Experimental Reflections
Victor with the elbow; it's not good On May 10th, in Game 4 of the Western Conference Semifinals, Victor Wembanyama threw an elbow into Naz Reid's throat. The officials called an offensive foul, reviewed the tape, upgraded it to a Flagrant 2, and ejected him. Two
"For all my homies." - Techies Editor's note: Claude wrote this one and I edited it. There's just so much to share. I've read and made minor edits to make it more me and less Opus 4.7. You have a laptop
A few short months ago I wrote Secondhand Truth about the problem with marketing on the internet — a pervasive and ugly problem for honest folks. Today, I'd like to show you OpenGander . When I updated my about page It's a stand-in replacement for Google Analytics.
Every engineer has the same fear. It's not that their code will break in production — they can handle that. The fear is that someone will look at what they built and silently conclude they're an idiot. That the architecture review is actually a competence trial.
There's a time and a place for everything, and everything does not fit in any time or place. I have a passion for discovery, instruction, building, and extending combos. Unfortunately for everyone else around me, epiphanies happen far too often for it to be fun or totally grounded.
Every observability vendor's business model depends on you not thinking about this. Suggesting that observation should be constrained, scoped, and trust-aware is suggesting the pipes should carry less. This isn't a conspiracy. It's an incentive structure.
Running a blog is fun. It's hard to believe this all started in 2025, but things are changing fast! I gave up on the whimsical idea of writing every line of code myself for an artisanal website. I picked up Caddy and Ghost and ran towards the finish
GitHub Universe 2025 showed an AI-driven future that’s already here—but only for those who know how to use it. Between “Dream it, build it” and the programmable badge, one theme stood out: owning our tools, our code, and our corner of the internet.
Raising a child is pretty cool. It changes all the time, and she fills our home joy. A few days ago our daughter turned one! She's no longer a little baby, and she's starting to be our little toddler. She used to be swaddled and carried
In Part One of my retrospective, I introduced TruthByte and walked through my approach to an AI-first development workflow. I treated AI tools like instruments in a workshop—not autopilots, but accelerants. But after the hackathon, I wanted to know: was it as smooth and productive as it felt?
The first of a two part TruthByte retrospective Last month, I built TruthByte —a Zig + WASM trivia engine with a serverless trust-scoring backend—for the AWS Lambda Hackathon. It’s a tiny game with a big goal: crowdsourcing true-or-false questions to improve AI evaluation datasets. What good
"We should be exploring AI," someone said. What does that mean? For a lot of us, it means we’re now unofficial AI consultants, whether we asked for it or not. The Corporate Predicament Executives want innovation using AI, but often don’t know what that
I spent the day at Open Source North , and it was exactly the sort of conference experience I love: real ideas, real people, and those moments when you see someone’s mind click. One of the most down-to-earth talks was about LLM evaluation. The analogy of treating LLMs like
An interface allows two or more separate components of a system to exchange information. Communication requires an interface. I hope to illustrate the values I've learned interfacing with AI. The Newbie Zone, or Chronic Googler Tries AI Assist the Stuff You Dread or Something
I’ve mentioned I’m building a game in Zig, and it's about time to start talking about the project. Before I dive into old commits and share what I've learned on my Zig adventure, I want to lay out what I’m