Stories by asher-gold

Coding has emerged as GenAI's killer usecase; what if its benefits are a mirage?

Launchk: Rust/Cursive TUI for looking at macOS launchd agents and daemons

Being Boring app: relax and meditate for a short while on Apple devices

The Supreme Court's disastrous new abortion decision

Utterly Voice: hands-free, customizable voice dictation and computer control

Stretchly: A cross-platform open-source app that reminds you to take breaks

Chicago's Refusal to Deal with Its Nearly Empty Schools

The one drug RFK Jr. should ban

Google will reduce Pixel 6A battery capacity due to overheating issues

The Pitfalls of Boolean Trap (2011)

Psibase: Protocol that enables communities to "self-host" a web app ecosystem

Antinote: Beautiful macOS Productivity Scratchpad

Mines: A simple mine puzzle game inspired by classic minesweeper

Beware of check-washing – a crook stole $310K from a couple and banks won't help

ExoQuery: First Kotlin Multiplatform language-integrated SQL querying system

Ksoup: A Kotlin Multiplatform Library for Working with HTML and XML

Research paper: removing dependencies from large (Java) software projects [pdf]

Don't Snack Too Much at Work

HTTP Feeds: a minimal specification for polling events over HTTP

Alpaquita Linux: minimal and secure base image for containers

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