# Links - joshua.seigler.net

- The EU as suicide pact, or: How Germany is slowly dismantling its electrical grid and why the EU won't let them fix it
  July 09, 2025

- Voice of God - The Truth About AI Assistants
  July 06, 2025

  Insightful. Basically claims that AI has been made so convenient (at great expense and effort) because it gives AI providers/operators enormous benefit: control over narrative at unprecedented depth and scale.

- htmz - a low power tool for html
  July 01, 2025

  Super clever approach for putting HTML into other HTML. "Is it a framework? It's a snippet."

- Speed Catan - seanmcp.com
  June 29, 2025

  > Speed Catan is a variation of the popular board game Catan that emphasizes game speed and simplicity for younger (or impatient) players.

- How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should
  June 28, 2025

  > Just as it’s still possible (though seldom necessary) to ride a horse, it is still possible to surf the internet. It’s a thrill not yet lost to time.

- Comic Helvetic Font | dafont.com
  June 26, 2025

  I don't understand why this feels ok but Comic Sans makes my skin crawl.

- NIKA:\git-revise\>
  June 18, 2025

  git-revise is a history editing tool designed for the patch-stack workflow. It's fast, non-destructive, and aims to provide a familiar, powerful, and easy to use re-imagining of the patch stack workflow.

- Markdown Code Blocks With a Title / Filename - Lusitos Tech Blog
  June 15, 2025

  Smart alternative to immediately using some kind of markdown extension or plugin. Good perspective.

- MidWord! The world's favorite word guessing game
  June 14, 2025

  Just found my new favorite long-car-ride verbal game!

- Verissimo Monthly - May 2025 - by Binyamin Grobman
  June 03, 2025

  The Unreliability of LLMs & What Lies Ahead

- Keeping up appearances | deadSimpleTech
  May 31, 2025

  The only reason that LLMs took root in the first place was because our societies in the anglosphere have already developed cultures solely devoted to gaining status and keeping up the appearance of doing things rather than actually doing them. All other values, increasingly including even the accumulation of wealth (while this is still very much a thing that people pursue, wealth is increasingly becoming a proxy for status more than something desired in itself) are becoming subordinated to symbolic status games completely detached from anything real.