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After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

Why many engineers value startup equity at $0

Junior Developers in the Age of AI

CuTile on Blackwell: NVIDIA's Compiler Moat Is Already Built

What if AI is both good and not that disruptive?

Simple analogy to understand forward proxy vs reverse proxy

Walkthrough of X's algorithm that decides what you see

Stop Digging and Start Building: Why We Need Lego Parts, Not Deeper Type Systems

What Ralph Wiggum loops are missing

I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem (and accidentally learned why most algorithms make life worse)

Why forcing a developer to take time off actually helped

You can't handle the Buddhabrot! (2024)

Rust Patterns • Patch Type

And This Was My Christmas and New Year Break.

Post-Agentic Code Forges

The collapse of "Human Signal" on the web

Ken Thompson rewrote his code in real-time. A federal court said he co-created MP3. So why has no one heard of James D. Johnston?

Boring Systems Earn Trust

The “Hot Key” Crisis in Consistent Hashing: When Virtual Nodes Fail You

Home Office Is Sabotaging You

Two Catastrophic Failures Caused by "Obvious" Assumptions

How Debt Bankrupted the British Empire, and Why America Is Walking the Same Path

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Throwing it all away over the Mercator projection

Vimeo's Slow Fade: An Engineer's Front-Row Seat to the Fall of a Web Icon

Pattern for deduplicating concurrent async work (from uv's codebase)

My Time at Amazon

Sonic R: The R&R mod – Hacks the Saturn Racing Game into a Platformer

Why did medieval people invent so many collective nouns? (2023)

Engineering as Humanity's Highest Achievement

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