Engines, Brakes, and What Comes Next

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. An analysis of metric-driven development and the perverse incentives it creates.

A walkthrough of a distributed web crawler capable of extracting text from 10 billion pages in 5 days — built for LLM training data.

Casey Muratori and veteran AI researcher Dimitri Spanos dropped a video named Should I Become a Carpenter?. They explored the realistic, unhyped impacts of AI on the current and future job market

Eliminate mental overhead by adding this skill to write clean, consistent PR descriptions from your branch diff.

A quick guide to the `2>&1` idiom in Bash.

You won't find this in the docs, but it's a pragmatic approach to implementing Unit of Work + Repository + DTO patterns in Next.js v15 with MongoDB, without over-abstracting yourself into misery.

How we refactored a rushed, regulation‑driven Next.js + Zustand registration form into layered policy, presentation, and adapter modules to eliminate Shotgun Surgery and localize future password/KYC/geo rule changes. Real-world implementation with TypeScript code examples.

A curated list of all the times I bombed during interviews

and save some dosh in the cloud

CCP Games just dropped EVE Frontier - and a new model to crush infra costs.

The End of Programmers: Accuracy, Approximation and Precision in AI

Why yarn lost the package manager war

this is awesome.

Have you ever tried explaining Bitcoin to somebody? How about Monads?

this is definitely not clickbait

They drive like this...

and left all my old posts behind

Does knowing how an int is stored actually matter?