1 December 2025

24 links · Monday

Slop Evader — Tega Brain

A browser extension for avoiding AI slop.  Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's...

Are we in a GPT-4-style leap that evals can't see?

Gemini 3 Pro's design capabilities and Opus 4.5's reduced babysitting needs represent a subtle but significant leap that traditional benchmarks completely miss.

People Who Care

A twelve-year-old on personality in design

Advent of Code CLI Client and Library

Mariah Carey has awakened from her yearly slumber. Shops are frantically tearing down pumpkins and putting up hollies and reindeer. It is time. Brace yourselves, Christmas is coming.

The end of the road for kafka-delta-ingest

After five years in production kafka-delta-ingest at Scribd has been shut off and removed from our infrastructure. kafka-delta-ingest was the motivation behind my team creating delta-rs, the most successful open source project I have started to date. Wit…

Uncle Nerd Runs A Marathon

Our 42 km Full Marathon Training turned out surprisingly successful! Let's look back and technically document everything that happened, over the past 6 months.

Blog - What are microservices? (seriously)

I used to particupate in many discussions about microservices, but over time I began to notice one strange phenomena: when 10 people are talking about microservices every one of them has slightly different meaning of the word. It goes like this: — Of course we…

Why gRPC Uses HTTP2

When Google introduced gRPC in 2015, one of the most significant architectural decisions was building it on top of HTTP/2 rather than the widely adopted HTTP/1.1. This was just about following some trend, but a deliberate choice that fundamentally shapes how g…

Timeline for Selling a Micro-SaaS

A detailed timeline of selling a micro-SaaS on Acquire.com, including pricing strategies (and foibles) and lessons learned from building and selling a calorie tracker without a large audience.

Writing a good CLAUDE.md

`CLAUDE.md` is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good `CLAUDE.md` (or `AGENTS.md`) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.

Migrating Dillo from GitHub

I would like to migrate the Dillo project away from GitHub into a new home which is more friendly to be used with Dillo and solves some of its problems. This page summarizes the current situation with GitHub and why I decided to move away from it into a self-h…