05 WRITING INDEX
Essays,
field notes,
systems.
Developer programmes, coding agents, identity systems, odd edges, and the measured pleasure of finding the real problem.
The Agent Stack Is Becoming Boring in the Best Way
A small reading-list survey of agent memory, voice control, embeddings, and verification, and why the interesting shift is not smarter chat but more ordinary software.
Taste Is Becoming Infrastructure
What AI design systems, testing skills, and model prompting notes reveal about the strange new job of turning judgement into reusable machinery.
Twitter/X Coding Agents Trend Report
A deep dive into the AI coding revolution happening in real-time. From Karpathy's workflow shift to autonomous agents building browsers from scratch—what 2 weeks of Twitter reveals about the future of software development.
Twitter/X AI Coding Trends Report
A deep dive into the AI coding revolution happening in real-time. From Claude Code breaking into mainstream adoption to the emergence of autonomous coding agents, background builders, and the philosophical debates about what it means to be a software developer in the AI age.
Building a Coding Agent from Scratch
What happens when you stop using AI coding tools and start building one? A deep dive into the architecture of autonomous software agents.
The Case of the Forbidden System Prompt
How a single sentence—precisely 57 characters—stood between a working OAuth flow and the infuriating message 'This credential is only authorized for use with Claude Code.'
The Wire: Building a Twitter Clone at the Edge
How Cloudflare's edge primitives turn the seemingly impossible—a global social network running without traditional servers—into something approaching inevitable.
Watching Britain Move: Building a Real-Time Train Tracker
What happens when you pipe Network Rail's firehose of train data into a browser? A meditation on real-time systems and the hypnotic beauty of transit visualization.
What makes a good dialog editor for voice?
Exploring the design choices that make dialog iteration faster, clearer, and more pleasant for creators
Measuring what matters in DevRel
Developer Relations has a metrics problem. Not a shortage of them—we've got GitHub stars and Discord members galore. The problem is none of them actually mean anything.
Creating measurable Developer Go-To Market strategies
Developer relations has to tie back to revenue. Here's how to build a DevRel program that CEOs actually understand and value.
Designing AI Native Applications
AI-native applications are fundamentally rethinking what software can do when it has the ability to learn, adapt, and interact more naturally with humans.
You Don't Know What You Know. Until You're Asked
Building Interviewer: a multi-agent AI app that conducts podcast-style interviews and transforms conversations into polished essays.
Implementing an auto-scroll window view in SwiftUI
A journey through scroll behavior, IRC formatting codes from the 1990s, and the existential dread of LazyVStack.
Fixing keyboard input in terminal SwiftUI apps
A tale of terminal launches, activation policies, and the mild existential crisis of a text field that refuses to accept input.
History of Open-Source Licenses: What License to Choose?
A look at the origins of open-source licensing from GPL to Apache to BSL, and guidance on choosing the right license for your project.
Building social feed algorithms using Graph DBs
What happens when a graph database enthusiast discovers a firehose of social data and has too much free time.