Writing
The archive.
Essays and notes about software, systems, developer tools, and the changing craft of programming.
All writing
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the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
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the work of the musician is not the work of the machine
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durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with your process.
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The World Will Be Prompt
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(corollary- developer relations is becoming more about helping humans develop judgment around these systems)
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(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
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(corollary- pr descriptions are becoming the apprenticeship surface for remote teams and coding agents)
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(and the part where users have to level up)
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worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
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just keep talking
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it is very professional yes
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sync engines finally have a killer app
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AI agents should be addressable
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a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
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but it's also convenient to solve human-in-the-loop for ai agents
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A simpler architecture for reliable, realtime AI chat using Durable Objects
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AI agents need tracking software, and we need to build it.
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It's all about the money, baby
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(It's only shilling if it's posted during working hours. I'm on my lunch break.)
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(please build them)
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(everything old is new again)
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Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
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Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
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(A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
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I bought a membership to the movies and it's awesome
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Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
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An hour and a half discussion about why esbuild is a big deal.
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“Wake up, Computer”
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Rethinking how JavaScript projects import, load, and unload stylesheets
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A proposal to use jest.mock() with esmodules without babel shenanigans
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How node's shared memory model ruins a perfectly good api design
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Where is my mind?
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An introduction to feature flags