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Files are over. All you need are URLs

· 36 min

Episode Files are over. All you need are URLs

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We talk a lot about where the computer is, and where your stuff is. Paul Ford, a co-founder of Aboard and longtime tech blogger, recently built a tool called TinyLittleOffice that puts all the stuff in an unexpected place: the URL. Paul joins the show to explain how the web and the cloud have become powerful development tools, what it means to store a document in its domain, and why tiny, disposable software could make a comeback in the age of AI.

Further reading:

• A YouTuber dissected an iPhone Duo and thinks he found the cause of crackgate

• Anthropic’s IPO filing lays out a plan to ‘revolutionize every area of human endeavor’ with AI

• Apple updates the iPad Mini with a larger OLED display

• Tiny Little Office

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