🔥 Weekend Reading

I write a weekly email for people in tech.

Tools and products you should know about, tips about UX, management, infosec; random and funny stuff

Weekend Reading — The Agentic AI revolution

Street Art Utopia “Darth Fisher sculpture by Frankey for Amsterdam Light Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Photos by Janus van den Eijnden.” Tech Stuff Claude Code overview The Agentic AI revolution is taking shape and apparently Claude Code is this week's top contender. I just tested it on

Weekend Reading — 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini

Elise “periodic reminder that Barcelona has a supercomputer inside an old church and it's one of the most rad things you can see” Tech Stuff macOS Tips & Tricks It's going to take me forever to learn all of these shortcuts, or even just the few

Weekend Reading — I. Kant.

Terry Matz “Seems like a good time to share this free knitting pattern for the This Is Fine Sweater by Yu Jie 玉杰” Tech Stuff Ólafur Waage Databases are still using tables? Don't they know we've switched to <div> years ago? Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility:

Weekend Reading — I'll take one Canadiano please

CM Harrington "Timeline cleanse: Her name is Nibi." Tech Stuff pandan Not to be confused with the flavor, this is a fantastic time-tracking app that lives in the menubar. I like to know how long I'm spending at the coffee shop. I used the iPhone timer

Weekend Reading — As asap as possible!

Ben “Nice lil guy I just found out we own” Tech Stuff AI Prompt: Writing Supabase Edge Functions This is a new Supabase article but it's also a good example of how to write prompting rules for Cursor, which I just learned are easy to structure as plain

February 1st, 2025 6 min read

Weekend Reading — On energy saving mode

I'm Not Lazy, I'm on Energy Saving Mode Current status Tech Stuff Trammell Hudson “my new years resolution is 80x25” Jake Rayson “If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you don’t understand your problems” ~ attrib. Laurie Anderson Improving

January 27th, 2025 9 min read

Weekend Reading — Sortie dramatique

heyheymomo “Lovely day lovely day” Tech Stuff Niki Tonsky “Old classic” Some Dude Was Keeping the Company Afloat The wildest part? No one in the company realized he was doing this. Not his manager, not the dev team, not even upper management. This guy wasn’t just some random employee;

January 18th, 2025 10 min read

Weekend Reading — When you excel …

BasicAppleGuy “Lumon Industries Macrodata Refinement Terminal.” Tech Stuff vivus A library that will animate SVG files bringing them to life. Justified Text: Better Than Expected? When you need your text properly justified: text-wrap: balance; hyphens: auto; hyphenate-limit-chars: 10; CSS light-dark() Delightful! Cognitive load is what matters The trick to writing

January 11th, 2025 14 min read

Weekend Reading — The whisky war of 1973

sjvn “Best snow truck name ever.” Tech Stuff trimMiddle This is such a cool function: it trims any string to the desired length by dropping text from the middle of the string, like Finder does with filenames. And a lot of times when you’re trimming text, eg email address,