The Pen Is a Virgin, the Printing Press a Whore
AI is feared as dangerous and mocked for producing junk. Five centuries ago, the printing press drew both complaints. History shows the argument is not new.
AI is feared as dangerous and mocked for producing junk. Five centuries ago, the printing press drew both complaints. History shows the argument is not new.
Two tired parents, a one-year-old, and a thousand bookmarked places we keep meaning to visit. Here is the small planning agent we built so that every Saturday no longer starts with the same question: 'so... where are we going today?'
A technical deep-dive into why Carried Patch Queue (CPQ) is the gold standard for individuals maintaining their own software stacks in 2026 — and why the old ways of managing downstreams will eventually kill your project.
It is now possible for each person to maintain their own personal distro with AI: a fast-moving, opinionated downstream version of software that continuously rebases on upstream while preserving your own defaults, workflows, and carried patches.
Figma is invisible to AI agents. Developers across X have spent the past two weeks converging on the same fix: make design principles explicit, structured, and agent-executable.