How I hire engineers
Building a community means looking beyond coding tests.
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Notable links: January 2, 2026
Looking ahead: humans are cool again.
What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
"Instagram no longer believes it can beat AI by making more or better content. It wants to be the referee, to decide what is real and what is not, and to build systems that can do it at scale."
2025: The year in LLMs
Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.
The next big thing in 2026 will be...
This year's predictions from tech experts and decision-makers are notably pro-human.
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
"Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked."
A 2026 checklist
A way to build a habit out of what's important.
2025: a personal year in review
Highlights and hopes for the new year.
Friday links: December 26, 2025
An alternative Christmas; lies we tell ourselves.
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
Tim's 2026 predictions are worth paying attention to - and form a great map for following where the open social web is going.
2025 was ... an interesting year
On fascism, technology, and finding the helpers.
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."
Media
Lies we tell ourselves
We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.
Notable links
Friday links: December 19, 2025
Predictions for journalism; paperbacks are dead; feeling the fear.
Business
The Go/No Go Date
"Feeling fear goes hand-in-hand with being ambitious. Imposter syndrome is real and normal. In fact, if you aren't feeling fear in what you do, I'd argue that you aren't being ambitious enough." Here's a way to build in the fear and do it anyway.
Media
Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2026
"Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here's what they told us." Some essays from the annual collection that caught my eye.
Future of News
Is the article dead?
Personalization is coming to journalism. The question is: who controls it?
Culture
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
"The format credited with making books more accessible via low prices and widespread availability will all but vanish from the publishing scene in a few weeks." With it comes a generational loss.
Democracy
T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
"The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials, substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders."
Notable links
Friday links: December 12, 2025
In the face of government oppression, it's time to encrypt.
AI
Trump Signs Executive Order To Combat State AI Regulation
"President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday intended to limit state regulation of artificial intelligence." At the same time, states are watering theirs down.
Technology
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
"Wow, we made it. 2025. One of the years of all time." Tumblr didn't die - figuratively or literally - and, honestly, it's just nice to see it.
Democracy
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
"All tourists will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force."
Technology
10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates
Let's Encrypt is ten years old. It's changed the web for the better.