The Cynefin Co

My post of the day before yesterday expressed concern about the general dumbing down of discourse and I explicitly linked the desire for simple recipes and undemanding explanations in the sphere of management to the growth of unthinking populism in the political sphere.  I ended it with three simple things to do if you don’t […]

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth o…

Few topics are as timely as the growth of government. T…

Ewan's Corner

A personal space where I share my thoughts on coding, technology, and life.

Lexicon Service Docs - at:// pizza thoughts

Riffing on some ways to make network services more legible to humans and machines