How I hire engineers

Building a community means looking beyond coding tests.

Notable links: January 2, 2026

Looking ahead: humans are cool again.

What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?

"Instagram no longer believes it can beat AI by making more or better content. It wants to be the referee, to decide what is real and what is not, and to build systems that can do it at scale."

2025: The year in LLMs

Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.

The next big thing in 2026 will be...

This year's predictions from tech experts and decision-makers are notably pro-human.

Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS

"Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked."

A 2026 checklist

A way to build a habit out of what's important.

2025: a personal year in review

Highlights and hopes for the new year.

Friday links: December 26, 2025

An alternative Christmas; lies we tell ourselves.

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

Tim's 2026 predictions are worth paying attention to - and form a great map for following where the open social web is going.

An ... interesting year

On fascism, technology, and finding the helpers.

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."