👓 What I read in 2025

Week 8, 2025

• Svelte is not Javascript
• The Law of Leaky Abstractions

  So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.

• No Startup Has Ever Failed Because it Didn’t Have a Blog
  • Airbnb tackled crappy check-in rates by bringing their cameras into homes and taking better photos, not by blogging about the future of holiday stays.
• The Deep Research problem - OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it.

  LLMs are good at the things that computers are bad at, and bad at the things that computers are good at.

• When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines
• Watt The Fox?
• Dust from Car Brakes More Harmful than Exhaust, Study Finds

Week 7, 2025

• AI Founder's Bitter Lesson. Chapter 1 - History Repeats Itself
• The year I didn't survive
• Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
• 8 Design Breakthroughs Defining AI's Future
• How I Built an Open Source AI Tool to Find My Autoimmune Disease (After $100k and 30+ Hospital Visits) - Now Available for Anyone to Use - github
• Advertising is a cancer on society
• Deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy (TL;DR)
• MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? - How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
• Copilot stops working on gender related subjects
• I’m done with Ubuntu

Week 6, 2025

• WikiTok - creator's comment
• Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants"
  • Yes, and they should state that they also don't use AI in the selection process.
  • It’s cause they wanna use the data to train AI on and traininy AI on AI is useless.
• Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
• How to Train an AI Image Model on Yourself - It takes less than an hour and $3.
• Things people get wrong about Electron

Week 5, 2025

• A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener

Week 4, 2025

• The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History
• KRDS v1.0.0 - 대한민국 정부 디자인 시스템
• https://shapecatcher.com/ - Unicode Character Recognition
• Psychological Safety and the Only Pyramid Scheme That Works

  As people feel more and more secure in doing deployments, raising issues and speaking confidently in a company, the amount of failure goes down.

• Kind Engineering - How To Engineer Kindness
• UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted.
• DoubleClickjacking: A New Era of UI Redressing - get users to commit to clicking twice, but the pop up page only accepts a single click before closing. Their second click goes to the page underneath the pop up, which is e.g. an authentication button. — nneonneo
• Thoughts On A Month With Devin

Week 3, 2025

• Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free — but raising the price of Workspace - The B2B AI wars are heating up, and Google’s trying to make sure everyone gets a taste of Gemini.
• Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep
• Announcing Six Day and IP Address Certificate Options in 2025
• Five years of React Native at Shopify
• Double-keyed Caching: How Browser Cache Partitioning Changed the Web
• Take the pedals off the bike - the most important and fundamental skill first – balance
• Adobe Lightroom's AI Remove feature added a Bitcoin to bird in flight photo
• How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths
• CORS is Stupid

Week 2, 2025

• Unoffice Hours
• JavaScript Benchmarking Is a Mess
  • The garbage collector and its tendency to pause everything randomly
  • The JIT compiler’s ability to delete all of your code because it “isn’t necessary”
  • Terribly broad flame graphs in most JavaScript devtools
• Use "translate" to turn off element translations
  • translate="no" attribute
• Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading Into 2025
• CSS margin-trim and line height units
• The underrated <dl> element
• The search input: They almost got it right

Week 1, 2025

• An Unreasonable Amount of Time - A method for magic.

  Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. — Teller

• Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security

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