Stories by Tomte

What we don't talk about when we talk about building AI apps

None of the Above

A Note about Freeware (2003)

Arachnophilia

Dorfromantik: The Board Game Wins the 2023 Spiel Des Jahres

Why Ed-Tech Startups Don't Scale (2022)

HTML Notepad

There’s no wrong way to load this dishwasher

Makesite: Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator

Minify and Gzip (2022)

Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri

Publishing in a Medieval Monastery

The four-hour work day

The Disappearing BSD License

The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy

You Don't Want Atomic Deploys (2021)

Handmade Holograms Are Weird

Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can (2021)

When and Why Incentives (Don't) Work to Modify Behavior (2011)

Magenta Green Screen