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Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

A 2026 checklist https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Might try it along side of my 🖇️ 3Words approach. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

A 2026 checklist https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

:tux: Banner year, keep it up.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

:tux: Banner year, keep it up.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

:tux: Banner year, keep it up.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

#HackerNews #Windows11 #Disaster #Bugs #TrustIssues #IntrusiveFeatures #TechNews

"The new Windows 11 Start menu is a perfect example. Thanks to Controlled Feature Rollout, many users didn't get it right away after installing the October update. For those people, it randomly appeared a few days or weeks later, without any warning or prompt, letting the user know what happened and why.

In this scenario, going into your update history to see what changed is going to confuse you, because the update that includes the new Start menu was installed weeks ago. You're only seeing the new features now because Microsoft allowed you to see it, which is insane and frustrating beyond belief."

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features

Link: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/2025-has-been-an-awful-year-for-windows-11-with-infuriating-bugs-and-constant-unwanted-features
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46445491

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

We need to reassess our relationship to digital tech

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

If you need help with finding interesting New Year's resolutions, I got you covered. Well, @parismarx 's got you covered:

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

#tech #internet #UnitedStates

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

If this year was about getting off US tech, 2026 is the year to reassess the digital revolution — what works, what doesn’t; what to keep, and what to reject.

I’ve only just started to consider what needs to change about how I use digital technology, but I’m excited to learn more next year.

https://disconnect.blog/we-need-to-reassess-our-relationship-to-digital-tech/

#tech #ai #newyear #luddite

Link: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643

Link: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643

2025: The Year in LLMs: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/

#ai

2025: The Year in LLMs
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643

2025: The Year in LLMs
L: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449643
posted on 2025.12.31 at 18:54:46 (c=1, p=7)

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/

#llm #llms

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/

Link: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/
Comments: https://lobste.rs/s/ykqi2f

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

a few months ago i had the immense privilege to speak about Websites at @webdevconf in Bristol — i've taken some time to improve on these ideas and build a permanent online home for the essay, which i intend to grow and improve over time 🤍

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.

here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

https://henry.codes/writing/a-website-to-destroy-all-websites/

Noah McCormack on China -

"China believes in education and literacy more than we do.

While Chinese schools are teaching students about AI’s impact on society—risks and biases in addition to basic learning—American schools are rushing headlong into serving AI slop ...

China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary ..."

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
2/n

Noah McCormack:

"The history of literacy is the history of class.

AI has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education.

The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought; with the unemployed illiterate and addicted to screens, they are unlikely to be politicized and join a socialist campaign."

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
1/n

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
2/n

Noah McCormack on China -

"China believes in education and literacy more than we do.

While Chinese schools are teaching students about AI’s impact on society—risks and biases in addition to basic learning—American schools are rushing headlong into serving AI slop ...

China is not a utopia, but its citizens have a brighter future than ours, and they will be able to read about it, thanks to a sociopolitical system that still sees literacy as necessary ..."

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
2/n

Noah McCormack:

"The history of literacy is the history of class.

AI has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education.

The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought; with the unemployed illiterate and addicted to screens, they are unlikely to be politicized and join a socialist campaign."

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
1/n

I ironically stopped reading halfway through this article and then noticed the open tab and finished it. It's worth reading the whole thing.

"We used to read things in this country"

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack

I ironically stopped reading halfway through this article and then noticed the open tab and finished it. It's worth reading the whole thing.

"We used to read things in this country"

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack

I ironically stopped reading halfway through this article and then noticed the open tab and finished it. It's worth reading the whole thing.

"We used to read things in this country"

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack

Noah McCormack:

"The history of literacy is the history of class.

AI has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education.

The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought; with the unemployed illiterate and addicted to screens, they are unlikely to be politicized and join a socialist campaign."

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
1/n

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005 #CabinetPapers #ClimateCrisis #AlexanderDowner #JohnHoward #KevinRudd #AustraliaNews #Energy #GreenhouseGasEmissions #AustralianEconomy #RenewableEnergy

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire #climatechange outcomes in 2005 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005 #Australia

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005
1/3 #ClimateChange

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005
1/3 #ClimateChange

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005
1/3 #ClimateChange

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005
1/3 #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005

#auspol #ausmedia

#Australia

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005

Officials warned of major economic, environmental and social disruption to Australia due to its dependence on coal

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

#Australia

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005

Officials warned of major economic, environmental and social disruption to Australia due to its dependence on coal

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

They knew. Australia's politicians absolutely knew back in 2005 how damaging #coal use was — and they didn’t tell us.
Even today, while some politicians still deny or downplay climate change and attack renewable energy, newly released documents show they were warned about the risks twenty years ago.

Cabinet papers reveal Alexander Downer warned of dire climate change outcomes in 2005
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/cabinet-papers-reveal-alexander-downer-warned-of-dire-climate-change-outcomes-in-2005
1/3 #ClimateChange

Shipping at Inference Speed
L: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419453
posted on 2025.12.29 at 06:09:27 (c=0, p=6)

This one got ~1 mio views on X. No AI was harmed writing this post. https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed

This one got ~1 mio views on X. No AI was harmed writing this post. https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed

This one got ~1 mio views on X. No AI was harmed writing this post. https://steipete.me/posts/2025/shipping-at-inference-speed