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20 pieces · 7 essays · 3 notes · 10 explainers · updated Jul 2026
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EssayJul 2026A wake-word bug that turned into a hotkey revealed a bigger pattern: some problems eventually collapse into specifications, and others keep needing judgment no matter how well you understand them. That split is the specification boundary.
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NoteJul 2026Building better systems for doing the work is often a way to avoid the work itself. Infrastructure converts uncertainty into certainty, but the certainty belongs to the infrastructure, not to the outcome.
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EssayJul 2026Search is shifting from a human destination to a programmable capability. Whoever owns the orchestration loop will capture the most value.
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EssayJul 2026Scale is about handling more. Resilience is about surviving worse. Managed services sit in the gap, and the value they keep is the operational attention no software license can ship.
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ExplainerApr 2026From signals to frequencies — how any wave can be decomposed into simple sine waves.
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EssayMar 2026Strong consistency and conditional writes in blob storage removed much of the need for stateful search clusters in a large class of workloads. They also split search into two problems that need opposite engineering.
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EssayMar 2026I run a small fleet of cloud VMs and a Raspberry Pi at home, wired together with Tailscale. This is about how that setup came together and why Tailscale made it surprisingly simple.
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EssayMar 2026Lately, I have been spending a lot of time with AI coding tools, both cli and ide. I kept asking the question to myself, why is that i keep returning to one tool more than the other. There are lot of blogs around models and their capabilities, but models are also shared across of these surfaces. So the real question for me was that where is the value. Is it in the model or the tooling around it. This blog talks about my explorations and opinions on how to build something competitive.
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EssayMar 2026I have been working on benchmarking lately, especially since I started tinkering with AI. And I came back to an interesting topic of Closed loop vs Open loop benchmarking. To make is easier to...
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ExplainerMar 2026Why disorder increases, time has a direction, and the universe trends toward heat death.
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ExplainerFeb 2026How invisible magnetic fields arise from moving charges, electron spin, and the geometry of spacetime.
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NoteJan 2026Creativity emerges from connecting ideas across domains. Wide reading builds the raw material, but connections themselves are byproducts of sustained curiosity. The journey matters more than any single insight.
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NoteJan 2026Entropy dictates that all systems naturally tend towards disorder and decay. Counteracting this universal force requires constant, ongoing effort to maintain existing states and achieve improvements, as past achievements do not guarantee future stability.
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ExplainerJan 2026Why you cannot simultaneously know a particle's exact position and momentum.
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ExplainerDec 2025Why a paper caterpillar wiggles when you blow on it — free jets, vortex shedding, and wave propagation in flexible structures.
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ExplainerNov 2025Containerized AI agents: isolation, IPC, security, and the query loop.
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ExplainerOct 2025How the viral AI assistant works, why it broke, and what it teaches about agent security.
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ExplainerSep 2025How lift, drag, and thrust work together to keep planes in the air.
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ExplainerAug 2025Quantifying surprise, entropy, and the fundamental limits of communication.
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ExplainerApr 2025Attention, tokens, and the architecture powering modern language models.