Reading Log
I like to read on the web, and bookmark most of it on my Raindrop account. Fellow Internet person, this list is as close as you can get to my personal stream of thoughts.
The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess
https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess
unread – today- software
- llm
- technology
The End of Eleventy
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/Personal website redesign
Andy Bell is completely redesigning his personal site from scratch and breaking down each part to educate and hopefully, inspire you to build your own corner of the internet.
https://piccalil.li/projects/personal-site/- unread – 6 days ago
- personal
- website
- design
- web
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? | The New Yorker
archived 6 Apr 2026 12:58:18 UTC
https://archive.is/qcFW5- unread – last week
- technology
- openai
- security
Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a really good developer experience for it2. A couple of weeks ago, after ~250 hours of effort over three months3 on evenings, weekends, and vacation days, I finally released syntaqlite (GitHub), fulfilling this long-held wish. And I believe the main reason this happened was because of AI coding agents4. Of course, there’s no shortage of posts claiming that AI one-shot their project or pushing back and declaring that AI is all slop. I’m going to take a very different approach and, instead, systematically break down my experience building syntaqlite with AI, both where it helped and where it was detrimental. I’ll do this while contextualizing the project and my background so you can independently assess how generalizable this experience was. And whenever I make a claim, I’ll try to back it up with evidence from my project journal, coding transcripts, or commit history5.
https://lalitm.com/post/building-syntaqlite-ai/- unread – last week
A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-long-duration-life-supportBoredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning
Read this article from The Atlantic on Smry
https://smry.ai/s/pO6ApyNK- unread – 2 weeks ago
The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thingThe 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/Why I Don’t Vibe Code | jacobharr.is
A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.
https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code.htmlMike X. Nichols (@mikexnichols.bsky.social)
i often think about this review
https://bsky.app/profile/mikexnichols.bsky.social/post/3mes2hozcp22pSounds on The Web
Sound is the forgotten sense in web design. Used well, it adds feedback, personality, and presence that visuals alone cannot achieve.
https://www.userinterface.wiki/sounds-on-the-webHow I changed my personality in six weeks
Based on emerging research showing people can shift their core personality traits, Laurie Clarke tried tweaking hers. Here's what happened.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260102-how-i-changed-my-personality-in-six-weeksRami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 | Giant Bomb
Rami Ismail's Top Games of 2025 - A guest list for GiantBomb.com's 2025 Game of the Year extravaganza.
https://giantbomb.com/articles/rami-ismails-top-games-of-2025The f*** off contact page - Nic Chan
How to get people to NOT contact you
https://www.nicchan.me/blog/the-f-off-contact-page/Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/stop-doing-ux-cheerleadingDrinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better
An essay by Austin L. Ray
https://airportbeer.selfhelpartpublishingempire.com/I'm Great At Baby Steps Because I Walk Like That In Real Life - VGBees
CW: medical talk, surgical talk, bones, car accident In late May, an uninsured Lexus driver ran a yellow light and pulled in front of me...
https://vgbees.com/im-great-at-baby-steps-because-i-walk-like-that-in-real-life/The Pelvic Floor Is a Problem | WIRED
archived 20 Nov 2025 17:45:34 UTC
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