Gleam and Zig: New Languages That Actually Deserve the Hype
Two different languages, one shared philosophy: respect the developer’s time
Essays and notes on AI, software engineering, developer tools, systems, and the shape of modern product building.
The Honest Guide to AI-Assisted Development in 2025
What actually works, what’s still hype, and the mistakes everyone makes
Your Monolith Is Fine. Your Monorepo Is Fine. Stop Apologizing.
The architecture that lets your team ship fastest is the right architecture, full stop
Python Ate Another Seven Points of Market Share and AI Is Why
Python’s growth isn’t slowing—it’s accelerating with the LLM ecosystem as the engine
The MCP Ecosystem Exploded and We’re Just Getting Started
300+ MCP servers in three months—how an open protocol bootstrapped an entire integration ecosystem
SQLite Is Having a Moment and It’s Not Just for Mobile Anymore
Turso, LiteFS, and Litestream turned a local database into a distributed powerhouse
Docker’s +17 Point Surge Is the Most Underreported Story in Dev
The largest single-year adoption jump in survey history, and nobody’s talking about it
Cursor Changed My Mind About AI-Native Editors
The VS Code fork with AI baked into every interaction is surprisingly better than plugins bolted on after
The Case for Zig in 2025
C’s simplicity, Rust’s ambitions, but with a gentler learning curve than either
Model Context Protocol: The Standard That Makes AI Agents Work
Anthropic’s MCP is doing for AI tool use what REST did for web APIs