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Mesh networking over the airwaves presents a very unique opportunity for our societies. We could build a resilient, peer-to-peer network that coexists with the internet, enabling connectivity in currently underserved regions and increasing our personal sovereignty online by maintaining a functional backup to the internet for our most critical needs.

It's also just a freeing feeling to be able to send a message to someone else relying only on devices that you and people in your network own outright, instead of renting the capability to do so from your local ISP or Elon Musk's Starlink.

Jonah is getting into mesh networks... so am I!

Geist Pixel is a bitmap-inspired typeface built on the same foundations as Geist Sans and Geist Mono, reinterpreted through a strict pixel grid. It's precise, intentional, and unapologetically digital.

Vercel recently introduced the Geist Pixel addition to their Geist font family, and I love it. via unsung

Some of my projects - spanning tools, toys, and AI experiments.

“To choose Inuit wayfinding,” the ethnographers conclude, “becomes increasingly heroic in the face of wayfinding that depends on an advanced technological system.”

It may be a losing battle to demand that basic acts of competence require heroism. But I still think it’s worth noticing what assumptions that Silicon Valley steam engine metaphor is trying to force us to accept.

Tim Requarth's essay on AI as steam engine, instead of a bicycle.

Most people believe that their personal learning goals will be obvious and easily remembered. But in practice, people often fail to achieve learning goals not for lack of desire to achieve them, but because the goals themselves are underspecified.

Because of this, when we encounter real obstacles in our lives, we often lack concrete plans that cue us how to work toward our goals when things get hard. This pattern can undermine learning progress and sap our motivation.

Learning Goal Claude Code skill uses psychology-backed goal-setting to maintain learning while coding with AI - by Dr. Cat Hicks.

The AI agent receives a research instrument and a unit assignment, then autonomously decides what to search for, which sources to consult, how to evaluate conflicting information, and how to code the result. The agent performs discovery, finding relevant sources alongside extraction and coding. The input is a research question. The output is an auditable research record with full citations.

NBER paper on using AI agents to construct economic datasets. Same methodology I used to develop the Breakouts dataset for On_Discourse.

About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them. Go enjoy your private theater.

Empty Screenings finds AMC movie theaters with zero ticket sales for private viewing.

Analysis reveals AI boom, not bubble.

Ada is a voice-driven content editor for writers who think out loud. Discuss your ideas, refine your prose, or dictate replacements. All with your voice.

Write with Ada beta launch - a tool for writers.

Karpathy: on training AI costs plummeting: 600X reduction in 7 years via simonwillison.net

PlowNYC tracks snow removal vehicle progress in NYC.

Lemonade launches autonomous car insurance with 50% self-driving discount.