🔥 Weekend Reading

I write a weekly email for people in tech.

Tools and products you should know about, tips about UX, management, infosec; random and funny stuff

Weekend Reading — Our traffic light-identifying overlords

How to respond to your weird neighbor’s Drumph sign. Tech Stuff Mac Firewall Apps When you don't want apps broadcasting your every move out to the world: Little Snitch, LuLu, Radio Silence, and Lockdown Privacy Desktop. ben-n93/SQL-tips-and-tricks These are really good tricks if you don'

Weekend Reading — “Tonic” Masculinity

This week we race the track in an Isetta M, we clean our MacBook keyboard, we got a new wallpaper, we Agile all the Scrum Master out of Agile Grooming, put the nuclear plant in safe hands, squeeze ChatGPT into an TI-84, deliver pizza from the future, and scour the swamps.

Weekend Reading — Concept of a plan

This week we play Tetris on our database server, learn BASIC again, upgrade to a Victorian iPad, avert the shoplifting crisis, turn HTML back to Markdown, replace the podcast bro with AI, get unlimited data for free, and throw baby Puffins off a cliff.

Weekend Reading — Human Slots Machine

This week we learn a new Postgres trick, write JavaScript for MS-DOS, we answer phone calls on our washer, go big on monospace fonts, we teach you how to market, Rickroll our customers, name our wifi Stinky, and cross the street in the modern world, and vote for the Tara Iti.

Weekend Reading — Home office the way I like it

This week we run a search through Postgres, wear our Mac on our wrist, font with the Z80, hyperfocus through this post, remember Quiznos, close the circle of grift, watch Cybertruck in its habitat, lay off our wizard, make way for the ostrich, and blow on our wine.

August 24th, 2024 12 min read

Weekend Reading — Florida clown

This week we learn how to Zod, we draggy and swappy, we interview our internal customers, don’t get anything completed on time, lay off our energy healer, decode the ToS, guard our headphones, walk around with normal human items, and visit the Mullet state.

August 17th, 2024 16 min read

Weekend Reading — Very demure, very mindful

This week we get our dev docs offline, color the windows, guesstimate our credit score, sue an ice cream, honk like a self-driving car, experiment on a lion, cancel our Disney+ account, and reuse our unexpired N95 mask.

August 10th, 2024 13 min read

Weekend Reading — Momala and Popala

This week we do a screen recording, restart WordStar, take our printer to space, play medieval tunes, sample the LLM, and watch out for the blow-nado.

August 3rd, 2024 11 min read

Weekend Reading — Emotional support billionaires

This week we watch the olympics, make a todo list, propose new password rules, purchase a domain for > $1M, get an AI massage, shot with hand in pocket, save 100% by not buying anything, and measure our height in corgis.