Featured post what's this? ✨ Become a Product-First Software Engineer I think many engineers would be better contributors if they started to think more about the customer impact of their work.
Computer use is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
That's No Warehouse... It's a Space Station “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. And centralized data architectures lead to a table called customer_revenue_final_v9_USE_THIS_ONE_SERIOUSLY.” — Yoda, leading a postmortem In your company there is likely a data warehous...
You Don’t Review Your Compiler Output Someone on LinkedIn posted that every line of AI-generated code should be reviewed with the same rigor you’d apply to a junior developer’s pull request. The reply that stopped the threa…
The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (カエルの為(ため)に鐘(かね)は鳴(な)る) is a Japanese-only Game Boy title published in 1992 by Nintendo and developed by Intelligent Systems. The title’s official English translati...
Building a MongoDB GUI Custom Table System: A 9 Month Journey Learn how we built a high-performance MongoDB table view that handles nested, irregular documents at 60fps, even with 100k rows and 1000 columns.
On the Economics of Truth The cost of fabrication has collapsed. The cost of verification has not. This essay traces the triple asymmetry degrading shared reality and what it means for every collective response we need.
After 3 months of standing desk Since the last 2 months I had to change my environment in which I used to do my long hours of deep work. One of the things that was part of the change was a standing desk. Actually it was not a desk per se but just a platform on top of which I can keep my...
Bad bossing and the expertise byproduct Human effort produces an output as its product and expertise as its byproduct. Bad bosses don't know how lucky they are.
I've spent 10+ years helping Rails devs reach the App Store. Today, someone shipped without me. | Masilotti.com Yesterday Ruby Native launched. Today the first customer app went live. And the developer never opened Xcode.
A Guide of Poor Decision Practices in Management for Tech Leaders and Founders • placementist Best practices, past success and gut instinct: the three management beliefs costing startups the most and how to audit them.
A Namecheap bug got my domain suspended My primary domain (captnemo.in, where you’re reading this) was suspended by my registry (.in) for 3 hours last night (4th May 2026).
krabr.com | How I organize my work A plain-text, git-tracked worklog that keeps multiple jobs and side projects in sync without any task-management tooling.
Pocket — Anthony Liddle The web home of Pocket, Mozilla's article-discovery service. 2M+ daily page views at peak. Co-architected across six years, two full rewrites.
Why Coding Agents Need a Merge Queue - ctx Parallel agents on separate worktrees need a local system to land changes cleanly without conflicts or regressions.
SaaS Isn't Dying. Its Users Are. SaaS isn't dying but per-seat pricing, UX polish, and DAU metrics are. Here's what changes when agents become your product's primary user.
Don’t let your Mac’s storage fill up! Macs don’t do well when they start to approach full storage. The operating system doesn’t provide enough safeguards and backoff options to help you cope with what can become a disaster,…
When Too Many Maps Overlap on One Person | Yusuf Aytas Why engineering teams turn one trusted person into a decision bottleneck. How informal authority, hidden context, and single points of failure slow delivery
Complete Guide: How to Integrate Beehiiv with Hugo via Cloudflare Workers Learn how to integrate a custom Beehiiv form into a Hugo website on GitHub Pages, using Cloudflare Workers and monitoring via PostHog.
Just one more prompt… Claude Code gives me a constant stream of dopamine hits but also FOMO, guilt, and anxiety.
Add Animal Crossing events to your digital calendar Animal Forest (“Dōbutsu no Mori” or “どうぶつの森”) was released in Japan for the Nintendo 64 on April 14th, 2001: exactly 25 years ago today! To celebrate this beloved franchise I have created calendar...
When Knowledge Becomes Control Instructions and governance are different things. I ran 265 experiments to find the boundary.
My 1B tokens/day OpenAI Symphony setup How I run OpenAI Symphony 24/7 on Zo Computer with Linear, project skills, and a token usage dashboard.
Am I an LLM? As I keep interacting with LLMs and learn how they work, I sometimes pause and wonder if there's a chance that I can be some sort of LLM.
Your coding agent is under-specified Coding agents write impressive first drafts. But under the surface, corners are cut, details are missing, and technical debt accumulates with every change. The problem is not the model. It is that what we ask it to do is fundamentally under-specified.
A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures - The Old New Thing I want to speak to your manager.
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
The best is over The seed of this post was hearing “I Don’t Wanna Wait” on the radio while shopping for groceries. The song rips off “Dragostea Din Tei” by O-Zone, which anyone …
iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet Apple is letting users build their own Wallet passes in iOS 27. After 14 years of PassKit, the supply-side problem is finally being solved from the demand side.
AI didn't delete your database, you did Last week, a tweet went viral showing a guy claiming that a Cursor/Claude agent deleted his company's production database. We watched from the sidelines as he tried to get a confession from the agent:
Async Rust never left the MVP state - Blog - Tweede golf I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to ...
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Agent Skills AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skill...
