@ftrain

Co-founder @aboard, often at @WIRED. https://xitter.cf/t.co/okso6318TX, other places, etc.

 Brooklyn, NY
aboard.com
Joined June 2007
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Paul Ford retweeted
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@goldmanOct 14
I think this is a massively cool and big idea. It’s all the productivity suite but stateless. It’s Office but for Agents.
Paul Ford@ftrainOct 14
This Link Is This Document tinylittleoffice.com/?c=wmpp…

Tiny Little Office: the link is the document

A tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device.

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Testing to see if this works tinylittleoffice.com/?c=m5ku…

Tiny Little Office: the link is the document

A tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device.

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This Link Is This Document tinylittleoffice.com/?c=wmpp…

Tiny Little Office: the link is the document

A tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device.

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Paul Ford retweeted
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@aboardOct 14
Six years ago, @richziade had a great software idea: TinySheet, a ten-line spreadsheet that ran in the browser and kept all the data in its URL. Today, @ftrain writes, they've expanded on that idea with TinyLittleOffice.com: buff.ly/BpHyliT
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Paul Ford retweeted
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@aboardOct 14
How can we get politicians and Silicon Valley on the same AI page? On this week’s Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade welcome on @goldman of the Center for Shared AI Prosperity. Listen now: buff.ly/MiRhbnv
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Nothing could delight me more than talk to @ftrain about the internet aboard.com/podcast/katie-not…
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Paul Ford retweeted
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@aboardAug 5
"My prediction is that, via PostgreSQL, many more people will start to anchor their AI work in structured, semantically linked data," writes @ftrain. "We need to start using our computers again, instead of just talking to them." buff.ly/jGZqB53
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Paul Ford retweeted
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@aboardJul 29
"What would it sound like to be a ghost walking around the empty mall in an abandoned alien space station while vaporwave-style...music...blurs together in the background, layered in with random voices and sound effects?" buff.ly/dJjynE8
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Paul Ford retweeted
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@aboardMay 6
"Software development in the future will be less and less about coding and deploying software," writes @ftrain. "Instead, it’ll be more and more about cataloging and identifying good loops between generative systems and verification systems." buff.ly/SWRG98Q
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Paul Ford retweeted
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@aboardApr 21
“The blind vibe-coding revolution is upon us.” On the Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade are joined by @quailty5 to discuss how blind and low-vision people are using AI tools to create and adapt software to suit their accessibility needs: buff.ly/8834U3R
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Paul Ford retweeted
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@aboard6 Aug 2025
Karen Hao's "Empire of AI," @ftrain writes, is "less about computers becoming human, and more about humans being very human." In this week's newsletter, Paul reviews Hao's sweeping chronicle of the emerging AI era: buff.ly/6cWBp1I
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Haven’t looked in here for a couple months but just wanted to swing by and say great job!
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I guess ominous dread is it from here on out.
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bike pants sasquatch size
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It's this collection of my own writing. I have attempted to climb this data-gathering hill MANY times in the last decade and have many google sheets to prove it. It's always bested me. But this took only a few hours and one stiff drink. app.aboard.com/boards/2Guc8L…
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Or you can read tweets from freaks.
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Anyway if I click on the "Days above 38C/100F" map at 1.5 degrees of global warming and click Dallas it shows me this, which means "In the nearish term, really good climate science shows you can expect around 31, but as many as 61, days above 100 degrees per year in Dallas."
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Advertisers before the year 2000.
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