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10 Dec 2005

The origins of hypertext, from 1945:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush

Worth a read if you haven't already.

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A person riding a paper plane towards a target.

Product-shaped or movement-shaped?

People love your work because of its impact, not how it works.

30 Apr 2026
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Building with love, and paying for it

How do you fund work people don't want to pay for?

29 Apr 2026

That terrible Signal exploit has been fixed. We have journalism to thank for it

"Apple’s fix means iPhones should no longer save copies of deleted messages from Signal or other apps, and Apple said the patch also purges already saved and related notifications."

29 Apr 2026
Woody Guthrie playing his guitar with the label "this machine kills fascists" on it.

All You Fascists (Bound to Lose)

A collection of Woody Guthrie covers

27 Apr 2026
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