Slop Debt
Tech debt has rules. You cut a corner to ship on time, you write a comment that says TODO fix this, and six months later someone pays it down. It is annoying but it is bounded. A senior engineer can look at a codebase with tech debt and draw a map of where the…
Shotgun
Two specs in. One proxy out.
Build single file executables in Gleam, bundled and run with Bun
How ordinary tool calls create shadow delegation
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gRPC-Web Should Have Fixed gRPC
gRPC-Web should have been the pressure that made gRPC simpler, more inspectable, and better suited for the web.
On uncertainty, progress, and making choices while the world refuses to stand still.
Treat your brain like a baby
As an autistic person, I've been struggling my entire life to decode, process or understand my feelings and behaviors. For most of my teenage years I just let m…
Code Doesn’t Speak for Itself
Hannah Arendt's challenge to the Stoic ideal of inner freedom, and what it means for engineers who want their code to speak for itself.
Over the last year, a strange thing has happened in tech: very different companies have started moving towards the same product shape, and it feels like everyone is building the same thing.
Fast and Hard Code
People pick languages differently with LLMs.
We have recognised from the beginning that America has changed, and that we will not return to our old relationship. Our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade relationships. Putting tariffs on its closest allies and chargin…
Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast
The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in asse…
Aug 21, 2026
You should never be angry at work
I try not to give a lot of prescriptive advice about working in tech companies. There are many ways to be successful, and every company works differently. If…