Long-form writing and quick notes on systems, product craft, and the ideas behind Cubic Pixel.
Open weights now carry most of the tokens and almost none of the revenue. A study of what that contradiction means, across 16 sources.
A small open standard, launched with little fanfare in late 2024, has quietly become the connective tissue of the AI era. Here is what MCP actually is, how it works, and why it matters — whether you write code for a living or have never opened a terminal
Every ambitious city now wants a virtual replica of itself. The technology is real, the demos are dazzling - and the gap between the promise and the pavement is wider than anyone selling a platform will admit.
How a 2015 Efficiency Trick Became the Center of a Superpower Standoff
A technical examination of where composable architecture came from, what it really demands, and how to tell the patterns that work from the ones that quietly fail.
A technical retrospective on how urban digital twins evolved from static 3D models to closed-loop autonomous systems — and what the next decade demands from the architects building them.
How a nation of 85 million quietly went to war with a Thanksgiving entrée
On designing a mark for the place where engineering and design meet
On a logbook, a literal bug, and the origin story we keep telling wrong
