Normcore Tech

A newsletter about making tech less sexy, more boring, and anything adjacent to tech that the mainstream media isn't covering.
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What are embeddings?
7 Jun 2023 | original ↗

A very deep dive into deep learning

Where do we go from here
28 Feb 2023 | original ↗

Ended friendship with old internet, new internet not here yet

The art of the long goodbye
7 Nov 2022 | original ↗

What happens when we leave but never truly leave

What we talk about when we talk about The Algo
8 Aug 2022 | original ↗

Algorithms are complex systems that are made up of half code, half humans

Duo, the Push, and the Bandits
23 May 2022 | original ↗

Why am I terrified of a 2D owl?

With the Feed as my witness
20 Mar 2022 | original ↗

How to make sense of a senseless world

Scaling Normcore way down
11 Jul 2021 | original ↗

Goodbye on the Mersey, James Tissot, 1881 Hello friends! As you might have guessed from my four-month absence, I can no longer continue writing Normcore on a regular basis.

The luxury of length
14 Mar 2021 | original ↗

Hi Friends,

The last miles and miles of the vaccine
11 Feb 2021 | original ↗

One web dev versus the System

Diamond hands, when memes became power ✋💎🤚
4 Feb 2021 | original ↗

Our new, growing shared and unknowable Internet culture

The blank slate in your hands
27 Jan 2021 | original ↗

How do we rebuild the internet from scratch?

Containerized
13 Jan 2021 | original ↗

Do you like boxes in boxes?

A winter's tale for the end of the year
22 Dec 2020 | original ↗

Normcore 2020 in review

My Hero's Journey to Peloton
17 Dec 2020 | original ↗

First they laugh at you, then they want to buy you

The rules of the game
2 Dec 2020 | original ↗

How do you become a Senior Person in Tech?

Ad block and you don't stop
23 Nov 2020 | original ↗

Who will win, a multibillion dollar industry or a couple of txt files?

The great A/B/C/D divide
12 Nov 2020 | original ↗

What happens to society when we don't stand on the same ground?

You're a sky full of stars
2 Nov 2020 | original ↗

Emerging from the underground

The rise of the non-expert expert
20 Oct 2020 | original ↗

From ones and zeros to millions of frameworks

The satisfaction of the hand-off
8 Oct 2020 | original ↗

I'm not going to go build tables or something, but still...

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