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December 2025 bakery

A record of what has caught my attention and ideas I've been thinking about this month.
December 2025 bakery

A record of what has caught my attention and ideas I've been thinking about this month.

Ordered by the Very Normal Algorithm

40 something year-old runner pursuing past personal bests one more time? Yes please. I've followed Kofuzi for years, and this is my favorite video series he's done. I love the deep look into his training.

Why So Serious? | Robby on Rails
The question Sheon Han poses — “Is Ruby a serious programming language?” — says a lot about what someone thinks programming is supposed to feel like. For som…

I love Ruby and Robby captures it.

Watched this with my daughter who loves ballet. Very cool to see it at this level.

Craft.

Some more craft.

I've also been using my tts verynormal app to convert some blogs and articles to podcast episodes I can listen to on my phone in my favorite podcast app.

High Agency In 30 Minutes
Transcribed for podcast by Very Normal TTS.

I listened to this interesting essay - who gets your one phone call from jail?

The survival of Swiss watches
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A Works in Progress piece covering history, economics and technology

2025: The year in LLMs
Transcribed for podcast by Very Normal TTS.

Simon Willison's annual review post

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League - Works in Progress Magazine
Transcribed for podcast by Very Normal TTS.

Fascinating history on the Hanseatic League from Works in Progress

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
Transcribed for podcast by Very Normal TTS.

Sean Goedecke defends his cynicism

Chinese towers and American blocks - Works in Progress Magazine
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Why do residential buildings look how they look in various places?

The merits of unified ownership - Works in Progress Magazine
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Argues that large holdings eliminate some tragedy of the commons type problems

How to redraw a city - Works in Progress Magazine
Transcribed for podcast by Very Normal TTS.

Pooling resources and redistributing them fairly