Jamie Thingelstad

Weekly Thing

A weekly collection of interesting links, ideas, and observations from across the internet, curated by Jamie Thingelstad.

Author

Jamie Thingelstad

Category

Technology

Podcast website

weekly.thingelstad.com

Latest episode

May 23, 2026

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Episodes

#299 — Apples, Abundance, Australia 04.11.2024

Chatbot blamed for teen's suicide, Vision Pro bites dog, iOS 18.1, Apple Intelligence execution, Change Healthcare breach, weird timezones.

#298 — Tool, Solar, Circles 27.10.2024

Busy Status Bar, TikTok Section 230, RSS readers, solar-powered self-hosted website, RSA encryption quantum computer, mobile ad surveillance.

#297 — People, Building, "Pure Blogger" 19.10.2024

HTML for People, GPU bubble burst, $2 H100s, API to AI communication, US wealth distribution, TikTok harming kids, what are you building with your life.

#296 — Awk, Fav, Alarmo 13.10.2024

Internet Archive breach, Automattic employees leaving, Chinese hackers backdoor, patent troll dedicates patents, blood pressure misreadings, CTV surveillance.

#295 — Links, Surveillance, POSSE 06.10.2024

LG OLED screensaver ads, Bitcoin liquidity barometer, ChatGPT Canvas, PayPal data sharing, Meta smart glasses doxing.

#294 — Vaporizing, Intelligence, Contraption 28.09.2024

Minneapolis street grid, iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, visionOS 2, iPhone 16 Pro camera, Meta Orion AR glasses, social media surveillance.

#293 — WHOIS, Glowtime, Place 14.09.2024

Webpages as places, generative AI on high skilled work, GitHub winning, iPhone 16 Glowtime, reMarkable Paper Pro, rogue WHOIS server.

#292 — Signal, Checkboxes, Hope 07.09.2024

Section 230 ruling, political spam texts, Signal and Meredith Whittaker, One Million Checkboxes, Founder Mode, hope for the web, writing About the Author.

#291 — Ireland 🇮🇪 04.08.2024

McMunn's in Ballybunion, afternoon tea at Adare Manor, Cliffs of Moher, driving in Ireland, Kilmainham Gaol, Inis Mór, Gaelic Games.

#290 — Kino, Krebs, Kagi 01.06.2024

Daylight caring computer, Micro.blog audio narration, EcoFlow PowerStream, Google Cloud GCVE incident, over GraphQL, Kino, three laws of software complexity.

#289 — Queueing, Counting, Mapping 25.05.2024

Efficient new way to count, 2nd-gen email, ideal email folder structure, Windows Returns, mapping LLMs, queueing strategies, No Wrong Doors.

#288 — Hackerverse, Symbolica, Curators 19.05.2024

Link in Bio slow knife, cubic millimetre of brain mapped, TCP_NODELAY, backward walking workout, M4 iPad Pros, GPT-4o omni model, curators of the web.

#287 — Plinky, Piccolo, Privacy 11.05.2024

Piccolo stackless Lua, differential privacy, ENS Labs .box domains, Amazon margin expansion, Marvel Vision Pro, Scott Galloway TED.

#286 — Cypherpunk, Printing music, Rabbit 04.05.2024

Digital legacy planning, Cypherpunk's Manifesto, finding new music, a different web, eldest daughters' happiness, moving onchain.

#285 — Voyager, ActivityPub, Trackers 28.04.2024

VASA-1, Voyager 1 resumes updates, Map of the Web, Ghost building ActivityPub, killed Google Search, cryptocurrency mixing arrested.

#284 — Playdate, Tetris, Calvin 20.04.2024

UX of UUIDs, Peloton media company problems, half-billion GPT tokens, great technical blog, Playdate handheld hardware, Calvin and Hobbes.

#283 — Betula, Blocky, Tables 13.04.2024

IRC client in motherboard, go players after AI, Digital Equipment Corp saved Ethernet, Twitter pivot to X.com phishers, follow the CAPEX.

#282 — Decentralized, Blobs, Rewards 06.04.2024

MrBeast changing game, Vision Pro devkit, Ethereum blobs, xz Utils backdoor, Wyoming DUNA Act, credit card rewards anatomy.

#281 — Fediverse, Odyssey, Echo Chess 31.03.2024

ActivityPub at SFO Museum, Starbucks Odyssey NFT shutdown, AlphaGo reflections, NVIDIA Blackwell chip, DOJ antitrust complaint against Apple.

#280 — Canvas, Undersea, Documents 16.03.2024

S3 not a filesystem, autogenerating book from iMessages, district heating data centers, Web's 35th birthday, 40 years of programming, better documents.

#279 — Nushell, BlackCat, Daemons 10.03.2024

Endatabas, writing Unix daemons, Nushell, BlackCat ransomware implosion, missing data type, REST meaning, privacy and competition.

#278 — Groq, GraphRAG, Gasless 02.03.2024

Case against caffeine, U.S. Internet email leak, Vision Pro sharing, building billing systems, Groq, MLS Season Pass, Leap Day bugs, Gasless DNSSEC.

#277 — Privacy, Scammed, OmniFocus 18.02.2024

Podcast distribution, local news paywalls, connect() slowness, Meta platforms, scam stories, GiveDirectly, OmniFocus 4, privacy rights.

#276 — Contextual, Copilot, Collections 11.02.2024

End of social networks, Farcaster on Ethereum, Starlink laser system, Now/Next/Later roadmap, Vision Pro teardown, OKRs are bullshit.

#275 — Vision, Sense, Magic 04.02.2024

Vision Pro, childhood end, drones Ukraine frontlines, technology trends 2024, home energy monitor, privacy in others' hands, message queues, magic moments.

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