A weekly reading digest on computing's past and future.
July 6, 2026
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design worrydream.com ↗
Bret Victor's takedown of 'pictures under glass' and a plea to design interfaces for capable hands, not just one numb fingertip.
As We May Think - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org ↗
Bush's 1945 memex sketched hypertext, associative trails, and the personal knowledge machine decades before the hardware to build one existed.
Attention Is All You Need arxiv.org ↗
The 2017 paper that threw out recurrence for pure attention and became the architecture underneath every large language model since.
Beating the Averages paulgraham.com ↗
Graham's Blub paradox and the case that a more powerful language was Viaweb's real competitive weapon against better-funded rivals.
Cloudflare Workers AI developers.cloudflare.com ↗
Cloudflare's pitch for running model inference at the edge, next to your users instead of in one distant datacenter, and why latency is the product.
Computer latency: 1977-2017 danluu.com ↗
Dan Luu measures keystroke-to-screen latency across decades and finds a 1977 Apple II beating most modern machines, worse-is-better made empirical.