Links for February 27, 2025

Make yourself less valuable to tech companies is a great, step-by-step guide to removing personal details from all your accounts so tech companies can't profile, analyze, or sell your information to others. A recent John Oliver episode of Last Week Tonight covered this subject, but it's really great to see all the deep links to turn things off in one simple post here.

Make yourself less valuable to tech companies

John Oliver dedicated the primary segment of his most recent episode on Meta and it’s many moderation and privacy failures and violations. It was a well-reasoned take if not a redundant one for everyone who’s spent time following these issues. What I found most compelling was his guidance to —…

Mastodon

Andre Torrez is blogging again.

Greg Knauss is blogging again.

(everyone should start blogging again)

An Entirely Other Day

This hour-long video from a couple motorcycle guys is actually a pretty great little documentary. They rebuild an old race bike and race it in a vintage class over the course of a few days, but it's the same motorcycle that one of their fathers was seriously injured on while racing, making everything much more poignant.

Coding via AI and pure vibes is an interesting approach I haven't personally tried yet, but several friends say it's an incredible blueprint to getting ideas down on paper and into working code quickly and easily and you actually can get a little iPhone app or site up and running in hours based on just a bunch of ideas in your head when you fully embrace this approach.

My LLM codegen workflow atm

A detailed walkthrough of my current workflow for using LLms to build software, from brainstorming through planning and execution.

Harper Reed's Blog