Life throws curveballs at you. A problem might come up in the evening that needs to wait until the next morning. An evening of sleep might be interrupted, or you might wake up earlier than you’d expected and not be able to fall asleep. Perhaps you want to get …
A non-technical CFO built a production operations dashboard with Claude Code that had failed with low-code tools and agencies. This shift in who can build software is going to change everything.
I am a software engineer and a computer science student based in Germany with a keen interest in the intersection of web technology and 2D graphics.
A post about the tracker app I built for my girlfriend
URL design impacts application architecture, performance, and costs. Case study: how flat URLs caused 2x backend load and how we optimized it.
.org-center { margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; } Hallucinations in GPTs can lead to the dissemination of false information, creating harmful outcomes in applications of critical decision making or leading to mistrust in AI. In a viral…
If you can’t sell your ideas, they won’t get adopted.
You can save some memory by moving to Polars from Pandas but watch out for a subtle difference in the quantile's different default interpolation methods.
A tale of optimization for an algorithm that turns byte offsets into line and column numbers, and UTF-16 offsets. The final implementation leverages SIMD and fixes several inefficiencies in the original solution.
I’ve spent the last few months using GitHub Copilot without inline suggestions. Since the feature came out, I’ve been uneasy about it. It feels to me like the TikTok vs. YouTube debate: do I want to choose the content I consume or let an algorithm feed me what…
Bézier curves are a core building block of text and 2D shapes rendering. There are several approaches to rendering them, but one especially challenging problem, both mathematically and technically, is computing the distance to a Bézier curve. For quadratic cur…
Sponsorship is appreciated! ripgrep 15 is a new major version release of ripgrep that mostly has bug fixes, some minor performance improvements and minor new features. In case you haven't heard of...
Many quartz watches do their best to hide away any electronic components from view. The design concept for this watch was to embrace those digital components instead, taking inspiration from command-line interfaces and computer hardware.
It's pretty clear now that a lot of the unrest we're seeing—and the insecurity-induced radicalization—is due to an unprecedented civilizational energy transition that looks to be more or less irreversible at this point.
Published: Oct 17, 2025
There are days in our life which we look back at - often. They hold a special place in our psyche because they make us what we have aspired to be. It’s a day which is complete in itself. It doesn’t need the past or the future. This is a distilled version of on…
Below is relevant enforcement correspondence sent by the UK Office of Communications, known by the Orwellian portmanteau “Ofcom,” to my client, 4chan, in relation to its Online Safety A…
In April 2024, Mark Zuckerberg told Dwarkesh Patel that Meta’s biggest constraint in developing AI wasn’t GPUs. It was power. Even with unlimited capital, the lead time on new energy generation was years. Tyler Cowen made a similar point. When asked why the A…
An overview of the architectural shift from Shallow Agents (Agent 1.0) to Deep Agents (Agent 2.0) and how to build complex AI agents that can handle multi-step tasks over extended periods.
In response to The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe:
A long dive into the features that make my ideal music app, and why nothing currently fulfils the brief.
By Susam Pal on 03 Oct 2025
Claude Skills was released earlier today by Anthropic. It’s effectively an extension of the Code Execution server-side tool paired with context on how Claude should operate on files in a container. The quirk is that Skills have three progressive layers of cont…
Building a fully functioning coding agent is not nearly as hard as you might think. When you watch an agent autonomously editing files, running commands, recovering from errors, and adapting its strategy on the fly, it feels like magic. Like there must be some…
machine learning and generative art
Unix time, calendar time, time comparison, arithmetic, rounding, and marshaling.
Missed connections and Markov chains
Meeting Or Deleting Constraints
Intercellular nanotubular networks mediate material exchange, but their existence in neurons remains to be explored in detail. We identified long, thin dendritic filopodia forming direct dendrite–dendrite nanotubes (DNTs) in mammalian cortex. Super-...