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Tue · Sep 1 daily · 1 min AI as the competent junior Issue #09 · 31 Aug 2026 Sun · Aug 30 daily · 1 min A PKM is only as good as what you can find in it Issue #08 · 30 Aug 2026 Sat · Aug 29 daily · 1 min Tags and folders solve different problems Issue #07 · 29 Aug 2026 Fri · Aug 28 daily · 1 min The efficiency trap and the backlog that proves it Issue #06 · 28 Aug 2026 Thu · Aug 27 daily · 1 min The Setup Phase Is Never the Problem Issue #05 · 27 Aug 2026 Wed · Aug 26 daily · 1 min If You Need AI to Use a Tool, the Tool Is Probably Over-Engineered Issue #04 · 26 Aug 2026 Tue · Aug 25 daily · 1 min [FD#03] The Step You're Not Designing Most PKM advice is capture advice. Which app to use, how to tag things, PARA vs Zettelkasten. The retrieval step barely comes up. That Mon · Aug 24 daily · 1 min [FD#02] Formula Daily — Aug 24 How do we edit/maintain the skill.md files? For me there’s a difference between a skill and an action. Actions are big Sun · Aug 23 daily · 1 min [FD#01] Formula Daily — Aug 23 My tasks and notes live in multiple good apps that have never once answered 'what does a specific month look like' I Sat · Dec 9 post · 4 min Diffracting the infrastructural underground Which methods to use to study digital infrastructure? Best use cases are the principles for creating software which is used to build software, - that is, for production of the means of production. Sun · Nov 26 post · 4 min Visualising the Infrastructural Underground Digital Infrastructure underpins the functioning of most aspects of today’s society and carries responsibility for making decisions on how and which systems we get to use. Sun · Nov 12 post · 5 min Automating critical thinking Can critical thinking be codified? To discuss this theme, three tools have to be used together: real software abstraction, abductive modelling and queer critique of normativity. Sat · Oct 28 post · 7 min The elevator pitch, part 2 Catching up from last week’s Q&A about my research, this week I’m leaving a few further notes on some of the aspects of my PhD research. Sun · Oct 15 post · 4 min The elevator pitch, part 1 My research argues that to overcome complexity, software systems have to be approached as queer performative phenomena. Sat · Sep 30 post · 5 min Three Reasons Why Computational Art May Be Another Kind of Software The AI art industry risks getting into a roadblock instructed by the traditional ideas of art production: consistency of style, immutability of the outputs, and the authenticity of individual work. older notes →