John Masson

On recognizing when someone new questions the status quo as an opportunity to listen and act.

A URL param that shows just accounts you follow, in chronological order.

TIL, Claude Code traverses up out of your project folder looking for .claude folders.

Dividing tasks into execution-focused to-dos and deep work to-thinks.

Huge if true. Someone actually shipping solid state batteries right now.

On the small web and resisting selling our souls to large tech companies.

My structured workflow for building with AI and engineering rigour.

There's no .cfignore, and you can't purge the cache. Here's what I learned.

Why I moved from Quotion to my own static site, driven by RSS enthusiasm.

What if our software could invite us to slow down and be a bit more human?

Apple Podcasts names The Rest Is History the 2025 Show of the Year.

More useful snippets on using Claude than you'll find in 10 hours of typical content.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

RSS offers better signal-to-noise ratios than Twitter, Threads, or Bluesky.

The long-term magic of mastering the basics.

Writing forces clarity of thought. Why a writing culture is worth the effort.

Back home in country Victoria.

Using an extended break to launch a personal blog.