February 2025: Best Reads

The Wrongs of Thomas More (Wrong 5) by Neal Stephenson

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code by Anthropic

Right to Repair Laws Have Now Been Introduced in All 50 US States by Elizabeth Chamberlain

AI-designed chips are so weird that ‘humans cannot really understand them’ — but they perform better than anything we’ve created by Tim Danton

Reality has a surprising amount of detail by John Salvatier

Beautiful, boring, and without soul by Steyn Viljoen

On Nostalgia for Physical Media by Graham

The Death Of The Web by Garry Newman

The Human Alphabet by The Public Domain Review

Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji by Paul Butler

Holmberg: Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands will strengthen our nation by Mark Holmberg

The Subtle Art of Designing Physical Controls for Cars by Casper Kessels

Boring tech is mature, not old by Ruben Schade

DeepSeek R1 analysis: open source model has propaganda supporting its “motherland” baked in at every level by Plum AI

Rat Traps by Sheon Han

Where the Wild Things Aren’t by Agnes Callard