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200 / FIN
Jul 6, 2025 · original
Hey hey, I‘m taking a break from this newsletter. I love reading and sharing all these interesting, sometimes polarizing, stories with you all and I thoroughly enjoyed the notes of encouragement some of you sent over the years. But sometimes things that are really fun for a long time suddenly become another item on your to-do list; an obligation. The newsletter is taking up space in my head and time in my weekend that I would sometimes rather spend reading a newspaper or a book or nothing at all. Maybe I‘ll come back in a month because I miss it, maybe not. In any case, here are some of my favourite newsletters, to fill the Arne‘s Weekly-shaped hole in your weekend: Hacker Newsletter by Kale Davis Dense Discovery by Kai Brach Weekend Reading by Assaf Arkin Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends by Caitlin Dewey software lead weekly by Oren Ellenbogen xoxo Arne
199 / Rolling the ladder up behind us
Jun 29, 2025 · original
Hi, hope you had a good week! Toot of the Week In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans" — @quillmatiq@mastodon.social AI Rolling the ladder up behind us (xeiaso.net) Xe Iaso about the grim impact of AI on future generations. Why I Won't Use AI (agentultra.com) James explains the moral and ethical reasons they're not using AI. Contra Ptacek's Terrible Article On AI (ludic.mataroa.blog) Nikhil Suresh replies to Thomas Ptacek‘s "My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts" in a hilarious way. Software Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs (nolanlawson.com) Nolan Lawson lists reasons to build accessible UIs other than making them accessible for disabled people. my website is one binary (j3s.sh) Jes
198 / Going Fungal
Jun 15, 2025 · original
Hi! Toot of the Week Going "fungal". Like going viral, but more organic because you're on the Fediverse and no artificial algorithm helped. — @inanedirk@metalhead.club Software Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (inkandswitch.com) Geoffrey Litt, Josh Horowitz, Peter van Hardenberg and Todd Matthews write an essay on software that you can customize to your needs in an accessible manner. AI Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a huge risk (baldurbjarnason.com) Baldur Bjarnason explains what “AI”, homeopathy, naturopathy, and psychic cons have in common. Field Notes From Shipping Real Code With Claude (diwank.space) Diwank shares a guide how to get most out of your AI-assisted development. Cutting Room Floor Never Forget What They've Done (wheresyoured.at) Edward Zitron explains how tech giants actively make our lives worse, purely out of greed. The R
197 / Big Bets
Jun 8, 2025 · original
Hi, hope you had a good week! Toot of the Week Oops, I forgot to have generational wealth again — @donni@mastodon.social AI My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts (fly.io) Thomas Ptacek cannot understand AI skeptics (in the context of software development), and explains why. Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (velvetshark.com) Radek Sienkiewicz about the sameness in modern design, particularly AI logos. Work Big Bets (jackdanger.com) Jack Danger about the danger (hah) of big bets in companies. If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued (betterthanrandom.substack.com) This post makes the distinction between being useful (being trusted with important work) vs being valued (included in strategic planning). Avoid the nightmare bicycle (geoffreylitt.com) Geoffrey Litt warns about interfaces with "superficial labels that hide the underlying system".
196 / How we lost the internet
Jun 1, 2025 · original
Hi ✌🏻 Toot of the Week I select all images with traffic lights, therefore I am — @colingourlay@bne.social Software You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy (borretti.me) Fernando Borretti comments on how we try to rationalize our choice of obscure tools, when using them making us happy is reason enough. Type-level Bounded Recursion in Rust (catgirl.ai) Ash documents it's type crimes to build a stack depth counter. AI Toolmen (aworkinglibrary.com) Mandy Brown disects AI as a political instrument to enforce inequality: If those in power cannot prove that a great many people are already inferior then they will bring that inferiority about by forcing them to use a tool that diminishes their intellectual and creative capacity. GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP (simonwillison.net) Simon Willison explains how the GitHub MCP fulfills the lethal trifecta for prompt inj
195 / The Copilot Delusion
May 25, 2025 · original
Hey hey, hope your day is going great! Toot of the Week As a website visitor, I want a modal popup to appear when I start to scroll down so that I can subscribe to your newsletter and increase shareholder value. — @benpocalypse@mastodon.social AI The Copilot Delusion (deplet.ing) Jj published an incredibly well written post about Copilot, or using LLMs for software development. The Future of Customer Support is Lies, I Guess (aphyr.com) Kyle Kingsbury shares a shocking conversation with LLM-based customer support. Thoughts on thinking (dcurt.is) Dustin Curtis write sabout the impact LLMs have on their thinking skills. System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 (simonwillison.net) Simon Willison highlights some parts of the Claude 4 system card. No matter how you think about AI, this is fun to read. Software Reinvent the Wheel (endler.dev) Matthias Endler reasons why you should, in fact
194 / What the Comfort Class Doesn't Get
May 18, 2025 · original
Hey hey, late edition, hope you find something good to read today! Toot of the Week I need a 20-year long nap to cope with the current state of the world. — @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Working Experts have it easy (boydkane.com) Boyd compared novice vs expert work with escaping a maze as the example. 5 Powerful Persuasion Methods for Engineering Managers (newsletter.manager.dev) Chaitali Narla explains how persuasion is a big part of being an engineering manager, and gives examples of different techniques. Software Mastodon Comments (beej.us) Beej walks you through how they added Mastodon comments to their blog posts. Static types are for perfectionists (mmapped.blog) Roman Kashitsyn argues your preference of programming preferences stem largely from your childhood. Falsehoods software teams believe about user feedback (thoughtbot.com) Fritz Meissner wrote a painfully relevant list of
193 / Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds
May 11, 2025 · original
Happy mother’s day 💐 Toot of the Week My kid has started saying “[x] is a social construct” to get out of anything and everything (eg: “wearing socks”), and I’m having a hard time arguing back because they’re usually right. — @Nickiquote@mstdn.social Software The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything (notashelf.dev) raf about the skill of knowing to fix broken software, and the burden that comes with it. AI I'd rather read the prompt (claytonwramsey.com) Clayton Ramsey asks you to no let a computer write for you, and explains why. AI of dead Arizona road rage victim addresses killer in court (theguardian.com) Cy Neff writes about a murder victim that addresses his killer in court, three years after, using AI. Cutting Room Floor The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing (oxfordamerican.org) Emily McCrary about the landline of the Foy Information desk in the Melton Studen Center at Au
192 / I just want to code
May 4, 2025 · original
Hey hey, how was your week? It’s getting warmer in northern Germany and I had a lovely time on the beach on Thursday 🏖️ Projects of Friends Friendzone works as your second brain for relationships, helping you nurture your connections through timely reminders and organized conversation tracking. I already showed you Friendzone, the app my friend Jan is building, in issue #180 . I’ve been using it since the early TestFlight releases and it’s helped me keep in touch with friends and family members that I otherwise wouldn’t have. It’s an incredible app that you can download today in the Apple App Store ! Here are five codes that’ll get you three additional free months after the trial (first come, first served): 4PM637XF84J4EFPEN6 , KWKJYE4MMK7PPW7WMR , LEF46PR68KFEK6MRXF , LWAMH7RPXYM3TYTRNR , NKNER7LN787XHEFWLJ Software I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server (idiallo.com) Ibrahim Diallo serv
191 / Staring into the abyss as a core life skill
Apr 27, 2025 · original
Hi, short issue today. Full week, plus I read three books . Toot of the Week ✨ I only eat locally sourced, free range, organic microplastics ✨ — @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt UI Our interfaces have lost their senses (wattenberger.com) Anna Wattenberger argues that we need to bring our senses back into UI. Cutting Room Floor Staring into the abyss as a core life skill (benkuhn.net) Ben explains how too few people stare into the abyss, a.k.a. thinking about things that are "uncomfortable to contemplate, like arguments against your religious belief, or in favor of breaking up with your partner. ultimate employee: the one that is truly proactive (auren.substack.com) Auren Hoffman argues proactive employees are the "very best people", and provides a simple test to see if you are one. Hyperwood (hyperwood.org) This project is a (small but hopefully growing) collection of open-source furniture that y
190 / The Post-Developer Era
Apr 20, 2025 · original
Hi! 🐣 Toot of the Week Array indices start at 0 in C, but start at 32 in F. — jfbastien@mastodon.social Work Advice for time management as a manager (benkuhn.net) Ben Kuhn gives advice for time management as a manager, including prioritization and delegation. AI The Post-Developer Era (joshwcomeau.com) Josh W. Comeau takes another look at how LLMs are impacting the software developer job market today. Everything Wrong with MCP (blog.sshh.io) Shrivu Shankar shares common problems when working with MCPs. Your CEO Just Said ‘Use AI or Else.’ Here’s What to Do Next. (every.to) Alex Duffy gives practical advice on what to do if your boss tells you to integrate AI into your daily work. Cutting Room Floor "Knowingness" and the Politics of Ignorance (forkingpaths.co) Brian Klaas about culture wars and the danger of people who don't want to learn. K2-18b and detection of biosignature dimethyl su
189 / Your elusive creative genius
Apr 13, 2025 · original
Hey hey, hope you had a good week! ✌🏻 Skeet of the Week men will literally impose tariffs on islands entirely inhabited by penguins instead of going to therapy — @annabower.bsky.social Software The Best Programmers I Know (endler.dev) Matthias Endler lists traits they see in great engineers. The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer (0x1.pt) Vitor M. de Sousa Pereira about the rise of full stack engineers and generalists. AI Introducing MonkeysPaw - a prompt-driven web framework in Ruby (worksonmymachine.substack.com) Scott Werner embraces LLM's "hallucinations" and created a web framework build purely with prompts. A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products (hamel.dev) Hamel Husain shares advice for building AI products, with a focus on analysis. Cutting Room Floor Your elusive creative genius (ted.com) Elizabeth Gilbert gives a TED talk about creative genius and provides a way to
188 / Eject disk
Apr 6, 2025 · original
Hi, hope your week as a-okay! Toot of the Week mom can you pick me up wikipedia is calling a mathematical argument "intuitive" again — @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run Culture Eject disk. (brilliantcrank.com) Brilliantcrank gives advice to stop over-functioning and start returning to your true self. How To Convince Others That You Are Qualified and Ready To Lead (You Know You Are!) (news.yuezhao.coach) Yue Zhao gives advice to people struggling to get a leadership role. Software The April Fools joke that might have got me fired (oldvcr.blogspot.com) A great story about an April fools joke that went a bit too far. I'm an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don't speak for me (ratfactor.com) Dave Gauer about geek culture and the vultures that are the big tech billionaires. Cutting Room Floor Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (science.org) Derek Lowe never wants
187 / High Agency
Mar 30, 2025 · original
Hey hey! Hope you had a good week 😌 Toot of the Week “We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic. — @chrislhayes.bsky.social‬ Favorites High Agency (highagency.com) George Mack writes an incredible essay on what it means to have high agency, and how to get there. Tech Vulgar Display of Power (tante.cc) tante writes about the new OpenAI feature to generate pictures in the style of Studio Ghibli, and why it’s problematic. SKÅPA, a parametric 3D printing app like an IKEA manual (nmattia.com) Nicolas Mattia shares the build process of their client-side web-app for creating 3D models for IKEA pegboards. Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia (reviews.ofb.biz) Timothy R. Butler argues that Apple's operating systems need a spring cleaning. Cutting Room Floor Keep coming back (rojospinks.substack.com) Rosie Spinds about the value of community and regular event
186 / Vibe Coding vs Reality
Mar 23, 2025 · original
Hi, how was your week? 🤗 Toot of the Week ME: The building is on fire! REPLY GUY: This is nothing new. Buildings burn every day. [continues to sit there, burns to death] — @inthehands@hachyderm.io Leadership The Hidden Ways Leaders Unintentionally Punish Their Top Performers (newsletter.canopy.is) Claire Lew shares 5 ways top-performers are unintentionally driven away. AI "Vibe Coding" vs Reality (cendyne.dev) Cendyne about practical shortcomings in vibe coding with current LLMs. Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face (drewdevault.com) Drew DeVault shares their frustrations of companies, lately AI, abusing SourceHut. Is it okay? (robinsloan.com) Robin Sloan explores the ethical question behind modern LLMs. The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem (theatlantic.com) Alex Reisner about Meta torrenting a pirated books collection called LibGen with more than 7
185 / Kill your Feeds
Mar 16, 2025 · original
Hey hey, hope your week was a-okay 💅🏻 Toot of the Week I love the phrase "bear with me" because it either means "be patient" or "the zoo heist was a success" — @DocAtCDI@mastodon.social Software Were multiple return values Go's biggest mistake? (herecomesthemoon.net) Mond argues that Go's multiple return values should be a tuple, something you can pass around and work with. Why "Normal" Engineers Are the Key to Great Teams (spectrum.ieee.org) Charity Majors argues against the myth of the 10x engineer. AI Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption (blog.cryptographyengineering.com) Matthew Green about what end-to-end encryption really guarantees and how that conflicts with new AI use-cases. Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code (simonwillison.net) Simon Willison explains the tricks they apply to be productive with LLMs. Politics The 'Threat to Democracy' Is Over - by Michael Ha
184 / The Digital Packrat Manifesto
Mar 9, 2025 · original
Hi, hope you had a good week! Toot of the Week please stop right-clicking on the national strategic NFT reserve, we don't know how to turn that off — @starchy@infosec.exchange Digital ownership Five years of home-cooked apps (robinsloan.com) Robin Sloan takes a look back on the home-cooked app they've written and how the concept holds up. Why and How I use "Org Mode" for my writing and more (evalapply.org) Aditya Athalye gives an introduction to Org Mode and how to get started if you want to try it. The Digital Packrat Manifesto (404media.co) Janus Rose about DRM, streaming services and nobody owning anything digitally nowadays. Cutting Room Floor Bayleaf Wireless Keyboard Build (graz.io) Sebastian Graz shows how their own wireless low-profile keyboard from scratch. Troubleshooting: The Skill That Never Goes Obsolete (autodidacts.io) This article is about the skill of troubleshooting, an
183 / Creating a Sense of Stability
Mar 2, 2025 · original
Hey, hope you had a good week. Smol issue today, but some good stuff! Work Creating a Sense of Stability (newsletter.canopy.is) Claire Lew gives advice how to shepherd your team through a reorg, downsizing or strategic shift. Software How Core Git Developers Configure Git (blog.gitbutler.com) Scott Chacon shares very useful config settings for Git, some of which should arguably be the default. Cutting Room Floor iMac G4(K) (jcs.org) Joshua Stein upgraded an old iMac G4 to internally use a Mac mini. It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds (berthub.eu) Bert Hubert explains why using the US cloud is no longer a good idea. The Second Trump Administration’s New Forms of Distraction (newyorker.com) Kyle Chayka about the impact of doom scrolling news.
182 / Can I ethically use LLMs?
Feb 23, 2025 · original
Hi ✌🏻 Toot of the Week Everyone’s having a hard time dealing with all the everything— @donni@mastodon.social Software My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation (cosive.com) Chris Horsley installs a new washing machine and compares the process to unknown unknowns in software development. Death of a thousand nits (bitfieldconsulting.com) John Arundel gives advice on writing code reviews. Cutting Room Floor The midwit home (dynomight.net) Incredible article about the midwit smart home: Using low-tech devices like timers and sensors that work without a phone or a hub. What is USB Club? (usb.club) Yatú Espinosa and Norm O'Hagan explain their USB memory network. Can I ethically use LLMs? (ntietz.com) Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya explores the ethics of using an LLM. It Never Gets Easier (shripriya.com) Shripriya explains how business never gets easier, but the challenge
181 / The hardest working font in Manhattan
Feb 16, 2025 · original
Hey hey, hope you had a good week! 😌 Toot of the Week How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if he really set his mind to it? — Max Leibman Work AI or Die (rkg.blog) Ravi Gupta argues you need to completely restructure your company to be ready for super intelligent AI. Worth reading even if you don't agree (I don't). Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills (gizmodo.com) AJ Dellinger about a new study which shows how knowledge workers' critical thinking skills decrease the more they rely on AI. Software 100 Most Watched Software Engineering Talks Of 2024 (techtalksweekly.io) Tech Talks Weekly has collated a list of the top 100 most-watched software engineering talks of 2024. Cutting Room Floor The hardest working font in Manhattan (aresluna.org) Marcin Wichary shares the history of a font called Gorton, which is used in many places, but has an unconventiona

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