Nicholas' Blog: Thoughts, Ideas, and Insights

An AI cheated on a test. The Wire called it juking the stats. We call it agency.

Punk killed the gatekeepers with three chords. AI just handed you the felt pen.

New tools get resisted. The winners always asked: what can I build with this?

LinkedIn secretly scans your browser extensions on every visit. Now what?

LinkedIn's BrowserGate revealed a 2.7MB script silently scanning 6,167 Chrome extensions on every page visit. Here's what it means for automation users — and why desktop-native tools sit outside the detection perimeter.

Building your own used to be hard. Now it costs a weekend.

I launched more last year than the previous decade. The bottleneck moved.

Tailwind CSS layoffs: AI tools like Claude Code destroyed documentation traffic

Gehry crumpled paper while others learned CAD. The curious ones always survive.

What happens to humans when we compress a century of progress into ten years?

AI follows cloud to infrastructure. When everyone has it, what's your advantage?

Your choices exist within boundaries the system drew. You just can't see those.

We traded ownership for convenience. Your work lives on someone else's computer.

The cycle of platform decay: good to users, then vendors, then shareholders

The stories you tell about strangers are actually stories about yourself.

Writing is thinking. Most people don't write enough to think clearly.

Knowledge shifted from elite control to mass access through democratization.

I like to think about AI as a valuable asset that will make our lives better.