October 2026

It’s strange in that it feels economically wasteful to keep building if your tokens are spent or if the models are being throttled that day. Like if the internet went out before. Switching to higher-level thinking or reading something useful is probably the best thing to do while you wait for them to refresh.

Email being un-self-hostable and captured yet universal for auth online is really sad. Seems to me sites should move toward deprecating them in favor of passkeys or SSO and just asking for them for account recovery purposes until we figure out a better solution.

Schopenhauer on dead languages: they are deterministic!