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AI

AI systems, coding agents, context engineering and automation that does useful work beyond the chat window.

Latest The Dataset Is the Input

Architecture, systems design, developer workflows and the practice of building software that lasts.

Latest Before You Build an AI Harness, Become the Harness

Servers, backups, deployment, networking and the unglamorous machinery that everything else depends on.

Latest Your Desktop Needs `systemd --user`

Desktops, tiling window managers, terminals and the operating system I actually work in.

Latest I Left Arch + Niri for Pop!_OS COSMIC — and I’m Not Going Back (Yet)

Building companies around technical ideas — validation, market reality, pricing and the decisions to stop.

Latest Cuegence Postmortem — Part III: Great Engineering Problems Don’t Make Great Businesses

Longer-term arguments about humans, machines and the direction of computing.

Latest Carbon Chooses, Silicon Scales

Latest The Dataset Is the Input