Interim note 3: text-based media in the age of showmanship

I’m still working on the newsletter reboot but felt the following was important enough to note. Think of it as a Public Service Announcement of sorts. I’d like to reiterate what I said a while back: integrating LLM-based tools – chatbots, copilots, agents, etc. – into all corporate and personal workflows is outright dangerous. Even when run...

A few raven photos I’ve been taking around Hveragerði over the past month.

Last year was a bit of a paradox, at least at first glance. It was great for the newsletter but not great for my work or business. I kept a steady weekly pace on the newsletter and doubled the number of subscribers over the year. But it was also unrewarding, in both a creative and financial sense. I ended the year drained and exhausted. And the...

Accidentally wrote this while trying to figure things out, so I might as well publish it here. And, no, I didn’t bother to edit it, so expect fluff and rambling. Everywhere I look, it’s becoming more and more clear that a lot of job markets are in very bad shape. The web developer job market is in a sorry state. Software developers in general...

The web, as a platform, ecosystem, industry, and market, is in a very odd place. The platform is genuinely great. Bugs are inevitable – every non-trivial project will encounter an implementation bug in a major browser at some point – but the platform overall is in a good place with capabilities I wouldn’t have even dared to hope for a decade ago....