Building

Have you ever asked yourself what if we could replace any message broker with a very simple one using only two UNIX signals? Well, I’m not surprised if you didn’t. But I did. And I want to share my journey … Read more

The best tools are the ones that adapt to you, not the other way around. For developers whose work is becoming more complex every day, the need for personalized, intelligent assistance has never been greater. That’s why we’re announcing Gemini … Read more

I’m Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers Preamble In the expanding world of AI my heart still lies in AST transforms, browser fingerprinting, and anti-bot circumvention. In fact, that’s the majority of this blog’s content. But my workflow always felt… … Read more

We built a storage cluster in downtown SF to store 90 million hours worth of video data. Why? We’re pretraining models to solve computer use. Compared to text LLMs like LLaMa-405B, which require ~60 TB of text data to train, … Read more

After setting up dozens of Internet of Things (IoT) smart home devices, I started to wonder: how hard could it be to build one from scratch? I needed a project to learn on, so I decided to create something fun: … Read more

Val Town makes it easy to ship TypeScript automations and applications to the internet via an integrated web editor experience. We strive to offer a magical tight feedback loop, with 100ms deploys on save. That online editor experience should be … Read more

I recently stumbled across Patrick’s excellent DOOM clone running in a browser powered by DuckDB-WASM. Ever since I’ve read that, I wanted to push his awesome idea to the logical extreme: Build a multiplayer DOOM-like shooter entirely in SQL with … Read more

Building my childhood dream PC May 1, 2025 Building my childhood dream PC In 1993, I was 14 and already passionate about computers[1]. That year my mother managed to buy a PC for the household. That was quite an effort … Read more