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Let me take a quick screenshot... Featured
I’ve always taken a lot of screenshots. I’m well past 4,000 now, mostly ideas I save from LinkedIn, bits of inspiring design and illustration, and things I d...
Reclaiming Control Over Our Data
Back when I was first introduced to computers, we had real, physical control over our data. Ejecting a disk instantly removed access, and the motion made the...
Life, Kids, and Code: GoTime! Goes Conversational
Download for iOS GoTime! started in the middle of my beautifully chaotic life. My wife and I were constantly trying to figure out when we actually needed to ...
Why Context, Not Models, Will Define AI Value in 2026
Over the last year, something subtle but seismic has happened in AI. The foundational model stopped being the moat. GPT, Gemini, and Claude are all astonishi...
The Road to 10 Billion Tokens
We hit 10 billion tokens! Well… not yet. But we’re getting closer every day, and here’s the real story of how we’re planning to get there. Ever since OpenAI’...
MCP Turns One: Why This Quiet Standard Is About to Reshape AI and Data
MCP, short for Model, Context, Protocol, just turned one. It is still relatively new outside of tech circles, yet it is rapidly becoming one of the most impo...