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 a
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
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
ai
TL;DR: Constructive is what happens when someone spends nine years building the open-source plumbing that powers 100 million npm downloads — then turns around and builds a company on top of it. I met founder Dan Lynch in San Francisco last week. He’s a genius. And the product is
tech
TL;DR: San Francisco is back. Not “recovering” back — thunderously, undeniably back. AI has reignited the city with an unmistakable energy. But the real story isn’t AI itself — it’s why SF keeps reinventing itself when other tech hubs flame out. I believe the answer is a 152-year-old California
Windows
TL;DR: After a brutal mission prep where Windows fought us at every turn—Hyper-V networking dying randomly, RDP clients lagging inexplicably, Delivery Optimization not delivering, WSL2 refusing to work—I’m calling it: Windows as a server platform is becoming abandonware. Microsoft has moved to Linux themselves. The writing
ai
I read an article about AI-powered hackathons this week that crystallized something I’ve been saying for years: there are only three ways to win in business—better product, better price, or better people. I'm not just talking about software. I believe these three are true in any
ai
Follow the builders. Whatever you think of Elon Musk or X (Twitter), frontier AI lives on X. This is a list of (in my opinion) the top 50 Frontier AI folk on X. These are the practitioners: people building real products, sharing actual code, and showing their work. I’ve
clawdbot
Deploying the amazing AI super-agent now known as Moltbot. TL;DR What is it? An outstandingly versatile AI bot that works via things you (probably) already use (Slack, Discord, Telegram, Signal, etc) Want it easy? Buy a Mac mini ($599) or use Railway (one-click). Want it cheap? Hetzner VPS (~$5/
books
Government is sitting on a ticking time bomb—and it’s not the national debt. It’s the millions of lines of COBOL running unemployment systems, tax processing, and benefits eligibility. Code written in the 1970s by people who are now in their 70s. And those people? They’re retiring