reading list - 2025
Useful patterns for building HTML tools
Inside the rise and fall of Podemos (Spain) ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI Anyone trying to build anything new in Seattle. Say "AI" and people treat you like a threat or an idiot.
Missing in the Amazon - Guardian podcast "Missing in the Amazon" by Guardian Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips, dives deep into the 2022 disappearance of his colleague, journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira in the remote Javari Valley. It details the specific confrontation between Pereira, the dedicated protector and the poacher known as "Pelado"
Korea Has Surpassed Japan in Per Capita GDP
Has Google Quietly Solved Two of AI’s Oldest Problems?
AMD GPUs go brrr · Hazy Research
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation | Max Woolf’s Blog
Work, After Work: Notes From an Unemployed New Grad Watching the Job Market Break | discussion @ Hacker News
12 Things I’ve Heard Boomers Say That I Agree With 100%
Ilya Sutskever – We’re moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Fifty Shades of OOP | Lesley Laidiscussion @ Lobsters
addyosmani/gemini-cli-tips: Gemini CLI Tips and Tricksdiscussion @ Hacker News
Game design is simple, actually – Raph Koster
Wemino/MadnessPatch A patch that fixes various issues in the PC port of Alice: Madness Returns
The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful - Arnon Shimoni
10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code | The PyCharm Blog
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation | Max Woolf’s Blog
What if you don’t need MCP at all?
p-e-w/heretic: Fully automatic censorship removal for language modelsdiscussion @ HN