Posts tagged engineering.

A technical look at Ukraine’s drone stack, its battlefield engineering loop, and the evidence behind balloon-launched aircraft.

A parking camera joined two visits together, then handed Keith Miller the job of proving it wrong.

I wired a live C. elegans connectome into the control loop of a Claude coding agent, then watched what the worm did when the code broke.

The Swiss cheese model trains you to count slices. The holes that actually kill you are the ones you never tested.

How I build: small, narrow, niche, AI-native.

Pocket shut down in July 2025. I needed somewhere to dump the articles I keep telling myself I'll read later. So I built a Chrome extension that does exactly that and nothing else. Local-only, no accounts, no tracking.

PMF gets sold as a milestone. It's actually a gauntlet that bends founders, breaks teams, and quietly poisons technical decisions. Most of the damage isn't from missing PMF — it's from how you behave while looking for it.

You pay Big Tech about $1,000 a year in attention. Here's how to read the meter — and why building your own is suddenly cheaper than opting out.

AI made software cheap to build but not cheap to scale. Evolutionary architecture with domain-aware AI agents is the missing piece.

I built OpenHealth because Claude's and ChatGPT's Apple Health connectors are US-only. Drop your export.zip, get seven markdown files any LLM can read — browser, CLI, or phone-to-desktop over WebRTC.

Four architectural patterns from NanoClaw's tiny codebase that translate directly to production web apps and SaaS — credential sidecars, infrastructure-level isolation, polling loops, and Postgres as your message queue.

We're still shipping hand-crafted frontends while AI can generate entire interfaces. What if the browser itself generated the UI from an API manifest and your preferences?

Turn any Android phone into a programmable SMS gateway for your SaaS — no per-message fees, no carrier contracts, no vendor lock-in.

The engineering career ladder was built for when code was expensive. Code is now cheap. What's valuable has fundamentally shifted.