Topic: thought.

AI can write your post. You still need something to say.

LinkedIn is cutting the reach of AI slop. Fair. But we still need to learn to work with AI. Bring a point, question its answers, learn something, make it yours. We’re past “write me a post” and publishing whatever comes back. AI can help develop an idea worth sharing. Supplying the idea is still our job. Awkward question, given who helped me with this: was this written by AI?

Am I Complete with AI?

For years I was looking for someone to challenge my ideas, improve my writing and help me think more clearly. Turns out I wasn't looking for another person after all. AI quietly became that partner. Now another question appears: if AI helps me create, will AI also become the one consuming what I create?

The Terminal Emulator Race on macOS Has a New Winner.

Apple makes beautiful software. Except Terminal. After years of using iTerm2, I went looking for something better. I tried many options, but two stood out: Cmux and Ghostty. One of them finally convinced me to switch.

The Death of Installation Guides.

For decades, software came with installation guides, setup manuals, and troubleshooting pages. Nobody enjoyed reading them. AI didn’t make documentation obsolete, it simply became a much better interface to it.

Markdown’s Revenge.

Markdown has been quietly sitting in the corner since 2004. You saw it in GitHub READMEs and the occasional piece of documentation, but most people never knew it existed. Now, thanks to AI, Markdown is finally becoming what it always should have been: a text-based PDF. The reason is simple - LLMs love it. And if you’ve ever tried getting a clean .doc file out of one, you already know why.

Chasing Pirates.

As part of my early experiments with “vibe-coded” apps, I built a link-shortening service in 2022. It’s still online. At its peak it quietly grew to around 2-4k users per month, generating more than 100k clicks monthly. Maintenance was almost zero - apart from one thing: taking down malicious links.