Is it even worth talking about what weather is and isn’t “unseasonable” anymore?

• Turing Machines (Sam Rose): Gödel, Escher, Bach is one of my favorite books and I’m fascinated by computability theory. Sam’s Turing machine simulator was characteristically amazing, but I wish there was a bit more of a look into complexity theory and the progression from regular expressions to Turing machines rather than diving straight into the deep end. I was left wondering from an off-hand comment in the middle of the piece — why should “Turing complete” not always be the goal? I may be a bit biased by my interest in type systems on this one but I think it’s a fun question to consider.

• Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects (Daniel Doubrovkine): The title kind of says it all. As someone who burned out from an OSS project, I wish I had read this years ago. Just putting something out there in the world for free is a huge lift to do and you’re not obligated to make it work for everyone.

• Narrative jailbreaking for fun and profit (Matt Webb): I enjoyed how reminiscent these “jailbreaking” sessions were of text-based adventure games.

• Ephemerality in User Interfaces (Fernando Boretti): A discussion of how Web 2.0’s full-page refreshes had a bunch of positive externalities for the web that many sites have lost over the past decade.

• Career Advice for New Tech Workers in 2025 (Mathew Duggan): The focus of this piece is less on the tech and more on the work environment:

  One of the biggest mistakes newcomers make in tech is believing that technical decisions are what truly matter. Spoiler: they’re not.

  Projects don’t succeed or fail because of technical issues, and teams don’t thrive or collapse based on coding prowess alone. The reality is this: human relationships are the most critical factor in determining your success. Everything else is just noise that can (usually) be worked around or fixed.

• Journalism Requires Owners Committed to the Cause (John Gruber): The Washington Post has been in the partisan political discourse recently, but John’s post dives past that to talk about what good journalism is actually about and how it should be best supported anywhere on the political spectrum.