Stories by bobbiechen

Good Careers at Bad Companies

CrankGPT is an offline and off-the-grid AI box

Stop the Apple Music app from launching

Interfaces for Representing Uncertainty (2025)

Staybl, the browser that adjusts for tremors in real time (2022)

"This was a user-friendly computer."

Laws of UX

The Gypsy document editor: celebrating 50 years

Lighter, Not Faster

There is no escape from Ashby's law (2020)

Clashes of Tech and the US Government

Tools and Toolmaking

PostalForm lets agents place a real print-and-mail order for their owner

Okmain: Pick an OK main colour of an image

Electrical upgrades for our Winnebago Solis camper van

Assorted links: clashes of tech and the US government

"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"

Testing 80 LLMs on spatial reasoning on grids

Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures

Dealing with Bots: A COAR Resource for Repository Managers

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