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Weekly Links — 2026-05-09

Technology * Matt Mullenweg thinks WordPress is in decline. He may be right Matt Mullenweg criticizes WordPress’s open source culture for becoming overly bureaucratic and consensus-driven, which stifles innovation and leads to mediocre releases. * Project

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Weekly Links — 2026-05-09

Technology * Matt Mullenweg thinks WordPress is in decline. He may be right Matt Mullenweg criticizes WordPress’s open source culture for becoming overly bureaucratic and consensus-driven, which stifles innovation and leads to mediocre releases. * Project NOMAD - Knowledge That Never
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Weekly Links — 2026-05-02

AI * A.I. Should Elevate Your Thinking, Not Replace It - Blog - Koshy John The most valuable engineers will leverage AI to handle routine tasks while deepening their problem-solving skills and ownership of reasoning, ensuring long-term growth and capability.
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Weekly Links — 2026-04-24

Security * NCSC: Passkeys now good enough to be the default standard The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has officially endorsed passkeys as the new default authentication standard, recommending users move away from passwords due to passkeys being
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Weekly Links — 2026-04-17

Technology * Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data | Robert Reese’s Website Backblaze, once a trusted backup service, has quietly stopped backing up important folders like OneDrive, Dropbox, and .git without informing users, which undermines the core purpose of
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Weekly Links — 2026-04-10

AI * Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left AI has made competent content easy to produce, shifting the real value to human judgment, or "taste," which means discerning what is truly meaningful beyond generic outputs. However, taste alone
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Weekly Links — 2026-04-03

General * How “Project Hail Mary” Answers the Call for Positive Masculinity "Project Hail Mary" offers a fresh and inspiring model of positive masculinity by highlighting problem-solving, purpose, and strength without apology. * How an unappetizing shrub became dozens of

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Blogging has always been an interest of mine, even if I’ve never felt particularly good at it. After stopping for a while due to the busyness of life, I decided it was time to start again—this time focusing on tech, security, and coffee, and building a site that works the way I want it to.

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