Design matters more than ever in consumer AI, as long as you have money to play. 🧱 I’m Mete, a product designer and builder with 10+ years of experience at companies like Netflix and Peloton. I build real products with … Read more
James Otis Arguing the Writs of Assistance in the Old Towne House, mural by Robert Reid, 1901. Courtesy of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State House Art Commission. The pincer Can we still run the software we choose on hardware we … Read more
Hi, I’m Mark Pilgrim. You may remember me from such classics as “Dive Into Python” and “Universal Character Encoding Detector.” I am the original author of chardet. First off, I would like to thank the current maintainers and everyone who … Read more
2025-08-17 Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed I don’t like Python’s list comprehensions: text = “apple banana cherryndog emu fox” words_on_lines = [line.split() for line in text.splitlines()] Don’t get me wrong, declarative programming is good. However, this syntax … Read more
TL;DR: I want to propose adding a declarative templating API to the web platform. Here’s why… The web platform is the most successful application runtime of all time. While the largest reason for this is the web’s reach, it wouldn’t … Read more
Thanks in part to your support, the right to repair is now law in Washington. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed two bills guaranteeing Washingtonians’ right to access tools, parts, and information so they can fix personal electronics, appliances, and wheelchairs. This … Read more
With the introduction of a bill in Wisconsin, Right to Repair legislation has now been introduced in every single US state. We’ve been fighting for the simple right to fix everything we own for the last eleven years—and we’ve been … Read more
I believe consumers, as a right, should be able to install software of their choosing to any computing device that is owned outright. This should apply regardless of the computer’s form factor. In addition to traditional computing devices like PCs … Read more
What TeX Gets Right 2024 July 17 Last week I wrote about how LaTeX might evolve to stay relevant to 21st-century technical writing. But technology has come a long way since the 1970’s. Should we even be encouraging people to … Read more
July 2024 Successful people tend to be persistent. New ideas often don’t work at first, but they’re not deterred. They keep trying and eventually find something that does. Mere obstinacy, on the other hand, is a recipe for failure. Obstinate … Read more