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Engineering
The quiet death of the API redesign
Once, big companies shipped version 2.0 with great fanfare. Now they ship it at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday and call it a flag. Something has changed — and it’s not just tooling.
AI
We replaced our LLM-powered search with a grep. Here's what happened.
Six weeks, three vendors, and a custom RAG pipeline later, the answer turned out to be the oldest trick in the book. A postmortem of the kind of decision nobody writes up.
Engineering
What the local-first movement gets right (and what it keeps getting wrong)
Syncing data across your devices shouldn't require believing in a server. The local-first community has done the hard work of saying that out loud. The rest of the conversation is harder than it looks.
Culture
The talent market for senior engineers is broken in a way nobody is naming
The conversation is about AI, visas, and remote work. The actual story is a much older shift: the gap between 'engineer who can be hired' and 'engineer who can be trusted with a problem' has never been wider.
Engineering
On not using a framework
A small, defensive essay about the things you learn by writing software without the thing everyone else is using, and why those lessons are not transferable to everyone but are real.