Articles 📚
Articles are important long reads where I have local comments and quotes I refer back to.
2026
- There are no Instances in atproto by [[Dan Abramov]] #
- The Digital Identity Event Horizon by [[New Design Congress]] #
- Forms of Open Source Government by [[Andrew Nesbitt]] #
2025
- Regenerative Software by [[Chad Fowler]] #
- Obsidian’s CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI by [[Casey Newton]] #
- Rolling up the ladder behind us by [[Xe Iaso]] #
- The Shape of What You Meant by [[Index Network]] #
- Malleable Software Essay by [[Ink & Switch]] #
- The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine by [[Fred Hebert]] #
- AI 2027 by #
- Let's fix OAuth in MCP by [[Aaron Parecki]] #
- Gecko. Mozilla. Thoughts. by [[Mark Mayo]] #
- The Revolution Will Be Decentralized by [[Joan Westenberg]] #
2024
- The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era by [[Sahar Mor]] #
- Introducing the Model Context Protocol by [[Anthropic]] #
- Against the Dark Forest by [[Erin Kissane]] #
- Migrating PDS account with goat by [[Bryan Newbold]] #
- Third Wave (Commercial) Open Source by [[Steven Deobald]] #
- did web by #
- Cruising the ATmosphere Together by [[Bryan Newbold]] #
- AI Interfaces by [[Silicon Jungle]] #
- Open Sourcing Kinopio by [[Pirijan]] #
- The Death of the Junior Developer by [[Steve Yegge]] #
- How to Build an AI Data Center by [[Institute for Progress (IFP)]] #
- Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud by #
- Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers by [[Maggie Appleton]] #
- Situational Awareness by [[Leopold Aschenbrenner]] #
- Initiative on Sponsorship Forwarding by [[Anthony Fu]] #
- The Brazilianization of the Internet by [[Drew Austin]] #
- Infrastructure Calibration Scale for Blockchains by [[Venkatesh Rao]] #
- Towards Software Commons by [[Chad Whitacre]] #
- Paying people to work on open source is good actually by [[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]] #
- Knowledge Networks and the Politics of Protocols by [[BlockScience]] #
2023
- In Search of Hardness by [[Venkatesh Rao]] #
- The Proto-App Thesis by [[David Phelps]] #
- The unconference toolbox by [[Devon Zuegel]] #
- Digital Realty What Is Hyperscale%3F by [[Digital Realty]] #
- Malleable software in the age of LLMs by [[Geoffrey Litt]] #
- Why the fuss about conversational programming%3F by [[Simon Wardley]] #
- The Internet Transition by Robin Berjon #
- The Internet Transition by [[Robin Berjon]] #
- Audience - Community - Product by [[Greg Isenberg]] #
- The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by [[Maggie Appleton]] #
2022
- The Matrix Holiday Update 2022 by #
- Why You Should Use Islands Architecture by [[Katharine Angelopoulos]] #
- Playing with ActivityPub by [[Tom Macwright]] #
- A Year of New Avenues by [[Robin Sloan]] #
- A guide to potential liability pitfalls for people running a Mastodon instance by [[rahaeli]] #
- Slocan Statement by #
- A Tweet Before Dying by [[Paul Ford]] #
- The Coming Game Engine Inflection Point by [[Cade Diehm]] #
- DID by [[Manu Sporny]][[Dave Longley]][[Markus Sabadello]][[Drummond Reed]][[Orie Steele]][[Christopher Allen]] #
- Long form writing in LogSeq by [[Aryan Sawhney]] #
- Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks by [[Varun Srinivasan]] #
2021
- John MacGaffey Below the API by [[John MacGaffey]] #
- Moving Castles- Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses by #
- Positive Sum Worlds- Remaking Public Goods by [[Sam Hart]] , [[Toby Shorin]] , [[Laura Lotti]] #
- How Organizations Are Changing by [[Simon Wardley]] #
- How organisations are changing by [[Simon Wardley]] #
- The Knowledge Ecology by [[Gordon Brander]] #
- The miracle of the commons by #
- Goggles by Brave Search Team #
- Decentralized Social Ecosystem Review by Jay Graber #
- Viznut Eternal September by #
- Gumroad No Full Time Employees by [[Sahil Lavingia]] #
2020
- Dealing with Employees and Politics- A Response to Brian Armstrong by #
- democracy-sovereignty-bianca-wylie by [[Bianca Wylie]] #
- Fifth Generation Management by [[Venkatesh Rao]] #
- A Meta Layer for Notes by [[Julian Lehr]] #
- Platform Economies by #
- Cobuying Property with Friends by #
- Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool by [[Toby Shorin]] #
- Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool by #
- Yes Code by [[Anil Dash]] #
- When Tailwinds Vanish- The Internet in the 2020s by [[John Luttig]] #
- When Tailwinds Vanish by [[John Luttig]] #
- The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web by [[Maggie Appleton]] #
2019
- XLC Building Blocks by [[Kyle Mitchell]] #
- Cross License Collaboratives Blog Post by [[Kyle Mitchell]] #
- Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech by [[Mike Masnick]] #
- Sidecar funds, corporate vehicles, club deals - how do startup studios get financed? by #
- Beyond the Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by [[Yancey Strickler]] #
- The Extended Internet Universe by [[Venkatesh Rao]] #
- The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by [[Yancey Strickler]] #
- Local-first Software Essay by [[Martin Kleppmann]][[Adam Wiggins]][[Peter van Hardenberg]][[Mark McGranaghan]] #
- Unlocking the Commons by [[Tim Carmody]][[Nieman Lab]] #
2018
- Boris on Commons Based Peer Production by [[boris mann]] #
- Knowmad by [[John Moravec]] #
- ActivityPub W3C Recommendation by [[Christine Lemmer-Webber]][[Jessica Tallon]][[Erin Shepherd]][[Amy Guy]][[Evan Prodromou]] #
- ActivityPub by #
- Pace Layering- How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning by [[Stewart Brand]] #
2017
- Blockchain & Open Source Definitions by [[boris mann]] #
- VNotes Format by #
- Activity Streams 2.0 W3C Recommendation by #
- Activity Streams 2.0 W3C Recommendation by #
- Activity Vocabulary W3C Recommendation by #
- Micropub by #
- Activity Vocabulary by #
- Web Annotation Standard by #
- Webmention by #
2016
- Why the Fuss About Serverless%3F by [[Simon Wardley]] #
- How Algolia uses Electron to improve internal productivity by [[Algolia]] #
- How Algolia uses Electron to improve internal productivity by #
- Keeping your Twitter Archive fresh and freely hosted on Github Pages by [[Michael Hawksey]] #
- No Jobs for Horses by [[Al Lee]] #
2015
- mb21 Jobs Below the API by [[Mauro Bieg]] #
- Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners by [[Simon Wardley]] #
- Google Cabs And Uber Bots Will Challenge Jobs 'Below The API' by [[Forbes]][[Anthony Wing Kosner]] #
- Replacing Middle Management with APIs by [[Peter Reinhardt]] #
- Come for the tool, stay for the network by [[Chris Dixon]] #
2014
- Five ways to build a $100 million business by [[Christoph Janz]] #
- The Humane Representation of Thought by [[Bret Victor]] #
- On Consensus and Humming in the IETF by [[Pete Resnick]] #
2013
- Heroku Values by [[Adam Wiggins]] #
- Media for Thinking the Unthinkable by [[Bret Victor]] #
2011
- 12 Factor App by #
- How To Scale a Development Team by [[Adam Wiggins]] #
2010
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names by [[Patrick McKenzie]] #
- Stock and Flow by [[Robin Sloan]] #
2009
- Bruce Sterling: Gothic Chic in the Future Favela by [[Bruce Sterling]] #
2002
- Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm by [[Yochai Benkler]] #
- Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm by [[Yochai Benkler]] #
- Strategy Letter V by [[Joel Spolsky]] #
1968
- The Tragedy of the Commons by [[Garrett Hardin]] #