Journal

Every major language in one consistent frame — what it's for, its real strengths and weaknesses, and the honest answer about when any of that actually matters. Grounded in the 2025–2026 developer surveys.

The canon of relational schema design — Codd to Kent to Karwin to the Postgres wiki — distilled into clear, numbered rules. When to create a new table, when to keep things together, and how to stop your AI assistant from quietly wrecking your schema.

Apollo's Chief Economist says AI won't kill jobs. He's right, and he's fighting yesterday's question. A four-stage filter through the steelman, the truths, the myths, and what the piece almost says.

Every reusable tool started as a one-off fix. The discipline isn't invention — it's recognition. Knowing when a solution has outgrown the session that created it.

A voice recording hits a local server. Within seconds it's transcribed on-device, cleaned up by an AI model, scanned for commitments, indexed for semantic search, and relayed to your phone. All on a machine that fits in your hand.

Who is having the conversation about non-technical leaders building with AI tools — the people, outlets, communities, and tensions that define the space in 2026.

Tobi Lütke built Shopify to sell snowboards. The software was a byproduct of having the problem. Claude Code returns that same dynamic to anyone willing to stay present through the build.

I built a tool that batch-generates pixel art animations via the PixelLab API. Here's what I learned about config-driven development and the economics of AI art generation.

A field manual for building software with AI -- without losing your mind or your engineering instincts.

Venezuelan kinetic sculptor Elias Crespin writes algorithms that move metal. His practice maps directly to agentic AI development -- and the commitment he brings is the part worth studying.

Why I'm writing here, and what this space is for.