Stumbling
I had something written up this week and it sucked. It was uninspired, repetitive, and not worth your time or my time. That happens I guess.
There is a time-tested solution to uninspired writing, but it may not be worth it: Literary Hub » Are Writers Intrinsically Vulnerable to Alcohol and Drugs?
Anyway, here are some short notes from this week.
Using Claude Code to debug your home internet speeds — love it. Building a commercial app to diagnose home internet performance would be hard, given the long tail of configurations. But building an app just for your own network might be really high value for you.
Token prices are bound to fall. It is still very early days in AI usage.
America is often called an “aerospace republic” because it remains a domain of clear dominance…[A]erospace still relies on high-power turbomachinery that cannot easily be replaced by electrical systems…We remain the world’s best in thermodynamics…But this moat is shrinking. Aerospace and defense platforms are rapidly becoming electric and software-defined. Avionics, power distribution, motor controllers, and autonomy now matter as much as the airframe or combustor.
When I read this, I couldn’t help but think of Paul Kennedy’s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Aerospace and combustion engines were some of the key technologies that America mastered in order to win the 20th century. Now those technologies are being disrupted, and in many cases superseded, by technologies that China has mastered and America has largely ignored.
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You — great primer on color displays and their shortcomings. I’ve always been frustrated with the inability of my photos to capture the lush greens of the PNW, and as it turns out, there is no substitute for getting out in the real world
Netflix proposes a different kind of single-player video game: 40 minutes long, scary, streamed to your TV. I haven’t tried yet but this seems fascinating.