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Anil Dash

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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. #tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · 3d ago
There are (sort of) two kinds of coders: those who see it as just a well-paying, stable job, and those who do it on nights and weekends because they love it, and it’s part of their identity. Today’s LLM tools now enable an individual to essentially be an entire software _factory_, and this is going to impact those 2 kinds of coders very differently — especially in how they respond to *both* of their bosses trying to put them out of work. https://anildash.com/2026/03/13/coders-after-ai/
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@anildash@me.dm · Mar 08, 2026

A lot of folks got very excited about the MacBook Neo — but Apple's been selling a machine with almost these exact specs for *years*. So what did the bright colors and rounded fonts really try to solve? Maybe Apple's embarrassment about serving Walmart customers. https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/08/neo-apple-embarassment/

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@anildash@me.dm · Mar 07, 2026

Nine years ago, predicting the rise of “self-driving news”. Now, major publishers are seeing 90+% drop-offs in traffic from search engines as LLMs generate synthesized versions of news stories instead of sending readers to read original media articles. https://anildash.com/2017/03/01/tech-and-the-fake-market-tactic/

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@anildash@me.dm · Mar 01, 2026
Apple is adding video support to its podcasting apps — that’s great. But the way it’s doing so might jeopardize the openness that’s kept podcasting from getting enshittified like every other form of media. It’s not too late for them to fix this. https://anildash.com/2026/02/28/apple-video-podcast-power/
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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Feb 28, 2026
Everybody is (understandably) very excited that Anthropic isn't selling their AI for Hegseth to use to automate his war crimes. But I would gently suggest that we not accept setting the bar quite so low. https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a-cookie-for-dario/
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@anildash@me.dm · Feb 19, 2026
On this day in 1923, the U.S. Supreme Court *unanimously* decided that people of South Asian descent could not be American citizens, and retroactively stripped citizenship from many who had already been naturalized. Years of organized persecution followed. https://www.saada.org/explore/publications/tides/articles/united-states-of-america-vs-vaishno-das-bagai
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@anildash@me.dm · Feb 18, 2026

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/

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@anildash@me.dm · Feb 11, 2026
"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid ... I realize now that Prince wasn’t paranoid, he was prescient." https://time.com/7338205/rage-against-ai-generated-music/
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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Feb 09, 2026

@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world @wjmaggos@liberal.city 🫡

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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Feb 09, 2026

@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world lol copy & paste error, sorry. Should be fixed now!

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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Feb 09, 2026
Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-prince-won-the-super-bowl/ 
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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Jan 26, 2026
I wrote a little bit about tech workers speaking up about the current moment — both how we work to shift the Overton window so more feel comfortable to do so, and what the power can be when we do: https://anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/
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@mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io @pfmoore@mastodon.social @ibboard@hachyderm.io @dtanzer@social.devteams.at That's crazy.
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Anil Dash
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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Jan 12, 2026
@Gargron@mastodon.social @mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io @pfmoore@mastodon.social @ibboard@hachyderm.io @dtanzer@social.devteams.at it’s not at all uncommon these days. There are basically two cohorts now, those who create by coding, and those who create by orchestrating systems that output code. If it helps, for them, it’s a bit like having interpreted languages where 99% of users have no idea what the actual assembly code looks like. Paying for that abstraction provides value to these users.
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Anil Dash
@anildash@me.dm

I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Jan 12, 2026
@Gargron@mastodon.social @mitsuhiko@hachyderm.io @pfmoore@mastodon.social @ibboard@hachyderm.io @dtanzer@social.devteams.at it’s not at all uncommon these days. There are basically two cohorts now, those who create by coding, and those who create by orchestrating systems that output code. If it helps, for them, it’s a bit like having interpreted languages where 99% of users have no idea what the actual assembly code looks like. Paying for that abstraction provides value to these users.
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So, my heart hurts for Minneapolis, but I also believe in its people, and I believe in the good neighbors of Powderhorn, and I know that they have a lot more heart than these ICE monsters have hate. W
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@anildash@me.dm · Jan 08, 2026
This is a report from the time. Be sure to hear the difference between the “official” story and what the people from the neighborhood say. https://youtu.be/S5swH1_r9OI
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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Jan 08, 2026
So, my heart hurts for Minneapolis, but I also believe in its people, and I believe in the good neighbors of Powderhorn, and I know that they have a lot more heart than these ICE monsters have hate. We've seen the people of Minneapolis endure and persist or a long, long time. "If there ain't no justice, then there ain't no peace." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMLI7LFf84w
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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Jan 06, 2026

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, over *half a million* tech workers have been laid off. That fact, and their voices, aren't really shaping the conversation about AI, and what "AI" really means in culture. So I started to get into it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/06/500k-tech-workers-laid-off/

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@anildash@me.dm · Jan 05, 2026
The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech-career-in-2026/
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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · Dec 13, 2025

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

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@anildash@me.dm · Dec 12, 2025

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff@mastodon.social! https://youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?

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@anildash@me.dm Software engineering is often compared to actual engineering. Would it be good if everyone could design buildings, bridges, and elevators without any kind of education? Most software a
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@anildash@me.dm · Dec 02, 2025
@Gargron@mastodon.social I think that's a fair argument for the segment of coding that is software engineering. I would argue a *lot* of coding isn't really... software engineering? Like, the front-end code on my blog certainly doesn't count as that for me. If I get an LLM to help me, and it has an error, there's no security or privacy implications, nor any real danger except maybe a rendering error. So it seems like a fair domain to just muddle through. There are a lot of things in that space these days.
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I'm a big fan of being a big fan of things. you can email me at a@anildash.com or SMS/signal at +1 646 541 5843. kind but not nice. # tfr

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@anildash@me.dm · May 22, 2025

This one was, obviously, bittersweet to write: we’re shutting down app hosting on Glitch. This post covers how everybody can export your apps & download your code. I didn’t get into where the Glitch community goes next, because honestly we’re still figuring it out, but it’s still the end of an era. I’ll have more to share about this later, of course, but I just wanted to make sure everyone got the news straight from me. If you have any questions, you can ask in the forum. https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/

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