Engineer and writer; CTO of Wave, later at Anthropic, blogging on focus, management and engineering at benkuhn.net.
loved
I block distracting parts of websites with uBlock Origin’s amazing “element blocker,” which lets you select and remove any part of the page. As a fan of minimalism in web design, I really enjoy being able to adversarially enforce it on any rogue webpage.
His round-up of the tools and settings he uses to protect his attention. The post is dated only "August 2020"; day set to the 1st.
French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.
uses
uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger to preserve my privacy on the internets
His /uses page, "Apps, Tools, and Gear I Use", written from the perspective of a fully remote frontend developer. The date here is the last commit to the page's own source file, src/content/pages/uses/uses.md in his site repo maxpou/maxpou.fr, whose contents match the quoted lines.
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
Hardware, services4 years
Software5 years
Podcasts, courses, other8 years
Books25 years
Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.