Paul Ford

Person on 3 sites

Writer and programmer; co-founder of the software studio Postlight and author of the Bloomberg Businessweek essay What Is Code?

2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2026-09-16
1 belief on korrents (opens korrents.com)
- Decades of warnings about an AI apocalypse do not justify much concern today. (opens korrents.com)
  “Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I've been hearing about that for 30 years and I can't get very worked up any more.”
  
  2026-09-12
4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
- Google Pixel 3 (opens rcmnd.app)
  “My phone is a maxed-out Google Pixel 3, which I use for phone things: Email, reading, web browsing, messaging, music, and taking pictures”
  
  2019-08-22, hardware, uses
- Google Meet speakermic (opens rcmnd.app)
  “so we use Google Meet speakermics, which allow for full-duplex conversations, which makes conversation far more organic. That device turned Google Meet from something exhausting to something really good.”
  
  2019-08-22, hardware, loved
- Huawei MateBook X Pro (opens rcmnd.app)
  “It is a shameless, down-to-the-packaging ripoff of the before-they-screwed-up-the-keyboard-era MacBook Pro, and thus just a lovely machine.”
  
  2019-08-22, hardware, loved
All 4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)

1 belief on korrents (opens korrents.com)