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The internet died a long time before AI

The internet died a long time before AI

10 Nov 2025 3 min read

There's plenty of talk out there of the "dead internet theory", where most supposedly-social media content ends up being produced by AI and so eventually most of the internet is no longer "alive", but just aping the behaviour of humans to please the algorithm

You can't be free alone

You can't be free alone

09 Nov 2025 4 min read

Humans, and men in particular, have a disease that, I think, comes from having had too little support in their childhood. I don't understand how hierarchical marriages work. There's a lot of talk on trad Twitter about a submissive wife and an authoritarian husband being the

What do Omarchy, the iPod and Dropbox have in common?

What do Omarchy, the iPod and Dropbox have in common?

08 Nov 2025 5 min read

Geeks are the best at creating technology. But they are also often the worst at understanding what it is they've created. iPodn't Witness the historically epic review of the iPod when it came out, on a site called Slashdot (subtitle: news for nerds, stuff that matters)

5 very different ways of "vibe coding"

5 very different ways of "vibe coding"

28 Sep 2025 9 min read

"Vibe coding" was coined by Andrej Karpathy long ago in an era nearly forgotten by all, before the things in the world had names, before we knew ourselves, before the sun came up for the first time, before God separated the lands from the seas... all the way

Claude Code vs Codex, a small test

Claude Code vs Codex, a small test

27 Sep 2025 5 min read

This is not a huge difference, but I have seen this pattern repeat a few times now, and I suspect this is why people are saying Codex has an edge over Claude Code (at least for now, until the next Anthropic models come out). While working on HelixKit, I discovered

Setting up a single Rails 8 server with Postgresql and Kamal

Setting up a single Rails 8 server with Postgresql and Kamal

22 Sep 2025 10 min read

Here's a straightforward guide to getting a Rails app going using Kamal, with postgresql as the backend, on a single server, that actually works without you having to figure out a bunch of crazy shit. Kamal 2 is a fantastic bit of code, something between Dokku (which is

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