This blog contains rambly, half-formed ideas that I will change and go back on often.
McDonald's kiosks didn't lift orders because they're faster. They lifted orders because nobody was watching. Every friction we've stripped out runs the same experiment, and it keeps revealing the same thing: the friction wasn't holding back a better self, it was containing a worse one.
The boomer cohort as an emergent single-metric optimiser: personal asset value as the objective function, everything outside it burned by default.
A rough argument against treating dangerous knowledge as morally contaminated, and why AI safety should focus on capability, context, incentives, and access rather than performative ignorance.
Every multi-faction state that holds together is running one of two programs: making domination too expensive, or just telling the strong to behave. Only the first one survives a recession.
I rented a car in Italy that physically fought me for the right to make a correct decision. The car is not the point. The point is that no one is a trusted adult anymore.
Most dating discourse is people listing minimum-viable-adult traits as if they were premium features. Loyalty is not a selling point. The brakes are supposed to work.
Fusing several LLMs into one answer is a great idea that quietly breaks any agent using tools. Here's the local router I built to get multi-model reasoning into agentic coding anyway: @dymoo/fusion.
I distilled frontier models into a 12B that runs on one Mac and genuinely codes: activity 16% → 37%, honestly. Then came the real lesson: half the campaign was spent discovering that my measurements, not my model, were broken.
A practical MCP server that converts audio, video, and images into the two things LLMs actually accept: text and images.
the current approach to age verification is catastrophically broken. here's what it should look like.
money can buy the look of taste. it cannot buy the eye.
Conditions are harder. People are less prepared than ever to deal with them.
Why Rust is quietly becoming the perfect language for AI-assisted development
LLMs haven't made people smarter. They've made people 30% informed and 100% confident.
Self-hosting securely using Caddy on an OVH VPS as a jumpbox with WireGuard tunnel to home network
While everyone obsesses over chatbots, the real AI revolution is happening quietly with embedding models - cheap, reliable, and actually useful.
It's cool to be a toddler now
On Temu, Amazon Haul, and why overconsumption is a spiritual problem.
Thoughts on private schooling, university value, and a geo-arbitrage plan for raising children.
A draft arguing that people who struggle with moderation often need elimination, not moderation advice.
On the people and systems making it harder to understand the world.
On Vivek Ramaswamy's critique of American work culture and why sweatshop mentality isn't the answer.
Practical advice on fit, quality, and social signalling in men's style.
Elixir delivers on everything Node.js promised but failed to achieve.
Microservices versus monoliths discussion is a false dichotomy.