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Mar
16
On AI Agents and the New SaaS
OpenClaw has gained a lot of attention and notoriety recently, and for a good reason. When I first encountered LLMs,
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Feb
19
Writing (code) is thinking and other thoughts
I had many things planned for Christmas break, but I spent most of my time learning Rust. I've
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Dec
25
Want to start up? Join one
A friend reached out last week seeking advice. She had an offer from Google DeepMind and another one from a
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Nov
13
Architecting for multitenancy
Ever since I wrote the ClickHouse post, it has been living in my head rent-free. I was thinking a lot
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Nov
07
Notes on ClickHouse Scaling
I spent some time playing around with ClickHouse to understand how it scales and what it takes to operate it.
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Jul
22
Debugging CSS with Claude Code
tldr; claude mcp add playwright npx @playwright/mcp@latest
I got a new request for my hardcover-embed service: to be
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Jul
14
Thoughts on building with AI
Those who know me know that I have been an AI skeptic and slow on its uptake. I built a
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Jul
14
Sampling is tracing's weakness
Distributed tracing is AWESOME! I saw it's power more than 6 years ago, and I've been
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Apr
20
Learnings from my first magazine
As my sabbatical was approaching, I was searching for ideas on what I could learn. I was toying with the
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Apr
10
Searching for the Great Good Place
I just finished reading The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg. It was originally written in 1989, but it is
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