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The wave of CLI Coding Agents If you have tried Claude Code, Gemini Code, Open Code or Simon Willison’s LLM CLI, you’ve experienced something fundamentally different from ChatGPT or Github Copilot. These aren’t just chatbots or autocomplete tools – they’re … Read more

Published August 10, 202534 min read A while back, I decided to undertake a project to challenge myself: build a web search engine from scratch. Aside from the fun deep dive opportunity, there were two motivators: Search engines seemed to … Read more

I hate disqus too much. I’ve been running my blog without decent comments for years. Not by choice, really – I just couldn’t find a solution that didn’t suck. Disqus? Slow, heavy, tracks users, and I don’t own anything. Plus … Read more

The open-source operating system for manufacturing Discord · Website · Issues Does the world need another ERP? We built Carbon after years of building end-to-end manufacturing systems with off-the-shelf solutions. We realized that: Modern, API-first tooling didn’t exist Vendor lock-in … Read more

I’ve been reading this week about how humans learn, and effective ways of transferring knowledge. In addition, I’ve also had AI in the back of my mind, and recently I’ve come to the realization that not only is our industry … Read more

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential … Read more

If you know one thing about me, it is that I love working on the Rust compiler. Some people kayak, travel or play guitar – and I stare at assembly, trying to figure out what I broke. This summer, I … Read more

I recently shipped Context, a native macOS app for debugging MCP servers. The goal was to build a useful developer tool that feels at home on the platform, powered by Apple’s SwiftUI framework. I’ve been building software for the Mac … Read more

I’ve recently added a Linux compatibility layer to Starina operating system based on a lightweight VM approach similar to WSL2. I can cross-compile its init program with Cargo. I can prepare a container image contents using skopeo. However, I need … Read more