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11 articles published here
Nobody blocks advertising
Everyone in advertising has a theory about why people block ads, and every theory is flattering to whoever hol
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A zero is not a measurement
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about spending an evening convinced I had written a bug, when what had actually
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36 Claudes
Some nights, after a day job, I might have as many as thirty-six terminals open, each with its own AI, and eac
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I Asked Seven Machines Who I Am
I build a lot of things. Most nights, after the day job, I'm working on one of a dozen projects -- a browser,
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The Workshop
There is a browser on my desk that did not exist on Wednesday. It tiles web pages side by side -- your email n
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The 43 KB editor that made me stop paying for a rich text field
For fifteen years the answer to "I need a WYSIWYG editor on this page" was one of three names: Summernote if y
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Your brochure site does not need a database
On 20 July, attackers started chaining two WordPress bugs together. The first,CVE-2026-63030, is a logic flaw
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The Record Was Always There
For more than forty years I've kept a written record of my life.Not for anyone else. I kept it because I neede
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No Native Deps Required: How kit.whitneys.co Themes Your Whole Desktop in Pure JavaScript
Most Node apps shuffle JSON around. kit.whitneys.co does something more audacious: it reskins your software. G
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The ad sidebar is coming back
There are ads on this page, in a column forty pixels wide down the left edge. There are none in the article yo
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Brave blocked our ads and told us nothing
I spent an evening last week convinced I had written a bug. I had not. The ads on my new site were being block
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