Why RSS is important in the Post-AI moment

April 11, 2026

Major Bummer Alert: Every social media feed I’ve looked at in the past month has either been partially or fully overwhelmed by AI-generated content.

It’s a shame, and just another step on the long road towards enshitification for these social media giants. For a moment, let’s try to remember using peak Reddit or peak Facebook; these used to be good platforms! They were promising, exciting, lively places where perspectives and opinions were posted freely and openly! Good content, as far as the eye could see! What happened?

The Deterministic AI Pipe-Dream

March 9, 2025

So there I was… #

So there I was applying to another startup on Y-Combinator a few Mondays ago, and in my cover letter I made a joke about how difficult it is to get deterministic responses out of LLMs. Almost immediately after I sent the email, I instantly came up with a better joke I should have used instead:

What is Shorter.Services?

December 3, 2024

What is Shorter Services? #

Shorter.Services is a SAAS application I dreamed up in December 2023. I wanted to make it easier to convert human-readable text from rasterized files into machine-readable data. I also wanted to make money off what I thought was a unique idea.