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Notes on what I learn while building software.

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Mapping the noise

Linked to signews experiment

Real-time intelligence for a noisy world

Mapping the noise

Abundant Intelligence Series

Your moat is melting

What makes you valuable when AI can execute?

Your moat is melting

How to actually use AI

Direct AI like an on-demand team

How to actually use AI

The collapse of the middle

Value moves to judgment and humanity

The collapse of the middle

What remains when machines handle everything?

Work as expression, not survival

What remains when machines handle everything?

Using AI Series

The four levels of AI mastery

From assistant to programmable intelligence

The four levels of AI mastery

The art of directing AI

From coding to orchestrating agents

The art of directing AI

Collaborating with AI on larger problems

Delegating workflows to AI

Collaborating with AI on larger problems

When AI becomes the product

Blending code with AI reasoning

When AI becomes the product

Application Design Series

Building software that lasts

Foundations of maintainable software

Building software that lasts

Mastering the flow of dependencies

Structuring code for independence

Mastering the flow of dependencies

Separating business from technology

Isolating business from infrastructure

Separating business from technology

A journey into clean architecture

Layered architecture for lasting code

A journey into clean architecture

Recent

Cursor: The compression of mechanical work

AI-assisted coding with Cursor IDE

Cursor: The compression of mechanical work

What if we got online shopping wrong?

Reimagining e-commerce as open protocol

What if we got online shopping wrong?

Building my go-to web server with TypeScript and Koa

A lightweight TypeScript web server

Building my go-to web server with TypeScript and Koa

My journey into expert systems with Python

Linked to expert-system experiment

Building an inference engine in Python

My journey into expert systems with Python

Let's dive into assembly and build our first functions (Intel x86-64)

Linked to libft-asm experiment

First steps into x86-64 assembly

Let's dive into assembly and build our first functions (Intel x86-64)

Building a program that writes itself (a quine)

Linked to dr-quine experiment

Code that prints its own source

Building a program that writes itself (a quine)

Decoding the magic, my journey building nm and otool

Linked to nm-otool experiment

Reverse engineering macOS binaries in C

Decoding the magic, my journey building nm and otool

Hashing in C, a deep dive into SHA-256 and MD5

Linked to md5-sha256 experiment

Implementing cryptographic hash functions in C

Hashing in C, a deep dive into SHA-256 and MD5

Master memory management, I built my own malloc, and you should too

Linked to malloc experiment

Building malloc from scratch to understand memory

Master memory management, I built my own malloc, and you should too