I’ve had some of these articles sitting open in Firefox for almost two years now wanting to write about them but it seems like it will never happen, so just to get them out of my browser and down somewhere for reference, here are a bunch of interesting links:
- On AI
- Pi, a framework for AI coding
- Thoughts on slowing the fuck down, an approach to using AI agents (“All of this requires discipline and agency. All of this requires humans.”)
- AI doesn’t reduce work – it intensifies it (https://archive.is/h6Ez2), from HBR: “AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making”.
- Using LLMs at Oxide, a thoughtful look at LLMs across a few different areas.
- On software development:
- Inertia, a framework for building SPAs with PHP/Laravel and various JS frameworks.
- Handling Failures & Human Interaction, by Temporal: an impressive video showcasing how Temporal handles errors automagically.
- Enterprise Architecture on a Page Framework: “A no-nonsense enterprise architecture (EA) framework intended to offer reasonable research-based guidance on the subject by condensing each of the essential aspects of enterprise architecture on a single page and distilling the general patterns of successful EA practices while omitting numerous details that are always specific to organizations”.
- On financial fraud:
- The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero, by Patrick McKenzie: basically, it’s way too expensive to stop all fraud, it’s a matter of finding the right balance.
- On secure computers/software/networks:
- Microsoft Data Protection API (DPAPI), used by Chrome to secure cookies and data by preventing rogue access (came up in discussion after it was revealed that Edge just stores passwords in memory in plain text)
- Zero Trust Networking, a quick blog post-sized overview by the great Phil Windley.
- On executive leadership:
- Why Senior Leaders Should Stop Having So Many One-on-Ones (https://archive.is/LrKGg), from HBR: “Instead of relying on 1:1s for operational discussions, CEOs and senior executives should convene small, cross-functional “capability meetings”: 1:2 or 1:3 conversations that reflect how value is actually created.”
- When Executives Break, by Elad Gil: “If your executives are not able to scale with the company, entire functions may be thrown into disarray and your adoption or revenue may stop scaling.”
- On open source tools and software:
- Paperless-ngx, a “document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive”.
- CodiMD, “collaborate in real-time with markdown”.
- par2cmdline, utility to build and use PAR2 files, with multithreading support.
- Coolify, an open source PaaS platform.
- On improving society somewhat:
- Gilly, the guillotine enamel pin