Hey there! Welcome to a new edition of Hybrid Hacker! 🌟
Every week I share the top articles I have found and personally read on the internet. I only share the stuff I believe it’s worth your time.
100% signal, 0% slop.
I mainly read things from my public daily digest, which curates an ever growing list of sources. Here is this week’s best stuff 👇
🌀 Introducing Tolaria for mobile! 📱
11 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I introduced the new Tolaria app for iPhone and iPad. It’s still rough in places, but you can already edit your notes and sync your vaults with git from your phone. I also wrote about why releases have been slower lately, how I moved my coding agents to cloud dev environments, and what’s next for Tolaria on the web and inside your agents!
🥇 On the Death of Amazon's Writing Culture
7 min • by Steve Huynh
Steve spent almost twenty years at Amazon, and he argues that its famous writing culture didn’t survive AI.
Bezos used to say you can’t write a six-page memo without clear thinking, and that is simply not true anymore, so a doc is no longer proof that someone has thought about the problem. Food for thought.
🥈 Someone Behind the Software
3 min • by Karri Saarinen
Karri argues that good products carry something of the people who make them, and that many products today feel messy because adding new capabilities is much easier than rethinking the existing ones. This is a great take, that I also needed to hear for Tolaria.
🥉 How to Be More Ambitious: A Tutorial for Humans With Models
9 min • by Felix Rieseberg
Felix works on Claude, and wrote a practical guide to using AI for more than doing the same work faster. He splits ambition into altitude, depth, and range. For example he went from asking Claude to fix single crashes to asking it to keep the apps crash-free, which first meant giving it crash reports and machines to reproduce bugs on. Lots of good prompts to steal, too!
And that’s it for today! If you find this list useful, please share it with your friends!
You can also read the very same things I read every day via this free daily digest 📬
See you next week!
Sincerely 👋
Luca