Evan Freeze
@evanfreeze.com
Senior Frontend Dev. Occasional iOS developer & photographer. He/Him/His. Based in Nashville, TN.
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Other platforms, like Ghost and Beehiiv, may also do this, and if folks have details for that please tack them on. There is simply no excuse to stay on Substack. You know what they stand for.
October 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Other platforms, like Ghost and Beehiiv, may also do this, and if folks have details for that please tack them on. There is simply no excuse to stay on Substack. You know what they stand for.
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I get that switching platforms can be a pain in the ass, but there’s help. Buttondown, for example, will do all your migration for you. For free. buttondown.com/features/con...
Need to migrate your list? Let us do it.
No matter how large your list is, we'll switch you over for free.
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October 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I get that switching platforms can be a pain in the ass, but there’s help. Buttondown, for example, will do all your migration for you. For free. buttondown.com/features/con...
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Lotta people warning me about fascism while still getting that Substack coin.
October 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Lotta people warning me about fascism while still getting that Substack coin.
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There is no "if"...
September 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There is no "if"...
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Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
September 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
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Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
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We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
July 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
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If we can bring back Air Bud we can bring back the goodest boy ever
July 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If we can bring back Air Bud we can bring back the goodest boy ever
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even by HN standards this is an all-timer
July 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
even by HN standards this is an all-timer
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there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
July 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3
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Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.
July 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.
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Watching movies in which heroes stand up for the little guy, do the unpopular brave thing simply because it is right, help those in need, are kind to people different from them, and grinding my teeth in frenzied rage at this political bias that is personally attacking me, a massive piece of shit.
July 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Watching movies in which heroes stand up for the little guy, do the unpopular brave thing simply because it is right, help those in need, are kind to people different from them, and grinding my teeth in frenzied rage at this political bias that is personally attacking me, a massive piece of shit.
Wrote a thing about minimalism
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Minimalism as a philosophy vs. Minimalism as an aesthetic
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July 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wrote a thing about minimalism
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“In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.”
Yeah, it's quite the paradox that the people who understand AI aren't impressed by it. A real head scratcher.
Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It
New research has uncovered a paradoxical relationship between AI literacy and receptivity: Individuals with lower AI literacy are more likely to embrace AI, despite perceiving it as less capable and m...
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July 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
“In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.”
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again, such a high level of analysis compared to your average political communication
The 14th Street Busway has been a smashing success: faster commutes, fewer crashes, calmer streets.
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
So why is Eric Adams blocking a similar plan for 34th Street?
July 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
again, such a high level of analysis compared to your average political communication
Increasingly exhausted by the tech industry.
July 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Increasingly exhausted by the tech industry.
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If people think Superman is too woke just wait until they find out about Jesus
July 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If people think Superman is too woke just wait until they find out about Jesus
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“Superman is too woke!”
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
July 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“Superman is too woke!”
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
Literally the first page of the first ever appearance of Superman:
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Is Superman woke? Or are you just realizing you’re the bad guy? 🤷♂️
July 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Is Superman woke? Or are you just realizing you’re the bad guy? 🤷♂️
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this is interesting and balanced research and it confirms my priors so i'm sharing it (h/t @jenvalentino.bsky.social)
but also it makes sense — LLMs speed up the typing part, which often feels like the bulk of the job, but is actually dwarfed by the thinking part. and these things don't think good
but also it makes sense — LLMs speed up the typing part, which often feels like the bulk of the job, but is actually dwarfed by the thinking part. and these things don't think good
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
this is interesting and balanced research and it confirms my priors so i'm sharing it (h/t @jenvalentino.bsky.social)
but also it makes sense — LLMs speed up the typing part, which often feels like the bulk of the job, but is actually dwarfed by the thinking part. and these things don't think good
but also it makes sense — LLMs speed up the typing part, which often feels like the bulk of the job, but is actually dwarfed by the thinking part. and these things don't think good
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one of the things you hear a lot is “yeah but AI is genuinely useful for some tasks” and coding is almost always mentioned
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
one of the things you hear a lot is “yeah but AI is genuinely useful for some tasks” and coding is almost always mentioned
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Goose and a Watermelon.
July 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Goose and a Watermelon.
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We should all be yelling at our state officials about the complete insanity of posting vital emergency information *exclusively* on Twitter/X and/or Facebook in 2025.
There is absolutely NO good excuse for this.
Many, many people don’t use those platforms. Many never did.
There is absolutely NO good excuse for this.
Many, many people don’t use those platforms. Many never did.
Here's one I got it WA not too long ago
The link directed me to a "make an account" page on twitter.
I work in a medical facility with an urgent care, so it's important for me and my coworkers to have alert info like this.
The link directed me to a "make an account" page on twitter.
I work in a medical facility with an urgent care, so it's important for me and my coworkers to have alert info like this.
July 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We should all be yelling at our state officials about the complete insanity of posting vital emergency information *exclusively* on Twitter/X and/or Facebook in 2025.
There is absolutely NO good excuse for this.
Many, many people don’t use those platforms. Many never did.
There is absolutely NO good excuse for this.
Many, many people don’t use those platforms. Many never did.