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Lukas Murdock
This is the website of Lukas Murdock, designer, developer, and marketer helping you do work that matters for people who care.
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NAND to Tetris, Part 11 — How Software Learned to Serve Programs: The Operating System
Who fulfills the promises every program assumes?
NAND to Tetris, Part 10 — How Meaning Became Motion: Code Generation and the Compiler
How can a tree become a sequence without losing what it means?
NAND to Tetris, Part 9 — How a Machine Learned to Read: Tokens, Grammar, and the Parser
How can a line of text contain a tree?
NAND to Tetris, Part 8 — How Humans Learned to Forget the Machine: High-Level Languages
What should a programmer no longer have to remember?
NAND to Tetris, Part 7 — How a Machine Learned to Return: Functions and the Call Stack
How can a machine preserve an unfinished world?
NAND to Tetris, Part 6 — How Software Built a Machine: The Stack and the Virtual Machine
Why invent another computer when we already have one?
NAND to Tetris, Part 5 — How Humans Learned to Speak to the Machine: Assembly and the Assembler
How can a person write a language made for circuitry?
NAND to Tetris, Part 4 — How a Machine Learned to Follow a Plan: Instructions and the CPU
How can a stored pattern become an action?
NAND to Tetris, Part 3 — How a Machine Learned to Remember: Memory and the Clock
How can a result survive after the signals that produced it disappear?
NAND to Tetris, Part 2 — How a Machine Learned to Choose: The Arithmetic Logic Unit
Which answer should the machine keep?
NAND to Tetris, Part 1 — How a Machine Learned to Make Decisions: Logic Gates
Is this electrical signal high or low?
I, Pencil
By Leonard E. Read
Fast
Fast is better than slow It's important to do things fast Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together.
Find what keeps making smoke
Stop fixing symptoms and find the conflict underneath them.
How to use AI
How to redesign roles, workflows, and accountability to use AI agents productively and safely.
From Craft to Cash Flow: A Small Service Business Playbook
Operations creates reliability. Market creates demand. Capital compounds the surplus.
Advanced TypeScript Patterns
Make the hard type machinery invisible and give users precise autocomplete, safe composition, and readable errors.
Security Basics for Businesses
A practical security checklist for small businesses, agencies, and software teams.
Coffee
Beans
Why Speculate?
A talk by Michael Crichton given at the International Leadership Forum in La Jolla, California, April 26, 2002.
How I use AI
Personal Field Report
Migrating this site from Jekyll to Astro
How AI and OpenCode made this migration possible in one session.
Startup Marketing System Playbook
A system-first startup marketing model based on MaRS Best Practices with April Dunford.
Visiting Oahu
Things to do places to be
Citizenship in a Republic
Theodore Roosevelt speech delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
Solo Dev
Principles
Ship
The will to sail.
A manager of infinite minds
The constraint is orientation.
Is it gonna be alright?
It’s gonna be fucking incredible.
Call to the Next Generation
A section of Phrack issue 72, The Hacker's Renaissance: A Manifesto Reborn by Guilherme T (TMZ) We do not gatekeep, but we warn. Do not mistake certifications for competence. Do not confuse platforms with community. Do not accept that "responsible disclosure" means asking permission to be curious. Read the classics. Study the protocol. Run your own infrastructure. Know what came...
Hawaiian grown coffee
Hawaiʻi Island (Kona & Kaʻū) Pacific Coffee Research Greenwell Farms Hula Daddy Kona Coffee Kona Coffee Purveyors Kona Coffee & Tea Mountain Thunder Coffee UCC Hawaiʻi Big Island Coffee Roasters Rusty’s Hawaiian Kaʻū Coffee Mill Honolulu Coffee Ahualoa Hog Heaven Coffee [](https://hamakuamacnut.com/) Kauaʻi Kauaʻi Coffee Company Oʻahu Ono Coffee Company Tradition Coffee Roasters Waialua Estate
Brand University
Webflow University Hubspot Academy Salesforce Trailhead Shopify Academy Framer Academy Notion Academy Airtable Academy ScyllaDB University Meta Blueprint Ahrefs Academy Google Skillshop ABB University Ubiquiti Academy Fundamentals of UniFi WiFi Design
Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Interface Agents?
Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Interface Agents? Mark Weiser, Head of Computer Science Lab, Xerox PARC Agents92.tioga, October 6, 1992 Ubiquitous Computing vs. Interface Agents something altogether different, even opposed, to interface agents: ubiquitous computing (also known as embodied virtuality) outline of this talk: what is ubiquitous computing compare and contrast to interface agents Context…
Context taxonomy
A Survey of Context Engineering for Large Language Models structured taxonomy that classifies the multifaceted techniques used to design, manage, and optimize context Foundational components Context retrieval & generation e.g., Chain of thought, Zero shot COT, ToT, GoT, Self consistency, ReAct, Auto CoT, Automatic Prompt, CLEAR framework, RAG, Cognitive prompting, KAPING, Dynamic assembly Context…
Local LLM
macOS, Ollama makes it easy to run LLMs locally. As of writing, small LLMs capable of running on 16GB of ram have limited coding ability when compared to new models from Anthropic they are not even worth it. However, as a form of text compression, small LLMs are very useful to have and have the added benefit of working offline....
Terminal first
This is an active WIP. A terminal first approach makes it simple to 1) make custom workflows/GUIs, and 2) have AI agents interact with the data. With local LLMs and command line utilities for AI agents, I am rethinking how I want to interface with data. 1. Local data in spite of the cloud 2. CLI first interaction 3. Flexible...
Personal Web Archive
A personal, intelligent net archive that's yours to control and explore.
AI tools
AI Classical Machine Learning Linear Regression Predicting continuous values with linear relationships Logistic Regression Binary and multiclass classification Decision Trees Interpretable models for classification and regression Random Forest Ensemble method combining multiple decision trees Support Vector Machines (SVM) Classification and regression with kernel methods K Means Clustering…
AI Programs
DSPy
Tools for work
Understand work by understanding its tools.
Building Geodetic Go
The Hunt Begins Late one night, a friend mentioned something that would consume me for the next day: survey marks. Survey markers, also called survey marks, survey monuments, or geodetic marks, are objects placed to mark key survey points on the Earth's surface. They are used in geodetic and land surveying. A benchmark is a type of survey marker that...
Lynx
macOS setup Update to alias lynx to a lynx with a personal config (pick/make a folder to place the lynx configuration into) Create Your Personal Lynx Config Create your jump file Find and update config. Core Navigation Arrow Keys : Up/Down to select links, Right/Return to follow links, Left to go back q : Quit Lynx g : Go to...
Learn Manual
The following is the series of drills I run people through to teach them how to drive a 5 speed manual transmission car. Get familiar with the gearbox and clutch (car off) Understand RPM control (car on, in neutral) Feel out clutch biting point Put it together again and again Slow traffic driving Get familiar with the gearbox and clutch...
Never Enough of Living
By Léonie Adams
FB Red Book
As the company of Facebook grew, we faced a lot of challenges. One of them was explaining our company's mission, history, and culture to new employees. Over the years, a lot of formative company discussions and debates had happened in Facebook Groups, over email, or in person. Those who had been present at the time had context, but for new...
The Deserted Village
By Oliver Goldsmith
Hawai‘i
Wai means water — a symbol of life. Prosperity or wealth, is waiwai — water water. This page is a list of some of the places I visited during my time in Hawai‘i. There are so many more places I didn’t get to visit, or still don’t know about. See a Google Maps list of these places. Oahu, Waikiki Hostels...
Travel
Security iPhone Back up device Ensure Find My is enabled Enable Stolen Device Protection Disable Control Center and Siri access when device is locked Disable Message previews Learn how to Temporarily Disable Face ID Set up account recovery contacts Ensure Find My is enabled 1. Go to Settings [your name] Find My Find my iPhone 2. Turn on Find My...
Events
Concerts, raves, festivals