Personal Software
January 17, 2025 • #AI development is opening up a new space: personal tools for small problems.
Topic / software
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Ancient Myths and Open Source
May 3, 2023 • #Sam Arbesman compares open source to the storytelling and oral history of myths.
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Potluck
November 9, 2022 • #An experiment in combining the open-ended flexibility of documents with the structure of applications.
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Chris Spiek and Ryan Singer on Shape Up
September 28, 2022 • #Chris Spiek and Ryan Singer talk about the Shape Up product team process at fintech_devcon.
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The Simplest Thing
September 20, 2022 • #Sometimes the best way to find a breakthrough on a problem is to do the simplest thing, not necessarily the cleanest, best, or most complex.
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Learnings from Palantir
May 11, 2022 • #Jason Lemkin's takeaways from Palantir's successes.
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Raycast
May 2, 2022 • #Add a command bar to any app with Raycast.
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Software and Entropy
June 28, 2021 • #Through manipulating bits, we can rearrange atoms.
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Weekend Reading: Collaborative Enterprise, Algorithms, and Fifth-Gen Management
October 3, 2020 • #Elad Gil on collaboration in enterprise, Eugene Wei on TikTok, and Venkat Rao on a new management paradigm.
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Weekend Reading: Software Builders, Scarcity, and Open Source Communities
September 19, 2020 • #Airtable's latest funding, scarcity as a service, and the glory of open source.
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Weekend Reading: Children of Men, Google Earth at 15, and Slate Star Codex is Gone
June 27, 2020 • #Remembering Children of Men, Timoney on Google Earth, and the NYT and Slate Star Codex.
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Annotating the Web with Memex
June 5, 2020 • #Memex is building a web annotation and bookmarking tool for the private, distributed web.
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Spatial Software for Enhancing Interactions
April 12, 2020 • #Spatial dimensions and how they can improve software interaction.
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Raindrop for Bookmarks
April 6, 2020 • #Testing out Raindrop as a bookmarking alternative to Pinboard.
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Hardy Boys and Microkids
March 17, 2020 • #A review of Tracy Kidder's 1981 book, 'The Soul of a New Machine'.
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The No-Code Misnomer
March 3, 2020 • #The no-code movement isn't just about the 'code', but also process design and abstraction.
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Weekend Reading: Software Dependencies, Conversational AI, and the iPad at 10
February 8, 2020 • #Software dependency drift, Google's latest conversational AI, and the iPad at age 10.
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Hyrum's Law
December 10, 2019 • #On the complexity of abstractions vs. implementations at scale.
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Weekend Reading: Figma Multiplayer, Rice vs. Wheat, and Tuft Cells
November 23, 2019 • #How Figma built their multiplayer tech, rice vs. wheat and influence on culture, and how tuft cells communicate threats to the immune system.
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Microsoft Access: The Database Software That Won't Die
November 5, 2019 • #On the longevity of Microsoft Access.
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The Magic of Recurring Revenue
September 17, 2019 • #Thoughts on recurring revenue, SaaS, and the power of incentives.
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Readwise
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Elevate for Strava
August 29, 2019 • #A Chrome extension for rich data analysis of Strava activities.
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Fermat's Library
June 14, 2019 • #A group building tools for sharing and collaborating on academic papers.
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Wireframing with Moqups
May 16, 2019 • #Using Moqups to do wireframes.
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Weekend Reading: Product Market Fit, Stripe's 5th Hub, and Downlink
May 11, 2019 • #Superhuman's methodology for measuring product-market fit, Stripe going remote, and Downlink for satellite imagery feeds.
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Clip Sharing with Overcast
April 29, 2019 • #Nice new feature of Overcast supporting clip sharing from podcasts.
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Sponsoring QGIS
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How Airtable Became a Unicorn by Reinventing the Spreadsheet
March 18, 2019 • #A cool post from Hiten Shah about Airtable's history.
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Pinboard
March 14, 2019 • #Using Pinboard again for bookmarking and link archiving.
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OpenDroneMap
October 24, 2018 • #Experimenting with OpenDroneMap, a processing engine for drone imagery.
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