I Think I Need Two Computers
The agent permission problem: too much friction kills productivity, too little kills security.
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2026
No Going Back
After 25 years of typing code, I don't think I can go back to doing it manually.
The 5% Bug That Almost Shipped
A story about an AI, a skeptical human, and a database problem that needed both of them to solve.
2024
Let sleeping domains expire
Buying the domain is not the first step to building something.
Oops, I built it again
Had to rebuild the blog again due to a roadblock of old dependencies.
2020
Optimistic User Interfaces: A good kind of lie
Optimistic UIs are full of little lies that make the web feel more responsive.
2019
App privacy, part I: Apps are not private
It's hard to build cloud-synced collaborative apps if you genuinely care about privacy.
2018
Bizarre browser behaviour: SVG in the Cypress Tree
Pain is relative. Things are getting better.
It breaks all by itself
It sometimes feels inevitable that code over time will eventually break itself.
2017
Twitter brought me here
I always found Twitter less of a burden than other networks, with higher signal.