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[...] if you ever needed another reason to learn in public by digital gardening or podcasting or streaming or whathaveyou, add on that people will assume you’re more competent than you are. This will get you invites to very cool exclusive events filled with high-achieving, interesting people, even though you have no right to be there. A+ side benefit. — Maggie Appleton , Gathering Structures ( via ) Tags: blogging , maggie-appleton

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A quote from Maggie Appleton Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: Sonar — Now with SAST + SCA for secure, dependency-aware Agentic Engineering. SonarQube Advanced Security 23rd April 2026 [...] if you ever needed another reason to learn in public by digital gardening or podcasting or streaming or whathaveyou, add on that people will assume you’re more competent than you are. This will get you invites to very cool exclusive events filled with high-achieving, interesting people, even though you have no right to be there. A+ side benefit. — Maggie Appleton , Gathering Structures ( via ) Posted 23rd April 2026 at 1:35 pm Recent articles DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price - 24th April 2026 Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web - 23rd April 2026 A pelican for GPT-5.5 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API - 23rd April 2026 This is a quotation collected by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd April 2026 . blogging 122 maggie-appleton 2 Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

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