2025-07-07
Tech: My Summer Car Project
Or, how I found out the limits of vibe-coding, and learned to love them.
While this blog officially exists to help me think, the real reason behind its existence is a nefarious plot to show the world how footnotes are the most extraordinary literary invention ever.
2025-06-27
Tech: Unpacking the Digital DNA of Social
Summer 2025 special: What if we classified social media by their core technology? By focusing on the underlying architecture, we might gain a clearer understanding of how these services work and why they feel so distinct.
2024-11-07
Tech: Why Architecture Fails (and How to Fix It)
Lately, I've realized that the problem isn't architecture but how we approach it. We often jump into technical details without asking the crucial question: Why? Perhaps we get so caught up in how to build something that we forget why we're building it in the first place?
2024-01-05
Tech: A pebble is not a monolith.
The Monolith vs. Microservices discussion is a prime example of how we try to oversimplify things. While microservices are a fantastic way to solve business problems at scale, they are not a panacea. A distributed computing paradigm will only reduce the complexity of a solution if the source of complexity is monolithic architecture.
2023-11-13
Tech: Perhaps we should reinvent the wheel from time to time?
We have been watching Lego Ninjago with my older kid. And it's a lot like watching how the web industry evolves over time.