Maggie Appleton

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Design, anthropology, programming, and illustrated essays about tools for thought.

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• In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors #History #Essays #Design

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  Jul 18, 2026

• One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment #AI #Programming #Design

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  Apr 13, 2026

• Gas Town's Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale #Design #Programming #Tools

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  Jan 23, 2026

• January 2026 #Design #ToolsForThought #Productivity

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  Jan 2, 2026

• A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment #AI #Philosophy #Ethics

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  Aug 5, 2025

• Vibe Code is Legacy Code #Programming #Software #LegacyCode

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  Aug 2, 2025

• May 2025 #Now #Life #Journal

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  May 25, 2025

• Statistically, When Will My Baby Be Born? #Science #Math #Data

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  Mar 24, 2025

• ChatGPT Would be a Decent Policy Advisor #AI #Policy #FutureTech

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  Mar 13, 2025

• March 2025 #Design #Productivity #ToolsForThought

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  Mar 5, 2025

• Humanity's Last Exam #Future #Humanity #AI

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  Feb 20, 2025

• DeepSeek #AI #DeepLearning #LLM

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  Jan 26, 2025

• Common Misconceptions in AI #AI #Tech #Misconceptions

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  Jan 12, 2025

• Undetected AI Exam Answers #AI #Education #Ethics

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  Jan 11, 2025

• Unbaited #Design #ToolsForThought #Illustration

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  Jan 11, 2025

• Smidgeons #Design #Tools #Writing

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  Jan 11, 2025

• How to Import Academic Papers from Zotero into Tana #Productivity #Research #Tools

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  Jan 7, 2025

• Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks #Design #Anthropology #Science

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  Jan 4, 2025

• December 2024 #Design #Tools #Writing

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  Dec 1, 2024

• Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh #Design #Commandline #OpenSource

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  Oct 5, 2024

• Leaving Elicit #Design #Tools #Writing

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  Jul 7, 2024

• July 2024 #Design #ToolsForThought #Productivity

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  Jul 1, 2024

• Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers #Software #Development #Design

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  May 30, 2024

• Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History #ArtHistory #GenerativeArt #Design

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  Apr 30, 2024

• On Opening Essays, Conference Talks, and Jam Jars #Writing #Essays #Creativity

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  Apr 13, 2024

• Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis #Health #Science #Design

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  Mar 18, 2024

• A Collection of Design Engineers #Design #Engineering #Tools

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  Mar 11, 2024

• Gathering Structures #Design #ToolsForThought #Programming

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  Feb 20, 2024

• Speculative Calendar Events #Design #ToolsForThought #Speculative

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  Jan 7, 2024

• Ambient Co-presence #Design #Tech #Community

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  Dec 27, 2023

• Historical Trails #Design #History #Tools

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  Dec 18, 2023

• December 2023 #Design #ToolsForThought #Writing

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  Dec 1, 2023

• September 2023 #Now #Journal #Life

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  Sep 1, 2023

• Squish Meets Structure #Design #ToolsForThought #Productivity

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  Jun 20, 2023

• Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots #AI #Design #Tech

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  Jun 12, 2023

• June 2023 #Design #ToolsForThought #PersonalGrowth

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  Jun 1, 2023

• The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI #AI #GenerativeAI #Tech

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  Apr 27, 2023

• Computational Notebooks #Design #Tools #Programming

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  Apr 18, 2023

• Teenage Skeuomorphic Desktop Designs #Design #Skeumorphism #RetroTech

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  Jan 30, 2023

• Reverse Outlining with Language Models #AI #Writing #Productivity

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  Jan 8, 2023