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I Wrote Multiple CUE Parsers and Benchmarked Them Against JSON
It started yesterday because I wanted to fix JSON. Well, not fix exactly. More like figure out if there was something better for client-side parsing in the browser. I’d been looking at comparing JSON versus MessagePack when I stumbled into …
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Is There Something Better Than JSON?
Have you ever looked at a JSON file and thought, “There has to be something better than this”? I have. JSON has served us well. It works with everything, and it’s human readable. It’s a decent default, don’t get me wrong, but the more you …
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Streaks are just goals dressed up as habits. Build the system instead; a good system doesn’t care about yesterday. “You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.”
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Multi-Repos Are Underrated
If you’re considering a monorepo, I’d like you to, stop, and reconsider. Monorepos cause more problems than they solve, and I think multi-repos deserve way more love than they get. The “Shared Libraries” Argument The pitch usually goes …
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CLI First, GUI Never
I’ve been enjoying building CLI tooling and so here’s why your next app should be a CLI not a GUI. CLI tools have longevity. If you design them for composability, there’s a good chance they’ll stick around because they’re much easier to …
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The Death of Clever Code
One positive product of working with Agentic tools is they rarely suggest clever code. No arcane one-liners, no “look how smart I am” abstractions. And, well, I’m here for it. Before we continue it helps to understand a bit about how LLMs …
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Your AI Agent Needs a Task Manager
If you’ve spent time working with AI coding tools, you’ve probably hit the compaction wall. Suddenly, your agent knows what it’s currently working on but has completely forgotten the five other things connected to it. This is the memory …
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Using Claude to Think Through a Space Elevator
When I say I wanted to understand the engineering problems behind building a space elevator, I mean I really wanted to dig in. Not just read about it. I wanted to work through the challenges, piece by piece, with actual math backing things …
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Just: The Command Runner
If you’ve ever used make to run commands, it works, but you’re using a build system as a command runner. Just is a dedicated command runner that does exactly what you want and doesn’t come with all the baggage. Created by Casey Rodarmor …
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The World's Strongest Cable Is One Atom Thick
I fell down a rabbit hole this morning. It started with a simple question: how far are we really from a space elevator? This really is a feasibility question, and I"m convinced that the answer is probably no, but for a really fascinating …