I am very much enjoying my newly-resurrected hobby of Airsoft. Running around in the woods, firing small plastic pellets at other people, in pursuit of a contrived-to-be-fun mission, turns out to be, well, fun. I have also had to accept … Read more
Principles of Context Engineering We’ll work our way up to the following principles: Share context Actions carry implicit decisions Why think about principles? HTML was introduced in 1993. In 2013, Facebook released React to the world. It is now 2025 … Read more
I Don’t Read Your Email Threads | ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Logan’s Site Home Blog Projects Science-Fiction Github Amazon Affiliates 08 Aug, 2025 Email threads have got to be one of the worst possible forms of communication. You’ve been here before. A perfectly … Read more
It’s not a clickbait, there are no monads in Я. I still use monadic/comonadic adjectives just as a habit to describe stuff like binding and extension. However, monads are overwemingly overrated! Here is why: Yet another monad tutorial I’m afraid … Read more
This is the first of a series on misconceptions about Elixir. These are my opinions. I hope they spark discussion and that maybe we all learn things as a result. A note to the Elixir programmers who commonly say “let … Read more
At Morphik, we build RAG tools to provide developers accurate search over complex documents. In this article, we explain why we operate over “images” of pages instead of doing OCR/ parsing. If you’ve ever tried to extract information from a … Read more
Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, … Read more
“Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.” – Rudiger Dornbusch I’ve had a lot of discussions on my podcast where we haggle out timelines to AGI. Some … Read more
Don’t use “click here” as link text What a link means When calling the user to action, use brief but meaningful link text that: provides some information when read out of context explains what the link offers doesn’t talk about … Read more
Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise: DAT players were fantastic. They offered all the advantages of an audio cassette, but with the sound quality of a CD. The compact audio cassette was a marvellous invention, in its own way; but … Read more