Writer of The Weekly Thing. Explorer of tech, the open web, AI, and a good escape room. Minneapolis is home.
Hi, I’m Jamie.
I write here about technology, AI, the open web, photography and family. Every weekend I send a letter with the things I read and thought about during the week.
Weekend reading since 2017
Weekly Thing
Every weekend I send a letter with the things I read and thought about during the week.
In this issue:
How employment is changing at Anthropic (anthropic.com) How tech workers are feeling in 2026: a workforce splitting in two (lennysnewsletter.com) Deciphering Glyph :: Programming Isn’t Special (blog.glyph.im) Claude Duet | Your personal AI assistant (claude.com) …
I’m enjoying using and building Release Notes so much I added some great location features today and polished up the user experience!
Notes can save where you are with one tap, and name the café or park you’re in iPhone photos bring their place and time with them, HEIC included …
Melting wax to pour some candles. I’ve made over a thousand candles at this point but because we only do it once a year I always feel like I have no idea what I’m doing when we start pouring. Good thing I learned to keep good notes with weights! Let the candle making begin!
After flipping to my own custom theme for my blog I was able to ship something I’ve wanted for a very long time: all of my personal sites are now connected with a navigation header at the very top of the page. For the first time it is easy to jump from site to site!
Well done phishing campaign just landed in my inbox. This one gave me a pause and smartly goes after a “fear” motive. Did someone just compromise my account? That anxiety could lead to a quick login attempt and complete takeover. The info@rumpunch.io from address was easy to spot …
I decided to have some fun and I added badges to my Your Version Number: Release Notes project.
Some specifics on how they work:
Your birthday is a release and every day is a patch, so badges speak release engineering, with tiers from alpha through beta, rc and stable to LTS. …