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03-31-26	The Spec Layer
08-30-25	Using Claude Code from Anywhere
12-05-23	Pseudonyms in American History
12-04-23	Fairchildren
12-03-23	ChatGPT After One Year
12-02-23	McNamara Fallacy
12-01-23	Data Quality in LLMs
11-30-23	Discord and AI GTM
11-29-23	Standard Causes of Human Misjudgment (Munger)
11-28-23	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Monte Carlo
11-27-23	Razor and Blades Model
11-26-23	Drawbacks of Moving to the Edge
11-25-23	Are Things Getting Worse?
11-24-23	How AI Changes Workflows
11-23-23	Duties of a Board of Directors
11-22-23	Strategies for the GPU-Poor
11-21-23	Take Your Time Making Decisions
11-20-23	The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
11-19-23	The Catilinarian Conspiracy
11-18-23	The Model is Not the Product
11-17-23	The AI-Neid
11-16-23	Model Merge - (Frankenmerge)
11-15-23	The Cost of Index Everything
11-14-23	What if Google Wasn’t The Default?
11-13-23	Copilot is an Incumbent Business Model
11-12-23	Eroom's Law
11-11-23	The Lucretius Problem
11-10-23	The Call to Adventure
11-09-23	AI Agents Today
11-08-23	Norvig's Agent Definition
11-07-23	The Context Length Observation
11-06-23	To be, or not to be; ay, there’s the point.
11-05-23	Improving RAG: Strategies
11-04-23	Static Sites Aren't Simple Anymore
11-03-23	Lessons from llama.cpp
11-02-23	Why Model Evaluation is Difficult
11-01-23	Mechanical Turks
10-31-23	Regulatory Capture in the Railroad Industry
10-30-23	What If OpenAI Builds This?
10-29-23	On Mixing Client and Server
10-28-23	Infrastructure as Code Will be Written by AI
10-27-23	When A/B Testing Doesn't Work
10-26-23	Between Images and Text, CLIP
10-25-23	Positioning Yourself Near the Opportunity
10-24-23	Tech Invariants
10-23-23	Horizontal Tuning: Instruction, Chat, and What Else?
10-22-23	Retrieval Augmented Generation
10-21-23	The Silent Todo List
10-20-23	Pitfalls of File-based Routing
10-19-23	Benefits of Small LLMs
10-18-23	Can OpenAI Win Consumer and Enterprise?
10-17-23	The Inner-Platform Effect
10-16-23	Revision: Generative text-to-UI
10-15-23	Why Is the Frontend Stack So Complicated?
10-14-23	An Intelligent Wikipedia
10-13-23	The Half-Life of the AI Stack
10-12-23	Nagle's Algorithm
10-11-23	Black Swan by Shakespeare
10-10-23	Anticipate the Cheap
10-09-23	Moravec's Paradox
10-08-23	The American Experiment
10-07-23	Incentives Behind Programming Languages
10-06-23	3D as the New Modality
10-05-23	Keep Going
10-04-23	The Benefit of a Personal Notation
10-03-23	Pitfalls of Database Migrations
10-02-23	Generative Interfaces
10-01-23	Lessons From Debugging
09-30-23	Compression / Learning Duality
09-29-23	Is AI a Platform Shift?
09-28-23	Passkeys, Crypto, and Signing AI Content
09-27-23	Is Data Still a Moat?
09-26-23	Multi-Modal AI is a UX Problem
09-25-23	Observer-Expectancy at Scale
09-24-23	LLMs as System 1 Thinkers
09-23-23	The Fundamental Attribution Error
09-22-23	Good Enough Abstractions
09-21-23	Automate (But Automate Last)
09-20-23	AI Biographers
09-19-23	Customized End User Software (with AI)
09-18-23	Five Principles from Renaissance Technologies
09-17-23	Moving Upmarket
09-16-23	The Age-old Resistance to Generated Code
09-15-23	Cincinnatus
09-14-23	Undetectable AI
09-13-23	The New Economics of Generating Code
09-12-23	The Inevitability of Scope Creep
09-11-23	Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion XL with Personal Photos
09-10-23	The Low-Hanging Fruit
09-09-23	Beyond Prompt Engineering
09-08-23	The Hardware / Software Cycle
09-07-23	Raft: The Distributed Systems Algorithm
09-06-23	The Widgetification of Apple
09-05-23	Type Constraints for LLM Output
09-04-23	Why Fast?
09-03-23	Technical Metrics to Track in Engineering Orgs
09-02-23	TypeScript Type System Hacks
09-01-23	Capital Intense AI Bets
08-31-23	Imputavi, Computavi, Putavi.
08-30-23	Llama 2 in the Browser
08-29-23	The Contrarian Strategy of OpenAI
08-28-23	GitHub Inbox as GTM
08-27-23	AI and Text-First Interfaces
08-26-23	The Business Source License
08-25-23	The Free Lunch of Model Distillation
08-24-23	Adding Constraints
08-23-23	Copy and Paste Libraries
08-22-23	Beating the Average
08-21-23	A Model API Gateway for 20+ LLMs
08-20-23	De Facto Ports
08-19-23	The Truth About GPU Utilization
08-18-23	Directly Responsible Individuals
08-17-23	Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
08-16-23	What is a Prompt Engineer?
08-15-23	Learning Via Negativa
08-14-23	Why Tailwind CSS Won
08-13-23	My Everyday LLM Uses
08-12-23	Dark Mode and Marginal Benefit
08-11-23	Llama/Unix
08-10-23	Deterministic, Structured LLM Output
08-09-23	Bayes' Rule
08-08-23	A Fine-Tuning Marketplace
08-07-23	Majority Rule Developers
08-06-23	NVIDIA's CUDA Monopoly
08-05-23	Prescriptive vs. Descriptive Feedback
08-04-23	Focus On What Could Go Right (Not Wrong)
08-03-23	Apple's Hidden Social Network
08-02-23	Data Versioning
08-01-23	Automatic and Universal Adversarial Prompts
07-31-23	Minimum Effective Dose and Discrete Outcomes
07-30-23	On Compounding
07-29-23	Git Merge Strategies and Algorithms
07-28-23	Modern Samizdat Libraries
07-27-23	Amara's Law
07-26-23	Black Swan Theory
07-25-23	Optimizing $Model.cpp
07-24-23	Commonplace Books
07-23-23	Virtual Machines and Path Dependence
07-22-23	On Getting Married
07-21-23	The RLHF Advantage
07-20-23	Robots.txt for LLMs
07-19-23	Why Did Meta Open-Source Llama 2?
07-18-23	Diffusion of Innovation
07-17-23	Literate Programming with LLMs
07-16-23	Schopenhauer's 36 Stratagems for Winning Arguments
07-15-23	Scale to Zero for AI Workloads
07-14-23	Stop Overengineering
07-13-23	Hard Launches vs. Soft Launches
07-12-23	Virtualized Linux on macOS Internals
07-11-23	Why Frameworks Fail
07-10-23	Categorization and Classification with LLMs
07-09-23	Towards Technical CEOs
07-08-23	ActivityPub, Decentralization - Do Users Care?
07-07-23	The Anti-AI Movement
07-06-23	Customer Obsession is the Only Winning Strategy
07-05-23	Avoiding Footguns
07-04-23	Where AI Fits in Engineering Organizations
07-03-23	Myths About ORMs
07-02-23	Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
07-01-23	The Circular Startup Economy
06-30-23	Personal Lessons From LLMs
06-29-23	Overcoming LLM Hallucinations
06-28-23	Monopolizing Useless Resources
06-27-23	Dark Patterns
06-26-23	Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
06-25-23	Model Evaluation is (Still) An Art
06-24-23	Clear, Simple, and Wrong
06-23-23	What Comes After Kubernetes?
06-22-23	No Feature is Free (Especially AI Ones)
06-21-23	Mixture of Experts: Is GPT-4 Just Eight Smaller Models?
06-20-23	The LLaMA Ecosystem
06-19-23	Merge Queues
06-18-23	Unforced Errors
06-17-23	The Low-Background Steel of AI
06-16-23	Why Does Every AI Cycle Start With Chat?
06-15-23	A Token Efficient Language for LLMs
06-14-23	Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing
06-13-23	ControlNet QR Codes
06-12-23	It’s Too Early To Call Winners in AI
06-11-23	The Last Innings of Web 2.0
06-10-23	Biography of an Idea
06-09-23	The Myth of the AI Infrastructure Phase
06-08-23	LLMs For Software Portability
06-07-23	ChatGPT Plugins Don't Have PMF
06-06-23	Levels of Autonomy in AI Agents
06-05-23	The Problem with Tokenization in LLMs
06-04-23	What Diffusion Models Can Teach Us About LLMs
06-03-23	Sequence and Version Control Models
06-02-23	Practical Dependency Management for Developers
06-01-23	The End of Public APIs
05-31-23	Faster Horses: AI Products That Companies Think They Want
05-30-23	Templating Magic Isn't Free
05-29-23	AI Means More Developers
05-28-23	Two Years of Daily Blogging
05-27-23	Prompt Engineering is Configuration Engineering
05-26-23	SEO Inside AI
05-25-23	A List of Things I Was Wrong About
05-24-23	The ChatGPT Plugin Specification
05-23-23	The Local Development Story
05-22-23	Twitter and the Idea Maze
05-21-23	The New Tax on Engineering Against the Grain
05-20-23	Piecewise
05-19-23	On Regulating AI
05-18-23	On Device AI?
05-17-23	A List of Leaked System Prompts
05-16-23	Intercloud Brokers
05-15-23	React LLM: Run Models in the Browser with Headless Components
05-14-23	Context-Free Grammar Parsing with LLMs
05-13-23	Taylor Swift and Launch Cadence
05-12-23	StackOverflow/ChatGPT
05-11-23	Self-hosted Compilers and Bootstrapped AI
05-10-23	Unix Philosophy for AI
05-09-23	Why Declarative Build Systems Aren’t Popular
05-08-23	The New AI Moats
05-07-23	On-Demand Package Manager
05-06-23	Second-level Thinking
05-05-23	ReLLM: Exact Structure for Large Language Model Completions
05-04-23	llm.ts
05-03-23	The Python Family of Languages
05-02-23	WebGPU and the New OS
05-01-23	Applications of Category Theory
04-30-23	Implementing LLMs in the Browser
04-29-23	React Component as the API
04-28-23	Why Multi-Cloud Failed
04-27-23	Principle of Least Astonishment
04-26-23	Probabilistic Data Structures and LLMs
04-25-23	16 Lessons from the Tanenbaum–Torvalds Debates
04-24-23	Tanenbaum–Torvalds Debates, Part 1
04-23-23	The ptrace syscall
04-22-23	Building a Kernel From Scratch
04-21-23	Autonomous LLM Agents Are At Least 10 Years Out
04-20-23	Peanut Butter Manifesto (2006)
04-19-23	Sandbox Your Prompts
04-18-23	Stochastic/Deterministic
04-17-23	Jevons Paradox and LLMs
04-16-23	Everyday Fourier Transforms
04-15-23	On The Shortness Of Life
04-14-23	Synthetic Data From Compilers
04-13-23	Foundational Models Are Not Enough
04-12-23	Imperative, Declarative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory Interfaces
04-11-23	But / Therefore
04-10-23	A List of 1 Billion+ Parameter LLMs
04-09-23	No GPUs before Product-Market Fit
04-08-23	The Path Dependence of YAML
04-07-23	Buyers in the Foundational Model Stack
04-06-23	Internet Magic Numbers
04-05-23	A High-level LLMOps Architecture
04-04-23	Reasons To Do a Startup
04-03-23	The Automation Frontier
04-02-23	Why Open-Source a Model?
04-01-23	Consumption Pricing Units in AI
03-31-23	Reflections on 10,000 Hours of DevOps
03-30-23	The AI Partnership Race
03-29-23	A Hacker's Guide to LLM Optimization
03-28-23	Kubernetes as a Dev Tool
03-27-23	Code, not Chat, in Generative AI
03-26-23	Distributed Systems and AI
03-25-23	Necessary Conditions for an App Store Monopoly
03-24-23	Remix Culture
03-23-23	Are Incumbents Accruing All The AI Value?
03-22-23	Model Arbitrage
03-21-23	Modeling Context Length vs. Information Retrieval Cost in LLMs
03-20-23	Framework-Defined Infrastructure
03-19-23	The Missing Semester of CS
03-18-23	The Value of Software Generalists
03-17-23	Foundational Models Are Commodities
03-16-23	On OpenAI's Kubernetes Cluster
03-15-23	Choosing the Right Model
03-14-23	Gell-Mann Amnesia
03-13-23	On Prompt Injection
03-12-23	Local LLaMA on a Mac M1
03-11-23	Automatic1111 and AI Aggregators
03-10-23	All the -Ops
03-09-23	Chain of Thought Paradigms in LLMs
03-08-23	Data Local Machine Learning
03-07-23	On React.js
03-06-23	Applications, Services, and Workflows Overload
03-05-23	Will The AI Stack Be Open Or Closed?
03-04-23	The Stoic Arrow
03-03-23	Product Windows
03-02-23	ChatML and the ChatGPT API
03-01-23	The Bundling of the Software Developer
02-28-23	Shells and Distribution
02-27-23	More Art than Science
02-26-23	Wrong Sequences For Startups
02-25-23	Commoditization of Large Language Models: Part 3
02-24-23	Taxonomy of Startup Risk
02-23-23	The Connectors/Loaders Trap
02-22-23	Erdős Vocabulary
02-21-23	Why DSLs Fail
02-20-23	Amdahl's Law and Optimization
02-19-23	Why Python Won't Be the Language of LLMs
02-18-23	Nix Is Fighting The Last War
02-17-23	Interfaces for Uncertainty
02-16-23	Why ChatGPT Needs AuthZ
02-15-23	Ask Yourself Dumb Questions
02-14-23	Carrying a Dozen Problems
02-13-23	Blurring Language Boundaries
02-12-23	LLM Ops, Part 1
02-11-23	What Won't Change
02-10-23	Multi-Model vs. Multi-Cloud
02-09-23	Should OSS Projects Have Telemetry?
02-08-23	Reactive Strategy
02-07-23	Docker Without Docker
02-06-23	Applications of Gall's Law
02-05-23	Composable Models
02-04-23	Stack Shift
02-03-23	If It Doesn’t Ship, It Doesn’t Exist
02-02-23	Optimal Stopping Theory
02-01-23	Future is Not Evenly Distributed
01-31-23	Zero Interest Rate Policy Phenomena
01-30-23	The Frontend Bundling Cycle
01-29-23	Type-Safe API Calls: tRPC vs. gRPC
01-28-23	Overview of GPT-as-a-Backend
01-27-23	Eisenhower Priority Matrix
01-26-23	What Doesn't Fit in Git
01-25-23	Cloud Services Ranked: Build vs. Buy
01-24-23	Workflow Engine Paradigms
01-23-23	Prompt Engineering Shouldn't Exist
01-22-23	GPT Lineage
01-21-23	How to Version an API
01-20-23	Cheap UIs
01-19-23	Cloud Spend Breakdown
01-18-23	Rebuilding in Rust
01-17-23	All Models Are Wrong (But Some Are Useful)
01-16-23	The Problem with Drag-n-Drop Infrastructure
01-15-23	Output vs. Outcome
01-14-23	Garbage In, Garbage out?
01-13-23	Winning Ugly and The Metagame
01-12-23	Minix and nanoGPT
01-11-23	Fully Managed Infrastructure
01-10-23	Lessons from the Last AI Cycle
01-09-23	White Space
01-08-23	Fine-Tuning an OCR Model
01-07-23	Semi-Organic Growth
01-06-23	What's Next After NextJS
01-05-23	RPA: The Human Interface
01-04-23	The Implications of More Developers
01-03-23	Counterfactuals
01-02-23	A New ML Stack
01-01-23	Top Posts of 2022
12-31-22	2023 Predictions
12-30-22	Local AI: Part 2
12-29-22	Local AI: Part 1
12-28-22	Reflections on 2022 Predictions
12-27-22	Proebsting's Law
12-26-22	Turing Social: Twitter, For Bots
12-25-22	Christmas 2022
12-24-22	Shortest Time-to-Launch
12-23-22	Software Rewrites
12-22-22	Backward Compatibility
12-21-22	ML Developer Experience
12-20-22	The Architecture of Mastodon
12-19-22	How Did Microsoft Win Back Devs?
12-18-22	Vector Search
12-17-22	The Fall of Freenode
12-16-22	Docker as a DevTool Platform
12-15-22	AI-driven Interfaces
12-14-22	LAION, The Pile, and more datasets
12-13-22	Abstracting the Infrastructure
12-12-22	Lessons from Lensa
12-11-22	Tarpit Ideas
12-10-22	An Ideal CI/CD System
12-09-22	Elo Rating
12-08-22	Spam Filtering AI Content
12-07-22	Google Takeout and Data Portability
12-06-22	Stack Overflow Bans ChatGPT
12-05-22	Will LLMs Disrupt Google Search?
12-04-22	The Frontend Ouroboros
12-03-22	A Conversation with ChatGPT
12-02-22	Apple's Enemies
12-01-22	MacGuffin
11-30-22	Do Cold Starts Matter?
11-29-22	Sharing a Notebook
11-28-22	Fuzzy Databases
11-27-22	Human-in-the-Loop and Other AI Mistakes
11-26-22	Technical Posts Overview and Roundup
11-25-22	Schelling Point
11-24-22	Showing Up Every Day
11-23-22	The Cloud Tax Implications
11-22-22	Why Do Configuration Changes Cause Outages?
11-21-22	Excel for Developers
11-20-22	Will Twitter Fail?
11-19-22	Generative AI Value Chain
11-18-22	Amazon's Distributed Computing Manifesto (1998)
11-17-22	Windows Subsystem for Linux
11-16-22	Solving the Simple Case
11-15-22	On the Mastodon Experiment
11-14-22	On Launching
11-13-22	LLMs for Code
11-12-22	What is a Token? A Technical Explanation
11-11-22	On FTX
11-10-22	Information Barbell
11-09-22	What are Containers?
11-08-22	Decoy Effect
11-07-22	What Happens to Infra Engineers?
11-06-22	Generational Advantages
11-05-22	UGC: User-Generated Code
11-04-22	Mastering the Command Line
11-03-22	Man in the Arena
11-02-22	Who Pays? The Twitter Blue Check
11-01-22	What If Google Builds This?
10-31-22	Facebook's Culture Book (2012)
10-30-22	And Yet it Moves
10-29-22	Deploy Early, Deploy Often
10-28-22	Ethereum RPC as a Service
10-27-22	The Inner Dev Loop
10-26-22	Apple's Ad Positioning
10-25-22	Daily is the Product
10-24-22	Kubernetes Interfaces
10-23-22	Moat By Induction
10-22-22	Exploiting Protocols for Fun
10-21-22	AI Will Write Most Code
10-20-22	Cloud Repatriation or Not?
10-19-22	AI Scaling Laws
10-18-22	Richard Feynman and Narrative
10-17-22	SEC, Gensler, and Crypto
10-16-22	Defaults
10-15-22	Getting Stuck in the Past
10-14-22	Short Taxonomy of Open-Source Strategies
10-13-22	The Middle Squeeze
10-12-22	A Personal Training Corpus
10-11-22	Why Is NixOS Popular Again?
10-10-22	Where Logic Lives
10-09-22	On Web Clipping
10-08-22	Risk vs. Uncertainty
10-07-22	eBPF File Watching
10-06-22	Reentrancy Attacks
10-05-22	Perceptual Hashing
10-04-22	Free Compute and Replit
10-03-22	Screenshots as the Universal API
10-02-22	The Steffen Boarding Method
10-01-22	The Promise of Write Once, Run Anywhere
09-30-22	Why Stadia Failed
09-29-22	Thoughts on GitHub Actions
09-28-22	Simple Group Theory
09-27-22	Is Ethereum a Dumb Pipe?
09-26-22	Startup Ideas I've Considered
09-25-22	Hard to Compute, Simple to Verify
09-24-22	What's an MVP in 2022?
09-23-22	Infrastructure Defined Software
09-22-22	Tree Shaking
09-21-22	Rust, C++, or Carbon?
09-20-22	It's Just a Tarball
09-19-22	Standards, Protocols, and Platforms
09-18-22	Is GitHub a Social Network?
09-17-22	Google Infra For Everyone Else in 2022
09-16-22	Adobe/Figma
09-15-22	When To Roll Your Own X
09-14-22	The Inventor's Paradox
09-13-22	GraphQL Trades Complexity
09-12-22	TensorFlow vs. PyTorch
09-11-22	Recursive-length Prefix (RLP)/Simple Serialize (SSZ)
09-10-22	SQLite Doesn't Use Git
09-09-22	Materializing Results
09-08-22	The Lost Art of System Administration
09-07-22	Performance Comes Last
09-06-22	Two Approaches to Prompt Engineering
09-05-22	WASI vs. WASM
09-04-22	Libraries > Languages
09-03-22	Parallelizing Programs on the Blockchain
09-02-22	The Unbundling of Twitter
09-01-22	Low-end Disruption of AWS
08-31-22	Why Does Google Kill So Many Products?
08-30-22	The Commoditization of Large Language Models: Part 2
08-29-22	Design in OSS
08-28-22	Timeline of Early Email
08-27-22	It's Harder to Read Code Than Write It
08-26-22	Developer Platform Table Stakes
08-25-22	The Value is in the API
08-24-22	Value Accrual in the Crypto Infra Stack
08-23-22	A Short List of Cognitive Biases
08-22-22	r/K Startup Theory
08-21-22	Tool-driven Scientific Revolutions
08-20-22	Webhooks Aren't So Bad
08-19-22	The Issues with Buildpacks
08-18-22	Friction as a Proxy for Value
08-17-22	Tradeoffs in API Design
08-16-22	Teams, Slack, and Discord in Retrospect
08-15-22	Cloud Native Localhost
08-14-22	Towards Granular Compute
08-13-22	The Ethereum Merge
08-12-22	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
08-11-22	Growing the Pie
08-10-22	Developers Should Deploy Their Own Code
08-09-22	Sanctioning a Smart Contract
08-08-22	Braess's paradox
08-07-22	Component-driven Markup
08-06-22	On Unoptimizing
08-05-22	Will v8 Isolates Coexist With Containers?
08-04-22	The End-to-End Principle in System Design
08-03-22	Sufficiently Decentralized
08-02-22	Open-Source and Quadratic Funding
08-01-22	The New Wave Frontend Toolchain
07-31-22	Gacha Game
07-30-22	A First-Class Language Package Manager
07-29-22	Brooks in Reverse
07-28-22	Don't Be Scared of Cloud Lock-in
07-27-22	Lisp and Spreadsheets
07-26-22	Adverse Selection Examples
07-25-22	Defensible Machine Learning Model Naming
07-24-22	Fault-Tolerant Design
07-23-22	Non-Obvious Docker Uses
07-22-22	Pull Request is Now the Unit of Review
07-21-22	Presentation Next to Code
07-20-22	Choosing Esoteric Technology
07-19-22	The Quick Uptake of ARM on Cloud
07-18-22	Stacked Pull Requests
07-17-22	Shannon's Demon
07-16-22	IaC: Strength or Weakness for Cloud Providers?
07-15-22	Sybil Attacks on Airdrops
07-14-22	The Story of CP/M
07-13-22	Hotelling's Law and Differentiation
07-12-22	Distribution in a Downturn
07-11-22	The Remix IDE
07-10-22	SSH: Less Relevant In the Cloud
07-09-22	So Easy You Could Run It Yourself
07-08-22	Smart Contract Immutability
07-07-22	Not Even Wrong
07-06-22	How Kubernetes Broke Git
07-05-22	Commoditization of Large Language Models
07-04-22	What Comes After Git
07-03-22	A Look Into My Development Stack
07-02-22	Giving Up Decentralization: Scalability Trilemma
07-01-22	Does Financial Policy Matter?
06-30-22	The Centralization of dYdX
06-29-22	16 Bell-Curve Opinions on Engineering
06-28-22	History of Version Control Systems: Part 3
06-27-22	History of Version Control Systems: Part 2
06-26-22	History of Version Control Systems
06-25-22	Asset-lite in an Asset-Heavy Business
06-24-22	Sequencing
06-23-22	Panic of 1907/2022
06-22-22	How to Use GitHub Copilot Effectively
06-21-22	Least Common Denominator APIs
06-20-22	Every Sufficiently Advanced Configuration Language is Wrong
06-19-22	Is Snowflake a Platform?
06-18-22	Plaintext Protocols
06-17-22	Thoughts on RSS
06-16-22	Convergence of DBaaS and BaaS
06-15-22	Path of Least Resistance
06-14-22	Don't Use Kubernetes, Yet
06-13-22	The Last Question
06-12-22	The Cost to Participate In Decentralized Networks
06-11-22	Work Expands to Fill the Space
06-10-22	Web3's Eternal September
06-09-22	Are Platform Teams Dead?
06-08-22	The Surprising Linearity of GitHub Star Growth
06-07-22	The Centralization of Skype
06-06-22	Usage-based Pricing in a Downturn
06-05-22	Fallacies of Distributed Systems
06-04-22	Datadog's State of Serverless
06-03-22	The Idea Maze
06-02-22	A Napkin Architecture of Ethereum Interfaces for Developers
06-01-22	Product Velocity of Alternative Cloud Platforms
05-31-22	Programming to the Interface
05-30-22	Interface Decomposition in Cloud
05-29-22	Payment for Order Flow in Web3
05-28-22	One Year of Daily Blogging
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