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13
Aug
Year of the home-cooked apps
David Crawshaw co-founded Tailscale. And 6 years later, just as the company was taking off, he quit to build
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27
Jun
The allure of building hardware
It’s been a hot week, my brain is melting, and AI is starting to suck some of the joy
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09
May
Lies, damned lies, and Elastic's benchmarks
It's a spicy title, but one that is warranted. Elastic recently published a blog post titled 30x faster
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28
Apr
Proxies, Sandboxes and Agent Security
After my last post, I wanted to see how far I could take things. I have a home lab running
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21
Apr
I built an AI SRE in 60mins, you should too
gcx, the CLI for accessing Grafana and Grafana Cloud resources was just announced at GrafanaCon. I had early access and
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16
Mar
On AI Agents and the New SaaS
OpenClaw has gained a lot of attention and notoriety recently, and for a good reason. When I first encountered LLMs,
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19
Feb
Writing (code) is thinking and other thoughts
I had many things planned for Christmas break, but I spent most of my time learning Rust. I've
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25
Dec
Want to start up? Join one
A friend reached out last week seeking advice. She had an offer from Google DeepMind and another one from a
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13
Nov
Architecting for multitenancy
Ever since I wrote the ClickHouse post, it has been living in my head rent-free. I was thinking a
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07
Nov
Notes on ClickHouse Scaling
I spent some time playing around with ClickHouse to understand how it scales and what it takes to operate it.
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