a repository of observations and commentary from a life lived slightly out of sync.
i published a multipart post on threads earlier today and thought it would make for a good entry on the blog, given its length and what i believe to be something worth being able to point at later. i am taking liberties with my articulation here as i am no
recently, jensen huang referred to openclaw as “the iphone of tokens”. let’s sit with that phrase for a moment and ask what it actually means. 🦗 what is the relationship between a consumer electronics device, an open-source agent framework, and a unit of text segmentation? zilch.
before november of last year, my usage of coding agents was minimal and quite utilitarian. my day to day work didn’t involve me actively writing code and that had been the case for about 3-ish years. there was the occasional need to roll up my sleeves to update
The last time I felt compelled to publish a reflection on my year was in 2015 here . It was a story of misplaced trust, financial ruin, a career that had bottomed out, and the work of learning to trust myself again. It also signaled the beginning of a new chapter
Over the past few days, my name and reputation, built over years as co-founder and technical leader at Paystack, have been called into question because of information circulating online. In response, the Board of Directors of Paystack placed me on suspension and initiated what was described as an “independent&
okay guys, it’s time to board an ibom air flight heading to lagos from akwa ibom. these are the various individuals i’m doomed to interact with. person who checks that the name on my boarding pass matches my passport or identification document person who tears away
it’s 2025 and building for the world has never been easier. when existing global solutions create a gap by excluding africa, resist the urge to build “for africa”. make it global from day one. incumbents ignore the continent for reasons including but not limited to low
i spent time in early 2024 with someone who frequently took notes on their phone using voice dictation. it was quite a thing to observe, as i’d always thought speech to text was shit. the inability to detect nuances in language, the frequent errors in or outright absence
hollow and resonant, an empty barrel amplifies the slightest disturbance into thunderous din, while the full one, dense with substance, absorbs sound. the gunsmiths of yore could identify mis-loaded weapons by ear, and noisy kegs betrayed their vacuity to brewers. today, we’ve built the ultimate resonance chamber in
tj holowaychuk is someone i will like to meet one day. when i discovered him in 2013/4, he was active in the nodejs community and was the creator of the express framework, the koa framework, and a host of javascript modules in use by tons of software developers today.
yesterday around half past 10pm, i took a break from a rebuild of atlas (more on this in a future post) to have a late dinner and received a dm from a friend who was sharing a humorous tweet that referenced me and my articulation. apparently, the tweet had gathered
should large language models refer to themselves using first person pronouns? i just came across a tweet by uncle bob from 2 days ago arguing that this shouldn’t be allowed. while i agree in principle, i believe we are way past the rubicon now. very quickly, amidst the
okay so a bit of a preamble that may or may not have anything to do with the rest of the piece. some days ago, i read a tweet from dhh (which i sadly cannot find now) about how he takes out ~20 minutes to write something on his mind,
around age 11, i discovered that touching myself in certain ways produced really pleasurable sensations. being the curious kid with internet access, i did what came naturally - research. i went online, read articles, found studies, and discovered this thing i was doing had a name: masturbation. even better, the
After following Elon Musk almost religiously over the last 13 years, observing his gradual but stark personality shift from my initial perception of him has been fascinating. Since 2020, I started developing a theory to help contextualize my observations and now feel compelled to write about what I think is