Curated internet, served daily
Five beats, and the reason each one exists. Every published piece sits in exactly one of them.
Models, agents, and what actually runs
Models, agents, and the tools built on top of them — what runs, on whose hardware, at what cost. I care about the gap between a benchmark and a Tuesday, so most of what lands here is something I ran rather than something I read about.
8 pieces
Languages, algorithms, and the constraints underneath
Languages, algorithms, formal methods, and the unglamorous engineering that makes software fast. The interesting part is almost never the framework — it is the constraint somebody worked around to ship it.
10 pieces
Your own stack, running in your own room
Running your own stack: DNS, servers, Raspberry Pis, e-ink displays, and the hardware underneath all of it. The test I apply here is boring and effective — if it survives a power cut in my flat, it belongs on this page.
5 pieces
Surveillance, cryptography, and who gets watched
Surveillance systems, cryptography, permissions, and the policy that decides who gets watched. The story is usually not the breach; it is the audit log nobody read, or the reason box somebody filled in with four letters.
9 pieces
Where the web came from, and what it does to us
Where the web came from, what it does to language, and which odd corners are worth keeping. The first YouTube video, dead HTML tags, a 600-year-old manuscript nobody can read — same instinct, different century.
12 pieces
44 pieces filed; the rest of the archive is browsable by tag or in the daily list.