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• Mark Nottingham GitHub 14 Sept thor — Easy Evented Intermediation
• Pieter Levels Korrent 16 Sept It is easy to compete with Wise because they usually are not even trying to do more. it'd so easy to compete with them because they're usually not even trying to do more
• Cal Henderson GitHub 14 Sept emoji-data — Easy to parse data and spritesheets for emoji
• Scott Sumner Newsletter 7 Sept It's the fun
• Brett Terpstra Bluesky 6 Sept Lately on the blog: ScreenCoord: quick and easy screen rects
• Max Howell GitHub 2 Sept knock-knock — Easy, GitHub sign-in, pre-hosted chat rooms for your GitHub repo
• Colin Percival x.com 28 Aug I like to think that Route 53 Files has a clear, easy to understand, meaning.
• Patrick Collison Korrent 17 Sept Academic publications are easy for AI models to consume from pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. consuming its publications is so easy for the models (the world's knowledge is neatly serried in their pretraining corpora) and so cumbersome for most humans (with trenches of CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls ensuring…
• Lyman Stone Newsletter 2 Sept College Will Get More Affordable
• Jakob Nielsen Newsletter 4 Sept UX Roundup: Make It Easy | AI Traffic = Best Customers | AI Visibility | Hidden Team Disagreement | AI Attitude Questions | Sunk Costs | Tools Palette
• Ben Vinegar Bluesky 3 Sept we're now processing a lot of data, which is great but the days of infrastructure easy mode have come to an end
• Hamel Husain x.com 18 Sept Q: How do you review a trace that is really large? A: Focus on the first upstream failure. Make the relevant evidence easy to inspect, with details reviewers can expand as needed.
• Jason Fried x.com 29 Aug Adam gets it. And of course he does, he's THAT Adam! HEY + HEY CLI + @bot = "Email has never been so easy".
• Sean Carroll Bluesky 11 Sept Thinking of politics as “defeat the enemy” is easy and energizing. Thinking of politics as “working together even if we disagree about some big things” is hard and exhausting.
• Mark Manson x.com 3 Sept The real test of a relationship isn’t how good it is when things are easy, but how strong it stays when things are hard.
• Rusty Foster Bluesky 3 Sept An easy way to migrate away from 1Password is to delete every account and throw all your computers in a deep hole in the earth. 🌈⭐️
• Patrick Collison x.com 19 Sept 🆕: @Meta and @stripe are partnering to make it easy for businesses to accept agentic payments using the @Muse Connector Platform. Learn more: • https://t.co/kGsKMULe3m • https://t.co/Fn5U2QRaaz • Email jweinstein@ /…
• Terence Tao Korrent 17 Aug Excessively AI-polished proofs can remove natural friction and become easy to read but hard to learn from. An excessively AI-polished proof may sand away both the "artificial" friction (typos, awkward phrasing, disorganization) and the "natural" friction, leaving a text that is easy to read and hard to learn from.
• Pieter Levels Korrent 1 Sept AI-assisted ('vibe') coding has made it so easy to build competing SaaS apps that a plain, unremarkable SaaS product can no longer easily attract signups. A regular boring but non-superficial SaaS app would do well 5 years ago but now it might not get anyone to sign up because it's so easy to vibe code by tens of thousands of other people
• Kaspars Dambis x.com 5 Sept Naming things is hard. OAuth is a friendlier version of Application Passwords (less manual work) but there are clients, tokens and applications. How to make it easy for users?
• Ava Huang Newsletter 9 Jul easy
• Patrick Collison Korrent 31 Jul Build on a customer problem somebody viscerally feels and would pay to fix, because it is very easy to imagine one that nobody does. something we learned from YC uh was that the importance of focusing on very concrete easy to explain customer problems. Like it's it's very easy to to hallucinate or to you know imagine some customer problem that's not…
• Julie Zhuo Newsletter 5 Aug Eye, Hand, AI: a letter to my daughter
• Seth Godin Blog 20 Sept Upside/downside
• Rakhim Davletkaliyev Loved 16 Aug A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking Talking about quantum physics and singularity is hard. This book makes it seem easy. Loved it.
• Troy Hunt Mastodon 26 Aug Just blogged: It's very easy to pull email addresses from a data breach and make claims about scope that are completely wrong. Like - MASSIVELY wrong - for example:
• Deb Perelman x.com 8 Sept A favorite late-summer pasta -- just roasted tomatoes, eggplant and garlic, blended into an easy, robust, velvety sauce. I've made this year -- 19 years and counting! -- right around now and invite you to join me.
• Matt Birchler Mastodon 5 Sept Firefox users, the Quick Reads extension is finally out! I got off my ass and just finished the damn thing, and it turned out to be pretty easy…should've done this months ago 🤦🏻‍♂️
• Sunil Pai Korrent 14 Aug A machine can complete the task and completely miss the job -- coding makes this easy to see precisely because its tasks are so legible and verifiable. a cybernetic machine can nail the task and completely miss the job. coding makes this very very easy to see because the tasks are so legible (and verifiable!): write the function, migrate the API, fix the tests.
• Deb Perelman x.com 8 Sept Today's SK Digest shares forever favorite September recipes: easy breakfasts, dinners everyone loves, and nostalgic snacks that help us get back to the school grind, however reluctantly. Plus: An interview with Grace…
• Bryan Caplan x.com 13 Sept …panics against AI will be largely impotent. Stopping progress in atoms is easy; stopping progress in bits is…
• Tim Harford Korrent 10 Sept Serious policy reform requires changing regulations or the tax system, not just behavioural nudges. I've also argued that while nudges can be quick, easy and effective, serious policy action usually requires a change to regulations or the tax system.
• Peter Steinberger Korrent 10 Aug The binding constraint on agent work is machines, not models: a cloud session is easy for web work and almost every tool fails the moment the job needs macOS. Now, if I do web stuff, it's easy to create a cloud session. If I do like something that requires Mac OS, that's already where like 99% of the tools fail me.
• Brad DeLong Newsletter 8 Sept CROSSPOST: JOHN QUIGGIN: US Navy Defeated Again
• Travis Kalanick Korrent 14 Aug When a business starts to feel easy it is about to get very hard; comfort is the warning sign, not the reward. And I've talked to a lot of entrepreneurs over the years where they're like, "Oh man, we're just cranking. We're on easy street right now." And I'm like, "Dude, you are about to get your ass whooped and you don't even…
• Jeff Geerling x.com 9 Sept Latest little 3D printing life hack: print drafts of new models in white PLA. Easy to scribe, mark up with a pencil, see dimensions in any lighting, etc. So much easier sticking pencil marks on the model than making…
• Robin Hanson Newsletter 7 Aug Easy To Hard Discipline Academic Careers Paths
• Gergely Orosz Newsletter 25 Aug Why Ramp built its own in-house coding agent, Inspect
• Mandy Brown Mastodon 19 Aug …the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy…
• Mandy Brown Bluesky 19 Aug …the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy…
• Kent C. Dodds Uses 10 Mar Radix UI Radix UI - An accessibility-focused set of easy-to-use and easy-to-style components.
• Timothy B. Lee Newsletter 15 Jun The MAGA power struggle that could decide the fate of Anthropic
• Justin Jackson Korrent 11 Jul As AI makes coding easy for everyone, the ability to code stops being a meaningful edge for entrepreneurs. Indie entrepreneurs need to stack every advantage they have, and increasingly "coding" won't be the advantage it once was.
• NeetCode Korrent 24 Jun Promotion at a big company is mostly about landing the right team and the right project: a 100x engineer put on easy work has no hard problem to point at. …You could be a 10x, 100x engineer, and if you're working on relatively easy stuff, you can't really say that you solved like a really hard…
• Jensen Huang Korrent 15 Apr Building an ASIC is not the hard part; building something better than Nvidia is, and that is not easy. Just because you're going to build an ASIC, you still have to build something better. than Nvidia. And it's not that easy building something better than Nvidia.
• Mark Pincus Korrent 14 Jun A first-time founder has an advantage over a repeat winner, because past success makes it too easy to raise money and hire against a big vision before there is product-market fit. …founder because we have too much rope to hang ourselves. It's too easy to raise money and recruit teams against a big vision before we've gotten to product market…
• Justin Jackson Korrent 11 Jul Even as AI makes building software easy, people will still prefer to buy some software off-the-shelf rather than build their own. My guess is that people will still want to buy certain types of software and tools "off-the-shelf."
• Kevin Kelly Uses 16 May 2011 EasyBatchPhoto I use EasyBatchPhoto to resize images to fit the blog, despite the fact that I always have Photoshop open.
• Eugene Yan x.com 14 Mar Cheng’s experiment is cool! Especially this: “instead of starting with easy sudoku puzzles data and gradually ramping up toward harder ones, the training runs that start with harder puzzles and end with easy puzzles…
• Guillermo Rauch GitHub 17 Oct 2023 slackin — Public Slack organizations made easy
• Ava Huang Newsletter 24 Jun "no such thing as the world becoming an easy place to save your soul in"
• Paul Bloom Korrent 16 Jun Living for as long as possible is worth wanting: if you enjoy life now, more of it is simply better. This seems like an easy yes. If you enjoy life right now, why not get more of it?
• Casey Handmer Korrent 8 Dec 2025 Seasonal energy storage is a heat problem rather than a battery problem: electricity is hard to store for months and heat is easy. Storing electricity for months is economically difficult, but storing heat is easy.
• Jan Leike Korrent 22 Jan Making a capable model malicious is about as easy as making it aligned, because the same levers work in both directions. In fact, making an evil version of Claude that’s just as smart and agentic would be pretty easy.
• Elio Struyf YouTube 28 Apr 2025 Introducing Demo Time – Make Live Coding Demos Easy and Impressive!
• Auren Hoffman Loved 20 Jan 2019 The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers — Ben Horowitz The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
• Joel Spolsky Recommends 25 Jan 2010 Rocket Surgery Made Easy — Steve Krug The sequel, Rocket Surgery Made Easy, is a terrific, short, concise, fun guide to running simple "hallway" usability tests to improve the usability of your software and websites. Highly recommended.
• Brad Templeton Blog 23 May Waymos Have Trouble With Floods, Which Is Surprising
• David Sirlin Liked 22 May 2014 Logitech Bluetooth Easy Switch Keyboard K811 — Logitech I used to use the Apple Wireless Keyboard but I switched to the Logitech Bluetooth Easy Switch Keyboard K811 because it allows me to easily use a keyboard with my Apple TV.
• Lilian Weng Korrent 25 Oct 2023 Universal adversarial trigger attacks are easy to detect because the learned trigger tokens tend to be nonsensical. One drawback with UAT (Universal Adversarial Trigger) attacks is that it is easy to detect them because the learned triggers are often nonsensical.
• Fatih Arslan Recommends 26 Dec 2025 Kaput — Wolfgang Münchau Definitely a good read. It's an easy read, but will give you a good perspective.
• Adam Wiggins x.com 25 Mar Been using Zero for a mid-sized personal app, syncing to both a React web front end and an Expo iOS app. Fast, easy to use, reliable. Recommended.
• Dave Rupert GitHub 6 May 2022 FitVids.js — A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
• Kieran Healy Uses 17 Oct 2010 MacFUSE MacFUSE makes it easy to have my office machine or various servers conveniently available.
• Samo Burja Korrent 24 Apr 2018 The easiest way for an institution to protect its reputation is to stop attempting anything that could visibly fail. An easy way to avoid spoiling a reputation is by never failing, and an easy way to never visibly fail is to never undertake a task.
• Jamie Brandon Korrent 7 Apr Once an explanation is revealed, people tend to believe they already knew it, even when they did not. Once you see the answer it's easy to believe that you already knew
• Peter Steinberger Korrent 12 Feb He builds the code base to be easy for an agent to navigate, not to be perfect for himself, down to keeping the names the model picks. I- i- like, we are in a stage where I'm not building the code base to be perfect for me, but I wanna build a code base that is very easy for an agent to navigate.
• Phil Hagelberg Korrent 22 Nov 2022 Being easy to find online exposes people, especially those in marginalized groups, to a high risk of targeted abuse. ask any member of a marginalized group and they'll tell you that being easy to find can have a high cost when it exposes you to targeted abuse.
• Craig Hockenberry Disliked 14 Mar Canon MF644Cdw — Canon As you’ll see below, this is not a printer that will be easy to deal with on a Mac. It will be a purchase you regret.
• Matt Kepnes Recommends 26 Mar GoPro — GoPro If you want something better than your phone but still easy to use, get a GoPro. They're durable and take incredible photos and videos without a steep learning curve.
• Philip O'Toole x.com 28 Apr …better SQLite WAL handling, and a new built-in console application for easy…
• Martin Fowler Korrent 17 Apr 2012 Making test coverage a target destroys it, because high coverage numbers are easy to reach with worthless tests. If you make a certain level of coverage a target, people will try to attain it. The trouble is that high coverage numbers are too easy to reach with low quality testing.
• Jessica Hische Liked 15 Feb 2011 TextEdit — Apple I mostly use TextEdit as a word processor (it's just simple and easy (and "free")).
• David Crawshaw Korrent 11 Dec 2021 Software projects should break downstream users as little as possible, and make any breakage they do cause obvious and easy to fix. a good software project tries to break downstream as little as possible, and when we do break downstream, we should do our best to make the breakage obvious and easy to fix.
• Fatih Arslan Liked 26 Dec 2025 Ways of Seeing — John Berger I really liked this book, especially because I want to learn more about art, but it wasn't an easy read.
• Steve Kaufmann Blog 10 Apr The Best Way to Learn Italian (2026 Guide)
• Neal Agarwal Loved 24 Dec 2019 Netlify — Netlify I host pretty much everything on Netlify because it's so easy and I've been a customer for years.
• François Chollet Korrent 20 Dec 2024 Passing ARC-AGI does not amount to achieving AGI: o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences from human intelligence. Passing ARC-AGI does not equate to achieving AGI, and, as a matter of fact, I don't think o3 is AGI yet. o3 still fails on some very easy tasks, indicating fundamental differences with human intelligence.
• Jacob Falkovich Blog 12 Apr 2022 Between the Blog and the Birdsite
• Scott Hanselman Liked 22 Dec 2020 Fiddler Fiddler - The easy, clean, and powerful debugging proxy for checking out HTTP between here and there. It even supports sniffing SSL traffic.
• Peter Steinberger Korrent 12 Feb Do not run a personal agent on a cheap or local model: weak models are gullible and easy to prompt-inject. …If you use a, a very weak local model, they are very gullible. It's very easy to, to prompt inject…
• Gary Marcus Korrent 7 Jun 2025 Success on the easy version of a task is evidence of nothing, because it seduces you into believing the model found a general solution when it did not. Worse, as the latest Apple papers shows, LLMs may well work on your easy test set (like Hanoi with 4 discs) and seduce you into thinking it has built a proper, generalizable solution when it does not.
• Hannah Ritchie Newsletter 23 Mar Technology can cut plane contrails by two-thirds. Getting airlines to use it isn't so easy
• Robin Sloan Liked 27 Apr 2012 Prizmo There’s a solid OCR app for the iPhone called Prizmo that makes it easy to grab blocks of text from books and magazines.
• Saloni Dattani Newsletter 1 Jun 2023 What does it mean when fewer people die?
• Brad Feld Liked 11 Oct 2025 Echoes of October I approached Echoes of October with trepidation. A graphic novel about violence and grief isn’t easy terrain. But it succeeds in a haunting, urgent way.
• Aswath Damodaran Loved 30 Nov 2010 Chaos — James Gleick One of my favorite books on the topic of Chaos is by James Gleick. It is an easy read and well worth the time.
• James Clear Korrent 1 Jan Habits are built by making a behavior obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying, and broken by inverting each of those four. So, I call these the four laws of behavior change. Make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy, make it satisfying. And you don't need all four every single moment of the day or every habit that you build. But the…
• Guillermo Rauch Korrent 13 Jul 2015 Software estimates are poor because it is easy to underestimate the size of the state space: the complete list of questions a UI must answer is hard to come up with. The main issue, however, is that underestimating the size of the state space is actually very easy. In other words, it’s difficult to come up with the complete list of questions that your UI needs to answer.
• Nathan Lambert Korrent 3 Feb 2025 Stealing AI code and data is hard and stealing ideas is easy, because Silicon Valley already moves ideas legally, inside the heads of the people it hires. Code and data is hard, but ideas is easy. Silicon Valley operates on the way that top employees get bought out by other companies for a pay raise, and a large reason why these companies do this is to bring ideas with…
• Fatih Arslan Liked 26 Dec 2025 What You Are Looking for Is in the Library — Michiko Aoyama I enjoyed the themes. It's a very easy read. The topics aren't very deep, and you shouldn't expect anything literary.
• Kevin Esvelt Korrent 8 May 2024 Ordering the synthetic DNA needed to rebuild the 1918 influenza virus is surprisingly easy, even from companies that screen customers' orders. …pandemic without authorization. But my lab found that it’s surprisingly easy, even when ordering gene fragments from companies that check customers’ orders to detect hazardous…
• Richard Sutton Korrent 26 Sept 2025 Merging back what a copy of yourself learned elsewhere is dangerous: the knowledge you pull in can carry hidden goals and take you over. But it will not be that easy, as easy as you're imagining because uh that you can lose your mind this way. If you you pull in something from the outside and build it into your into your inner thinking, uh, it could take…
• Daniel Jalkut Uses 5 Sept 2013 Backblaze — Backblaze Acorn for casual image editing, Skitch (1.0 forever!) for easy screen captures, Rdio for infinite music, and backups courtesy of Backblaze, Time Machine and SuperDuper
• Duncan McClean Liked 6 Sept 2025 Starling Bank — Starling Bank Starling Bank is one of the big challenger banks here in the UK. The app is easy-to-use, and it automatically syncs my transactions into FreeAgent.
• John Cochrane Korrent 14 Apr 2025 The right answer on trade is unilateral free trade, and the hard part is only explaining why the objections fail. Tariffs are easy: The right answer is unilateral free trade.
• Philip O'Toole x.com 15 Aug 2024 Spin up a highly-available Vector Search engine in seconds with the latest rqlite Docker image! Loading sqlite-vec is now super-easy at Docker launch. Thanks @agarcia_me
• Mark Nottingham Mastodon 20 Jan …have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers…
• Adam Wiggins Site 29 Sept 2020 how we identify ourselves
• Dan Luu Liked 1 Oct 2016 Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces — Arpaci-Dusseau and Arpaci-Dusseau Nice explanation of a variety of OS topics. Goes into much more detail than any other intro OS book I know of.
• Justin Frankel Liked 2 Oct 2012 Steam Steam: I don't play very many games but Steam really makes it easy to buy/install games without having to have physical discs or worry about copy protection being installed.
• Orin Kerr Korrent 16 Dec 2025 Whether the Fourth Amendment protects the terms you type into a search engine is a genuinely close question. Doctrinally, either answer is at least plausible; even under my own take of what Carpenter means, it's not an easy call.
• Felix Salmon Liked 19 Oct 2018 Google Docs — Google Now, almost everything happens in Google Docs, except for when I write straight into the Axios or Substack CMS. (Both of which are lovely, WYSIWYG, very simple and easy to use.)
• Tom Preston-Werner Liked 2 May 2011 Mailplane I have five different Google Mail accounts. Mailplane makes it easy to switch between these accounts and keeps my email separate from the rest of my browsing, just the way I like it.
• Josh Collinsworth GitHub 3 Jan 2023 qvicklist — A simple checklist app built in Vue, designed to be easy, quick and as disposable as a piece of paper. Syncs with browser local storage to keep list state, but nothing more complex than t…
• Eliezer Yudkowsky Korrent 10 Jun 2022 Aligning an AI is not impossible in principle; the problem is that it has to be done without the textbook that would make it look easy. None of this is about anything being impossible in principle.
• Matt Might Disliked 6 Jan 2012 Beamer I used to use LaTeX plus beamer, but this setup makes the right things hard (capturing and conveying the essence of an idea visually) and the wrong things easy (flagellating the audience with unparseable mathematics).
• Scott Alexander Recommends 25 Apr 2017 MealSquares — MealSquares So, if you're looking for an easy way to quit the junk food and try a low-variety diet that's unlikely to injure your hypothalamus, I recommend MealSquares as worth a look.
• Thomas Wolf Bluesky 9 Jul 2025 So excited to finally release our first robot today: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Read more and order now at
• Jason Evanish Liked 28 Oct 2020 The Four Steps to the Epiphany — Steve Blank This is the book that started the Lean Startup movement. While it is not an easy read, it is packed full of good information and helpful charts and guides.
• Kris Abdelmessih Liked 28 Oct 2018 PlayerFM I use the PlayerFm app to manage my podcast playlists. It’s easy to organize, it’s free, and most importantly it lets you listen to podcasts at 2x speed (though my default is 1.5x).
• Adrian Holovaty Liked 13 Jan 2012 Fission — Rogue Amoeba Fission for lossless sound editing (trimming live concerts into separate songs, etc.). Max for converting between audio-file formats. Caffeine for easy control over when my laptop can and can't go to sleep.
• Harper Reed Loved 1 Feb 2012 Kindle — Amazon The Kindle has been a magical device for me. Besides being able to instantly start new books, I love how single purpose the Kindle is. It makes it very easy to read books (as it should).
• Hillel Wayne Blog 1 May 2024 Software Friction
• Gretchen Rubin Recommends 8 Sept 2022 Better Than Before — Gretchen Rubin With her signature mix of rigorous research, easy humor, and personal experimentation, author Gretchen Rubin identifies the 21 habit-change strategies that will help every reader to create the habits that will transform…
• Haley Nahman x.com 12 Sept 2021 Celebrities are easy targets for moral policing—and not necessarily the most egregious capitalists—but it’s distinctly American that we rarely target them for greed. This week I wrote about public figures who sell their…
• Ethan Mollick Liked 26 Jan 2025 Gemini — Google Gemini’s advantage is a family of powerful models including reasoners, very good integration with search, and a pretty easy-to-use user interface, as you might expect from Google. It also has top-flight image and video…
• Molson Hart Blog 17 Aug 2021 Is China Taking Over US Retail?
• Darius Kazemi Liked 20 Jan 2015 crouton So I have an Ubuntu Linux command line installed on Chrome OS. It's really easy to do using crouton. crouton even lets you run X11 and a window manager of your choice, but I don't bother with that.
• Andrew Kelley Site 30 May 2024 Zig's New CLI Progress Bar Explained