The AI companies want you to believe you need to pay up to keep up. Don't buy it. Here's how you can get great output out of "stupid" models. Anthropic changed the terms on Claude Code Max last Friday. Third-party coding tools – OpenCode, C…
👋 Hey friends,A common trap we all fall into from time to time is working on our tools rather than with our tools.We research new gadgets, gizmos, implements and instruments – all under the assumption that, "if I just bought this, I'd spen…
For the past four months, I've been on hiatus preparing for and reveling in the birth of my first child. She's happy, healthy, beautiful, goofy, and constantly smells like cheese. My wife and I couldn't be more in love. Growing a family and…
A couple weeks ago, my essay, The Future Is NOT Self-Hosted hit the front page of Hacker News and stayed there for almost 36 hours. The piece got 30,000 views over night, received hundreds of comments and replies, and this newsletter grew f…
In a world where corporations have detached buying from owning, one man attempts to do something radical: build his own cloud. A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book l…
I'm down a rabbit hole this week on self-hosting and haven't had time to finish an essay. But, I told myself I wouldn't go two weeks without sending out a newsletter. So, instead of my normal, regularly scheduled ramblings, here are three q…
"What would you do if you knew you could not fail?" This is one of those motivational mantras designed to help us push past our fear of failure. If success was guaranteed, we'd have the courage to pursue our wildest dreams: start that compa…
Tomorrow (June 14th), millions of people across the country are taking to the streets in solidarity to express their disdain for this regime's corrupt, authoritarian and oligarchical antics. If you're interested in finding a protest near yo…