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Josh Müller

I’m a fan of the idea behind /now pages, /uses pages, and /hello pages. The basic vision behind each of these is that there’s a place on one’s personal websites where visitors can go to see interesting, noteworthy, and useful things about the site’s owner. So, /now pages are where you can go to see what that person is currently up to. A /hello page is a quick introduction, as well as an explanatio

Josh Müller

We all know the rules — don’t cross the line ; stay in line ; don’t get out of line . Whether it came from our education, our parents, or just the factory-based industrial economies that our cultures have reformed themselves around these last 200 years, we know that to be a good worker (and, maybe, a good person ?) means to respect the line . But, the world is changing. And with it changes our rel

Josh Müller

I’ve always tended to like math more than the average person. I was less a fan of arithmetic — the labour intensive process of adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing our way to an answer to a question that a calculator could figure out instantly. More so, I’ve tended to find myself intrigued by the tools that math gives us to help us understand the world better. Sometimes that involves maki

Josh Müller

Download audio /mp3/social-media-dtr.mp3 “Addiction is a condition in which a person engages in use of a substance or in a behavior for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling incentive to repeatedly pursue the behavior despite detrimental consequences .” Twelve years ago, I spent a week at summer camp like I had many summers before. And just like those many summers before, at the end of

Josh Sherman

Mailshake has terminated my employment after 8+ years. In that time, I... Started as engineer #3 Moved into management thanks to an awesome CTO Ran a 10-person team across backend, frontend, QA, and support Scaled down to 2 engineers while maintaining productivity Reduced annual AWS spend by ~70% over 3 years Was always on-call and handled support escalations Ran technical due diligence on 4 acqui

Joshua Morris

Flock recorded Chrisanna Elser’s Rivian where it actually was. Police still treated that location as proof she stole a package the doorbell video did not show.

Joshua Morris

Proposition 39 adds an identification check every time someone votes, a match on the mail envelope, and a best-effort citizenship review of the rolls.

Joshua Morris

Claude's text watermark can show that AI was involved in producing a piece of writing. It cannot tell us whether the person publishing it did the thinking.

Joshua Morris

HTML Energy reminds us the web is still something a person can make— open a text file, write some HTML, and you have a website.

Joshua Morris

Ytoo! is a one-person web portal built to send you somewhere else—dense links, hand curation, fake ads, and a guestbook that proves people use it.

Joshua Morris

BobDaHacker reports a simple tl;dv authorization failure exposing meeting metadata for tens of thousands of users, then months without a meaningful vendor response—security culture is what happens after the report lands.

Joshua Morris

Cory Doctorow argues the real problem with data brokers is that they may collect and sell personal information by default—and that California’s DROP platform, while a real improvement, still puts the burden on the person being cataloged.

Joshua Morris

Dynomight reviews evidence that creatine may modestly help memory, attention, and performance under fatigue or sleep deprivation—arguing it is unlikely to make a healthy rested person smarter, but may still help a tired or aging brain stay resilient.

Joshua P. Steele

Alan Jacobs' practical checklist for critical thinking, charitable discourse, and resisting tribal reflexes in polarized times.