Notes on software, systems, and the strange machines we build.
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AIRAG is dead. Long live context engineering.
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Postgres is the answer to 90% of your database questions.
Queues, search, vectors, JSON, time-series. You probably do not need a second database.
The quiet comeback of Web Components.
No build step, no framework tax, and browsers finally caught up.
The LLM is the UI.
Form fields are a crutch. What comes after the input box.
Rust in the kernel: one year in.
The drivers that shipped, the drama that didn't, and what it means for C.
The next chip war will be fought in packaging.
Chiplets, advanced interconnects, and why TSMC's real moat is not lithography.
Why your tests lie to you.
Coverage is a vanity metric. Here's what to measure instead.