Archive - The Weekly Tinkerer

Big Mistake. Big. Huge.

Building a custom email gatekeeper, breaking the cardinal rule of software deployment, and surviving the fallout.

Aug 29 • Kevin Ebert

Who Decides You're the Problem?

A Waymo called the cops on two teenagers. The privacy question turned out to be the wrong one.

Aug 22 • Kevin Ebert

Nobody Can Reliably Tell AI Writing From Human Writing

Your chances of getting it right are slightly better than a coin toss. Here's my disclosure anyway.

Aug 15 • Kevin Ebert

How Email Terrorism Leads to Inbox Colonization

Six approvals for one company, a podcast rant that named the problem, and the domain-level fix that stops it.

Aug 8 • Kevin Ebert

I've Been a Stubborn Donkey

Two decades on LinkedIn, and I finally figured out I wasn't reading the room.

Aug 2 • Kevin Ebert

July 2026

The Impotent Inbox

Three companies, one AI trend, and the experiment I'm running to stop giving my inbox away for free.

Jul 29 • Kevin Ebert

I thought color was taste. It's a number.

WCAG doesn't care about taste. It cares about a computable number, and mine wasn't hitting it.

Jul 26 • Kevin Ebert

A bot logged into my app before my friend could

Found it before an appointment. Fixed it on the drive. Shipped it in the waiting room.

Jul 25 • Kevin Ebert

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