Moby Dick Workout (2022)

If you're a button, you have one job

A blog about software craft and quality

Artful Cats: Feline-Inspired Art and Artifacts

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

The Log Is the Agent

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.21997: The Log is the Agent: Event-Sourced Reactive Graphs for Auditable, Forkable Agentic Systems

Megawatts by Microwave

Trust your compiler: Modern C++

Functional Programming in hica

A modern, safe, expression-oriented, functional-flavored language with a gentle learning curve.

Knowledge Should Not Be Gated

For years we locked context behind vector databases, SDKs, and proprietary catalogs. Then we noticed LLMs are happiest reading plain markdown. Google's Open Knowledge Format is the moment that realization became a standard.

Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

Latest updates and announcements.

Meta's Un-Stable Signature

Educators disciplined over Charlie Kirk posts are securing big payouts

Since Kirk was assassinated in September, schools have been paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars in cases brought by educators who allege their free speech rights were violated.

Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets

A decade ago this summer, at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Jocelyn Malamy watched jellyfish cells “walk” toward each other to close a wound for the first time.  An associate professor in Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago, Malamy had received transparent, dime-sized medusae of the species Clytia hemisphaerica from Evelyn Houliston’s lab at the Marine Observatoire in Villefranche.

Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work now leading Mars exploration

Claire Parfitt says her time at the National Space Science Centre gave her a unique insight.

GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance

Summary I found an aggregate pattern in Codex token_count metadata: gpt-5.5 responses disproportionately land at exactly reasoning_output_tokens = 516, with additional fixed-boundary spikes around 1034 and 1552. This appears model-specif...

Claude Design System Prompt

Reverse-engineered system prompt and skill library that turns an LLM into an opinionated, accessibility-aware, AI-slop-resistant design collaborator. - Trystan-SA/claude-design-system-prompt

Pandoc Lua Filters

Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour running natively on macOS, iPhone & iPad — real engine (EA GPL v3 source, via GeneralsX), DXVK/MoltenVK renderer, RTS touch controls. No game assets included. - ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad

Atomic Force Microscope high-speed video, stainless etching, bacteria, and more

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