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2025 24

  1. The Simplest Complex SWE Project
  2. The Simplest Complex SWE Project
  3. Founder Virtues, per the Thiel Fellowship
  4. Founder Virtues, per the Thiel Fellowship
  5. How Much Is a Pension Worth?
  6. How Much Is a Pension Worth?
  7. Engineering Buy-in
  8. Engineering Buy-in
  9. Reverse-engineering Firestore calls to export your data
  10. Reverse-engineering Firestore calls to export your data
  11. The Websocket Deploy Bug
  12. The Websocket Deploy Bug
  13. Google Gemini has the worst LLM API
  14. Google Gemini has the worst LLM API
  15. Survey of LLM Fine-tuning APIs (Apr 2025)
  16. Survey of LLM Fine-tuning APIs (Apr 2025)
  17. Love your competitors
  18. Love your competitors
  19. Unprofitable growth & stacked S-curves
  20. Unprofitable growth & stacked S-curves
  21. How I use AI (early 2025)
  22. How I use AI (early 2025)
  23. Unusual $/MTok numbers
  24. Unusual $/MTok numbers

2024 34

  1. Does Protein Supplementation Alone Help? (n=1)
  2. Using Clerk with Firestore
  3. Using Clerk with Firestore
  4. Does Protein Supplementation Alone Help? (n=1)
  5. Reading List: Hamming Answers
  6. Reading List: Hamming Answers
  7. 8,000 Easy Lumens For The Winter
  8. 8,000 Easy Lumens For The Winter
  9. Outside Game, Inside Game
  10. Reading List: Liberal Capitalism
  11. Reading List: Liberal Capitalism
  12. Outside Game, Inside Game
  13. On LLCs & corporations
  14. On LLCs & corporations
  15. Evaluating stock option offers
  16. Evaluating stock option offers
  17. The Firestore vulnerability found in Arc is likely widespread
  18. The Firestore vulnerability found in Arc is likely widespread
  19. Serverless fire-and-forget subrequests
  20. Serverless fire-and-forget subrequests
  21. LLM Costs per MTok
  22. LLM Costs per MTok
  23. Replicate & Fly cold-start latency
  24. Replicate & Fly cold-start latency
  25. Leaving at the cliff
  26. Embedding search latency
  27. Embedding search latency
  28. Leaving at the cliff
  29. Building with the Cloudflare Stack
  30. Building with the Cloudflare Stack
  31. Equity comp induces a desirable correlation between stock price and employee retention
  32. Equity comp induces a desirable correlation between stock price and employee retention
  33. Inflation adjustment is often misleading
  34. Inflation adjustment is often misleading

2023 4

  1. Proxying LLMs via Vercel is expensive
  2. Proxying LLMs via Vercel is expensive
  3. When should you add Redis to Postgres?
  4. When should you add Redis to Postgres?