Yesterday
- I’m Robin Sloan, a writer, printer, & manufacturer. The best thing to do here is sign up for my email newsletter: This website doesn’t collect any information about you or your reading. It aspires to the speed and privacy of the printed page. Don’t miss the colophon. Hony...
This week
- 24 Feb 2026 "How far back in time can you understand English?", a post that tells a story starting with the English of 2000 AD and ending with the English of 1000 AD has gone viral, and gotten a lot of people interested in older forms of English. A common sentiment expressed by...
- I had a small, intrusive realization the other day that computers and the internet are probably bad for me. I mean that beyond the general advice to touch grass. From an ADHD and generalized anxiety perspective, computers and the internet have become an endless supply of poison...
Last week
- In this new AI world, “taste” is the thing everyone claims is the new supreme skill. But I think “care” is the one I want to see in the products I buy. Can you measure care? Does scale drive out care? If a product conversation is reduced to being arbitrated exclusively by...
- I shared this in our Slack this morning and wanted to share it here because this is the type of community we’re trying to foster. We want to For now, the ticket for joining our community is purchasing one of […]...
- You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world....
- Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work. Then it happened again, this time, when reading sheet...
Two weeks ago
- Ben died. He wasn’t in a car crash. He didn’t have cancer. He wasn’t old. He didn’t get murdered, or fall off a cliff, or have an anvil dropped on him by a wily roadrunner, do any of the other things that people are supposed to do before they die. He just went to the pub, had a...
- February 9, 2026 I’ll be away from the blog for a few weeks, so let me just pin this to the top here: I still write my own code, and I enjoy doing it. I have never been a normal programmer, and maybe you aren’t, either. So, let’s just do things the way we want — the way we like....
- February 6, 2026 The latest Disquiet Junto assignment is out, and this blog provides a link in its creative chain. The assignment is: Write a piece of music emulating the dopamine engine that is social media. Click through for Marc’s instructions, which are, as usual,...
About a month ago
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. February 4, 2026 Stewart Brand's pace layers, early sketch Deepfates on X: As you climb the pace layers, your sources of information get...
- There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There’s a lot to be upset about, so that’s understandable. But in the interest of fostering better discourse, I’d like to offer a...
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. January 29, 2026 Nicholas Carr writes: … the essential content of social media is now the feeds produced by the platforms, not the...
- “The data doesn’t lie.” I imagine that’s what the cigarette companies said. “The data doesn’t lie. People want this stuff. They’re buying it in droves. We’re merely giving them what they want.” Which sounds more like an attempt at exoneration than a reason to exist. Demand can...
- It’s a secret to everyone! This post is for RSS subscribers only. Read more about RSS Club. It’s expected to freeze this evening in Austin and we may even see snow, which is exciting and novel for us Texans. But as we’ve learned in 2021 and 2023, cold snaps can lead to disaster....
about 1 month ago
- Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See The size of your plate can influence how much food you eat. The absence of a clock on a casino wall can keep you gambling through the early morning. On social media, our For You Pages give us the illusion of infinite content. How our...
- С Ильей Бирманом провожаем Алана Дая, вспоминая, в чём состоят достижения Мака, Джобса и ХИГа (но и Винду добрым словом тоже вспоминаем)....
- I, too, have (or as you can probably guess from the title of this post, had) a Facebook account. I only ever used it for two purposes. Finding out what friends I rarely see are doing Getting invites to events Facebook has over the years made usage #1 pretty much impossible. My...
about 2 months ago
- My favorite albums from last year. Balkan brass, an acoustic favorite of 80s returns, Ethio-jazz, Guatemalan singer-guitarist, jazz-rock/Indian classical fusion, and a unique male vocalist. more…...
- This performance has been years in the making. In a sense, you could say it’s been a lifetime in the making. On November 6th, 2025, my brother Ian and I gave a “talk” at the amazing Beyond Tellerrand conference in […]...
- almost all interactions are repeat games...
- I’ve never been one to write these kinds of posts, but I’ve really enjoyed reading these! Hearing that my buddies had small moments of joy and success makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside, despite the overall mood of 2025. For me, the overall theme of this year was survival. I...
- 2025 was… a year. And I made it to the end of that year. If you’re reading this, I imagine you did too and let’s celebrate that. But also not one without loss; of loved ones, of health, of relationships, of jobs, of liberties, of pursuits of happiness. Let’s mourn those. My year...
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