The Human Bottleneck
AI agents ship faster than you can review. The answer isn't speeding up. It's choosing where your attention actually matters.
Chemaclass
Tech Lead sharing practical insights on software craftsmanship, TDD, leadership, Bitcoin, and AI. Blog posts, book summaries, and conference talks.
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Working With the Garage Door Open
Working in the open lets people help while the work is still shapeable. The real skill is pushing the right signal to the right room.
Laissez Faire, Laissez Passer
Let people act, let goods pass. No planner knows what the market knows, and freedom, not control, should be the default.
Cut the Token Bill on Both Ends
Caveman shrinks what the agent says back, RTK shrinks what your terminal pipes in. More room in the same context window.
Meditations
The private notebook Marcus Aurelius wrote for himself while running an empire. Stoicism with the theory stripped out.
The Eternal Return
Nietzsche used eternal return as a test. Life uses it as a mirror. Patterns rhyme not to predict the future, but to reveal who you become under pressure.
Skills Over Agents
Why Claude Code skills beat specialized agents. On-demand context, not the model, decides quality. Build a skill library that travels with your code.
The Levels of AI Adoption
A six-level ladder of AI adoption, from copy-paste prompts to agentic teams and AI-native workflows. Where most companies stall, and how to climb.
Inside the .claude Folder
A hands-on tour of Claude Code's project folder. What rules, skills, agents, hooks, and settings each do, and how they fit together.
Building a Game in Two Days
A Telegram message turned into a nine-level Lord of the Rings browser game. Code by an AI agent, every creative decision by a human.
The Art of Being Happy
Schopenhauer's 50 rules for practical happiness, built on avoiding suffering rather than chasing pleasure.
Idealism vs Pragmatism
Doing things right against getting things done. TDD, pair programming, AI: the best results hold both ends of the rope.
Build Your Own Team of Agents
Stop using AI as a single assistant. Organize agents into specialized teams with roles, docs, and parallel execution for real leverage.
Notes from Underground
A bitter, hyper-conscious man retreats from society to wrestle with free will, spite, and the stubborn irrationality of human nature.
Broken Money
Lyn Alden traces monetary history through a technological lens, from commodity money to fiat to Bitcoin, and why the system fails.
MCP: Giving Your AI Agent the Right Context
MCP connects AI agents to your dev tools, databases, and APIs through a standard protocol. Give your agent the context it actually needs.
How Bitcoin Works
Transactions, blocks, mining, the UTXO model, and Lightning Network: how Bitcoin actually works under the hood, explained in plain terms.
Chapter 30: December, 2025
Nine Branches # Eleven years later # December 2025. It’s cold outside. The kind that cleans your face and forces you to wake up. Eleven years later, I still think about that twenty-one-year-old kid who took a flight to Lübeck without understanding what it would cost. I’m not talking about the language: an English to survive and no German at all. I’m talking about everything else: the loneliness,…
Bitcoin Fundamentals
21 million cap, no central authority, permissionless and censorship-resistant. Bitcoin is digital money you truly own. No bank required.
AI Gives You Speed, Not Quality
AI accelerates your output but doesn't ensure quality. You're responsible for every line you commit. Speed without direction is chaos.
What Success Means to Me
Success is waking up knowing that what you do makes the people around you, and yourself, happier. Consistency over perfection.
Principles of Economics
Saifedean Ammous on why prices rise and money loses value, told through the lens of Austrian economics. What stood out to me.
Ship, Show, Ask
Not every change needs the same review. Ship, Show, Ask matches the process to the risk, without losing quality or collaboration.
The Road to Serfdom
A quick and plain-English summary of Hayek's classic take on freedom, planning, and why good intentions can still go very wrong.
Run Your LN Node on a Raspberry Pi
How to set up a self-custodial Lightning node with Alby Hub on a Raspberry Pi. Full control over your funds, 100% open source.
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport's philosophy is not about rejecting technology but using it with intention, to reclaim focus and reduce anxiety.
Criptoria
From Greece to Bitcoin: the milestones connecting mathematics, cryptography, computing and the struggle for individual sovereignty.
Bitcoin with Rigor
A detailed analysis of how Bitcoin works, component by component, with its potential and its risks as a monetary experiment.
Understanding Taxes
Your paycheck, your coffee, the house you just bought: taxes are everywhere. Where your money actually goes after payday.
The Cypherpunks
In the early '90s the Cypherpunks set out to defend digital privacy. Their encryption and their ideals shaped the world we live in.
Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl shares his experience of the Holocaust and a philosophy about finding purpose even in the darkest of times.
Verified Git Commits
Sign your Git commits with GPG to prove they are really yours. Without a signature, anyone can fake a commit using your email.
bashunit
bashunit: a testing framework for Bash with parallel and snapshot testing, test doubles and data providers. From dev frustration to open source.
People Skills
You have mastered the code, but technical skill alone will not carry you. If you cannot work with others, nobody wants to work with you.
Bitcoin: A Work in Progress
They say Bitcoin is old and boring. This book walks through its latest developments, seen by one of its own developers.
What Is Waterfall?
Waterfall moves through fixed stages and gives no feedback until each one ends. Why that clashes with how software really evolves.
Pretty Good Privacy
PGP signs, encrypts and decrypts text, email, files and whole partitions. What it is, how it works, and how to actually use it.
Programmable Money
Bitcoin is called programmable money because Script lets you embed conditions into a transaction. How that scripting language works.
Mastering Bitcoin
From the basics to the deepest technical details of how Bitcoin works. The guide for taking part in the Internet of Money.
Prisoner's Dilemma
The Prisoner's Dilemma, where cooperation and betrayal collide, and what it reveals about self-interest against collective benefit.
The Genesis Book
Bitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. The people and projects that spent decades trying to build money free of government control.
The Phoenix Project
An impossible project, people playing politics, and endless quick patches, instead of anyone helping the business thrive.
What Kills Agility?
Why Agile if you already do Scrum, Kanban or SAFe? How you manage an organization defines its quality, and what really kills it.
Radical Candor
Kim Scott, former Google leader, on being a great manager: empathetic and results-oriented, where people can speak freely.
Learning Concurrency in Golang
Learning Go for its simplicity, and meeting again things I had not used in years: multithreading, goroutines and concurrency.
Effective Pair Programming
A practical guide to pair programming that works: roles, rotation, when to pair, common pitfalls, and how to make sessions productive.
Deployments on Fridays
The panic around deploying on Fridays. Does banning a whole day of delivering value to your customers actually make sense?
The Lean Startup
Most startups fail, and many of those failures are preventable. The approach that changed how companies build and launch.
Great Engineering
Coding is not just another job. In the right environment it is fun, and even a hobby. On levelling up your craft on purpose.
Invincible
Marcos Vazquez combines stoic philosophy with modern psychology to train your mind for clarity, determination, and discipline in the face of adversity.