When the machine asks who you are, what do you answer?
Working with a model on a large, badly architected codebase, the bottleneck isn’t generation, it’s evaluating output against a subjective yardstick that lives only in one person’s head. On specification as the source of truth, code as a build artifact, why SOLID and hexagonal gain a new reason to exist, and the Joel Test revisited for the model era.
The story of SuperSynch, an open-source iOS app that embeds Syncthing’s Go engine so the iPhone is a real device on the Syncthing network, not a remote control. Built in two days with Claude, including the pivot that saved the project, the embedding quirks that took real debugging, and why it’s all MPL-2.0 like Syncthing itself.
Every fresh Claude Code session re-reads the codebase before it can help with anything real, and on a project of any size that quietly costs time and money. Graphify builds the map once, saves it, and hands it to Claude on the next session. A short walkthrough of what it is, how to set it up, and why it actually helps.
A viral 1875 chart by an Ohio farmer claims to have called every market crash. Tested against real returns since 1928, the timing story falls apart. What survives is a boring old signal: price.
The story of a² + b² = c², the schoolchild-simple equation that took humanity three and a half centuries to prove. From Fermat’s marginal note to Wiles’s proof, and what it opens about what solving even means.
If a machine solved every open problem in a sealed box with no one there to read the results, would anything actually be solved? Part 2 of a reflection that starts with Fermat’s Last Theorem and ends on why understanding must land in a mind.
Franklin listed thirteen virtues in his twenties and spent a lifetime marking his own faults in a little book. I took the idea, but with seven virtues of my own and a Telegram agent instead of paper. On humility, listening, and why the paper notebook lasts three days.
A small poem and a shorter confession. I have no Bitcoin. Whatever I once had was sold to pay the bills, and I never bought any. I never fell into the maxi religion, and I am quietly proud of that.
How Adam Back’s post on X sparked a reflection on Bitcoin’s ungovernable design, Hashcash as market-based spam filtering, Hayek’s vision of competing currencies, and whether multiple Bitcoin-like systems sharing SHA-256 could make the whole ecosystem harder to capture through energy policy.
Six years and several tokenization projects later — BRZ stablecoin, Alkimiya hashrate derivatives, Preservaland forest NFTs, EURQ on LayerZero, CS Digital — the lessons that don’t make it onto conference panels. The hardest part is never the smart contract.