Love that Jim Mitchell created this new IndieWeb is Punk Manifesto site, inspired by my blog post from 2025.
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The Weekly Thing Team
I’ve been publishing the Weekly Thing for nine years and automation is one of the things that has made that possible. I shared a while back how I find content, assemble the issues, and my project structure. Without these well defined workflows there is no way I could continue …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: The Weekly Thing TeamMassive Weekly Thing Website Build
I’ve commented that agentic coding makes things that were previously on your “list of impossible projects” into things that you can do. I have long had on my “impossible project” list the desire to create a website for the Weekly Thing that let the archive shine in ways that I …
Keep reading · 5 minutes: Massive Weekly Thing Website BuildUp and writing at 6am for the next Weekly Thing!
While I’m doing that I’ve got Claude Code backfilling audio versions of the Weekly Thing, and another Claude Code instance doing some incremental work on Elixir.
Sunday morning. Working on the Weekly Thing. Codex improving Elixir in another window. Coffee. “Bonus time” at home because of Delta flight cancellation, and hoping our flight today actually goes.
I just learned that you can register a Shortcut in Unread to create your own actions for feed items. This is huge for my workflows! 🤯🥳
If your reading my blog you should really consider reading my daughter’s blog too. @mthingelstad has gotten the blogger vibes and is sharing amazing stories on her semester abroad. I think you’ll like reading her posts even though you aren’t her dad! 🤩
Om Malik has been writing incredible blog posts lately! Velocity was amazing, Evidence continued, Tech & Media, and now FOMO. Delights me that he is still sharing his writing and thoughts with us — long after the days of Gigaom. 👏
The print copies of the Yearly Thing arrived from Lulu! I’m very happy with how the formatting worked with Vellum and the production from Lulu is terrific. It is really cool to explore the year of the Weekly Thing like this. You can buy your own on Lulu.
I made a book — Yearly Thing 2025
For a couple of years now I’ve been wondering if there was a book version of the Weekly Thing. I had in my mind the idea of an almanac. Something that captured some period of time and put information in a different format. This year this idea surfaced again and unlike the last …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: I made a book — Yearly Thing 2025