19 January 2026

26 links · Monday

Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]

16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer …

The Best Way to Learn C# in 2026 is Here

Learn C# for Free at Dometrain: https://dometrain.com/course/hands-on-csharp-for-beginners/?ref=nick-chapsas&promo=youtube Hello, everybody. I'm Nick, and in this video, I will show you what I think is the best way to learn C# and .NET in 2026 using Dometrain…

bitchat

bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks. no internet required, no servers, no phone numbers.

Stop Consuming Spam at the First Sign

My mother handed me her phone a couple days ago. "Do you think this is true?" she asked, her finger hovering over a video about new curfew laws coming to California, featuring Denzel Washington's take

Dead Internet Theory - Dmitry Kudryavtsev

The other day I was browsing my one-and-only social network -- which is not a social network, but I'm tired of arguing with people online about it -- HackerNews...

11:59 PM

Reinforce your stocks. And wait.

Everyone Will Be a Programmer | WhileForLoop

The SaaS concept is dying. We're entering an era where everyone can create their own software, and domain knowledge becomes more valuable than coding skills.

Self Driving Biology — bits & atoms

A pathfinding exploration of how biological experimentation is shifting from a human-driven craft to a programmable, machine-scale system, tracing the rise of self-driving laboratories at the intersection of AI, automation, and cloud infrastructure, and examin…

Anthropic, please stop suggesting to use Claude as a linter

I started using Claude Code recently. Working with it led me to read the manuals and best practices straight from the horse’s mouth - Anthropic’s docs themselves. As I was perusing the articles talking about different features and capabilities, and best ways t…

The enshittification of enshittification | lbr.

Over the last six months, I’ve spent a lot of time in the Tailscale community - helping users debug issues, answering questions about how we sell the product and explaining,

A Professor in Every Pocket

The scale of the cheating crisis in higher education is staggering. Depending on the survey, between 60% and 92% of college students now regularly use AI for their coursework. Professors are ill-equipped, and administrators are broadly turning a blind eye to t…

🌈 Building a rainbow - David Bos

We are going to generate an image of the human visible color spectrum. Not quite a rainbow, but very colorful either way!

The File System API is so underrated

The File System API is so underrated, why isn’t anyone building stuff with it? There’s a whole bunch of small utility apps, the kind of freeware you’d normally download and install just to use once or twice, that could just live in your browser instead. Claude…