Builtplain publishes source-checked founder-oriented essays on hardware, product design and customer experience, using specific product examples such as development boards, pocket synthesizers and refill soap. Each issue unpacks a practical trade-off a founder faces and cites official pages and dated reporting while noting the limits of those sources.
Website: https://builtplain.com/
A personal tech blog about retro computing and hardware tinkering, covering KIM-1-compatible 6502 builds, CP/M-65, and troubleshooting vintage and cheap modern electronics. Readers get detailed first-person debugging stories with specific technical findings.
A hands-on engineering newsletter benchmarking and troubleshooting large language models run locally on a Strix Halo mini PC with llama.cpp. It reports measured results, including corrections of the author's own earlier advice, on VRAM allocation, speculative decoding and KV cache quantization.
a16z's newsletter covers venture investing and technology trends, with recent issues on AI-driven hardware design, robotics dexterity and investments, and agentic commerce data. Readers get firm perspectives on where AI meets the physical world and how agents interact with online retail.
Joe Landman's personal blog mixes long-form notes on HPC, AI and home-lab hardware with reflections on technology, economics and politics. Readers get candid troubleshooting write-ups, hardware and software trade-off analysis, and occasional updates on the blog itself.
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