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AI / Software Engineering / OriginalWhy Every Tool Is Becoming a Notebook
VisiCalc shipped in 1979. ChatGPT Canvas in 2024. If you squint, they're the same product. Software has been trying to make notebooks happen for forty years — it finally took something we needed to converse with.
AI / Agents / OpinionThe Smart Home Was the Beta Test for AI Agents
Every decade tech promises the same thing: 'your stuff will finally work together.' Smart home, IoT, now AI agents. The shape of the failure is identical — and the way out probably is too.
Web / Internet / OpinionThe Internet Learned to Forget
The web used to be the place where nothing disappeared. Now it's where nothing stays. A look at link rot, algorithmic amnesia, and who's still holding the line.
Software Engineering / Opinion / OriginalThe Graveyard Orbit: Where Good Software Goes When It Doesn't Die
Satellites that can't be brought home get nudged into a quiet parking orbit — still circling, still intact, just not doing anything. Software has the same orbit.