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Your project needs a threat model

· 10 min

What does your system protect, from whom, and how far does that protection go? Your agent needs those answers in writing too.

Stop watching the agent work

· 5 min

The agent can already fix the banner and show you that it works. Why are you still following every step?

DHH, Campfire and Rust: nothing special

· 10 min

DHH ported Campfire to Rust without knowing Rust. The req/s chart sells the wrong row - what held the port up was knowledge of Rails.

Cloudflare didn't buy Deno. It bought celld

· 13 min

The headlines say Cloudflare acquired Deno. Cloudflare's own post never mentions the runtime. A Node contributor reads the fine print.

The profession I studied for no longer exists

· 10 min

I learned to code with no computer and no internet at home. Today, anyone starting out with a connected phone has AI in their pocket - and I don't know if that's good or bad for them.

How I set up Hermes to be the tech lead of a project

· 10 min

PR reviews, Jira tickets, meeting reminders: Chicken Little does the grunt work. Approving is still a human job.

Making node:sqlite faster, step by step

· 12 min

The benchmark said 1.48M reads a second. Only the profiler said a tenth of that was spent rebuilding the same four strings, over and over.

Detecting SQLite Full Table Scans in Node.js

· 4 min

SQLite has been counting your table scans the whole time. Node just never handed you the number.

How to Use the Claude Code Harness via the SDK

· 3 min

The claude-agent-sdk has a preset that turns on Claude Code's tools, system prompt and agent loop in two lines.

Amdahl's Law: TypeScript 7 is 10x faster. Your CI is still slow

· 6 min

Swapping the compiler for one that is 10x faster saved 6 seconds on a 15-minute pipeline. Amdahl's Law called it.