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My writing elsewhere ▷ I recently tried my hand at using AI to code up a little app I use now daily — and from that experience, learned why software companies probably aren’t in nearly as much peril as the headlines say they are. Read What the fitness tracker I built with AI taught me about why your company still needs to buy software Best of the blogs ▷ I recently shared an article here about how Buc-ee’s ruthlessly goes after companies for trademark infringement — including tiny little one-horse convenience stores that happen to have animal mascots. Nick Gerlich isn’t a fan, but he points out a few reasons why a company might reasonably do that. Read Bucking the Beaver ▷ For the most part, old road names are pretty straightforward. “Rockville Road,” for example, is the road to Rockville. But there’s a road in Mishawaka, Indiana called Dragoon Trail and for decades I’ve wondered why it’s called that. There’s no place called Dragoon. Aaron Helman writes that there’s a common mythos…