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Can the MacBook Neo replace my M4 Air?
Many of us wonder if the MacBook Neo is 'the one'. Because I have a faster desktop (currently a M4 Max Mac Studio), I've always used a lower-end Mac laptop, like the iBook or MacBook Air, for travel. I've used MacBook Pros in the past, but I like the portabili…
MALUS - Clean Room as a Service
SYS-001 · REV-2.4 · Robot-Reconstructed · Zero Attribution
s@: social networking over static sites
Social networking over static sites
Subduction Retrieval
I don't know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction
AI tools push us to higher abstraction. I'm not sure I like what that costs us.
Why Vibe Coding Won't Build More Successful Products.
Why vibe coding isn't shipping more successful products. More Code ≠ More Products.
Hiding code in code - Hart Traveller
You can hide arbitrary code (or any data for that matter) in self executing code. A neat example and a python package (PyPi | GitHub) are included.
Exclusive scheduled jobs using database locks
Using locks implemented as rows in an SQL database enables running scheduled background jobs in an application, providing a best-effort guarantee that only one application instance at a time runs …
Beating App Store review: lessons from shipping a minimal indie game
What App Store ‘Minimum Functionality’ really means, based on shipping a focused, minimal indie game and navigating multiple review rejections.
Building Better Country Selects
A practical UX critique of the standard country dropdown, with guidance for better search, ordering, labeling, and implementation.
Breaking Down the Jelly Slider
After the Jelly Slider implementation gained a lot of attention, I decided to write this post to explain how it works in detail and show…
The Noble Path
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an indie hacker in possession of a widget must be in want of a business model... Every tool is a startup now. Every script is a SaaS product. Every neat little hack you cobbled together on a Sunday afternoon to so…
Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro
In 2025, I traveled by bus in South America, starting in Lima, Peru and ending in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Here are some details for anyone interested in doing the same.
Intent-Driven Development
As software engineers, I get the feeling we’re moving almost entirely away from code. And I don’t just mean having conversations with agents where they write all the code. But even further, maintaining just a system of prompts that describes the software. Trea…
Playful leadership development in mid-career academic mentoring and coaching
Matthew Beach and Joanne Yao have a bit of fun with playful approaches to mid-career academic mentoring and coaching
The Mechanics of Autonomous Software Translation
2026 started with a boom of AI-assisted autonomous translations, on 14th of January, Cursor published their post on Scaling long-running autonomous coding in which they created translations of a browser, Java LSP, Windows emulator and Excel. This was followed …
Chasing Boring at Just the Right Speed
Asking the Right Questions A while back when I was looking for a fulltime gig (and when I was contracting, of course), I had the opportunity to do a bunch of interviews (including the kind of...
Claude Code isn’t going to replace data engineers (yet)
Introducing: Code Canary
If you’ve got any kind of engineering background, you’re probably spending most of your waking hours enmeshed in a possibly unhealthy relationship with a coding agent like Claude Code. …
Parametricity, or Comptime is Bonkers
Here's a puzzle. Without looking at the body, what does this Rust function do?
work_mem: it's a trap! | My DBA Notebook
My friend Henrietta Dombrovskaya pinged me on Telegram. Her production cluster had just been killed by the OOM killer after eating 2 TB of RAM. work_mem was set to 2 MB. Something didn’t add up. Hetty, like me, likes playing with monster hardware. 2 TB of RAM …
The Upfront Investment That Saves 10,000 Hours
There’s a pattern in tech where people mock the setup cost of automation without accounting for the return. I spent a day building a Grunt-based WordPress bootstrapper in 2013. Fortune 500 co…
Code Quality in the Age of Coding Agents
An adaptation of an internal talk I gave during a company wide ai-adoption week.
Get in Line (Part 2) - Vyukov's Queue and its specializations
In the last post we got a low-latency SPSC queue. But we often need multi-producer or multi-consumer or both - for example if you want to spin-off a bunch of threads in a threadpool to do some work and then aggregate the result back in the main thread, or you …
The Debt Beneath the Dream
Every gambler knows that the secret to survivin’ Is knowin’ what to throw away and knowing what to keep ‘Cause every hand’s a winner and every hand’s a loser And the b…