Vibe Analysis
Despite its unserious name, vibe coding shows promise for elements of serious scholarly work
Code generation that just works
About nine months ago, my son said he wanted to make a video game. He said it was called Exploding Kitties. We made it together on my computer. He described ...
Building More Resilient Local-First Software with atproto | jakelazaroff.com
atproto has the potential to become a rock-solid replacement for the most fragile part of any local-first app: the sync server.
Alan Kay's Answers on Quora
I first met Bill at the famous Steve Jobs visit to Parc to see the Smalltalk system, its GUI, etc. (I might have run into him earlier). After a stint at Atari, Steve Jobs hired me in 1984 as an Apple Fellow (Butler and I had been made Fellows towards the end o…
The Disposable Tools Manifesto
I built 20+ tools in 6 months and made zero revenue. Here's what I learned about why SaaS is dying and what's replacing it.
It has never been about code
AI asking fundamental questions
All GANS No Brakes
This is part 8 and the last entry of my series. In the previous post Generating Human Faces with Variational Autoencoders, we took a deep dive into Variation...
Outcome over Process
I don't feel that these performative actions have resulted in any real productivity gains. I realize now, that this is because I was focusing on the wrong thing.
Building a DIY OpenClaw
Two months ago, I bought a Mac Mini and spent the weekend furiously building a small clone of OpenClaw so I could text with Claude over iMessage.
A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
Systems Engineering an agent thanks to the world of Golang · Blog - MattBits
What Running a Multi-Agent Software Project Actually Looks Like
Personal site of Naren Yellavula — Staff Cloud Security Engineer, writer, and builder.
Give Your Agents Jobs, Not Processes
When building AI agents, starting small by hardcoding today's process constrains a system that can reason about goals into a brittle script. Define the job, not the steps.
Agentic Design Patterns in Production
front-cover-portrait Origin Story This project started as a sequel. Late last year I published Agentic Patterns in OpenAI's Codex — a project that too...
Your File System Is Already a Graph Database
Karpathy recently posted about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases — collecting raw sources into a directory, having an LLM “compile” them into a wiki of interlinked markdown …
Self-hosting from scratch
A series about my self-hosting journey. From clicking through Synology GUIs to running a fully config-driven homelab on a Raspberry Pi. This post outlines the arc and links to each part.
Building a Custom Claude Code Statusline to Track Worktrees and Usage
When vibe coding across multiple git worktrees, losing track of which branch you're on is a real problem. Here's how I built a minimal Claude Code statusline that shows exactly what I need — and nothing more.
Python: introducing profiling-explorer - Adam Johnson
I’ve made another package! Like icu4py, which I made in February, it was sponsored by my client Rippling. And like tprof, which I made in January, it’s a profiling tool!
Where is it like to be a language model?
And is it good to be one?
Why your NEW computer is SLOWER than your OLD computer! By a Retired Microsoft Engineer.
Dave explains why your new computer feels slower today than your old one did back then, and what can be done about it! Get the shirt! https://amzn.to/4dtdiS9
Why the Smart Model Reviewer Pattern Is Backwards
Most AI pipelines have generation and verification backwards. Smart models should generate. Cheap models should verify. The industry is putting its best capability in the wrong place — and it's creating a quality ceiling, not just a cost problem.
Grammar
The Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. It features both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.
No, I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version is A-OK.
As someone who prefers using services via their websites, I’ve gotten terribly jaded lately. Almost everyone wants me, and by extension, you, to use their darn apps to consume content and off their web versions.
Surveillance Findings: Age Verification as Mass Surveillance Infrastructure
OSINT investigation documenting how age verification laws across three countries funnel citizen biometric data through a 269-check surveillance pipeline with government reporting capabilities.
AI Did It in 12 Minutes. It Took Me 10 Hours to Fix It
I've been working on personal projects since the 2000s. One thing I've always been adamant about is understanding the code I write. Even when Stack Overflow came along, I was that annoying guy who tol
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GitHub - arman-bd/guppylm: A ~9M parameter LLM that talks like a small fish.
A ~9M parameter LLM that talks like a small fish. Contribute to arman-bd/guppylm development by creating an account on GitHub.
Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold
A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
ABS (Anti-Lock Brakes) - How They Work and Why You Care!
From the history of early ABS systems to the latest complex vehicle stability controls, Dave takes you on a journey from 1970 to the present, covering how and why ABS brakes work.