Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube”. I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where makers can essentially publish different “variants” of their videos and see which performs … Read more
My GPU is the integrated Radeon Vega 8 that comes with my AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU. I tell you this so you know that my workstation is not a graphical computing powerhouse. It is, in fact, quite weak. To … Read more
// These policies are heavily influenced by Docker’s default profile. Further // customization done on top: // // – Avoid syscalls that need root anyway. The policies here are mostly meant to // be used by unprivileged users (not containers … Read more
10 Sep, 2026 I have a little pet theory that software drives people insane. Not in the “wash your hands every thirty minutes like Howard Hughes” kind of way, but more so in how the conditions surrounding software seem remarkably … Read more
There is a misunderstanding about software engineering that AI is making increasingly visible: we tend to confuse writing code with building software. There is some overlap in certain aspects, but they’re not the same thing. Writing code means translating an … Read more
The manifestation of my imposter syndrome, for me and today, is what does it mean to be a software engineer. There’s a lot more noise than signal on the Internet about agentic engineering, what can be accomplished, and its implications … Read more
In 2020, Robin Sloan wrote about BoopSnoop, a messaging app he built for his family. Four people downloaded it. He considered this a resounding success. His point was simple: an app can be a home-cooked meal. You don’t need scale. … Read more
or: harness engineering is not enough Note I run a company (HumanLayer) building tools in the human/agent collaboration space, so what I’m gonna say below may be a tad biased. Perhaps in spite of that, I hope you find the … Read more
In this series of articles, I aim to demonstrate how OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal, and DirectX work by writing a simplified clone from scratch. Surprisingly, many people struggle with the initial hurdle of learning a 3D graphics API. To help with … Read more
a software engineering interview question I like: computing the median 2026-05-03 I have a number of questions in my quiver when I’m giving technical interviews to candidates. They are all of a similar flavor. I don’t ask puzzle questions, I … Read more