It all started with silence. The hum of my old, decapitalized laptop, the one running my entire homelab and personal services, was gone. It had died. And the timing couldn’t have been worse. My personal services were down, my internal tools were offline, and I…
The Building Block Economy
The most effective way to build software and get massive adoption is no longer high quality mainline apps but via building blocks that enable and encourage others to build quantity over quality.1
This is a note to myself Don’t forget how you got here. During the whole of school you were essentially self taught. You did not pay any attention in class, yet you still managed to get through 13 years of school. You organised a rally trip from Madrid to Ulan…
The sad state of smart homes
"A camel is a horse designed by committee." - Sir Alec Issigonis I am enamored by the idea of the smart home. Devices working to make life a little easier. Over the last few years, I've been adding smart home devices to our home, mainly for simple purposes l…
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Why Claude Mythos is not AGI
Claude Mythos Preview is not AGI.
Why I still build small iOS apps for myself, even in an App Store where discovery is weak and indie development often feels irrational.
Verifying human authorship with human.json
Vouching for other people's websites with this brand new protocol that I thought would be fun to implement!
While working on Borogove there has been a desire to have full-text search of locally-stored chat message history. For web-based apps the main storage engine in use is IndexedDB, which is a rather low-level system and certainly doesn’t have easy facilities for…
I Tested Meta Muse Spark Against 4 Frontier Models
Three tests, five models, zero retries. Meta crushed vision and analysis but face-planted on code. ChatGPT wrote the worst code and produced the best output. Meta wins overall — barely.
I tried to bring mindfulness into programming and thought I was failing. Measuring my attention revealed the real issue — I was using the wrong model for what mindfulness should feel like while coding.
Principal software engineer with deep experience in full-stack TypeScript, custom web browsers and real-time, media-focused systems.
In 1882 Nietzsche claimed that the dominant paradigm in Western society at the time, the existence of the Christian God and the guidelines for morality stemming from Christian tradition can no longer be justified. And went to shock the world (or at least the 7…
Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) running natively on the Nintendo Wii
Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that outsmarts even smart headphones - Škoda Storyboard
Pedestrians wearing headphones are exposed to an increased risk of accidents. In an effort to reduce collisions with cyclists, Škoda Auto, in collaboration with scientists, introduces an innovative bicycle bell whose sound can penetrate even active noise cance…
I've sold out
00:00:00 Intro 00:00:59 The Revenge of Amiga by Reality 00:07:22 Noctivagant by Copernicium 00:11:04 SQUAPHEREEN by ERNIE 00:13:22 Make πrogress not propaganda by [IAOTAI] CyReVolt 00:14:40 Hello Potato by 🥔 00:16:01 WaVeZzZ by lfo / TEAM VyRaL ^ Hokuto Force…
The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code
Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
Andy Warfield writes about the hard-won lessons dealing with data friction that lead to S3 Files
April 7, 2026