Resident
— Vibe coding firmware (sandbox library for ESP32 devices).
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Banana Bread
I used to have a bit of an aversion to the texture of really ripe bananas. But once I started making banana bread, I realized that "too ripe for me" is just another way to say "not quite ripe enough"…
Notes on AI, Labor, and China
— Documenting all the dimensions of our collective AI anxiety.
Using Claude Code: Session Management & 1M Context
— Useful tips for managing the Claude Code context window.
When the World Is At Work
Working in New York City for most of my 20s and 30s, the office attained critical mass from about 10am to 6pm. When I moved out to Los Angeles, I found people in the office much earlier (before…
AI Is Breaking the Recipe Blog Model. AllSpice Thinks It Can Also Save It
— Building the AI augmented recipe manager.
Keeping the Spec Driven Development Triangle in Sync
— "Just like software doesn’t really work until it meets the real world, a spec doesn’t really work until it’s implemented."
Claude Code Psychosis: Are Your Problems Software Shaped?
— this is my favorite thing on Claude Code so far
Manic Technology
— "you still need friends for that, people who know you, who know when you’re talking too fast, and the gleam in your eye has taken on a hard edge"
Photostation
For Christmas, I got my five-year-old nieces some cheap digital cameras from Walmart. For their birthdays a few weeks later, my brother suggested getting them a digital picture frame so they could…
Software's YouTube Moment Is Happening Now
— "software becomes a medium for expression, not just utility"
Don't Build Agents, Build Skills Instead
— Models = processor, Agents = OS, Skills = apps
2025 LLM Year in Review
— Karpathy's comprehensive look back at how LLMs evolved through 2025.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Code
— "language models are...totally capable of coaxing computation out into the realm of the human … yet instead they’ll pull a vast field of human activity deeper into the domain of code"
Cooking With Claude
— "a really fun way to explore cooking"