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The return of the personal homepage
Nobody is coming to save the feed, so people are leaving it.
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Sintel: the open film that taught a generation to render
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I automated my job and told my employer
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The unbundling of the browser tab
Reading, working and buying used to share one surface. Not anymore.
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The web ring is back and it actually works
Two hundred sites, no algorithm, and more referral traffic than search.
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C:\STORIES\05.TXT · SCIENCE · LONGNOW
The last person maintaining the internet time protocol
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Why every dashboard looks the same now
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C:\STORIES\07.TXT · DEV · BENCHPOST
Rewriting it in Rust made it slower. Here is why.
The bottleneck was never the language, and the rewrite proved it twice.
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The spreadsheet that runs a $40m business
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C:\STORIES\09.TXT · AI · AGENTGLUT
Everyone is building the same agent
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What a warehouse costs when nobody is looking
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Selling to yourself is not traction
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