How Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery I'm sharing my experience dealing with what might be the most underdiagnosed and under-treated health disorder today.
Four tech waves. Six companies. Here’s what I’m building next. I’ve been lucky. Lucky to be building during four major technology shifts: the internet, SaaS/web services, mobile/social, and now AI, and to have learned something useful from each one. Not by being the smartest person in the room, but by being around ot...
Working Hard | Joy of Reading Before podcasts were a thing, Bill Simmons would trade e-mails with somebody successful for his piece on ESPN called "The Curious Guy". I ran into this excha...
I owe my career to open-source communities. I'm not sure newcomers can say the same. Open-source communities shaped my career in ways no tutorial ever could. Now, as AI floods those same spaces with noise, I worry about the people arriving just a few years too late.
Agents Can Reason. They Still Can't Really Search. Agents have a search problem across the whole stack: web search, RAG, tool discovery, skills/workflow loading, and even context compaction.
May I recommend… understanding Emacs's patterns The above, unless I've completely forgotten my Shakespeare, was a soliloquy from Juliet Consulet regarding Romeo Montagnu
The End of Claude Code Automation Starting June 15, Anthropic is moving automated Claude Code usage out of the normal subscription bucket. usage will now count against a separate monthly API-style credit that is much smaller than what…
Noam Hurwitz Modern chips are produced in part through lithography: light is projected through a mask onto photosensitive material coating silicon to pattern transistors, contacts, vias, interconnects, and other structures. As Moore’s Law pushes on and chips continue ...
Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals I love quasicrystals—like crystals, but with patterns that never repeat, like Penrose tiles. But they’ve very rare in nature. They’re created only by the most exotic and violent e…
Small Model Forensics What ~2,000 timed API calls reveal about how closed-weight model providers scale inference, or fail to, in 2026.
Cheap agents, alumni shirts, and Elias Thorne · Daniel May On agent-coded cold outreach, the alumni t-shirt scam, the Elias Thorne convergence, and what gets visible when no one does the work.
God Damn AI is making me dumb It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...
Bitcoin trader recovers $400,000 using Claude AI after getting 'stoned' and losing wallet password 11 years ago — bot tried 3.5 trillion passwords before decrypting an old wallet backup The user apparently changed the password while 'stoned.'
RTX 5090 + M4 MacBook Air: Can it Game? What if you could strap a full desktop GPU to your MacBook Air? Turns out, you can.
Video transcript: A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline | MIT Office of the President | MIT Hello, everyone.
Rewrite Bun in Rust by Jarred-Sumner · Pull Request #30412 · oven-sh/bun Blog post with details coming soon. It passes Bun's pre-existing test suite on all platforms (and fixes several memory leaks and flaky tests), the binary size shrinks by 3 MB - 8 MB, the benchm...
Introducing Claude for Small Business We're launching Claude for Small Business, a package of connectors and ready-to-run workflows that put Claude inside the tools small businesses use every day.
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The Per-Minute Calling Myth: The Hidden Economics of Voice and Video Calling APIs Why do most communication platforms charge per-minute fees even when peer-to-peer calls never traverse their infrastructure? A technical look at how modern WebRTC systems actually work, and why per-minute billing for internet communication is increasingly...
I Don't Even Know What To Build Anymore - Vance Lucas UIs with buttons and charts are not cool anymore. All that matters is AI agents now. APIs, CLIs and MCPs. It's all about the data, bro. Where is your MCP? Or so the discourse goes...
The hardware isn't broken, the documentation is ! Silicon erratas or how my first analog ASIC is dead before arrival.
The harness that lied — Are You There? On the verdict-before-evidence pattern in security research — and how I caught my own PoC confirming itself regardless of the facts.
Star Color and the Evolution of Space on the Screen How Project Hail Mary's faithful depiction of space changes science fiction forever.
You need to calm down AI isn’t changing the fundamentals of building software. It’s changing the speed. Don’t confuse the two.
Building for the joy of building | jola.dev My path into programming and why I've been obsessed for 20 years.
How LLMs Really Work If you have used ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, you have already formed an intuition about what these systems do. You type something in, and text comes back that feels coherent, knowledgeable, and sometimes eerily human. But the machinery underneath is simul...
Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid Modern cars are computers on wheels that send home nonstop telemetry about you. In this post I remove my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid's modem and GPS to prevent that :)
I Read OpenSSL for Fun and Found a Nonce Leak I was poking around the OpenSSL source code recently. Not really hunting for anything specific (one of the most heavily audited codebases), just curious about how the new post-quantum crypto stuff was wired up in version 4.0.0. I went in expecting to find...
EventQL: A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing EventQL: A SQL-Inspired Query Language Designed for Event Sourcing
Was my $48K GPU server worth it? In 2024 I quit my FAANG job to become an independent researcher. To do this I needed GPUs, so I built “grumbl”, a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server. This blog describes the build, some of the issu…
On Planet Quantos, Programmers Flee An interactive story about porting a classical rank-select function to a reversible (quantum-oracle-style) form. Step through five C implementations, each adding one constraint from the world of unitary computation.
The Wide Paved Road versus the Narrow Footpath - Peter's Path Explore the wide paved road of ease leading to ruin versus the narrow footpath of hardship leading to redemption across stories, myths, and faiths.
I was asked to install malware during a fake interview My experience with Contagious Interviews (Malware delivered through fake developer job interviews)
Slowing Down My Coding Agents to Get More Done – Robert W Your backlog is sitting idle waiting to get worked on, and it could be showing up pre-baked, ready for verification.
Prayer-Driven Development The term “Prayer-Driven Development” was coined by Davor Pavleković for deployments where hope is your only strategy. That was before AI agents made it an industry standard. Everyone Did Their Part. Nobody Saw the Whole. You’ve been here. The prompt that ...
Taking control of the SQLite WAL – Philip O'Toole rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, fault-tolerant relational database built on SQLite and Raft. Version 10 is out now. rqlite has a particular relationship with the SQLite Write-Ahead Log (WAL). SQLite, left to itself, manages its own WAL: it checkpoin...
