The Type Edition
Pretext & Donald
Knuth
"Producing text that actually
looks and reads like a printed book."
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Two typographic changes inspired by Cheng Lou's pretext library and the Knuth-Plass justification algorithm — bringing the precision of TeX to the open web. Almost any printed book uses justified text. On the web, browsers' greedy line-by-line approach creates rivers of white. The Knuth-Plass algorithm considers the entire paragraph as a global optimization problem — and the result is text that finally reads like print.
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Does the price of intelligence matter?
DeepSeek's cheap, good-enough models mark a tipping point where intelligence becomes ubiquitous and almost free, splitting the market between a frontier battle for SOTA and an open race for near-free intelligence.
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AI and Ambition
AI isn't just about efficiency—it's about unlocking ambition. Small experiments on a personal blog reveal how AI agents let us push ideas further and build things we'd never have time for.
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My Bot Got Banned for Being a Bot
When my personal AI agent got my Google account disabled, it highlighted a fundamental challenge: how do we distinguish helpful personal agents from malicious automation?
Series
The AX
Dispatches
A year-long exploration of Agent Experience — from coining the term to tracking its transformation of the software industry.
