'What we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine.'

Why I set out to re-imagine the operating system

Why the future of AI interfaces looks like the past of computing. A comparison of the command line era to today's prompt engineering challenges & the return of the GUI.

A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5

The mistakes I've made that cost me tens of thousands — and what to do instead.

The Devotion-Friction Matrix has four states: Flow (high devotion, low friction) where action feels natural and repeatable; Strain (high devotion, high friction) where caring is high but the cost of doing it is high too; Coasting (low devotion, low friction)…

Yesterday's software has shaped today's generation. To understand what's next as software grows more intelligent, we look back on 20 years of interaction design.

Issue 280: Claude Code and the CLI comeback

Beautiful machines from a beautiful country

Claude Code's power without the terminal

Apple 成功地在一个操作系统版本中集齐了图标设计中的常见错误。

Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming

People still use Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects.

The age of PDF is over. The time of markdown has begun. Why Memory Hierarchies are the best analogy for how software must change. And why Software it's unlikely to command the most value.

Skills的最正确用法，是将整个Github压缩成你自己的超级技能库。

It was once legal to build almost anything, anywhere. Then, in the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the West banned densification.