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Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
Read →What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been shipping to production for months. It just never a...
Read →I reverse-engineered Claude's undocumented Design API so a file sync wouldn't cost 665k tokens
A build log about protocol archaeology, three wrong guesses, and refusing to trust my own mocks. The token bill that started it Claude Design (claude.ai/design) is a nice place to keep a d...
Read →The feed
Farmed salmon may not be as nutritious as it once was, new research suggests
The shift in the fish’s diet is having significant downstream impacts on the environment and climate.
Read →German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."
Read →My past rulings decide the repeat cases
Every decision I make for my fleet is written down: a numbered entry with the ruling, the why, what it binds and how to verify it, in a ledger every session reads before it acts. After three and a hal...
Read →No card ships until a blind judge passes it
My puzzle app, Keyhole, carries 296 dark stories, each with an illustrated card. A dark story is a situation that looks impossible until you drop one false assumption you did not know you were making,...
Read →My agents run without permission prompts, so the brake moved into the hook
The permission prompt was the last brake on my fleet, and it was in the wrong place. A prompt fires when a human is sitting there to read it. My agents do most of their work when nobody is: the nightl...
Read →The queue drains itself now, and the morning note fits in a minute
One directory is the task manager my agents share was the most-read thing I have published, and it left out the part that matters most: who works the queue. For the first month the honest answer was m...
Read →Jumia Product Analysis with Excel
Introduction When shopping onine, I usually find myself looking at two things before making a purchase: Product ratings and reviews since I cannot examine the product physically.Products wi...
Read →I audited 20 design systems for spacing drift. Here is what your team can use from it.
Nobody on your team chose 13px. Someone pasted it. Someone nudged 12px until a border lined up. A coding agent produced it because nothing told it your scale stops at 12 and 16. .card { padding:...
Read →Trying VLA (Part 6): Controlling LeRobot with a SpaceMouse
Mapping SpaceMouse Controls to SO-101 Movements In the previous article, I connected the SpaceMouse to the PC and confirmed that all six types of input could be detected correctly. https:/...
Read →Save Our Developers and Engineers — AI Is Stealing Our Jobs
Peter was an ML engineer. For two years, he had worked hard, solved problems, written code, built models, deployed systems, and earned a comfortable living. Like many engineers, he believed his skill...
Read →Liar Liar Pants on Fire
I have to come clean. Speaking at APIWorld this past week wasn’t actually my first talk acceptance. I had a talk accepted a few years ago, but the conference itself was ultimately cancelled due to th...
Read →What actually happens in a database index (and why half of them do nothing)
Same query. Same table. Same million rows. One day it takes 4 seconds. The next day, 4 milliseconds. Nothing changed in the data. The only thing that changed was one line — you added an index. Four s...
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