Of Solitary Vice
Most work that feels productive is self-referential, and the small warm room is unlikely to tell you so. An essay on the alchemist's tower, the journals at the foot of the hill, and the visitor whose advice is absorbed, not refused.
On PMs and LLMs: Forwarding the Work of Thinking
He had been asked a question and he had not bothered to answer. Between a wife who could ask and a fish who would grant, he had only to think — and he had not learned to.
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This Is the Lucky One
Most decisions you celebrate were wrong, and nothing in your week is going to tell you which ones. An essay on feedback loops, falsification, and the discipline of being made to find out.
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: