week of January 26, 2026
In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Roy Bland captures a cynical, post-ideological, corrupt English society: “You scratch my conscience; I’ll drive your Jag.” You could say the same of today’s Silicon Valley. It used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price.
Think Different? Not anymore.
Om captures the lost soul of Silicon Valley. Where do we go from here?
Stuart Robson may have solved the problem of refactoring legacy CSS. Though I have to be honest, the web history buff in me just wants to use this to do some genuine digital archaeology on some long-running codebases.
Look how cool this is:
week of January 19, 2026
What I wouldn’t have asked, though, was “Is John getting paid?” As hard as it may be to believe, back in 2004, the default was that people made new standards for open technologies like Markdown, and just shared them freely for the good of the internet, and the world, and then went on about their lives. Buried in Anil […]
week of January 12, 2026
Trying food from every country in the world, only in New York City in the most open-hearted and curious way. Seeing something like this, in the midst of everything else, is really something.
It’s the positivity mixed with the personal accountability of Mamdani that is so unique and hopeful to me. I want to see more of it.
week of January 5, 2026
I never want to hear any moral grandstanding from these boys ever again. The next time Tim Cook says “privacy is a human right,” the only possible response is to laugh in his face.
Elizabeth Lopatto brings the truth over on the Verge.