The Rise and Fall of a Tech Company The Beginning It’s 2020, I’ve just turned 30, I’m a pilot and its the height of COVID - not a lot of flying jobs around. I decide I’m going to start a computer hardware company in Dubai. I’m not really sure what it does yet, and I figure I’ll just build a...
I Think AGI Just Happened We were waiting for new tech to get AGI, but it came in the form of integration of existing tech
I Used Spotlistr Every Week. Then Playlist Creation Started Costing Credits. — yyyokel Spotlistr moved playlist creation behind a prepaid credit system. Here's the workflow that broke for me, the math on why a day-long rebuild made sense, and Track Down — the free, client-side alternative that came out of it.
A World of Blinkenlights A WarGames-style world map that turns Cloudflare traffic analytics into blinking lights on the wall.
Building Systems that Build Systems: Setting up the SDLC in LangGraph What I learned building an AI agent team that runs the full software development lifecycle in LangGraph, and why upstream documentation matters more than ever.
How I get and find music now Inspired by a few recent posts on HN I wanted to make this post and share some of the ways I’ve been going about finding new music. There’s both a lot of ways to get music and ways to find new music. This is a list of some things that did/didn’t work for ...
Pebble provides a positive update but I still wouldn’t recommend buying one - LJPUK It’s good to see positive updates from Pebble regarding shipping and replacing faulty units but I still wouldn’t recommend getting one. The hardware looks great and a simpler step tracking...
Portents Of Doom Elon Musk is the world champion of totally implausible projections, and Kim Khan reported on a personal best in SpaceX sees total addressab...
Comptime is funtime: Per-Span State Without a Hash Map In my free time, I have been following Casey Muratori's excellent Performance-Aware Programming Series. In Part 2: Basic Profiling, the task is to build a simple profiler. While doing so, I discovered a neat feature of Zig's comptime and generics.
Overtraining as the path to human-like AI The anonymous blogger Gwern recently completed a thirteen thousand word post called Human-like Neural Nets by Catapulting, in which he offers a theory about why LLMs don’t possess truly flexible human-like intelligence, and how we might train LLMs that do...
What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really? As somebody who writes a lot, I've always been interested in personal knowledge management systems and note-taking apps. But what do these frameworks and methodologies actually give to researchers and the broader world? Has there been a meaningful increas...
Claude Code is the ceiling on vibe-coded software Anthropic would like you to believe that you don’t need to deal with code anymore. Just prompt your agent, set up the right guardrails, port everything to Rust, and you’re on the path to success. All of the major LLM companies heavily or exclusively use L...
I made my blog solar-powered In 2020 - inspired by Low Tech Magazine - I decided to make this blog solar-powered. At that time, I was already self-hosting this blog on a Raspberry Pi at that time so it felt like a fun little project.
Specs Are the Deliverable - Jelmer Snoeck Software Engineer writing about infrastructure, Kubernetes, and Go
