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May 29, 2026

Hardening My Linux Engineering Workflow

I am slowly moving more of my engineering life back into Linux. Not as a slogan. As a workflow. This is part two of my hardening series. Part one was Hardening Long Projects in the Age of A...

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May 24, 2026

Is the Future of My Work Writing, Typing, Drawing, and Orchestrating?

For the last few months, I have been noticing a strange shift in my work. I am still building software. I am still thinking about AI runtimes, Linux, C Kernel Engine, Antsand, content system...

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May 22, 2026

Your Job May Change. That Still Does Not Make Optionality Easy.

A lot of tech writing right now has the same shape: your job is going to change, AI is moving fast, you need optionality, become AI-native, maybe build a small software business, maybe consu...

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May 20, 2026

HTML Was Always the Interface. SVG Was Always the Diagram.

HTML was always an interface. AI just made that obvious again. I keep seeing people rediscover HTML as if it is a new invention. The new framing is usually something like: Markdown is no lon...

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May 6, 2026

Why I Replaced QuickBooks with Antsand — and Why I Think AI + Open Source Changes the Software Subscription Game

Source: Image generated by chatGPTThe Code Got Cheaper. The Infrastructure Didn’t. For years, I paid for software subscriptions because that was simply how things worked. You needed invoic...

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Apr 30, 2026

I Think Like a Compiler - But not in the way you think.

Over the years I have worked on a few personal projects, and I generally work on them long term (for years). Antsand is one of them. A flight controller is another. C-Kernel-Engine, which st...

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Apr 21, 2026

Why I Stopped Getting High on the Newer AI Models (And Why My Strategic Bet Is Still Consistent: CPUs, Smaller Models, and Less Compute Will Win)

Last week, Claude Opus 4.7 "got released." And the Anthropic team is doing what Americans are genius at: marketing, marketing, marketing. The whole Claude, OpenAI, Gemini saga is the same pl...

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Feb 5, 2026

My two-tier A.I workflow: frontier thinks, MiniMax (open weights) does the heavy lifting

Everyone assumes you need the most expensive model to write good code. They are wrong. I have spent the last year building a CPU inference engine from scratch—no PyTorch, no TensorFlow, ju...

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Jan 2, 2026

Why I’m Doubling Down on C in 2026

It's 2026, and the hype around memory safety is deafening. The industry consensus seems to be that C and C++ are archaic, "unsafe" languages that we need to abandon immediately. There is a g...

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ai workflow

Hardening My Linux Engineering Workflow

Is the Future of My Work Writing, Typing, Drawing, and Orchestrating?

Your Job May Change. That Still Does Not Make Optionality Easy.

HTML Was Always the Interface. SVG Was Always the Diagram.

Why I Replaced QuickBooks with Antsand — and Why I Think AI + Open Source Changes the Software Subscription Game

I Think Like a Compiler - But not in the way you think.

Why I Stopped Getting High on the Newer AI Models (And Why My Strategic Bet Is Still Consistent: CPUs, Smaller Models, and Less Compute Will Win)

My two-tier A.I workflow: frontier thinks, MiniMax (open weights) does the heavy lifting

Why I’m Doubling Down on C in 2026

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