This Is the Lucky One

From a single crash to a public lint plugin: encoding RN/Expo tribal knowledge as oxlint rules

A production Android RN/Expo app crashed on launch with the canonical message:

Four probes, three falsifications, three fixes — accelerating PersonaLive

PersonaLive is a recent portrait-animation diffusion stack — reference UNet, denoising UNet with a temporal module, motion encoder, pose guider, VAE — that ships at ~10 FPS on an RTX 5090 with stock S

From Essay to Operating System: A Framework for Working With AI Without Losing What You Need to Know

A day after publishing Renting Competence, I sat back down with the same question and pushed on it harder. The essay had a thesis: if you let an LLM hold the model of your system, you keep shipping bu

Renting Competence: A Framework for Working With AI Without Losing What You Need to Know

Here is a question I have been asking developers a lot lately:

Why the squint slider needed an ArcFace anchor — the v1c → v1k failure ladder

From FluxSpace edits to a working glasses slider — what five days taught us