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Breaking down the Coldcard Bitcoin Exploit

Bitcoin's latest exploit couldn't come at a worse time as people (and investors) lose faith in crypto.

Operating at the Speed of Inference

Projects move fast when decisions are made early enough for agents to execute in parallel without constant interruptions.

AI Raises the Floor, But It Lowers the Ceiling

AI makes basic competence easier to reach, but the highest-value work still depends on human taste, judgment, and originality.

Your Customers Feel Your Company Culture

Customer obsession starts inside the company, because customers eventually feel how employees are treated.

Is Management Dead?

AI is making execution cheaper, which makes roadmap judgment, focus, and complexity control more important for managers.

Building Deterministic AI

LLMs are non-deterministic, so how do you build software you can actually rely on top of them?

MCPs, APIs and CLIs: When to use what

MCP, a plain API, or a CLI: which should you reach for to give an agent a capability?

Autonomous Mode for Superpowers

When should you let a coding agent execute a finalized plan with no human checkpoints?

Proactive intelligence

What if agents could continuously monitor your business and act on it without being asked?

Background agents are about to change everything

What happens when agents can run autonomously in the cloud with full access to your dev environment?

How to create a widget with your Claude Code Stats

How can you build a widget that shows how much you actually use Claude Code?

Open-sourcing release-kit: Claude Code Skills for Shipping

Can Claude Code skills turn messy git history into polished changelogs and release notes?

My Current AI Development Setup (Jan 2026)

What tools, models, and workflows am I actually using for AI-assisted development in 2026?

Open-sourcing Timeslottr: Create timeslots for scheduling

How do you generate scheduling timeslots, and what is surprisingly tricky about it?

How I Use NotebookLM as an Engineering Manager

How can an engineering manager use NotebookLM to stay organized and save time?

Incorporating LLMs into Your Management Workflow

Where can LLMs actually help your management workflow without making you weird?

How I am using Cursor in my development

How do you actually get value out of Cursor in your day-to-day development?

Planning without clear goals

How do you plan when leadership has not set a clear direction?

Good Process, Bad Results

If the process feels smooth but the results are bad, what has actually gone wrong?

Understanding Engineering Health of a Team

How can you tell whether an engineering team is actually healthy?

Creating High-Performing Teams: Less Chemistry, More Friction

What actually makes a team high-performing: chemistry, or something else?

Move Fast and Fix Things

If shipping value is the job, what does that make everything else?

Avoiding Prop Drilling in React

How do you avoid prop drilling in a React application?

Why Derived State in React Is Not Always an Anti-pattern

Is derived state in React always an anti-pattern?

Why React's Dependency Array is Not About Dependencies

If the React dependency array is not really about dependencies, what is it about?