Articles by bobbiechen
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Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016) (techcrunch.com)

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Arnaud Benard's website is automatically generated by AI every day (arnaud.ai)

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Most Americans didn't read many books in 2025 (yougovamerica.substack.com)

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San Francisco identities from government meetings (walzr.com)

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What conspiracy theorists get right (2023) (tomstafford.substack.com)

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Do These AI-Generated Food Images Look Appetizing to You? (eater.com)

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ServiceNow Acquires Veza's Leading AI-Native Identity Security Platform (servicenow.com)

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Finding the random seeds used to generate RotMG maps (redblobgames.com)

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Fewer people should run marathons (macwright.com)

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Some "Silicon Valley" moments I experienced in my 31 year career as a programmer (reddit.com)

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Any decent error message is a kind of oracle (digitalseams.com)

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Guide to Authentication for the OpenAI Apps SDK (stytch.com)

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The future of AI-driven development is eXtreme Go Horse (spavel.medium.com)

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Any decent error message is a kind of oracle (digitalseams.com)

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A recent phishing attack on GitHub (digitalseams.com)

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Y'all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments (dynomight.net)

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Image Transcription Humbled Me (digitalseams.com)

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One Star Review Tour – The Browser Extension (xn--p3hcaaa.yugo.at)

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Meta Ad Library: all active ads that are shown across Meta technologies (facebook.com)

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Bluesky Alt Text Stream (bobbiec.github.io)

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iReal Pro custom chord chart protocol (irealpro.com)

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How to sign Web Bot Auth for your AI agent, bot, or crawler (and why you should) (stytch.com)

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Stytch now supports Web Bot Auth for bots and AI agents to identify themselves (stytch.com)

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In 2014, a random Slack user (me) picked Cmd-K shortcut for quick switcher (ux.stackexchange.com)

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Image transcription humbled me, plus thoughts on the bitter lesson (digitalseams.com)

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The Collapse of Coliving Operators, and Why the Solution Is Upstream (fightingxentropy.substack.com)

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Tell HN: Phishing campaign claiming to be GitHub Developer Fund

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DX Is Joining Atlassian (getdx.com)

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How to use AI without becoming stupid (commoncog.com)

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Rolling Stone, Billboard Owner Penske Sues Google over AI Overviews (reuters.com)

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Image descriptions (alt text) on Bluesky (digitalseams.com)

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Show HN: A livestream of all image descriptions (alt text) on Bluesky (bobbiec.github.io)

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A CSS-only time progress bar to use in Markdown / GitHub Pages (christianheilmann.com)

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if you meet the singaporean on the road (substack.com)

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Contractor Kabuki (bobbiechen.com)

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The Gypsy document editor from Xerox PARC: celebrating 50 years (digitalseams.com)

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Designing AI tools that support critical thinking (vaughntan.org)

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Interfaces for Representing Uncertainty (digitalseams.com)

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Death to Bullshit (deathtobullshit.com)

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The Cruel Side of Optimism (haleynahman.substack.com)

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Kagan Says She Was Impressed by AI Bot Claude's Legal Analysis (bloomberglaw.com)

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Realizing we needed two sorts of alerts for our temperature monitoring (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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IsAgent: understand and support AI agents using your site (stytch.com)

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Show HN: IsAgent – Detect agents like ChatGPT Agent on your website (isagent.dev)

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Interfaces for representing uncertainty (digitalseams.com)

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Security is a Renewals Problem: How to negotiate in vendor renewals (securityis.substack.com)

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What birdsong and back ends can teach us about magic (digitalseams.com)

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What birdsong and back ends can teach us about magic (digitalseams.com)

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India bars Jane Street from securities market, citing stock index manipulation (reuters.com)

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Bademails.org: simple tool to check for "throwaway" emails (bademails.org)

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Why do Sublime Text and VS Code use Ctrl-Shift-P for the command bar? (digitalseams.com)

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GPT4Free: "educational project" for free LLM inference from various services (github.com/xtekky)

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The AI lifestyle subsidy is going to end (digitalseams.com)

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Portable EPUBs (2024) (willcrichton.net)

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The AI lifestyle subsidy is going to end (digitalseams.com)

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Tying Yourself to the Mast (usefulfictions.substack.com)

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Bears, mice, and moles aren't enough: a better approach for preventing fraud (stytch.com)

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Skip the A/B Test (digitalseams.com)

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The dial-up modem lives on, in office meeting rooms (digitalseams.com)

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Multiplayer AI chat and conversational turn-taking: sharing what we learnt (interconnected.org)

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Local poser hat: a programmable e-ink hat [video] (instagram.com)

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The dial-up modem lives on, in office meeting rooms (digitalseams.com)

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When encryption works perfectly and still fails (digitalseams.com)

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Entire BART system shuts down due to 'computer networking problem' (sfchronicle.com)

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When encryption works perfectly and still fails (digitalseams.com)

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Secure by Design Problem Book (gov.uk)

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Assorted links: few-shot prompting in 1993, is typing, automation woes, &more (digitalseams.com)

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Is backward compatibility even possible? (digitalseams.com)

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Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron (2015) (acm.org)

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What if your website had business hours? (2022) (bobbiechen.com)

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Is backward compatibility even possible? (digitalseams.com)

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Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry (bobbiec.github.io)

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Carnegie Mellon settles class action suit over Covid-19 classes moved online (consumeraffairs.com)

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When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media (2023) (uchicago.edu)

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Every app is a messaging app (digitalseams.com)

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Every app is a messaging app (digitalseams.com)

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Gmail's best features don't send emails (digitalseams.com)

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What color was the sky above the port in William Gibson's Neuromancer? (2017) (scifi.stackexchange.com)

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Five years of blogging, and two posts that changed my life (bobbiechen.com)

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Make Something Heavy (workingtheorys.com)

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The siren song of infinite flexibility (digitalseams.com)

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Five years of home-cooked apps (robinsloan.com)

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We Know Where You Parked: Data Breach at VW Raises Questions about Privacy (spiegel.de)

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Kagi Small Web (2023) (kagi.com)

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Leaked Windsurf System Prompt (simonwillison.net)

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Microwave ovens, wi-fi, and HTTP (digitalseams.com)

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Reactive Haptics (jenson.org)

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What happens to your online accounts when you die? (digitalseams.com)

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The ideal AI interface is probably not a chatbot (digitalseams.com)

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Everyone can see what a horse is (but not how it was designed) (digitalseams.com)

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It's not 'emotional labour', it's kin work (thefuturefeeling.substack.com)

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Every piece of for-profit software that Buttondown relies on (buttondown.com/stack)

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Iamlive: Generate IAM policy from AWS calls using client-side monitoring (CSM) (github.com/iann0036)

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Digital Seams, a blog about connections (digitalseams.com)

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Apple is using Secure Enclaves to ensure AI privacy. Why aren't you? (2024) (anjuna.io)

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Mitigating attacks based on knowing the length of a Windows Hello PIN (microsoft.com)

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Organizing and100k articles in a folder hierarchy automatically (julienc.me)

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Copy, Paste, Invert, Forget (2011) [pdf] (atelier-hirschbichler.com)

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Skin in the game: Fixing higher education's student debt problem (anandsanwal.me)

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Copy, Paste, Invert, Forget [pdf] (atelier-hirschbichler.com)