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On resenting past versions of yourself for not enjoying things sooner, and acting today for a future self whose tastes you can't predict.

On the Hugging Face incident, and what it might take to align the agent swarms of the future.

A reflection on growing older, written at Andiamo on the Upper East Side.

Nobody should be reading my diff anymore. This is what I'd recommend instead.

I connected Cursor's cloud agents to Codex and a dedicated macOS runtime. It's pretty cool.

How small acts of consistency turn into momentum, identity, and rituals that sustain themselves.

A wedding in Lisbon reminded me of something essential to every great friendship.

On stress, hair, and how the brain gets better at finding whatever it keeps looking for.

AI is making capability feel abundant. That does not mean it will remain cheap.

A brief explanation of what I do for work, and why human data matters.

Facebook built a dating tab. One tab over, it accidentally built a better one.

A framework for seniority that hopefully resonates with you.

I recorded myself answering the same questions on the first of every month for the past year. I'd highly recommend it!

Why I traded a custom-built static site for Astro, MDX, and a better way to share technical ideas.

Step by step guide to making homemade pasta every year.

Another reflection on growing older, written at Stella and Fly on the Upper East Side.

Nine innings with the right people doesn't feel so long. Why is that?

Stories told at the end of an era.

What is the shape of your social environment, and what's missing from it?

The most important narrative you own is the story of how you can be demonstrably excellent.

What makes a New Year's Resolution "good"?

Learning is built on realizations all the way down.

The only thing that's constant is change, and the feeling that I should have changed sooner.

A reflection on growing older, written at Stella and Fly on the Upper East Side.

Sesame flour is everywhere, haven't you noticed?

What prevents us from doing anything at all?

Enter the world of automatically refreshing content with AI.

My phone got stolen in New York. Here's what you should do if this happens to you.

Let's talk about how to create one of the most popular toys in the world.

An online, async Capture the Flag game. Hosted on this webpage.

Favorite colors and digital breadcrumbs.

I love two things more than anything- music and computer science. Let's use Spotify's API to combine the two! Topics include Music Recommendation, Discography Ranking, creating a Graph of Related Artists, finding the shortest path between two artists, & more!

Curious to see strangers' creative ability, I went on Omegle and asked 50 participants to create a new word, and tell me what it means.

Everyone wants a way to prioritize their ideas and side projects, but doing so often feels tedious and unhelpful. Introducing the HotPlot, a way to organize your thoughts that feels right.

Kotlin is a language that runs on the JVM, is supported (and recommended) for android development, and has extensive syntax support for important concepts like null safety, concurrent / parallel processes and static typing. Why isn't it being taught in more CS curriculum?

Working for a startup may not give you immediate prestige on your resume, but it does teach you valuable opportunities and skills that large companies simply cannot offer.

How a well-written GitHub README can make your project more successful.

In order to re-open the economy in the fastest and least-damaging way possible, contact tracing applications will play a huge roll. But how do these apps work, and how do they protect our personal information?