Category: Culture
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Time for Usonia
The fact that we refer to the USA as “America,” its citizens as “Americans” has always mildly annoyed me. “America” describes two entire continents. Canadians are Americans. Colombians are Americans. Why does one country get to own the word? The recent events in Minneapolis, a city I love dearly, pushed that mild annoyance into something…
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On directories. And vibe coding.
I seem to have an obsession with directories. During COVID I helped build letsorder.delivery: a directory of local restaurants offer non-app delivery. Today I launched new one wpg.beer: a directory of local brewery taprooms. I’m not entirely sure where this obsession comes from. Maybe it’s nostalgia for the early web — before search engines and…
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How AI Stole My Job
The progress of technology over the course of my life has been stunning and the progress of LLMs is vastly outpacing even those previous decades of exponential progress. It’s wild! In the past two to three weeks, my entire approach to coding has been completely upended. To the point that it’s hardly even the same…