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Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.

Tangled

The next-generation social coding platform.

Claude Code 101, for Designers

What Claude Code actually is, plus a plain-language decoder for the jargon around it. Models, tokens, agents, MCP, and friends.

How tech's most craft-obsessed team uses AI: Inside design at Linear

"When you can do anything, what you choose not to do is far more important than doing everything much faster."

Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka

What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

My friend June Thunderstorm and I once spent a half an hour sitting in a meadow by a mountain lake, watching an inchworm dangle from the top of a stalk of grass…

Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg

The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.

The Future Of Knowledge Workers In An AI-Driven World

Work has never been able to provide people with the kind of value that a vocation, spiritual belief system or community once did. But AI might change that.

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment - Ars Technica

Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."

BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments

Delivering software directly to customer clouds solves data gravity, yet operating across diverse environments requires a robust product architecture.