I’m a firm believer that 40-60% of jobs in the modern world do not need to exist. AI is driving those jobs out of existence, unfortunately it is not doing so by creating a simpler more utilitarian world, instead it serves as a multiplier for that waste and will likely create even more layers of pointless abstraction.

I’m a firm believer that 40-60% of jobs in the modern world do not need to exist. AI is driving those jobs out of existence, unfortunately it is not doing so by creating a simpler more utilitarian world, instead it serves as a multiplier for that waste and will likely create even more layers of pointless abstraction.

Last week I added internationalization to an large B2B app I’ve been working with for the past 6 years. It’s pretty gratifying to see this app that dozens of employees and hundreds of customers use every day now in Italian, Spanish, German, Polish and Dutch!

I was thinking of embedding Calendly directly on my website so people could schedule meetings with me but it drops 3 cookies and makes about 11 network requests on page load… That’s a hard pass.

We’ve moved on from the “Israel has a right to defend themselves” phase to the “Israel has a right to develop beach front real estate” phase and still most world leaders are silent about this.

Remember when the tech world solved racism by renaming master to main branch?

Finished reading: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 📚

It’s the first book I’ve read this year, so calling it “the best book I’ve read all year” would be true, but to lump this in with last year and the say the same may be true as well! Keegan’s voice is incredible, this book was pure poetry, effortlessly capturing both the highs and lows of human emotion. Although, it takes place 40 years ago, the financial worries and dreary outlook generally feel like they could be ripped straight from 2026.
The emotions I felt reading this book were not unlike those I feel reading A Christmas Carol, perhaps it was the Christmas time setting, or the newfound or recovered morality of the lead character but I think the writing itself was really that good.

I’ve tried to eliminate the weird echo chamber of HackerNews from my life as much as possible. Interesting to see from the most 1000 discussed books only ~50 were written by women. This is exactly the sort of reason I’ve moved on from the orange site.
kottke.org/26/01/004…

Pretty quiet on here over the holidays, partially due to illness and partially just wanting to be offline as much as possible. I’d still like to get some end of year wrap-ups together.

Watching a bit of the 2009 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, which I haven’t seen before but its bad… like really bad. Wild to think that Pixar’s Up came out the same year.