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

And This Was My Christmas and New Year Break.

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

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

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Writing Load Balancer From Scratch In 250 Line of Code in Golang

Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle

Imagine 130M Washing Machines

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Life Under a Clicktatorship

2.4M H-1B records show $50k gap: staffing vs product companies

How Y Combinator made it smart to trust founders

EMF Exposure from a Substation Could Be Cause of 49ers' Tendon Rupture Epidemic

Dieter Rams and ten principles for good design

College grad unemployment isn't about AI

Why agents matter more than other AI

I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem

Beyond Benchmaxxing: Why the Future of AI Is Inference-Time Search

America the Rogue State

Weaponized (teeny tiny) black holes

Apple Docs Parser that actually works?

How Uber Shows Millions of Drivers Location In Realtime

I spent 9 hours debugging a system where I existed on the blockchain but not in the database

Why I Treat Data Ingestion as an Adversarial Process

Programming Books I'll be reading in 2026.

How Email Actually Works

The Case Against Microservices

Authentication Explained: When to Use Basic, Bearer, OAuth2, JWT and SSO

Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

IPC Mechanisms: Shared Memory vs. Message Queues Performance Benchmarking

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