I love talking to incoming students at Stanford. When I do, I always emphasize that Stanford is a platform, not a destination.

I believe that generative AI, developed and deployed thoughtfully, has the opportunity to profoundly reshape the world for the better.

A few weeks ago, I was part of a talk at DEF CON 31 called The Hackers, The Lawyers, and the Defense Fund.

When you think of a state-sponsored online influence operation, you might picture large sprawling networks of high-follower accounts spreading disinformation.

In general, open source maintainers owe you nothing. Despite maintainers often being volunteers, some users feel entitled to maintainers’ time, submitting feature requests and expecting the maintainers to implement whatever they want.

Poor robots. All around the internet are little ‘CAPTCHA’ checkboxes designed to keep them out. That terrible tickmark—“I am not a robot”—has caused many a positronic tear.

In February, my Google Cloud free credits will expire, so yesterday I decided to migrate many of my Politiwatch projects to Microsoft Azure (where I have recurring free credits).

When I built Shynet, my self-hosted analytics tool, one of my top priorities was making sure it didn’t require visitors to have JavaScript enabled.

I usually only write about my own mistakes, but here I’m going to be writing about a mistake I noticed an error on the nutrition label of Quaker Oatmeal Squares cereal.

Over the past week or so, I’ve been working on building my own simple interpreted programming language.

I designed a17t to be used in conjunction with Tailwind CSS. I never use a17t without Tailwind, and I never use Tailwind without a17t.

Ever since I released Shynet, my open source web analytics tool, several people have asked me if I plan to offer some kind of managed version of the service (presumably as some kind of SaaS).