AI
Executive summary Grok Build is xAI’s coding agent for the terminal: an assistant that can work in your project folder—read and edit code, run commands, and help ship changes—with you still in control of the risky stuff. Think of the model as the expert and the harness
standards
TL;DR: Multiplexing combines multiple signals or data streams into a single transmission so they can be sent together efficiently. At the receiving end, everything is separated again (a process called demultiplexing). Deft needed a multiplexing layer for VROOM and we realized it was useful on its own. So we
standards
TL;DR: I built VROOM — Virtual Remoting Over OpenMux — because every existing remote access protocol is either ancient, proprietary, platform-locked, or all three. RDP assumes Windows. VNC assumes the 1990s. SSH assumes you only need text. Mosh assumes you’ll never need graphics. None of them run natively in
world-events
The Air Force spent years trying to kill the A-10. Then the Strait of Hormuz reminded everyone why you don’t retire the thing that actually works. The Ugliest Beautiful Aircraft Ever Built The A-10 exists because Vietnam proved that fast jets make lousy close air support platforms.
engineering
TL;DR: In the post Agentic Coding world, what are we as "clanker wranglers" doing exactly? “Contract Driven Engineering” (CDE) is a name I like that I happened to work with the Deft team to come up with. Contracts are the durable IP — and specs are one type
TL;DR: We’re being told we’re in decline by people who need us to believe it. The conspiracy theories, the recycled political failures, the doom loops from both sides — that’s not reality. That’s the last play of people who’ve already lost control and know it.
Don’t Let ‘Em Go To Waste Sometimes the best solution isn’t the shiniest one — it’s the one you already have, made faster and meaner. B-1B History: Born, Killed, Reborn The B-1 story starts in the early 1970s, when the Air Force wanted a replacement for
A Modern AI Interface Surface Manifesto In 2026, modern software has a strange sense of déjà vu. We’ve quietly circled back to the 1980s. We are writing more custom software than off-the-shelf tools. We live in terminals again. And the most powerful new users of our systems
world-events
A fact-based look at the forces, events, and decades of tension behind the February 28, 2026 military strikes on Iran. The world woke up this morning to breaking news: the United States and Israel have launched coordinated military strikes on Iran — dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” by the Pentagon. Explosions
openclaw
TL;DR: I’m an OpenClaw maintainer. I’ve been (sort of) hiding it since I started. The recruiting spam, the harassment, the “are you hiring?” DMs — they’re real and they’re relentless. But with Artemis II slipping to April, I finally have bandwidth. I’ve been shipping PRs,
AI
TL;DR: 100 fortnights is about 3.8 years. That’s roughly how far out anyone can credibly plan in AI right now. But here’s what I’ve learned building through this chaos: your implementations should burn like phoenixes — daily, hourly, who cares — but your interfaces need to live
hardware
TL;DR: China’s manufacturing ecosystem lets you iterate on hardware prototypes at a speed and cost the US can’t touch — yet. We learned this firsthand building the Sighthound Gen 5 camera enclosure and boards. The play: make your mistakes in China, get to your 1.0, then manufacture