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Phantom Obligation (Text Version) | Terry Godier

"But when we applied that same visual language to RSS (the unread counts, the bold text for new items, the sense of a backlog accumulating) we imported the anxiety without the ... https://doug.pub/2026/03/09/phantom-obligation-text-version-terry.html

Technology Connections YouTube video: You are being misled about renewable energy

If this doesn’t convince you that the continued pursuit of fossil fuels is friggen stupid and that the people who are pushing for this are l... https://doug.pub/2026/03/07/technology-connections-youtube-video-you.html

The AI Vampire | Steve Yegge

"With a 10x boost, if you give an engineer Claude Code, then once they’re fluent, their work stream will produce nine additional engineers’ worth of value.
For someone.
But who actually gets to keep that val... https://doug.pub/2026/02/18/the-ai-vampire-steve-yegge.html

Finished reading: Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson 📚

AI, Software Development, and Centralization: https://doug.pub/2026/01/18/ai-software-development-and-centralization.html

Currently reading: Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson 📚

Finished reading: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 📚

Epic! I read this with a book club, and I’m very glad this was the club’s pick because I’m not sure I would have read it otherwise. Moby Dick was very different than what I expected, more enjoyable and more relevant than my expectations.

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3

"Which is why I’ve come to Hamburg today. Because, after decades of throwing myself against a locked door, the door that leads to a new, good internet, one that delivers both the technological self-... https://doug.pub/2026/01/05/pluralisticnetc-which-is-why-ive.html

Neuromancer

Sky Daddy

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Electrify

Year in books for 2025: https://doug.pub/2026/01/02/year-in-books-for.html

Finished reading: Neuromancer by William Gibson 📚

The cyberpunk classic. I’ve read it before but it’s been a long time and I had forgotten the plot. It’s such a great book and incredible that it defined a genre.

jwz: The original Mozilla “Dinosaur” logo artwork

"It has come to my attention that the artwork for the original mozilla.org “dinosaur” logo is not widely available online. So, here it is."

Perl’s decline was cultural

"There’s been a flurry of discussion on Hacker News and other tech forums about what killed Perl. I wrote a lot of Perl in the mid 90s and subsequently worked on some of the most trafficked sites on th... https://doug.pub/2025/12/13/perls-decline-was-cultural-theres.html

Hank Green And The Fantastical Tales of God AIs In his two latest videos, Hank Green promotes AI-doomerist rhetoric that sounds a lot like big tech talking points.

Hank Green And The Fantastical Tales of God AIs

"Savannah, Georgia—In the old lacquered coffee shop on the corner of Chippewa Square, I eat a blueberry scone the size of a young child’s head and sip cold black coffee while staring i... https://doug.pub/2025/12/04/hank-green-and-the-fantastical.html

Finished reading: Sky Daddy by Kate Folk 📚

This book is funny and wild! It starts with an epigraph to Moby Dick, which is fitting since I’ve been reading that with my book club.

Zero clips Zero is about the tactics and technologies taking us to a world of zero emissions. Each week Bloomberg’s award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people tackling climate change – a venture capitalist hunting for the best cleantech investment, scientists starting companies, politicians who have successfully created climate laws, and CEOs who have completely transformed their businesses. The road to zero emissions has many paths and everyone’s got an opinion about the best route. Listen in.

Was not expecting to find some hope and inspiration on the topics of climate change and politics from Al Gore on the Zero podcast:

Part 1
Part 2

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Some photos from the nearby Doll’s Head Trail:

Enshittification - Wikipedia

My current thoughts on LLMs: https://doug.pub/2025/11/02/my-current-thoughts-on-llms.html

Coffeeneuring Ride #3: Switchyards Cabbagetown

Sure, this is a coworking space but they have coffee and tea. Today I’m having a green tea.

#Coffeeneuring2025

Coffeeneuring Ride #2: Stereo

Hip spot that plays records. At night, it’s a bar with DJs. But today I’m drinking a cortadito.

#Coffeeneuring2025

I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025 Apple's late-2000s WYSIWYG website creator still works, as long as you have an old Mac.

I made a website with Apple iWeb in 2025

"Apple’s late-2000s WYSIWYG website creator still works, as long as you have an old Mac."

Starting off the Coffeeneuring Challenge with a ride to Peoplestown Coffee.

#Coffeeneuring2025

Cyborgs vs rooms, two visions for the future of computing Posted on Monday 13 Oct 2025. 692 words, 12 links. By Matt Webb.

Cyborgs vs rooms, two visions for the future of computing (Interconnected)

"Personally I’m more interested in room-scale computing and where that goes. Multi-actor and multi-modal. We live in the real world and together with other peo... https://doug.pub/2025/10/13/cyborgs-vs-rooms-two-visions.html

Finished reading: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones 📚

I really enjoyed this one! Would recommend if you are into spooky historical fiction.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal This is a comic about AI art.

A cartoonist’s review of AI art - The Oatmeal

No one puts it like The Oatmeal can!

A large, historic brick church with prominent towers and green domes is surrounded by trees and a few people on the street.

A metal railing stands in front of a waterway with a visible pipe extending into the water.

A river scene features a graffiti-covered building, a bridge with pedestrians, and trees in the background.

A group of people, led by a guide, gathers around a statue in an urban area with historical architecture.

Oktoberfest 2025: https://doug.pub/2025/10/06/oktoberfest.html

Web vs Mobile Apps: https://doug.pub/2025/10/05/web-vs-mobile-apps.html

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

Cory Doctorow: Way Past It’s Prime: How Did Amazon Get So Rubbish?

"But this is wrong. There are meaningful differences between the internet as it stands today – the enshitternet – and the old, good internet we once had. The enshitterne... https://doug.pub/2025/10/05/cory-doctorow-way-past-its.html