Choosing hard things (opens in a new tab)
A blog post on why it's better to do hard things in life.
Work
Links to things I work on, extensively on my professional network, and also on Twitter and HackerNews.
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What is the meaning of life? (opens in a new tab)
An essay on tying fulfillment to achievement, why you should be willing to radically change what you believe, and letting old parts of yourself die.
GPT-4 can produce graphical animations (opens in a new tab)
A discussion on HackerNews about generating graphical animations with GPT-4.
Software running in space (opens in a new tab)
A thread on why satellites run AI software onboard instead of downloading every image back to Earth to process it here.
Love as the medium (opens in a new tab)
An essay on why love, gratitude, and appreciation are the safe spaces where the next generation of software will move.
Every tap is a miracle (opens in a new tab)
On treating every tap in your app as a miracle, and on trying not to get desensitized to it.
Build your next website with Astro (opens in a new tab)
A review and explainer on using Astro to build personal websites.
Enhance your READMEs with native Mermaid diagrams (opens in a new tab)
On using GitHub's native Mermaid support to give a README clear diagrams of a system's core parts.
Why CLI over MCP? (opens in a new tab)
On why a good CLI is the better starting point for a dev tool, and why MCP still earns its place when a model needs structured context inside the conversation.
Growth research after distribution (opens in a new tab)
On why the hardest part of a successful product is the growth research that comes after distribution, not before it.
The cycles of social media (opens in a new tab)
On how every social network, creator, and content format eventually moves through a cycle, as what feels native to the internet today is replaced by new formats born from how people communicate.