Two maps of the same coastline on a cartographer's desk under lamplight, one clean and green-bordered, one weathered with pencil corrections and margin warnings, with a captain's log and compass between them, a metaphor for symbolic consistency versus evidence that survived contact with reality

The Green Build and the Hermeneutic Gap

A green CI proves consistency. LLMs are hermeneutic engines: they cannot tell whether the system is true to the world you care about.

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Thinking in Solana

Accounts, Programs, ownership, Sealevel; the Solana building blocks that unlock your thinking about real-world use cases and applicability.

Two-panel comic — a user asks an AI if a mushroom is edible; after RIP, the AI apologizes for the confusion and offers to learn about poisonous mushrooms.

Grounded sources

AI‑generated content that is good enough can masquerade facts and induce mistakes. Are we detecting this systematically?

Mission control room with operators at consoles facing a curved wall of monitors and telemetry — the human go/no-go moment in a high-stakes system

The Half of CI We Forgot to Automate

We automated the cheap half of trust: contracts and types. The expensive half, evidence on how the system actually behaves, we still answer with a vibe.

Balance scale with a large rock on one side and a small pebble on the other — the real cost of removing indirection outweighs the negligible call overhead.

The Cost of Indirection in Rust

Removing an indirection is a false optimization. You don’t think so? Let’s take a look.

A path forks in the foreground — one branch leads into a dark forest of broken, glowing technology and stormy decay; the other winds toward a bright, sustainable city under a golden sunset. The choice between an unstable path and one that leads forward.

Stable Problems

The moment everyone nods at the problem is the moment to slow down.

Why This Blog Uses RSS (Not a Newsletter)

Newsletter platforms promise reach and metrics. They also own the channel. RSS is a protocol — you own the content; the reader owns the experience.

Hand-printed poster asking "What did you promise?" with a compass rose and flame — manifesto as public promise and direction

Where Is Your Manifesto?

Most companies have a mission. Almost none have a manifesto. Branding is not enough. But why?

A drafting table merging into a terminal screen — compass, ruler, and wireframe blueprints dissolving into lines of code — the boundary between design and programming erased

Design Is the New Programming

The bottleneck moved. Execution got cheap and most builders aren’t optimizing for it. Yet.

Silhouetted figure in a doorway holding keys towards a brightly lit factory floor — control of the whole production at stake

Process Before Solution

AI is getting better at solving it. You still don’t know how. This will keep happening.