Anchors
These are anchor posts: the top 5% of posts with the most backlinks, providing anchoring weight for the site. These posts act as central hubs that other thinking and posts naturally gravitate toward and references. Read about how these are found. (See also: Sequences.)
The anchors are ordered by number of backlinks, with the most-referenced first.
Tracing Sequences and Finding Anchors
Anchoring 9 posts:
- Reply to @manton@manton.org
- Reply to @joshbeckman.org
- Reply to @robb@social.lol
- Reply to @joshbeckman.org
- Exploring Datapacks for LLMs
- Reply to @simon@simonwillison.net
- Reply to @joshbeckman.org
- Anchors
- Sequences
How to Cross-Post to Mastodon with Jekyll
Anchoring 7 posts:
- I Love micro.blog - Here’s Why I Don’t Use It
- Cross-posting to Bluesky from Jekyll
- Gotta Publish Where The People Are
- Cross-Posting From Mastodon to Jekyll
- Rules for Syndication on My Site
- Cross-posting from Bluesky to Jekyll
- Mastodon and Bluesky Wrapped 2025
Note on The Creative Act via Rick Rubin
Anchoring 6 posts:
- Note on Crossing the Sunshine Skyway via Robin Sloan
- Note on An Elegant Puzzle via Will Larson
- After Reading: The Creative Act
- Note on Why Veteran-Artists Don't Quit via Van Neistat
- Note on Why Veteran-Artists Don't Quit via Van Neistat
- Note on Is PERFECTIONISM a Form of COWARDICE? via Van Neistat
Cross-posting to Bluesky from Jekyll
Anchoring 6 posts:
- Gotta Publish Where The People Are
- Cross-Posting From Mastodon to Jekyll
- Rules for Syndication on My Site
- Adding Website Card Embeds to my Bluesky Posts
- Cross-posting from Bluesky to Jekyll
- Mastodon and Bluesky Wrapped 2025
Rules for Syndication on My Site
Anchoring 5 posts:
- Reply to @manton@manton.org
- Mastodon and Bluesky Wrapped 2025
- Bringing Back Webmentions
- About This Site
- Replies & Threads
Releasing gh-view-md - A GitHub CLI Extension for LLM-Optimized Issue and PR Viewing
Anchoring 5 posts:
- The Hidden Cost of Human-Centric Tools in LLM Workflows
- The gem exec command gives me hope for Ruby in a world of fast software
- Releasing gh-pr-staleness: GitHub CLI Extension for Commits Behind Target
- gh-wrapped is Your GitHub Wrapped Year in Review, On Demand
- gh-nvim-username-keywords: GitHub @-mention Autocomplete in Your Neovim Editor
Your App Is Not Better Than An Open Protocol
Anchoring 5 posts:
- Everywhere a calendar
- Cross-Posting From Mastodon to Jekyll
- Cross-posting From Letterboxd to Jekyll
- How and Why I Read Hacker News
- Don't Forget: Remote MCP Servers are Just cURL Calls
Cross-Posting From Mastodon to Jekyll
Anchoring 5 posts:
- Rules for Syndication on My Site
- Cross-posting From Letterboxd to Jekyll
- Cross-posting from Bluesky to Jekyll
- Displaying Letterboxd Like Counts on My Movie Reviews
- About This Site
I Built an MCP Server for My Site
Anchoring 5 posts:
- Upgraded Insight Widget with MCP Server
- Exploring Datapacks for LLMs
- The Hidden Cost of Human-Centric Tools in LLM Workflows
- Building Paperboy: A Personal Reading Recommendation Engine
- Don't Forget: Remote MCP Servers are Just cURL Calls
Apple Music Replay 2024
Anchoring 5 posts:
- Strava Year in Sport 2024
- My GitHub Wrapped 2024
- My 2024 Fitbod Flex
- Kelly Lee Owens at Metro
- Apple Music Replay 2025
Note on Christopher Alexander: A Primer via Ryan Singer
Anchoring 5 posts:
- Note on Studio Project #3: A House for Oneself via Jack Cheng
- Note on Wholeness and Centers via Jack Cheng
- Note on Oozy Intelligence in Slow Time via Ribbonfarm Studio
- Note on Studio Project #3: A House for Oneself via Jack Cheng
- Tracing Sequences and Finding Anchors
Using an LLM and RAG to Wring Insights From My Posts
Anchoring 4 posts:
- Planning A Spaced Repetition System for My Site
- Upgraded Insight Widget with MCP Server
- About This Site
- Insight
Note on Import AI 397: DeepSeek Means AI Proliferation Is Guaranteed; Maritime Wardrones; And More Evidence of LLM Capability Overhangs via Jack Clark
Anchoring 4 posts:
- Leaning into Perplexity
- Note on Anjan Katta: A Sunrise Over Computing - Daylight Computer, Light, Agency, Humanity - Dialectic via Dialectic with Jackson Dahl
- The Smaller Shape of AI-First Companies
- Note on The 'Cracked Coder' Fetish via Max Read
Feedforward, Tolerance, Feedback: Improving Interfaces for LLM Agents
Anchoring 4 posts:
- UI vs. API. vs. UAI
- Re-Investing in Local CI
- Site Traffic in 2025
- Note on Compound Engineering: How Every Codes With Agents via Dan Shipper and Kieran Klaassen
My favorite fonts
Anchoring 4 posts:
Gotta Publish Where The People Are
Anchoring 4 posts:
- Cross-Posting From Mastodon to Jekyll
- Rules for Syndication on My Site
- Cross-posting From Letterboxd to Jekyll
- Cross-posting from Bluesky to Jekyll
Cross-posting From Letterboxd to Jekyll
Anchoring 3 posts:
Note on The Dream of the Personal Machine via Kyle Chayka
Anchoring 3 posts:
- Customized Keychron K1
- Buttons are for Doing: Exchanging the Apple Watch Ultra
- The Hidden Cost of Human-Centric Tools in LLM Workflows