Two things collided this week. I have been trying to push myself toward a daily posting streak, the kind of constraint that forces you to write before you feel ready. And I have been reading Richard Seroter’s daily reading lists every morning for months, quietly admiring the discipline of the format. Today those two things became one experiment.

So here is the first one. The shape is borrowed shamelessly from Seroter: a short, opinionated tour through whatever caught my attention in the last day or two of reading, mostly sourced from my Readwise pile. Some days the picks will feel coherent. Other days, like today, they will be all over the map. That is part of the point.

[blog] I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack. Steve Hanov makes a startlingly good case for SQLite-first, Go over Python, and a $5 VPS instead of AWS. This is such good advice that it is making me seriously rethink how I deploy some of my hobby projects.

[article] Why Weekends Are Under Threat. The framing of the weekend as a network-effect technology is worth the read on its own. I think we have all been feeling this drift. Phones started the trend in some ways, and agents are going to make it worse.

[article] 5G From the Sky, New Internet Infrastructure Takes Flight. Sceye’s stratospheric balloons aim to live in the gap between Starlink and terrestrial cell towers. I recently wrote about my experience with Starlink Mini on a road trip, and I am excited to see real competition emerge in this layer of the stack.

[article] ‘It Feels as if I’ve Made a New Best Friend’, My Experiment With AI Journalling. I have played around with AI journalling inside Obsidian, but I have not tried Mindsera or Rosebud. I like that we are seeing new ways of interacting with AI and text, not just chat windows.

[article] Chrome Now Lets You Turn AI Prompts Into Repeatable ‘Skills’. I think Skills in Chrome is going to be really useful. I have been developing a growing library of Skills for other agents, and I would love to have them available in the browser too.

[blog] Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008). I managed a compiler team once, though I was never a compiler engineer myself. Posts like this make me think it might be time to revisit that space.

[article] California Ghost-Gun Bill Wants 3D Printers To Play Cop, EFF Says. I do not think this kind of legislation can succeed if we use the same model we used with copy machines and currency. 3D printing is a different beast, and it needs different solutions.