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- What Is The Work For?
- System Design Lessons from a Discord Voice Outage
- Thoughts on Agent Harness and Memory
- All Radar, No Compass
- Reservations to Relationships - A Lookback at the Evolution of Hospitality at OpenTable
- Attention is All They Need - A Series on Human Attention
- Tokens, Primitives, and Pricing
- Sources of Truth - Examining the Nature of Truth in Software
- Getting Carried Away - When Compliance Replaces Intelligence
- The Human Elements of the AI Foundations
- Writing the Thing is Writing the thing
- Performance Reviews and LLMs
- Mean Time to Paper, Mean Time to Speech - Reflections on My Voice in a Second Language
- Perfect Software - Software for an Audience of One
- The Keyboard Is Faster Than the Mouse
- The Blurry Lines between Copilot and Autopilot - How I’m using LLMs and How Not
- Reflections from Running on "Solo" Pursuits
- Introducing FlightStream - An Open-Source Flight Streaming Node.js Framework
- The Engineering Behind Fast Analytics - Columnar Storage Explained
- Thinking Outside the Doc
- What Data Structures Can Teach Us About Reclaiming Our Attention
- Assumptions Kill
- Change Over Time
- But That's Not an AI-problem
- Reciting Code to Building Software
- Weekly Reading Digest - 1.0
- Forced Disconnections
- People I Want to Closely Follow
- Tools and Technologies I've Used the Most in 2024
- Separating Storage and Compute
- Understanding Data Mesh Through the Lens of Economic Systems
- Long Context and Its Implications
- Digital Garden
- Highlights & Notes - Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art