Nicholas J Collins
A writer and software dev, Nick's writing combines interiority with grounded fantasy/sci-fi. When he’s not writing he’s desperately managing a zoo of rescued animals and trying to solve every problem in his permaculture garden with more wood chips.
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The Body Collectors
Christmas Eve, 2090. The great machinery of this world churns, granting its people a longer farewell than they might deserve…
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Slowclap Update: Themes
I'm excited to announce a new update to slowclap that is designed to make it even easier for subscribers to make their slowclap page their own. It's called themes.
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Slowclap Design Philosophy: Decentralization
A post about decentralization Which actually means this is a post about… you.
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Slowclap Design Philosophy: Subscriptions
Today's design philosophy post is about subscriptions and auto-allocation. But in order to talk about this I need to talk about something everyone in the design business understands but I haven't really seen people talk about: manipulation.
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Slowclap Design Philosophy: Attribution
A dev oriented thread about the design philosophy behind Slowclap’s attribution system
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Slowclap Design Philosophy: Fees
A dev oriented thread about the design philosophy behind Slowclap’s fee structure
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The Machine is not Your Friend
It's probably not the best idea, when trying to build a platform that showcases my writing, to have the second post be about AI. It feels like the only thing I have an easier time finding these days than AI slop are thinkpieces about AI slop.
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Why I Built Slowclap
There’s a point at which noise becomes silence. The fans and air conditioners struggling to keep up with the oppressive heat fade into the background, but they’re still there, humming, drilling into my temples…