Archive - Nichstack

Greed is murdering the economy

90% of people have increasingly nothing to work with.

Aug 7 •

Alexander Nicholi

An outline of Anodyne

Hardware, software, and interplay in broad strokes.

Aug 6 •

Alexander Nicholi

July 2025

You are the Dead Internet

Sometimes social media brainrot comes from within.

Jul 29 •

Alexander Nicholi

Advertising in the new stratified world

Here’s another thing that ‘happened in 1971’.

Jul 25 •

Alexander Nicholi

Why I don’t care about the AI bubble

No chip on my shoulder to be seen.

Jul 24 •

Alexander Nicholi

Welcome, Anodyne

My principal contribution to computing as a product

Jul 21 •

Alexander Nicholi

The bot scourge is not an accident

It’s a new form of conditioning and most major players already bought in.

Jul 4 •

Alexander Nicholi

June 2025

A mostly wrong history of text encoding

The Teletype Model 33 was actually a trans-dimensional gift from aliens that might be in the future.

Jun 26 •

Alexander Nicholi

Why I’m a hard ass with programmers

You may not want the parasocial, but the parasocial wants you.

Jun 25 •

Alexander Nicholi

Welcome Unreality

Are you enjoying the show?

Jun 24 •

Alexander Nicholi

The tech mob depends on them to keep consolidating their power.

Jun 21 •

Alexander Nicholi

No love for native GUI toolkits

Look and feel is one of the things of the 90s we no longer covet.

Jun 20 •

Alexander Nicholi

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