Featured post what's this? ✨ I finally had an idea worth building. That's exactly why I never shipped it. I started the same side project three times in two years. Two attempts died the same way, and it took me until the third to understand what that way was.
When the Aliens Finally Came to Visit First contact failed because aliens couldn't prove they weren't robots. A reCAPTCHA sent them back to the stars. Cloudflare has blocked every other attempts.
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
Failing after Success What are you supposed to do after you've created the most successful product? Not just successful, but the most useful. In an ideal world, you would sail into the sunset and enjoy your riches. In this
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | TechCrunch On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
What garbage collection actually costs · Shivanshu Agrawal Why the cost of a GC cycle is about objects and references, not bytes — and what to measure before you try to optimize it.
RSI claims Two days on Opus 4.8, then 34 hours on Fable 5. Same research problem, same hardware, one model generation apart. I wanted to know what the bigger model actually fixed and whether the answer supports Anthropic’s recursive-self-improvement story. I ran the...
Why you need a machine that never sleeps — mineti.dev A small always-on server, dark to the internet, that keeps an Obsidian vault converging and version-controlled, hosts coding agent sessions I can drive from a phone, and — unplanned — reaches my tasks, mail, and calendar.
Hot Take: LLM can 'jump' An interconnected-knowledge thesis: what it means for scientific breakthroughs, potential safety risks, and continual learning.
I finally had an idea worth building. That's exactly why I never shipped it. I started the same side project three times in two years. Two attempts died the same way, and it took me until the third to understand what that way was.
Three Ways to Sell the Same Software A look at how subscription, usage and outcome pricing divide the surplus, shift performance risk, and change what a vendor is on the hook for.
"Coding is solved" misses the point Every few weeks, someone declares that coding is solved. If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they're increasingly right. But was writing runnable code ever the whole problem?
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM A new report shows Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of RAM. By comparison, Apple's native Weather app on macOS uses roughly five times less memory under similar conditions.
What LLMs should do LLMs can code, should they? OpenAI released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022. I’m writing this article in June 2026. Software engineering is different from what it was before 2022. What has happened? LLM models got larger and programs were written to make it ...
Designing with code Code has always felt like a natural creative medium to me. Maybe it’s that I went to school for engineering, not art or design. 0:00 /0:03 1× When an idea is defined by a set of rules, you can generate endle...
Rails is done The core of Rails has stood the tests of time. To this day, it is a great way to build web applications. But DHH’s view of the world is fundamentally incompatible with mine, and I’m not the only one who feels that way. About a year ago, a bunch of people,...
How I use LLMs to learn complex topics · Laurentiu Raducu LLMs are used for any things. Learning new things is one of the top use cases.
Every fast write moves work somewhere else A database write can stop after memory, a local SSD, an object PUT, or a replicated WAL. Each choice changes latency, durability, and who owns the work left for later.
Mea Culpa - Dark Hours Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who …
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frust...
Advanced AI sycophancy Everyone knows that AI sycophancy is when the model tells you how smart you are. Wow, you’re absolutely right. That’s not just a new idea — it’s genuinely groundbreaking. You’re a very special user. Easy to spot, isn’t it?
