Reddit sentiment lately: Haystack >>> LangChain.

I'm super glad micro.company could make a difference by supporting these young minds.

Instead of markdown files, I've been getting my AI to save plans in GitHub issues. Claude Code is AWESOME at using the GitHub CLI. Means you don't have endless THROWAWAY_PLAN.md files spamming the repo.

youtu.be/gcwzWzC7gUA Never touched Ruby on Rails in my life, but DHH’s talk left me in awe.

Been trying to wrap my head around how people actually control LLMs. This post breaks it down really well. Simple, clear, and super useful paintermanlab.com/blog/llm-contr…

System Design isn’t one big concept. It’s a staircase. Most engineers try to skip to “distributed systems.” Then, wonder why everything collapses under load. You can’t copy-paste scale. You earn it, step by step. Step 1: Foundations - Learn how data moves. - Networking.

As someone in full-stack/dev ops: If you work with doc processing, OCR, RAG systems, this is worth watching. Layout & diagram preservation + token economy. deepseek.ai/blog/deepseek-…

rnjn.in/articles/dont-…

Setup update: Added some green to my workspace 🌿

Cloudflare’s down and suddenly I can’t prove I’m human. I'll take a break now.

What am I reading today? "High Performance Browser Networking" (hpbn.co). A free deep dive into how HTTP, TCP, TLS, and caching actually work under the hood. Time to fill the gaps.

AI can write the code. Cool. I’ll keep the other stuff: - memory that spans years - the ability to regret - reputation that compounds - second-order thinking - spotting when something is technically correct but deeply wrong Just documenting my remaining job description.