Holy MauiGraphics Batman! Part 3: Clayface-Level Batmaths Welcome back to MAUI UI July 2025! If you’ve read Part 1 and Part 2, you’ve seen the Batmobile throttle and dashboard controls in action.
“Flaky breakthroughs” pervade coaching — but no one tracks them Has someone you know ever had a “breakthrough” from coaching, meditation, or psychedelics — only to later have it fade?
Context Engineering vs Prompt Engineering: The 2025 Guide to Building Reliable LLM Products - Vatsal Shah Discover why context engineering not just clever prompts is now the cornerstone of scalable, low-latency AI systems. Learn architectures, metrics, and best practices with real-world examples.
You should delete tests We’ve had decades of thought leadership around testing, especially coming from wholistic development philosophies like Agile, TDD, and BDD. After all that time and several supposedly superseding movements, the developers I talk to seem to have developed a...
How fast is it really? On latency, measurement, and optimization in algorithmic trading systems | Architect: Trade Futures, Options, Digital Assets Architect offers an advanced trading platform with access to futures, options, and digital assets with institutional-grade order types, analytics, execution algorithms and more on desktop and mobile. Access connectivity to both regulated derivatives excha...
PyTorch in One Hour: From Tensors to Training Neural Networks on Multiple GPUs A curated introduction to PyTorch that gets you up to speed in about an hour.
Codex manages my podcast Insights on DevSecOps, cloud architecture, and building secure, scalable systems. Sharing practical experience from running tech companies and implementing software supply chain security at scale.
The Double-Edged Sword of Customer Obsession Customer obsession can sharpen focus and drive urgency—but left unchecked, it burns out teams and breaks products. Here's how to get it right.
How I make thumbnails for YouTube Over on the 2nd channel, I posted a video detailing my process for making thumbnails for my YouTube channel:
Creating a WiFi Captive Portal for Guests at My Apartment Networking is pretty complicated. Who knew?
I vibe-coded Tech Debt: a game written in pure HTML/CSS/JS Software engineer, web developer, budding entrepreneur
Calculus Phobic’s Introduction to Differentiable Programming You don’t have to be a Rocket Scientist to Optimize!
The loneliness of infinite conversation Last week, I found myself in a two hour conversation with Claude about the nature of consciousness. We explored thought experiments, discussed edge cases, and built elaborate conceptual frameworks together. It was one of the most intellectually stimulatin...
Principles I keep in mind when starting a side project The more aligned your expectations are with a project, the easier it is to actually finish it. Whether it's by keeping the scope tiny or avoiding unnecessary expenses, having a good set of principles to guide your side project is just as important as havi...
The New Troll Diet I have been thinking a lot about online harassment in software communities lately. Harassment is nothing new in our spaces, and I even have a...
Re: The Cult of Hard Mode Earlier this week I read Joan’s The Cult of Hard Mode: Why Simplicity Offends Tech Elites, something I had skipped over until I read Jack’s Hard Mode and status (and follow-up Hard Mode and blogging). Jack writes quick thoughts, fluttering between changin...