if (state === "stuck") {
rethink(); // O(1)
}From the publication
The latest edition / milestone stories and miscellaneous
I just found out what Claude is actually doing while I wait for it to answer my prompts, and it’s kinda wild. 🤯📚Here is what’s actually happening under the hood when we use it for our work.
Read the editionI sat down to write a fourth year reflection. Instead, I accidentally discovered I might already be overworked.
Vibe coding, originality, software engineering, debugging, writing, the Spiral Model, and why I think the conversation around AI is often focused on the wrong thing.
Less about AI itself and more about reassurance, anxiety, instant answers, and what happens when we slowly lose the habit of sitting with our own thoughts first.
Another to-do app, another notes app, another counter with a slightly different CSS gradient. The internet has ten thousand of them, yet programmers keep building them from scratch. We don't build them because the world lacks task trackers; we build them because rebuilding the familiar is the safest sandbox to understand how data actually moves.
At 2 PM, a crashing build feels like proof of incompetence. But at 2 AM, when notifications die down and nobody is expecting a reply, failure suddenly feels light. There's a strange permission in the dark to try something unproven, break it completely, and fix it without having to explain yourself to anyone.
Made to learn by doing
Student-built technical notebooks move from intuition to precise explanations, worked examples, and tools you can actually try.
Step inside the notebooksThe ideas are connected
An essay about memory sits beside a note on operating systems. A question about attention meets a story about making. The Brain Map follows those quiet threads across the archive.
Explore the Brain MapA curious mind rarely stays in one lane
Why do ordinary things feel the way they do?
I Wonder Why the Brain Loves PatternsFollow a question, find a new one, and see where it takes you.
Explore the publicationRecently wondered: Developers Don't Build To-Do Apps for the List