Writing

Essays and notes, mostly about libraries, law, and AI. Some are also published elsewhere.

• Compute substrate estimator
  June 22, 2026 · note
• The Great AI Alignment Love Match
  June 17, 2026 · note
• Lessig Pathetic Dot Simulator
  June 17, 2026 · note
• Fable pushes coding toward another phase change
  June 10, 2026 · note
• Launching the Agent Protocols Tech Tree
  LIL Blog, February 23, 2026 · essay
• Creative Writers' Attitudes on Writing as Training Data for Large Language Models ↗
  ACM CHI 2025, April 1, 2025 · essay
• What is Signal? The messaging app, explained.
  MIT Technology Review, March 27, 2025 · essay
• LLMs are universal translators
  LIL Blog, November 29, 2023 · essay
• Disruptive innovation in libraries
  LIL Blog, November 28, 2023 · essay
• ChatGPT poems and secrets
  LIL Blog, December 20, 2022 · essay
• What legal hackers can learn from libraries
  LIL Blog, September 13, 2022 · essay
• WACZ Signing and Verification Spec ↗
  Webrecorder Recommendation, January 25, 2022 · essay