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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
Looking at what we are Building
So now that you have a basic understanding of how Terraform works, before you start running any terraform command against a real AWS account, two things need to happen: you need an identity Terraform...
Read →From Prompt Engineering to AI Engineering
Why building reliable AI features requires more than better prompts A few years ago, building an AI feature often looked surprisingly simple. Write a prompt. Send some text to a model. Look at the...
Read →i wrote down ~100 public saas pricing pages so i'd stop guessing
I kept pricing off gut instinct + one competitor for way too long. You know the move. competitor is $29 so you're $19. or you're $49 because "premium." neither is a strategy. it's just… anchoring wit...
Read →Timing Charts: A Blueprint For SMIL Animations
Discover SMIL, the often-overlooked way to animate SVGs that works inside `` tags and can fully animate everything in an SVG without JavaScript.
Read →OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Read →After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."
Read →Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation
The US government is investigating whether the Cybercab meets vehicle safety standards.
Read →I Compared 4 Dungeon Generation Algorithms. One of Them Never Works.
Four algorithms. Same grid. Very different dungeons. I implemented BSP trees, cellular automata, random walk, and room placement, ran each one 20 times on an 80x40 grid, and measured everything: conn...
Read →Architecting Enterprise Angular with Signals: Zoneless Reactivity and 60fps Performance
Architecting Enterprise Angular with Signals: Zoneless Reactivity and 60fps Performance For nearly a decade, Angular relied on Zone.js to intercept asynchronous browser events and trigger t...
Read →The Transactional Outbox Pattern: Dual-Write Consistency in Distributed Systems
The Transactional Outbox Pattern: Dual-Write Consistency in Distributed Systems One of the most dangerous anti-patterns in microservices architecture is the Dual-Write Vulnerability: updati...
Read →What You Refuse to Check Decides the Quality of a Linter
I built a checker for a configuration directory. The time went not into adding rules, but into deciding what not to add. Things you could detect are easy to think of. That was never the constraint....
Read →Why "why did our infra costs jump in Q2?" doesn't fit a graph
TL;DR: some questions don't have a fixed path through your data (search docs, hit a table, compute, verify, answer — in whatever order/combination the question needs), and drawing a graph for that cla...
Read →Ranking position trendnews → referrals
Referral traffic from published news coverage.
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