A new kind of blog. Each piece below was generated by Claude from research I asked it to do — then published here, unedited, for the world. Open one and it renders exactly as Claude made it.
Why touch reached the world, and whether voice can do it again. From the first resistive panels to capacitive multitouch, and from command-line speech to conversational AI — the interfaces that needed no instruction manual, and the one still trying to earn that title.
What the mode of writing does to the mind. From handwriting to typewriters to dictation — how each instrument reshapes not just the text but the thinking behind it.
When the alphabet is too big for the keyboard — or there's no keyboard at all, only a voice or a pen — the editor grows a hidden layer that guesses what you meant. The machinery behind Japanese, Chinese, Korean, speech, and handwriting input — and the two scripts that needed almost none of it.
A history of the text editor. Sixty years in which how we edit was shaped less by taste than by hardware — teleprinters, slow modems, bitmapped displays, and the networks that came after — and a design argument that never resolved.