{"id":2695,"slug":"zawinski-jamie","name":"Zawinski, Jamie","type":"person","created_at":"2026-08-08T04:49:01.114847+00:00","hidden":0,"aliases":["jwz"],"episodes":[{"id":"9d19620a-67ea-4174-826d-634b1a1c7835","slug":"s18e09-doing-whats-important-hidden-reasons-when","subject":"s18e09: Doing What’s Important; Hidden Reasons; When They Tell You, Etc...","title":"Doing What’s Important; Hidden Reasons; When They Tell You, Etc...","publish_date":"2024-05-09T18:29:06.390499+00:00","year":2024,"month":5,"season":18,"episode":9,"episode_label":"s18e09","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s18e09-doing-whats-important-hidden-reasons-when/","is_premium":0,"word_count":3458,"context":" … Hsiung, Sonos Tech Blog, May 4 2022\n↩︎\n\nThe CADT Model\n(\narchive.is\n), <mark>jwz</mark>, 2003, <mark>jwz</mark>.org\n↩︎\n\nThe Alternative Implementation Problem | Pointers Gone Wild\n(\narchive.is\n)\n↩︎\n\nHonestly the whole … ","reading_minutes":17},{"id":"0f403938-db93-4e49-a3a0-4cb3e5d8ab3e","slug":"s17e11-context-is-king-explicit-people","subject":"s17e11: Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different","title":"Context is King; Explicit People Personality Preferences; OS Licensing, but Different","publish_date":"2024-02-14T23:32:27.147055+00:00","year":2024,"month":2,"season":17,"episode":11,"episode_label":"s17e11","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s17e11-context-is-king-explicit-people/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2828,"context":" … on.\n\nBut I tell a lie, that’s just\none\nof the alternatives. <mark>jwz</mark> in my head has a reputation/practice now for needing to include a statement … ","reading_minutes":14},{"id":"69ea2a30-7bf0-4fa9-93d9-6614109ae087","slug":"s15e01-marks-on-a-flat-plane","subject":"s15e01: Marks on Flat Planes","title":"Marks on Flat Planes","publish_date":"2023-06-08T18:01:41.339766+00:00","year":2023,"month":6,"season":15,"episode":1,"episode_label":"s15e01","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s15e01-marks-on-a-flat-plane/","is_premium":0,"word_count":3502,"context":" … my attention via this\norange site comment\n, but better and more jaded in <mark>jwz</mark>'s roundup,\nToday in \"IP Over Avian Carriers\" news\n, September 2019\n↩︎\n\nInside Snopes: the … ","reading_minutes":18},{"id":"00118112-8d95-4a78-9650-243e87977b47","slug":"s12e51-i-am-reasonably-jet-lagged","subject":"s12e51: I Am Reasonably Jet Lagged","title":"I Am Reasonably Jet Lagged","publish_date":"2022-09-15T21:02:42.179829+00:00","year":2022,"month":9,"season":12,"episode":51,"episode_label":"s12e51","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s12e51-i-am-reasonably-jet-lagged/","is_premium":0,"word_count":527,"context":" … Via\n<mark>jwz</mark>\n, you can\nsolve mazes using spring kinematics\n, which as is pointed out isn't a terribly efficient way of doing things if you have computers because … ","reading_minutes":3},{"id":"85b88cc8-34e7-44f3-b40a-abaeca29d2e4","slug":"s12e38-there-was-no-user-need","subject":"s12e38: There Was No User Need","title":"There Was No User Need","publish_date":"2022-07-15T00:49:45.099750+00:00","year":2022,"month":7,"season":12,"episode":38,"episode_label":"s12e38","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s12e38-there-was-no-user-need/","is_premium":0,"word_count":2010,"context":" … It was so good that <mark>Jamie Zawinski</mark>, who runs a bar, was\nimpressed\n[2]\n.\n\nNearly a year after after California launched their digital vaccine record website, the State … ","reading_minutes":10},{"id":"1e59bb62-07c7-4d84-b703-a2d0ebd4171c","slug":"s07e09-snow-crashing","subject":"s07e09: Snow Crashing","title":"Snow Crashing","publish_date":"2019-09-30T23:45:32.362000+00:00","year":2019,"month":9,"season":7,"episode":9,"episode_label":"s07e09","canonical_url":"https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s07e09-snow-crashing/","is_premium":0,"word_count":4379,"context":" … gosh, imagine if Da5id Meier were\n<mark>jwz</mark>\n! <mark>jwz</mark>\nis\na self-confessed hacker! 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