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Dispatch #34 (December 2025)	2025-12-01T10:28:28-05:00	false	dispatch	title url date file Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair https://kottke.org/25/12/kill-bill-the-whole-bloody-affair 2025-12-03T20:52:54Z kottke-org-d62ajj.txt title url date file Software Development in the Time of Strange New Angels https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/software-development-in-the-time 2025-12-01T17:31:41Z davegriffith-substack-com-o74bc9.txt title url date file Hate to be so blunt, but if you're a… | justin․searls․co https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-11-24-11h24m25s/ 2025-12-01T17:31:41Z justin-searls-co-onmvll.txt title url date file Naz Hamid • Million-Mile Tech https://nazhamid.com/journal/million-mile-tech/ 2025-12-01T17:31:43Z nazhamid-com-oi7zls.txt title url date file Software is supply-constrained (for now) | justin․searls․co https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-11-04-software-is-supply-constrained-for-now/ 2025-12-01T17:31:58Z justin-searls-co-ka38uo.txt title url date file Five Months of Journalling • Robb Knight https://rknight.me/blog/five-months-of-journalling/ 2025-12-01T17:31:36Z rknight-me-oemhtz.txt title url date file Going Analog • Nic Lake https://niclake.me/going-analog/ 2025-12-01T17:31:36Z niclake-me-dfeqiz.txt title url date file xkcd: Fifteen Years https://xkcd.com/3172/ 2025-12-01T17:31:38Z xkcd-fifteen-years.png title url date file Daring Fireball: ‘Fifteen Years’ https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/27/fifteen-years 2025-12-01T17:31:39Z daringfireball-net-nvnrwt.txt

• Quick lake trip

• Thanksgiving travel

  • NYC
  • Albany
  • Turkey Trot

• Tess

  • Goreleaser (https://goreleaser.com/) + Homebrew
  • Taps for mdrenum + obrol (https://github.com/dce/homebrew-taps)

• Alt text

  • https://git.sr.ht/~dce/davideisinger.com/commit/7f24335f97ee9c32666b22d5c031a4715fea45e2

• SBE movie

  • https://kottke.org/25/12/kill-bill-the-whole-bloody-affair
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XtqVx8fdCM

• Gas–lab record

• Carl

• Computer book

This Month

• Adventure:
• Project:
• Skill:

Reading & Listening

• Fiction: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, Matt Dinniman
• Non-fiction: The Magic of Code, Samuel Arbesman
• Music: Please Don't Judge Me, Gas-Lab

Links

• Software Development in the Time of Strange New Angels (via)

  Those that succeed in making this transition are going to be those with higher-order skills and larger vision. Those who have really absorbed what it means to be engineers first and computer guys second. That means knowing what to build, and why. That means being able to understand the second- and third-order effects of their decisions. That means recognizing bad ideas early, and giving business recommendations backed by solid evidence.

• Naz Hamid • Million-Mile Tech

  A deeper appreciation and intimacy grows as you hold onto something longer and longer. There’s a point at which it evolves from the shiny new thing into a tool you love. You’ve cultivated a lopsided fondness for a material possession that’s now a well-worn friend. May all of the things we care for outlive us.

• Software is supply-constrained (for now) | justin․searls․co

  It’s long been my view that the appropriate response to the current moment is to ride this walrus and leverage coding agents to increase the scope of our ambitions.

• Five Months of Journalling • Robb Knight (via)

  I am going to continue with this, tweaking things as needed. As long as I'm keeping up with the things I want to get done, whatever that ends up looking like in my journal, I'm happy.

• xkcd: Fifteen Years (via)

  “Want to feel old?” “Yes.”