The Architecture of Resistance
The seventeenth-century Hague, the mid-twentieth-century Levant, and the digital terraforming of 2025 have a shared preoccupation with the “Average.” Whether it is the theologian’s way …
HTTP caching, a refresher · Dan Cătălin Burzo
Let’s relearn web caching together.
The Rise of Classic Home Computers | Commodore, Atari, Apple, TI & Tandy
Before consoles dominated the living room and before personal computers became household appliances, owning a computer at home felt like stepping into the future. In the late 1970s through the 1980s and early 1990s, classic home computers began appearing on d…
Bad Questions
An article by Josh
Document search using Claude and an inverted index.
Soooo vector databases are pretty popular right now for document search, but it has some drawbacks: choosing the right embedding models, finding the right chunk size, indexing into high dimensional embeddings and managing specialized infrastructure.
Running Claude Code from my phone via SSH with Tailscale and tmux
A guide to controlling Claude Code running on your laptop from your phone over SSH using Termius, Tailscale, and tmux.
Adaptec RAID cards are junk
From time to time, people would complain about this deleted driver and argue that other OSs were superior because they supported this bad hardware (usually without the fixes in the drivers that were needed). This story was originally posted on one of the OpenB…
Bottom-Up Parser Example | ErrorCode0
Showcasing how a simple bottom up parser might function given a string and context-free grammar.
davidbau.com In Defense of Curiosity
At the NeurIPS Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop, I was asked to give an opinion on Neel Nanda's recent blog post on "pragmatic interpretability." I chose to respond by recounting the story of Venetian glassmaking.
Why Custom Evals Matter for Production LLMs
Generic benchmarks measure breadth across many tasks. Your application needs depth on one specific task. This is why custom evals matter for production LLMs.
Lua 5.5 Reference Manual - contents
The reference manual is the official definition of the Lua language. For a complete introduction to Lua programming, see the book Programming in Lua.
Scaling Decision-Making: Guardrails Beat Gatekeepers
I walked into a budget meeting expecting the usual spreadsheet tour: what went up, what went down, and where we should trim next year. We did that. But in the middle of the call, something else surfaced: we were debating how decisions should happen, not just w…
A Couple 3D AABB Tricks
published on Dec 23 2025
Travel in Style. UniFi style. UniFi Travel Router.
Take your UniFi network anywhere. The UniFi Travel Router recreates your full network environment on power up, with flexible uplinks, instant policies, and seamless device connectivity.
Reflections and rantings from a system design interviewer
A list of subtly harmful behaviors I notice during system design interviews
Useful Agentic Workflows | David Gasquez
David Gasquez personal website
The Best Things and Stuff of 2025
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2025. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
We Must Seize the Means of Compute
The critics are right: massive data centers are a waste. But the solution isn't to ban the math. It is to run it on your own metal.
Codex vs. Claude Code (Today)
Every AI tool has its strengths and weaknesses, and the only way to discover what they are is by using them.
Improving Direct Lighting Material Occlusion - Part 1
Piqué fabric with micro-occlusion on the top, and micro-shadowing at the bottom. Both are using the same micro-occlusion map. Geometry virtualization and displacement systems like Nanite has allowed us to substantially increase the geometry resolution. But whe…
Release Trains Aren't About Releases
My Corner of the Web - Cameron Westland's personal blog
Funny Numbers
When Knowing How to Code Is Not Enough
Being a good programmer doesn't make you good at managing agents.
Find what you’re missing at zombo.com
We were approached on a sunny day by a charming stranger in a brilliant raincoat. “I would like you to make a radio advertisement,” said he, flashing white veneers and an impressive wad of cash. “A…
Against SemVer
Semantic versioning is the most standard way of naming versions of software. is the spec, but in short, you define a contract and then give every version a ...
Why do students leave exams early?
It's simply just irrational.