The Anatomy of a Production Outage
The pattern behind production outages: the 2am alert, the escalating panic, the decision that makes it worse....
European VC Funding: The Gap Between Headlines and Reality
European AI funding doubled in 2025. But 90% of startups fail and 95% of AI pilots never deliver ROI. What the funding headlines don't tell you....
Web Spy: The Personal Web Crawler I Never Released
I built Web Spy - a desktop app that crawled and cached websites for offline reading. This was before HTTrack, before Pocket, before Instapaper. Never shipped it....
Those Old Programming Books
Dog-eared, coffee-stained, held together by stubbornness and nostalgia. The programming books from the late 1970s that started a 45-year journey in technology....
The Technical Co-Founder Burnout Nobody Talks About
Technical co-founders face unique pressures: irreversible architecture decisions, constant translation duty, recognition gaps, and always-on responsibility....
Documentation as Product: What Open Source Gets Right
Documentation quality determines adoption more than feature completeness....
The Solo Founder Loneliness Problem
Solo founders face psychological costs the startup world rarely acknowledges. The isolation isn't weakness—it's physics....
The AI Bubble Will Deflate, Not Pop
Drawing parallels between the 2000 dot-com crash and today's AI investment frenzy....
When Microservices Make Sense
Microservices succeed when you have the right prerequisites: team scale, deployment independence, scaling needs, and operational maturity....
My Web Crawler Crashed a Server at Los Alamos
How a homemade web crawler in 1993 crashed a Los Alamos server, the birth of robots.txt, and why AI companies are breaking the web etiquette that held for 30 years....
Startup Metrics Theater: Vanity vs Value
Vanity metrics like DAU and total downloads create illusions of progress while hiding real problems....
C Was the Last Good Language
Why modern languages prioritize developer experience over runtime efficiency. The trade-offs we accepted and forgot. Where Rust tries to have it both ways....
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