Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster. I'll be stepping back from leading product for 𝕏 and will continue on as an advisor.

Serving the X community has been the privilege of a lifetime. X is, and…

I built a prototype of a 2D canvas you can put all of your work on: real terminals, running apps and browsers side by side instead of a row of tabs. We, at…

And Anthropic's cryptanalysis work is great

DC Blox proposal faces opposition from regional zoo and a cast of celebrities

To see why, look to the bond markets

Back in 2024 I posted a few of these on Twitter (thread reader) after digging out old photos from the dot-com boom. I was working in London at a digital agen...

The best parts of Django are the ones you stop noticing — a tour of the abstractions that have given Buttondown the most leverage over the years.

Americans tie capitalism to innovation but also inequality, and socialism to economic security but also government overreach and dependency.

Describe the feature you want The "Disable mode" ("Freeze" in AppManager) should be the default. "Uninstall" causes too much problems Acknowledgements This issue is no...

France is banning unsolicited telemarketing calls starting next week following years of people's complaints.

Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.

SimTower rebuilt around democratic socialism. Manage the money, create the jobs, house the people.

Results from AI agent permission game: which attacks beat human reviewers, and which safe commands got blocked instead.

A look at how Americans’ declining moving rates hold for homeowners and renters alike using data from the New York Fed’s annual SCE Housing Survey.

The idea of humans becoming an interstellar species-- being able to live across the stars-- has enthralled our culture for nearly our entire existence, from the Greeks to the latest science fiction. We may forever only gaze up at the stars from Earth, never…

Convert any image into hardware-compliant art and displayable code for 8/16-bit-era consoles and handhelds. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Sometimes the most irrelevant piece of a project becomes its absolute protagonist. My blog has a small social widget floating on one side. You can…

The meat has never been more expensive, due to supply shortages, but there's a big squeeze on profits.