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Indie consultant & blogger tomcritchlow.com
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A staggering work of blogging genius... Begins with reps, reps, reps. I was curious how John Cutler got started writing online and went back in the archives. Only to discover that he wrote 423 blog posts before he even started his substack A Beautiful Mess... Always be writing...

Love this talk from Aaron. Makes me think more deeply about the promise of the web and the challenges it has in helping you revisit things... www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...

Look, @robinsloan.com is my friend, and I know I weight his thoughts heavily. But you have to read this essay about the conundrum LLMs present to the writers and humanists among us. So much to learn in here. www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...

Love love love to see indie consultants yearnotes. Here's Gautam's one year on the road: www.snowbird.global/a-year-of-em...

"Know the wolves that hunt you. In time, they will be the dogs that bring your slippers." This is a balm.

Hold your own youtu.be/hOdFwiWpRoU?...

"The program exists for the goals, not the members" Quietly radical stuff from the inspiring @craigmod.com Here's to the next 6 years and 5+ books ❤️ craigmod.com/essays/membe...

Idly imagining that @genmon.fyi does a Kickstarter to sell off custom cursors for his loyal fans. Instead of a flag emoji you'd get a favicon for your website visible to others as you browse the site...

I have two things to share with you today. First, we're starting a publishing company. Second, I wrote a book about computing, which you can preorder starting today!

Robin Sloan on bluesky 😍 @robinsloan.com And what a banger of a link just shared in his newsletter. Of goblins and Christmas and AI and librarians (and the Internet of course) davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

Love this formulation of artist publishing: www.newsletter.anemone.studio/p/artist-pub...

Anyone know how to solve this error trying to push to Github? Googling it seems the most common cause is files being too large. This push has ~100 files in it but they're all text .md files, the total size is still v small? Any ideas?

🔵 — a website with raw hems, with patched seams, with gentle scars. a website that bares its history and tarnish with kind, crinkle-eyed wisdom — the sort of site that’s done time on jack stands in DIY garages, or beneath the needle of a tabletop sewing mach.... strange.website/2024-12-03

Catch-23 too catch, too furious

never a bad time to return to @kissane.bsky.social's Meta in Myanmar series erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...

I love when talented people redesign their personal websites. This is a good one. henry.codes

"Dreams in progress" from @elan.bsky.social - love this thoughtful meditation on dream clients (and actually a nice overview of the current state of brands) Elan is the best. Go work with him offmenu.substack.com/p/dreams-in-...

Today seems as good a day as any to bump this: erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...

This looks cool!

Amazing to see good people thriving in indie world.... 🙌

i'd like to create the opposite of the permalink — a link that's always intentionally shimmering, changing its characters every second as if being lightly blown by the wind

In the future asking an llm to make the code better will result in it posting it to HN where a bunch of nerds will delightfully miss the point and start making the code better for you 🤣 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4258...

Good mantra

Been thinking about this more and more and I think secrets are going to be one of the defining features of the AI age

Two bluesky things I'd like (maybe they're possible?) 1. Saved searches as custom feeds 2. A custom feed for my timeline without RTs

Lovely note on conversations from @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social oaklandgardenclub.substack.com/p/a-life-pro...

Awwwww yeah more of this vibe in 2025 please j3s.sh/thought/blog...

2025 YEAR OF THE WEBSITE nora.zone/manifesto.html

Inspired by this to fire up a link blog section of my main blog.. Hoping for higher volume output in 2025! Sneak peek design in progress....

Family accounts for chatgpt are gonna be great I think. Shared memory Access to all calendars Group chats Kid controls and supervision

I love this weird quirk of the AI era where we end up with secret maths problems under lock and key xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/22/c...