How to become a mark for con artists
Hank Green in a video about Theranos:
We should not be complacent about the ways in which our world sucks. But if we're convinced that everything sucks and it's because people are terrible and nothing works when that's obviously not true, then we become the marks for con artists.
Birchtree is 16 years old today (and the nicest thing someone said to me this year)
Today marks 16 years since my first post on Birchtree. I was a scrappy 24-year-old who was stuck in a mindlessly uninteresting and low-paying job, but I loved technology. 16 years later, I don’t exactly know why I pulled the trigger on creating this blog, but I definitely know I’d
I don't care what other kids are doing
Lex Friedman: A few more thoughts on why embracing X is wrong
“The Ellisons are bad, too” is a great argument for paying attention to the Ellisons. It’s not an argument for X.
I remember one time as a teenager my parents sat me down in the living room to discuss something bad I
Why does this chart just go down?
M.G. Siegler: Twitter is Back. Shhh… Magic Dance!
But it's also not really a surge in usage,
What is a developer?
Andy Nicolaides: I’m not sure what I am, but I know what I’m not
I am a developer by trade, but not anything close to iOS development, so whilst no stranger to coding, I’ve spent a couple of months in Xcode and there is not a chance I could tell any of
Software authorship
Lex Friedman: Claude writes code; I author the apps
My initial prompt when I started on The Universe, Controlled was about 1,000 words — more than half the length of this article to this point. And it was explicitly only for a very limited subset of the game’s functionality. I’ve since prompted Claude
