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2026 6

  1. Reverse-Engineering the Wetware: Spiking Networks, TD Errors, and the End of Matrix Math
  2. VIEW ALL POSTS
  3. Real-Time AI Streaming in Production: What We Built at Helpmaton
  4. Subscription-Based API Throttling Without Client API Keys
  5. How We Give AI Agents Long-Term Memory Without Blowing the Budget
  6. Building Helpmaton: An Infrastructure Layer for AI Agents

2025 36

  1. THE ANCHOR’S RADIUS - a short story
  2. Building Semantic Search for AI Customer Service Agents
  3. Introducing TimeClout: A New, Open-Source Tool to End Shift Scheduling Headaches
  4. My Journey (So Far)
  5. What's Next? From Decipad to New Frontiers
  6. Beyond the Grid: The Search for a More Humane Way to Compute
  7. Building Decipad: A Deep Dive into Our Toughest Engineering Challenges
  8. 10 Lessons Learned from Closing Our Startup After 5 Years
  9. Building Decipad: A 5-Year Technical Retrospective
  10. Decoding the Brain's Code: A Software Engineer's Guide to the Drift-Diffusion Model
  11. Computational Psychiatry: Reinforcement Learning and the Code Behind the Brain's Decisions
  12. CPC Afterburn: Active Inference and the Bayesian Brain
  13. Predictive Minds: How Our Brains Code the Future (and Why it Matters for AI)
  14. Perception, Beliefs, and the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter
  15. CPC Afterburn: The Code Behind the Brain
  16. Introduction to CPC Afterburn: A Software Engineer's Take on Computational Psychiatry
  17. Why Designers Shouldn't Build Space Stations
  18. The Fallacy of "Best Practices" in Software Architecture
  19. In a World of Hype, GraphQL's Fundamental Advantages Over tRPC Still Hold True
  20. Notebook Compaction: How We Optimized CRDT Storage for High-Frequency Collaborative Editing
  21. Unit Conversions in Decipad: A Deep Dive into the Language's Dimensional Analysis System
  22. Time as Intervals: How Decipad's Date System Mimics Human Thinking
  23. The Lazy Column Revolution: How Decipad Handles Massive Datasets Without Breaking a Sweat
  24. Building a Reactive Declarative Language: From Grammar to Incremental Computation
  25. You're Wrong About Dates
  26. How to Build a Reliable Transaction Experience for Your Customers
  27. Why Your Application Needs to Be Offline-First
  28. Embedding an All-Seeing AI Agent
  29. The History of Databases: A Summary
  30. The Road to Local-First Data
  31. Building Real-Time AI Streaming Services with AWS Lambda and Architect
  32. Immutable Deployments, Mutable Teams: The Paradox That Keeps Software Alive
  33. Local Development Sandbox: Mirroring AWS Serverless on Your Machine 🔧
  34. Deploying Pull Requests: A Complete AWS Stack for Every PR 🚀
  35. Bringing Data Closer to Your Code: A Real Implementation
  36. The Distributed Dream: Bringing Data Closer to Your Code