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2026

  1. Yes, I still read the code. 6 min
  2. Your AI agent doesn't need one giant memory 9 min
  3. The cheapest model is not always the cheapest workflow 5 min
  4. Don’t trust the agent. Trust the verification loop. 10 min
  5. Architecture astronauts vs deterministic islands 7 min
  6. How I built a portable knowledge layer for AI agents 7 min
  7. Two years of nix and home-manager: what I got wrong 11 min
  8. The DNS prank: pointing your domain at 127.0.0.1 3 min
  9. Why you should switch Git identities per project (using git includeIf) 6 min

2025

  1. Hashmap is not really O(1) 6 min

2024

  1. Managing development across multiple machines with nix and home-manager 4 min
  2. Zero-knowledge proofs: transforming presidential elections with privacy and security 4 min

2023

  1. Introducing ChatGPT: the new era of conversational AI 2 min

2020

  1. How I always got the 2K locker code update 4 min

2019

  1. Unit tests: are they worth your time? 3 min

2017

  1. Iqro' 1 min

2016

  1. Go HTTP client 1 min
  2. Marhaban ya Ramadhan 1 min
  3. Do it realtime 2 min
  4. Welcome to Jekyll! 1 min