Learning Log, Apr 2026
Mid-late April and heading into May, I got body-slammed with probably the worst cold I’ve ever had (seems like folks all across the U.S. got this one, thanks spring breakers!). Daycare is building up the whole family’s immune systems. Besides illness, enjoying nature and beautiful spring days was the theme of this past April.
🧶 Crafting
🧙🏻♀️ Side quests
Rahul and I took the baby for her first beach day! It was a -3.8 foot low tide one Sunday, so we went to Golden Gardens to investigate the tidepools. We saw crabs, anemones, whelk babies, an ochre starfish, seagulls, a heron, and a bunch of sea lions. Such a gorgeous day; I feel so grateful to live surrounded by beautiful nature.
Other seasonal side quests:
- Spotted the first blossom on our pear tree
- Participated in Plein Airpril
- Got the whole family participating in Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon (the baby “read” a crinkle book)
- First porch hangs
🔖 Reading
Product
- TBM 412: Institutionalized Overload
- Design Systems Are the Accountability Layer for AI-Generated Software
Web
- The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code (via Eric Bailey)
- The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
- Why Some Images Look Brighter Than Your Screen
AI
- Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
- Allbirds Is Pivoting to AI Compute. Sure, Why Not
- Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
- How to Use Claude Code: A Guide to Slash Commands, Agents, Skills, and Plug-Ins
- An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
- Design Systems Are the Accountability Layer for AI-Generated Software
- AI & Alignment
Personal growth
- Mouthwords
- The Good Enough Matrix: Choose Where Your Time and Energy Goes
- Technology Weakens Our Minds. We Can Fix This.
Art
- Misato Sano’s Charming Wooden Dogs Are Carved With Personality
- Being an Amateur
- My Phenakistoscope
- At Last, the Olympia Kwanzans!