Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
Dangerzone
Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.
Iran Conflict Damage Proxy Map
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...
The docs / they destroyed their cage / yes / YES / the docs are out - Alex's Blog
The virtuous circle
The virtuous circle is the most powerful pattern in developer tooling. And it's the myth of the 10x developer that makes it hard to see.
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns
On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving
Every platform I left, I left for the same pattern: enclosure by othering — systems that define what is shameful, create targets, and point an aggressive majority at them. Substack's AI-detection turn is the latest, and it is Dark Forestry in action. The escape is spatial: go where the platforms ar…
Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices
A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Maximizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have had an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...
Seams - Wisdom is made Together
PLC Threat-modeling & Auditability - Daniel's Leaflets
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Underdubbed - glamorous
When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. We didn’t know what we were doing, […]
This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5 — A6M-Zero
An experiment to design a cute PCB (without touching any tools) in plain English
National Zoning Atlas
The National Zoning Atlas is digitizing, demystifying, and democratizing information about zoning conditions in more than 33,000 jurisdictions in the U.S. — empowering advocates, revealing insights, and driving research.
