Adam Younce
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Ethics in software and technology • Changing the things I can’t accept • Design • Programming • Security • https://ary.pub • https://github.com/aryounce
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What’s a good New Year’s resolution? Consider pushing Big Tech out of your life.
Find alternatives to Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta. Ditch streaming. Delay upgrading.
Don’t go cold turkey. It can be gradual and should be intentional.
Consider this a year in review (slow) thread.
Find alternatives to Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta. Ditch streaming. Delay upgrading.
Don’t go cold turkey. It can be gradual and should be intentional.
Consider this a year in review (slow) thread.
When people cynically claim that being honest is prohibitively expensive remember that there are counter examples.
We are strict about the background policy because I want our readers to know where information comes from and who is accountable for it, and I have zero interest in pretending we have magical insight into anyone’s thinking. Read more here: www.theverge.com/press-room/2...
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 AM
When people cynically claim that being honest is prohibitively expensive remember that there are counter examples.
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How people perceive their colleagues who produce workslop.
October 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
How people perceive their colleagues who produce workslop.
What’s a good New Year’s resolution? Consider pushing Big Tech out of your life.
Find alternatives to Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta. Ditch streaming. Delay upgrading.
Don’t go cold turkey. It can be gradual and should be intentional.
Consider this a year in review (slow) thread.
Find alternatives to Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta. Ditch streaming. Delay upgrading.
Don’t go cold turkey. It can be gradual and should be intentional.
Consider this a year in review (slow) thread.
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
What’s a good New Year’s resolution? Consider pushing Big Tech out of your life.
Find alternatives to Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta. Ditch streaming. Delay upgrading.
Don’t go cold turkey. It can be gradual and should be intentional.
Consider this a year in review (slow) thread.
Find alternatives to Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta. Ditch streaming. Delay upgrading.
Don’t go cold turkey. It can be gradual and should be intentional.
Consider this a year in review (slow) thread.
Here’s your periodic reminder that, if you’re gainfully employed in the tech industry, you can afford to donate (the equivalent of a monthly streaming service fee) to the load bearing infrastructure of the Internet/web.
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Here’s your periodic reminder that, if you’re gainfully employed in the tech industry, you can afford to donate (the equivalent of a monthly streaming service fee) to the load bearing infrastructure of the Internet/web.
First overall impression: Accessibility tweaks make iOS 26 usable, but your choices are “Ugly” and “Usably Ugly”.
iOS 26 is available and I pre-regret installing what is basically a Dribbble show piece masquerading as a UI design framework. Glad those of you at Apple who have inflicted this upon the world got your bonuses.
September 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
First overall impression: Accessibility tweaks make iOS 26 usable, but your choices are “Ugly” and “Usably Ugly”.
iOS 26 is available and I pre-regret installing what is basically a Dribbble show piece masquerading as a UI design framework. Glad those of you at Apple who have inflicted this upon the world got your bonuses.
September 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
iOS 26 is available and I pre-regret installing what is basically a Dribbble show piece masquerading as a UI design framework. Glad those of you at Apple who have inflicted this upon the world got your bonuses.
Reposted by Adam Younce
I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch. “The magnetic film itself is measured in microns. It’s going to be quite the feat in order to figure out how to apply something that thin.” This is great. [kottke.org]
I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch
Polymatt decided he was going to make a 3.5” floppy disk from scratch — and actually did.
I’m not sure how many of you have actually cracked one of these things open and taken a look inside, but it’s actually a little
kottke.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch. “The magnetic film itself is measured in microns. It’s going to be quite the feat in order to figure out how to apply something that thin.” This is great. [kottke.org]
@oxide.computer is the new Cray. They make computers I want to toy around with but don’t (yet) have a legitimate reason to use.
They are also not the new Cray, because I think they’ll go the distance.
They are also not the new Cray, because I think they’ll go the distance.
July 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
@oxide.computer is the new Cray. They make computers I want to toy around with but don’t (yet) have a legitimate reason to use.
They are also not the new Cray, because I think they’ll go the distance.
They are also not the new Cray, because I think they’ll go the distance.
This keyboard costs about as much as an Apple Vision Pro and is probably worth it as you’ll use it far more often. www.theverge.com/tech/686441/...
How to build the best keyboard in the world
You just have to rebuild almost everything about it.
www.theverge.com
June 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This keyboard costs about as much as an Apple Vision Pro and is probably worth it as you’ll use it far more often. www.theverge.com/tech/686441/...
The corollary to “don’t meet your heroes” is “don’t get (emotionally, or otherwise) invested in their second act”. www.theverge.com/news/671838/...
OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s AI hardware company
Ive’s company is called io.
www.theverge.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The corollary to “don’t meet your heroes” is “don’t get (emotionally, or otherwise) invested in their second act”. www.theverge.com/news/671838/...
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Just watched Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) say "We believe as an industry... that within 3-5 years we'll have AGI, which can be defined as a system that is as smart as [big deal voice] the smartest mathematician, physicist, [lesser deal voice] artist, writer, thinker, politician"...
May 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Just watched Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) say "We believe as an industry... that within 3-5 years we'll have AGI, which can be defined as a system that is as smart as [big deal voice] the smartest mathematician, physicist, [lesser deal voice] artist, writer, thinker, politician"...
LLMs as mentalist cons is the Saturday reading I didn’t know I needed. softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…
The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour
softwarecrisis.dev
May 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
LLMs as mentalist cons is the Saturday reading I didn’t know I needed. softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
We need a @katmabu.bsky.social for Colorado’s 4th district, because our current Rep is a national embarrassment. For now I’m donating to Kat and hoping for the best in Illinois’ 9th.
NEW: Since I launched my congressional campaign a month ago, life has been a whirlwind. That's why today I started a blog to document my campaign, our accomplishments, and life as a candidate.
My first post is a full recap of the last month and you can read it here: medium.com/@katabughaza...
My first post is a full recap of the last month and you can read it here: medium.com/@katabughaza...
My First Month as a Congressional Candidate
My name is Kat Abughazaleh, I’m 26-years-old, and if you’re reading this, you probably know I’m running for Congress in Illinois’ Ninth…
medium.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We need a @katmabu.bsky.social for Colorado’s 4th district, because our current Rep is a national embarrassment. For now I’m donating to Kat and hoping for the best in Illinois’ 9th.
The casting of the Neuromancer adaptation for Apple TV+ seems solid, especially the picks for Armitage and Peter Riviera. m.imdb.com/title/tt3151...
Neuromancer (TV Series) - IMDb
Neuromancer (TV Series) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
m.imdb.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The casting of the Neuromancer adaptation for Apple TV+ seems solid, especially the picks for Armitage and Peter Riviera. m.imdb.com/title/tt3151...
The one chapter you *must* read in “Careless People” is ‘Myanmar’. It is heart wrenching to read about how absolutely indifferent Facebook leadership was during the unfolding of that atrocity.
The U.N. Human Rights Council report the chapter quotes is horrifying. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
The U.N. Human Rights Council report the chapter quotes is horrifying. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
March 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The one chapter you *must* read in “Careless People” is ‘Myanmar’. It is heart wrenching to read about how absolutely indifferent Facebook leadership was during the unfolding of that atrocity.
The U.N. Human Rights Council report the chapter quotes is horrifying. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
The U.N. Human Rights Council report the chapter quotes is horrifying. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
At this point, how about anything that works? Everything that used to work now doesn’t work or doesn’t work as well and probably won’t work at all soon.
Love that so many dudes jumped in his thread to recommend that one Brother printer “everyone buys”.
Love that so many dudes jumped in his thread to recommend that one Brother printer “everyone buys”.
yo tech startup dudes I have a crazy good idea: a printer that works
March 19, 2025 at 6:21 AM
At this point, how about anything that works? Everything that used to work now doesn’t work or doesn’t work as well and probably won’t work at all soon.
Love that so many dudes jumped in his thread to recommend that one Brother printer “everyone buys”.
Love that so many dudes jumped in his thread to recommend that one Brother printer “everyone buys”.
Just… wow.
I’m half way through “Careless People” and the most succinct thing I can say is: this book scorches the earth like nothing I’ve read in a long while.
More impressions to follow.
I’m half way through “Careless People” and the most succinct thing I can say is: this book scorches the earth like nothing I’ve read in a long while.
More impressions to follow.
March 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Just… wow.
I’m half way through “Careless People” and the most succinct thing I can say is: this book scorches the earth like nothing I’ve read in a long while.
More impressions to follow.
I’m half way through “Careless People” and the most succinct thing I can say is: this book scorches the earth like nothing I’ve read in a long while.
More impressions to follow.
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"As a scientist, I knew it would take time to develop a treatment. But as a human being, it was unacceptable to see people as young as 30 dying under such terrible conditions."
The Extraordinary Path of Nobel Laureate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Our “Fascination of Science” series culminates with a powerful conversation with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who earned a Nobel Prize for her role in the discovery of HIV.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
March 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
"As a scientist, I knew it would take time to develop a treatment. But as a human being, it was unacceptable to see people as young as 30 dying under such terrible conditions."
Number of open source project contributions I’ve made that consist of a single space character and fixed a legitimate bug: 2.
February 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Number of open source project contributions I’ve made that consist of a single space character and fixed a legitimate bug: 2.
While you’re calling your congressional reps make sure to call your state/local reps as well. The number of teachers I have seen begging for basic supplies and equipment on social media is shameful. Tell your reps that sustainable salaries and funding for education is required to retain your vote.
February 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
While you’re calling your congressional reps make sure to call your state/local reps as well. The number of teachers I have seen begging for basic supplies and equipment on social media is shameful. Tell your reps that sustainable salaries and funding for education is required to retain your vote.
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The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
February 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.
It is exceedingly bizarre to think about how TCP/IP stacks had to be installed as add on software to personal computers as late as the 1990’s.
February 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
It is exceedingly bizarre to think about how TCP/IP stacks had to be installed as add on software to personal computers as late as the 1990’s.
The beauty of writing is that sometimes you capture a thing someone else feels viscerally and do it so well that they stop and linger in your words; they are in awe of feeling seen by a stranger. Much like this whole thread did for me.
And what’s happening today is that millions are eager to relinquish having to read, having to create, because it means the discomfort of being alone with your own thoughts. You have to wrestle with yourself in order to create something, and we are scared of that process.
February 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The beauty of writing is that sometimes you capture a thing someone else feels viscerally and do it so well that they stop and linger in your words; they are in awe of feeling seen by a stranger. Much like this whole thread did for me.
The human race is pretty deep into a period of Internet-induced ignorance and confusion. Fahrenheit 451 is playing out without a single match being struck.
The long term solution, in all seriousness, is to buy books now and store them safely. Distributed archiving is critical. #booksky
The long term solution, in all seriousness, is to buy books now and store them safely. Distributed archiving is critical. #booksky
January 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
The human race is pretty deep into a period of Internet-induced ignorance and confusion. Fahrenheit 451 is playing out without a single match being struck.
The long term solution, in all seriousness, is to buy books now and store them safely. Distributed archiving is critical. #booksky
The long term solution, in all seriousness, is to buy books now and store them safely. Distributed archiving is critical. #booksky