Assembly Never Left: Why I Still Write It in 2026
Assembly language isn't a relic - it's essential for voice AI, cryptography, and performance-critical paths....
SQLite: Software Done Right
SQLite runs on more devices than any software in history. The serverless database that taught the industry what 'done right' actually means....
LLMs Have No Intent: Why That Makes Them Dangerous
LLMs are amoral pattern engines that will confidently lie because confident lies were in the training data....
Why Rust Won't Replace C
Rust is safer than C. That's not enough. Trillions of lines of C are in production. The learning curve is brutal....
LeCun's Bet Against LLMs: Why the AI Contrarian Might Be Right
Yann LeCun is betting that large language models are a dead end for AGI. His new startup AMI Labs pursues world models instead....
Grace Hopper's Nanosecond: The Wire That Explains Everything
Grace Hopper's famous nanosecond wire demonstration—and why understanding physical constraints still matters for every system we build today....
Computers Are Cheap, Developers Are Expensive
Why premature optimization wastes developer time. The economics of knowing when code is good enough and when performance actually matters....
The Anatomy of High-Velocity Teams
The traits that high-performing engineering teams share have nothing to do with methodology certifications....
Web Spy: The Personal Web Crawler I Never Released
I built Web Spy - a desktop app that crawled and cached websites for offline reading. This was before HTTrack, before Pocket, before Instapaper. Never shipped it....
Those Old Programming Books
Dog-eared, coffee-stained, held together by stubbornness and nostalgia. The programming books from the late 1970s that started a 45-year journey in technology....
When Microservices Make Sense
Microservices succeed when you have the right prerequisites: team scale, deployment independence, scaling needs, and operational maturity....
C Was the Last Good Language
Why modern languages prioritize developer experience over runtime efficiency. The trade-offs we accepted and forgot. Where Rust tries to have it both ways....
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