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2026

Benjamin Congdonoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
To the Agents: "This place is not a place of honor"original ↗
15 May 2026
Thoughts on Marginal Token Spendoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2026
Tokenmaxxing is Goodhartingoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2026
Feature Flagging at Databricksoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
2025 in Revieworiginal ↗
1 Jan 2026

2025

On Not Running While Injuredoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2025
Software Engineering in 2026original ↗
30 Dec 2025
Watchesoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2025
Notes from Early Flight Trainingoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2025
On (and Contra) Chalmers on LLM Interlocutorsoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2025
My Favorite Books of 2023-2025original ↗
26 Dec 2025
A Time of Wondersoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2025
RAII Guards and Newtypes in Rustoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2025
Letters Are Still an Optionoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2025
An Inconvenient Truthoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
The South Flow SeaTac Arrival Corridororiginal ↗
21 Dec 2025
My Favorite Music of 2025original ↗
20 Dec 2025
Collecting Shibbolethsoriginal ↗
19 Dec 2025
Book Review: I Am a Strange Looporiginal ↗
18 Dec 2025
What Are You Trying to Say?original ↗
17 Dec 2025
Day 15 of Daily Writingoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2025
Book Review: The Demon in the Machineoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2025
Chorus is Good Softwareoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2025
The Coming Need for Formal Specificationoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2025
Zip Files as (Simple) Key-Value Storesoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2025
What I Look For in AI-Assisted PRsoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2025
SWIM: Outsourced Heartbeatsoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2025
The Decline of the Software Drafter?original ↗
8 Dec 2025
Embodied Cognition and the "Tokenverse"original ↗
7 Dec 2025
Book Review: Antimemeticsoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2025
TIL: SQLite's 'WITHOUT ROWID'original ↗
5 Dec 2025
Race Report: Seattle Marathon 2025original ↗
4 Dec 2025
Technical Escape Velocityoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2025
Why Magnetosoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2025
Schedule Recurring Calls With Your Far-Away Friendsoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2025
Fifty Bits of Career Adviceoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2025
The Agency Gaporiginal ↗
31 Jul 2025
When Red Buttons Aren't Enoughoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2025
Why Developer Tools?original ↗
8 Apr 2025
The Models Want to Reasonoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2025
How I Use AI: Early 2025original ↗
2 Feb 2025
AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Backoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2025

2024

Chain of Continuous Thoughtsoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2024
Lake Union's Lonely Trolley: SLU Streetcar Ridershiporiginal ↗
12 Oct 2024
TaskWarriororiginal ↗
31 Aug 2024
How I Use AI: Mid-2024original ↗
21 Jul 2024

2023

Avoid Load-bearing Shell Scriptsoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2023
Soft Boredomoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2023
Mental Models: Slackoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2023
The Soul of an Old Machineoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2023