Building

February 12, 2026 tl;dr I tasked Claude, Codex, and Gemini to build a SQLite-like engine in Rust. ~19k~ lines of code. Parser, planner, volcano executor, pager, b+trees, wal, recovery, joins, aggregates, indexing, transaction semantics, grouped aggregates, and stats-aware planning all … Read more

When I first booted up Claude Code in May 2025, I thought: huh, this is cute. A terminal-based coding agent…they must be pandering to developers. Within the first 30 minutes, I was convinced: this was going to be huge. So … Read more

ROX is a minimal, clarity-first programming language built on a simple belief: Programming logic should not have to fight the language. ROX removes implicit behavior, hidden conversions, and syntactic tricks so that expressing logic feels direct and mechanical rather than … Read more

This is the story about how I built MacThrottle. I’ve been very happy with my M2 MacBook Air for the past few years. However, when using an external display, especially a very demanding one like a 4K 120Hz display, I’ve … Read more

I’m a Director of Engineering at Mon Ami, a US-based start-up building a SaaS solution for Aging and Disability Case Workers. We built a large Ruby on Rails monolith over the last 7 years. It’s a multi-tenant solution where data … Read more

Custom elements are one of those web platform features that sound complicated but turn out to be surprisingly simple. If you have used Hotwire in Rails, you have already used them. Both and are custom elements. They are just HTML … Read more

Back in 2023, I decided to build a toast library called Sonner. It’s now downloaded over 7,000,000 times per week from npm and used by companies like Cursor, X, and Vercel. It’s also the default toast component in shadcn/ui. When … Read more

Fast Deployment Get your payload to the Moon, Mars, and other Deep Space destinations – soon. With rideshare missions launching as soon as 2028, we can get your payload to where you need it, fast.

At Google Cloud, we’re constantly pushing the scalability of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) so that it can keep up with increasingly demanding workloads — especially AI. GKE already supports massive 65,000-node clusters, and at KubeCon, we shared that we successfully … Read more