writing
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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The viral Giants clip showed a few seconds of a couple at a game. Erika's essay shows the grief, the conversation, and everything the camera could not record.
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Allan Riordan Boll reads one-token probabilities so a model can classify, including from a webcam, instead of writing the decision out as prose.
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Robin Sloan's website shows what a personal site can become when somebody keeps making, experimenting, writing, and tending the same piece of the web.
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Connect book writing across personal sites with Octothorpes online-book-club— pages stay yours; the index only helps discovery.
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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.
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Kevin Smith is writing Star Wars/Marvel: Hope Assembles, the first official crossover between Star Wars and Marvel Comics—Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewbacca meeting Spider-Man and the Avengers while Doctor Doom sides with Darth Vader.
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Bruce Schneier’s work-versus-gym framing for AI use—use tools when the result is the point, keep the struggle when the practice develops skill—and how that maps onto software work, writing, and still requiring reviewable output after trust questions are answered.
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Dave Winer’s How the Web Got Gunked argues platforms replaced replaceable web parts with accounts, proprietary feeds, and locked-in writing—offering a simple test: if a piece cannot be replaced without permission, it is not part of the open web.
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Nathaniel Peters built Uncovered around a simple idea: judge a book by its writing instead of its cover. The site shows opening pages without revealing the title or author, so you decide whether the writing alone is enough to keep reading.
Developer Musings (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshghent.com