Software as a medium of expression.new!
Software is becoming a medium through which more people can express themselves.
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Things I'm thinking about, written down before I change my mind. Software, AI, games, the internet, and whatever else has my attention this week. Newest first. There's an RSS feed, if you're one of us.
2026
Smaller teams, more software.new!
Large engineering teams might shrink while the industry expands horizontally, with many more small teams building far more things.
What happens when AI writes most of the code?new!
For me, the interesting part isn't that AI can write code faster. It's that implementation is becoming so cheap that other things start to matter more.
Why games keep showing up in everything I build.
I've noticed a strange pattern: no matter what I'm working on, something game-like sneaks in. A progress bar that feels a little too satisfying. An animation…
The internet used to be more fun.
Or maybe I was just younger. Probably both. But I remember a web made of places. Someone's homepage, with a weird background and a guestbook and a page about…