Curated list of posts related only to thought.

The Terminal Emulator Race on macOS Has a New Winner.

Apple makes beautiful software. Except Terminal. After years of using iTerm2, I went looking for something better. I tried many options, but two stood out: Cmux and Ghostty. One of them finally convinced me to switch.

The Death of Installation Guides.

For decades, software came with installation guides, setup manuals, and troubleshooting pages. Nobody enjoyed reading them. AI didn’t make documentation obsolete, it simply became a much better interface to it.

Markdown’s Revenge.

Markdown has been quietly sitting in the corner since 2004. You saw it in GitHub READMEs and the occasional piece of documentation, but most people never knew it existed. Now, thanks to AI, Markdown is finally becoming what it always should have been: a text-based PDF. The reason is simple - LLMs love it. And if you’ve ever tried getting a clean .doc file out of one, you already know why.

Chasing Pirates.

As part of my early experiments with “vibe-coded” apps, I built a link-shortening service in 2022. It’s still online. At its peak it quietly grew to around 2-4k users per month, generating more than 100k clicks monthly. Maintenance was almost zero - apart from one thing: taking down malicious links.

Upside-down startups.

Working as a tech auditor for VCs, I’ve witnessed a surprising pattern: startups that operate more like personal development journeys than companies. This piece explores why some founders unintentionally build “upside-down startups” - and what it takes to turn them right-side up.