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Complete Chronological Archive (2013 – 2026)

From essay #001 “Long Days Leave No Trace (Part I)” in 2013 to essay #260 “After Tokenmaxing, Who Is Thinking for Whom?” in 2026—tracing thirteen years of engineering thought in strict chronological order.

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2013

1 essays · 8k source chars
  1. #001Essays & ReadingLong Days Leave No Trace (Part I)8,435 chars · 19 min

2014

50 essays · 179k source chars
  1. #002Languages & CraftMusings on Indirection1,051 chars · 2 min
  2. #003Languages & CraftOn Agile1,618 chars · 4 min
  3. #004Leadership & CareerWho Should Be Promoted? Who Should Be Laid Off?1,639 chars · 4 min
  4. #005Leadership & CareerIf You Can Spend Money, Don't Spend Time1,134 chars · 3 min
  5. #006Leadership & CareerThe Seven Habits of Highly Effective Programmers3,218 chars · 7 min
  6. #007Leadership & CareerHow to Publish a Patent2,870 chars · 6 min
  7. #008Systems & ArchitectureOn the Beauty of Unix1,031 chars · 2 min
  8. #009Languages & CraftHow to Learn a Programming Language from Scratch3,245 chars · 7 min
  9. #010Leadership & CareerInnovation Is Not a Campaign, It's a Culture2,708 chars · 6 min
  10. #011Languages & CraftThe Languages I Chased in Those Years4,599 chars · 10 min
  11. #012Leadership & CareerWhy I Have More Time Than You1,713 chars · 4 min
  12. #013Leadership & CareerUnder Pressure: What Doesn't Kill Me Makes Me Stronger2,340 chars · 5 min
  13. #014Leadership & CareerPressure Management, Continued: Comparison Kills2,195 chars · 5 min
  14. #015Leadership & CareerThe Growing Pains of a Company1,531 chars · 3 min
  15. #016Leadership & CareerThe Monster-Slaying Road to Leveling Up in Software Development1,676 chars · 4 min
  16. #017Systems & ArchitectureWhy You Need to Understand Information Security5,228 chars · 12 min
  17. #018Leadership & CareerEven If Others Are Code Monkeys, You Needn't Be2,782 chars · 6 min
  18. #019Leadership & CareerOn Salary, Bonuses, Options, and Stock2,101 chars · 5 min
  19. #020Essays & ReadingWhen You Look Back on Your Life2,726 chars · 6 min
  20. #021Systems & ArchitectureThe Black Box2,320 chars · 5 min
  21. #022Essays & ReadingOn Reading5,481 chars · 12 min
  22. #023Leadership & CareerThe Technologist's Vision1,588 chars · 4 min
  23. #024Leadership & CareerSetting Goals5,387 chars · 12 min
  24. #025Languages & CraftOn Programming Philosophy6,027 chars · 13 min
  25. #026Languages & CraftOn Python3,814 chars · 8 min
  26. #027Leadership & CareerFarewell, Xierqi2,015 chars · 4 min
  27. #028Leadership & CareerOn Management5,255 chars · 12 min
  28. #029Essays & ReadingA Story Aboard CA9852,482 chars · 6 min
  29. #030Languages & CraftFace to Face with Siri's Co-Founder, Adam Cheyer4,740 chars · 11 min
  30. #031Systems & ArchitectureTouch and Feedback Systems1,686 chars · 4 min
  31. #032Essays & ReadingWhat I Think About When I Travel10,110 chars · 22 min
  32. #033Languages & CraftOn Programming1,531 chars · 3 min
  33. #034Leadership & CareerOn University8,592 chars · 19 min
  34. #035Essays & ReadingA Love Affair with the World Cup3,487 chars · 8 min
  35. #036Languages & CraftDesign Patterns for System Development3,210 chars · 7 min
  36. #037Leadership & CareerThe Meaning of Work1,339 chars · 3 min
  37. #038Leadership & CareerWhen Diligence Catches Up with Time1,947 chars · 4 min
  38. #039Essays & ReadingOn Running3,649 chars · 8 min
  39. #040Essays & ReadingProgrammers and Writers2,594 chars · 6 min
  40. #041Leadership & CareerHiring and Retaining Talent4,518 chars · 10 min
  41. #042Essays & ReadingThe Marathon: Suddenly a Serious Business2,134 chars · 5 min
  42. #043Leadership & CareerOn Work: The Digital China Chapter6,919 chars · 15 min
  43. #044Essays & ReadingJust Like That, I Ran My First Marathon2,759 chars · 6 min
  44. #045Systems & ArchitectureMeasurement3,092 chars · 7 min
  45. #046Systems & ArchitectureWhy SOA Matters So Much3,646 chars · 8 min
  46. #047Languages & CraftHow to Master a Technology Quickly2,104 chars · 5 min
  47. #048Essays & ReadingYes, I Am That Idiot Who Ran the Beijing Marathon4,291 chars · 10 min
  48. #049Leadership & CareerDoctor Qi's Management Lessons15,767 chars · 35 min
  49. #050Languages & CraftThe Diagramming Tools I've Chased Through the Years6,603 chars · 15 min
  50. #051Essays & ReadingLife Is Just One Big Hassle4,314 chars · 10 min

2015

20 essays · 82k source chars
  1. #052Leadership & CareerHow to Land a Work Visa and a Green Card in the United States2,551 chars · 6 min
  2. #053Languages & CraftThe Disruptor's Game: Programming Languages5,158 chars · 11 min
  3. #054Leadership & CareerA Programmer's Guide to Productivity4,393 chars · 10 min
  4. #055Languages & CraftThe Timeless Allure of Immutability3,198 chars · 7 min
  5. #056Languages & CraftMusings on Software Design7,394 chars · 16 min
  6. #057Essays & ReadingNotes from a Journey South2,782 chars · 6 min
  7. #058Systems & ArchitectureWriting a Proper REST API5,001 chars · 11 min
  8. #059Languages & CraftEmbracing Constraints4,271 chars · 9 min
  9. #060Systems & ArchitectureNetwork Security in Application Development3,570 chars · 8 min
  10. #061Essays & ReadingThe Traveler’s Boundless Road: Seattle, Portland, and Beyond6,308 chars · 14 min
  11. #062Systems & ArchitectureSoftware Performance Tuning: Follow the Data, or the Buzzwords?2,830 chars · 6 min
  12. #063Languages & CraftMusings on Software3,437 chars · 8 min
  13. #064Languages & CraftHow to Happily Write an Interpreter6,374 chars · 14 min
  14. #065Leadership & CareerOn Engineering Culture: Passion, Inversion of Control, and Open Source5,011 chars · 11 min
  15. #066Essays & ReadingThe Portland Marathon: A Citywide Celebration4,173 chars · 9 min
  16. #067Essays & ReadingSerendipity?5,218 chars · 12 min
  17. #068Leadership & CareerStartups and Management: Building an Experiment-Friendly Work Environment4,532 chars · 10 min
  18. #069Leadership & CareerForeword to "The Engineer's Guide to Entrepreneurship": Welcome to the World of Engineers2,370 chars · 5 min
  19. #070Essays & ReadingTaking Stock of My 20151,363 chars · 3 min
  20. #071Essays & ReadingA 2015 Medley of a Programmer's Life1,962 chars · 4 min

2016

48 essays · 185k source chars
  1. #072Languages & CraftHow to Learn a New Language (and Make It Production-Ready)5,342 chars · 12 min
  2. #073Systems & ArchitectureBeats: Monitoring and Log Processing2,182 chars · 5 min
  3. #074Leadership & CareerParamount, MGM, and Lionsgate2,953 chars · 7 min
  4. #075Systems & ArchitectureOn System Design Interviews2,452 chars · 5 min
  5. #076Languages & CraftMind Games: Asynchronous Handling in EventEmitter3,991 chars · 9 min
  6. #077Languages & CraftBoundary2,039 chars · 5 min
  7. #078AI & Autonomous AgentsFine, Let's Talk About AlphaGo803 chars · 2 min
  8. #079Leadership & CareerMake Good Art: Do Good Work, Be on Time, and Be a Pleasure to Work With1,325 chars · 3 min
  9. #080Languages & CraftOn Object-Oriented Programming3,513 chars · 8 min
  10. #081Languages & CraftProgrammers and Hand-Pulled Noodles2,187 chars · 5 min
  11. #082Languages & CraftThe Way of Refactoring4,327 chars · 10 min
  12. #083Languages & CraftHow to Learn a New Language — and a Framework for Learning Anything2,016 chars · 4 min
  13. #084Languages & CraftApple TV 4: The Final Chapter of Three-Screen Convergence?3,839 chars · 9 min
  14. #085Essays & ReadingThe Toddler Tyrant Diaries (Part II)1,066 chars · 2 min
  15. #086Languages & CraftSoftware Development Patterns You Should Avoid3,677 chars · 8 min
  16. #087Essays & ReadingLong Days Leave No Trace (Part II)3,365 chars · 7 min
  17. #088Languages & CraftThe Power of Abstraction5,183 chars · 12 min
  18. #089Languages & CraftRefactoring: Writing Competent Code4,602 chars · 10 min
  19. #090Languages & CraftBuilding Your Own LEGO Bricks4,295 chars · 10 min
  20. #091Languages & CraftMetaprogramming 101: A Gentle Introduction6,724 chars · 15 min
  21. #092Systems & ArchitectureOn Writing APIs, Revisited21,504 chars · 48 min
  22. #093Leadership & CareerThe Engineer's Three Outlooks: Technology, Product, and Data4,322 chars · 10 min
  23. #094Systems & ArchitectureThe Foolproofing of the Backend?2,981 chars · 7 min
  24. #095Languages & CraftReactive Programming2,869 chars · 6 min
  25. #096Leadership & CareerOld Soldiers Never Die4,745 chars · 11 min
  26. #097Leadership & CareerTurn Left, Turn Right7,039 chars · 16 min
  27. #098Essays & ReadingA Close Call: Almost Fell Prey to a Scammer2,550 chars · 6 min
  28. #099Leadership & CareerThe Sorrows of Young Werther1,508 chars · 3 min
  29. #100AI & Autonomous AgentsHololens: The Long Road Ahead5,797 chars · 13 min
  30. #101Essays & ReadingThe Little Black Room: Vignettes of Fleeting Life2,993 chars · 7 min
  31. #102Leadership & CareerHow to Become an A-Player3,107 chars · 7 min
  32. #103Languages & CraftFrom Pipe to Flow2,672 chars · 6 min
  33. #104Leadership & CareerAn InfoQ Interview5,085 chars · 11 min
  34. #105Leadership & CareerAnswering Questions for InfoQ's "Big Names Say"946 chars · 2 min
  35. #106Leadership & CareerThe People and Stories Behind the Public Account1,499 chars · 3 min
  36. #107Essays & ReadingThe Wall of Sighs2,661 chars · 6 min
  37. #108Languages & CraftNaming in Code: A Monk Knocks at the Moonlit Door5,299 chars · 12 min
  38. #109Systems & ArchitectureThe World of ZeroMQ3,324 chars · 7 min
  39. #110Essays & ReadingA Tale of Two Births2,953 chars · 7 min
  40. #111Languages & CraftThe Pros and Cons of GraphQL4,542 chars · 10 min
  41. #112Languages & CraftTechnical Debt: The Good, the Bad, and the Tao4,421 chars · 10 min
  42. #113Languages & CraftRails, Django, Phoenix: You're All Wrong2,787 chars · 6 min
  43. #114Systems & ArchitectureAWS re:Invent 2016: New Products and Punchlines3,473 chars · 8 min
  44. #115Systems & ArchitectureSnowmobile Rhapsody3,102 chars · 7 min
  45. #116Systems & ArchitectureAWS re:Invent 2016: Primitives, Not Frameworks5,134 chars · 11 min
  46. #117Systems & ArchitecturePay As You Go: When Programmers Set Their Sights on Car Insurance4,483 chars · 10 min
  47. #118AI & Autonomous AgentsAlexa: The Goddess of My Dreams4,861 chars · 11 min
  48. #119Essays & ReadingThe 2016 Programmer's Life Medley2,955 chars · 7 min

2017

34 essays · 144k source chars
  1. #120Systems & ArchitectureThe Life and Times of a Policy Engine4,441 chars · 10 min
  2. #121Leadership & CareerThe Programmer’s Dictionary: “Awesome”4,827 chars · 11 min
  3. #122Languages & CraftHow to Approach TDD the Right Way7,496 chars · 17 min
  4. #123Languages & CraftLet It Crash: Misunderstood, Therefore Misused4,825 chars · 11 min
  5. #124Leadership & CareerIs a Silicon Valley Internet Company a Good Choice?4,609 chars · 10 min
  6. #125Systems & ArchitectureWhen the 99.9% Cloud Falls: AWS S3 Outage Leaves North America Reeling3,102 chars · 7 min
  7. #126Languages & CraftIt's Time to Think About How to Delete Code3,307 chars · 7 min
  8. #127Languages & CraftPhoenix 1.3: Toward the Right Path4,227 chars · 9 min
  9. #128Languages & CraftHow to Read a Codebase10,068 chars · 22 min
  10. #129Languages & CraftWhy Should We Read Source Code?3,503 chars · 8 min
  11. #130Languages & CraftAnd God Said: Let There Be a Language for the Future — And So Erlang Was Born11,753 chars · 26 min
  12. #131Leadership & CareerHow to Choose the Right Job2,012 chars · 4 min
  13. #132Systems & ArchitectureService Performance 1013,531 chars · 8 min
  14. #133Systems & ArchitectureWasting Memory? What's the Big Deal?2,610 chars · 6 min
  15. #134Systems & ArchitectureOn Processes2,296 chars · 5 min
  16. #135Leadership & CareerThinking, Fast and Slow4,138 chars · 9 min
  17. #136Leadership & CareerWhat Am I Actually Learning When I Attend a Training Course?3,596 chars · 8 min
  18. #137Languages & CraftOn State Machines3,893 chars · 9 min
  19. #138Systems & ArchitectureThe Evolution of My Passwords2,401 chars · 5 min
  20. #139Languages & CraftRed: Neither Red Nor Expert, But Sexy3,823 chars · 8 min
  21. #140Leadership & CareerThe Road to Growth for Software Engineers6,615 chars · 15 min
  22. #141Essays & ReadingA Letter to My Daughter1,458 chars · 3 min
  23. #142Systems & ArchitectureExploring the Possibilities of Bitcoin Quantitative Arbitrage3,698 chars · 8 min
  24. #143Systems & ArchitectureThe Sound of Silence: The Obscure Black Magic of Network Transmission3,518 chars · 8 min
  25. #144Languages & CraftReact's Achilles' Heel1,021 chars · 2 min
  26. #145Languages & CraftStop, Catch Your Breath, and Reinvent the Wheel2,921 chars · 6 min
  27. #146Leadership & CareerWhen Will the Good Times for Programmers Run Out?9,632 chars · 21 min
  28. #147Systems & ArchitecturePixel 2 XL: Software Is King4,211 chars · 9 min
  29. #148Languages & CraftNever Underestimate the Power of bash3,135 chars · 7 min
  30. #149Leadership & CareerA Few Tales of Interviewing in America3,205 chars · 7 min
  31. #150Leadership & CareerOur Sister Mei: Silicon Valley's Beauty and Its Model Worker4,911 chars · 11 min
  32. #151Systems & ArchitectureDon't Let Angry Customers Be the Ones to Tell You About Your Bugs5,541 chars · 12 min
  33. #152Essays & ReadingThree Nightmares1,608 chars · 4 min
  34. #153Essays & Reading2017: 46 Essays on a Programmer's Life2,268 chars · 5 min

2018

36 essays · 160k source chars
  1. #154Systems & ArchitectureWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Scheduling4,876 chars · 11 min
  2. #155Systems & ArchitectureScheduling Algorithms: Linux O(1)3,226 chars · 7 min
  3. #156Essays & ReadingOn Writing673 chars · 2 min
  4. #157Languages & CraftAbstraction Revisited7,303 chars · 16 min
  5. #158Systems & ArchitectureOverseer: A Supervisor for Distributed Systems5,861 chars · 13 min
  6. #159Languages & CraftThe Method of Research5,356 chars · 12 min
  7. #160Systems & ArchitectureOn Distributed Systems7,261 chars · 16 min
  8. #161Systems & ArchitectureSincerity Is the Way of Heaven3,674 chars · 8 min
  9. #162Systems & ArchitectureBitcoin in Brief2,829 chars · 6 min
  10. #163Languages & CraftNo Silver Bullet2,955 chars · 7 min
  11. #164Leadership & CareerApe-arently Thirty-Five2,770 chars · 6 min
  12. #165Languages & CraftOn Data Structures2,759 chars · 6 min
  13. #166Systems & ArchitectureThe Quantum Computing Threat to Bitcoin3,860 chars · 9 min
  14. #167Essays & ReadingGone with the Wind (in the Cloud)2,522 chars · 6 min
  15. #168Languages & CraftWhat I Gained from the Past Month4,913 chars · 11 min
  16. #169Leadership & CareerWhat is Management? (Part I)4,877 chars · 11 min
  17. #170Leadership & CareerFace to Face with Joe Armstrong5,940 chars · 13 min
  18. #171Leadership & CareerFarewell to Tubi: Three Stories I Told4,972 chars · 11 min
  19. #172Leadership & CareerWhy Tubi?5,558 chars · 12 min
  20. #173Leadership & CareerWelcome to the Blockchain World8,963 chars · 20 min
  21. #174Systems & ArchitectureAWS Best Practices1,630 chars · 4 min
  22. #175Languages & CraftThe Darkest Hour1,964 chars · 4 min
  23. #176Languages & CraftHow to Improve Code Quality?5,322 chars · 12 min
  24. #177Languages & CraftThinking in Tools4,173 chars · 9 min
  25. #178Leadership & CareerThe Oracle's Choice2,289 chars · 5 min
  26. #179Languages & CraftCode is Law6,443 chars · 14 min
  27. #180Leadership & CareerThinking, Questions, and Methods10,810 chars · 24 min
  28. #181Leadership & CareerA Hitchhiker's Guide to Job-Hopping3,662 chars · 8 min
  29. #182Languages & CraftHow to Move with Ease Across Dozens of Repos7,776 chars · 17 min
  30. #183Essays & ReadingWhen Silicon Valley Meets Seattle725 chars · 2 min
  31. #184Leadership & CareerArcblock’s Beijing Hackathon: Are You In?4,161 chars · 9 min
  32. #185Systems & ArchitectureA 1024 Tribute: The Simple Chain2,676 chars · 6 min
  33. #186Systems & ArchitectureData: A Free and Easy Wandering5,355 chars · 12 min
  34. #187Systems & ArchitectureBlockchain and Databases: Attain the Utmost Emptiness, Hold Fast to Stillness4,199 chars · 9 min
  35. #188Systems & ArchitectureTime Travel in Programs3,058 chars · 7 min
  36. #189Systems & ArchitectureThe Beauty of Mathematics4,189 chars · 9 min

2019

25 essays · 111k source chars
  1. #190Systems & ArchitectureThe ABT Network Deployment Chronicle5,082 chars · 11 min
  2. #191Leadership & CareerArcBlock at One Year6,593 chars · 15 min
  3. #192Systems & ArchitectureA Practical Look at Bitmaps6,311 chars · 14 min
  4. #193Essays & ReadingThe Remains of the Day (Part III)5,081 chars · 11 min
  5. #194Languages & CraftThe Myth of Software Supply Chain Management5,455 chars · 12 min
  6. #195Languages & CraftThe Yuan Has Its Angelica: The Mathematical Beauty of Type Systems4,623 chars · 10 min
  7. #196Essays & ReadingThe Remains of the Day (Part IV)5,362 chars · 12 min
  8. #197Leadership & CareerNana the Intern4,528 chars · 10 min
  9. #198Essays & ReadingReading the Zizhi Tongjian in a Different Posture?1,643 chars · 4 min
  10. #199Essays & ReadingWhat I Saw, Felt, Thought, and Understood: On *Unflattening*3,081 chars · 7 min
  11. #200Systems & ArchitectureThe Age of Sandboxes3,650 chars · 8 min
  12. #201Languages & CraftGreat Craft in the Smallest Details3,059 chars · 7 min
  13. #202Essays & ReadingJust Like That, I Ran My Third Official Marathon — in Portland5,734 chars · 13 min
  14. #203Essays & ReadingThe Pensieve2,175 chars · 5 min
  15. #204Essays & ReadingA 1024 Day Tribute: The Videos I've Chased Over the Years2,729 chars · 6 min
  16. #205Essays & ReadingProgrammer's Christmas1,465 chars · 3 min
  17. #206Systems & ArchitectureWireGuard: The Beauty of Simplicity6,580 chars · 15 min
  18. #207Essays & ReadingThe Remains of the Day (Part V)5,217 chars · 12 min
  19. #208Systems & ArchitectureThe Noise Framework: A Blueprint for Building Secure Protocols4,021 chars · 9 min
  20. #209Languages & CraftRediscovering Git in 10 Minutes4,055 chars · 9 min
  21. #210Languages & CraftWhat Exactly Does Our Casual `git stash` Do Under the Hood?9,602 chars · 21 min
  22. #211Systems & ArchitectureEncrypting Files Peer-to-Peer with the Noise Protocol?3,444 chars · 8 min
  23. #212Essays & ReadingReflections on Akeelah and the Bee2,387 chars · 5 min
  24. #213Systems & ArchitectureHow to Store Passwords Safely?2,385 chars · 5 min
  25. #214Essays & ReadingA Toast to the Value of Time: Ten Years, One Vintage6,266 chars · 14 min

2020

7 essays · 30k source chars
  1. #215Leadership & CareerThe Programmer's Meltdown2,451 chars · 5 min
  2. #216Essays & ReadingHappy New Year!3,608 chars · 8 min
  3. #217Languages & CraftHow to Make Educational Videos: My Journey of Exploration3,618 chars · 8 min
  4. #218Languages & CraftFlutter: Impressions After One Week5,806 chars · 13 min
  5. #219Languages & CraftDart: What Is Lost in the East Is Gained in the West7,431 chars · 17 min
  6. #220Languages & CraftWhy Are Some Languages 'Unable' to Compile to WebAssembly?4,878 chars · 11 min
  7. #221Systems & Architecture2020: Living Long Enough to See Everything — Mainstream Western Apps Trip Their "Circuit Breakers"2,657 chars · 6 min

2025

21 essays · 145k source chars
  1. #222AI & Autonomous AgentsAll for a Dish of Vinegar: Wrapping a Batch of Dumplings in Rust for My WeChat Blog2,262 chars · 5 min
  2. #223AI & Autonomous AgentsA Dialogue with Gemini on First Principles6,358 chars · 14 min
  3. #224AI & Autonomous AgentsA Conversation with Gemini on First Principles: Round Two3,064 chars · 7 min
  4. #225AI & Autonomous AgentsDialogue with Socrates: The Enclosure Movement Where Sheep Devoured Men8,642 chars · 19 min
  5. #226AI & Autonomous AgentsThe Shifting Role of the Programmer in the Age of AI3,336 chars · 7 min
  6. #227AI & Autonomous AgentsRedefining Technical Debt in the AI Era: The Threefold Debt from Code to Intent4,005 chars · 9 min
  7. #228AI & Autonomous AgentsFrom Craftsman to Guide: Redefining the Programmer's Role in the Age of AI4,170 chars · 9 min
  8. #229AI & Autonomous AgentsReinventing Talent Development: A New Path to Growth in the Age of AI5,044 chars · 11 min
  9. #230AI & Autonomous AgentsThe Architecture Philosophy of Codex: Three Layers of Abstraction and the Design Wisdom of Human-AI Collaboration13,566 chars · 30 min
  10. #231AI & Autonomous AgentsWhen AI Becomes the Programmer: How Must Programming Languages Evolve?9,685 chars · 22 min
  11. #232Languages & CraftThe Survival Philosophy of Large Software: Design Wisdom from Complexity to Simplicity6,761 chars · 15 min
  12. #233AI & Autonomous AgentsThe Education Revolution in the Age of AI: Raising Children to Be Masters of the Machine2,466 chars · 5 min
  13. #234Systems & ArchitectureThe Linux Kernel Memory Model: Understanding the Rules of a Multicore World5,596 chars · 12 min
  14. #235AI & Autonomous AgentsThe Architect's Way of Empowerment: How to Make Teams Smarter8,591 chars · 19 min
  15. #236Systems & ArchitectureTen Years of Microservices: From the Ideal of Small and Beautiful to the Return of Complexity7,276 chars · 16 min
  16. #237Systems & ArchitectureThe Magic of the CPU: How Processors Work, and Why Every Programmer Should Understand It8,131 chars · 18 min
  17. #238Languages & CraftThe Slow Evolution of Programming Languages: The Paradox of Language Evolution from the 1960s to the AI Era7,625 chars · 17 min
  18. #239AI & Autonomous AgentsThe Quality Gatekeepers of LLM Applications: A Systematic Approach from Evaluation Frameworks to Security Guardrails14,490 chars · 32 min
  19. #240AI & Autonomous AgentsThe Security Myth of GenAI Code Generation: When AI Becomes the New Attack Surface14,471 chars · 32 min
  20. #241AI & Autonomous AgentsWhen Agents Meet Serverless: The Quiet Revolution in How We Build Software5,186 chars · 12 min
  21. #242AI & Autonomous AgentsWhen AI Is More "Skilled" Than You: Where Do You Draw the Line on Control?4,141 chars · 9 min

2026

18 essays · 216k source chars
  1. #243AI & Autonomous AgentsThe Tide of AI Programming and the Engineer's Discipline5,410 chars · 12 min
  2. #244AI & Autonomous AgentsThe One-Person Company: InfrastructurePaid · 20% Preview12,691 chars · 28 min
  3. #245AI & Autonomous AgentsThe One-Person Company: Kubernetes' Ideal Blueprint and Real-World Trade-offsPaid · 20% Preview11,484 chars · 26 min
  4. #246AI & Autonomous AgentsThe One-Person Company: Building a Low-Cost Serverless FrameworkPaid · 20% Preview14,783 chars · 33 min
  5. #247AI & Autonomous AgentsThe One-Person Company: Building a Private Package Registry on Serverless ArchitecturePaid · 20% Preview17,622 chars · 39 min
  6. #248AI & Autonomous AgentsThe One-Person Company: How to Build Fast Once the Foundation Is Laid?Paid · 20% Preview18,020 chars · 40 min
  7. #249AI & Autonomous AgentsThe One-Person Company: Designing and Implementing Invitation-Based Access ControlPaid · 20% Preview15,310 chars · 34 min
  8. #250AI & Autonomous AgentsThe One-Person Company: Technology Is the Foundation, but Revenue Is the Hard TruthPaid · 20% Preview9,924 chars · 22 min
  9. #251AI & Autonomous AgentsThe One-Person Company: Designing and Building the Payment SystemPaid · 20% Preview20,130 chars · 45 min
  10. #252Languages & CraftTime to Meet jj: Git's Next Evolutionary Step5,588 chars · 12 min
  11. #253Systems & ArchitectureAbandoning Multi-Environment Entirely: Reshaping the Next-Generation Serverless Architecture with Rust and Pingora23,788 chars · 53 min
  12. #254Systems & ArchitectureMore Terrifying Than Forgery: A Phishing Email Signed by Robinhood Itself8,217 chars · 18 min
  13. #255Systems & ArchitectureThe Future of Logs: Rectifying Names10,772 chars · 24 min
  14. #256AI & Autonomous AgentsTaming Expensive Compute: Notes on Building a Machine Learning Training Platform17,094 chars · 38 min
  15. #257AI & Autonomous AgentsTubi Meetup: How to Turn AI into an Engineering Team4,328 chars · 10 min
  16. #258AI & Autonomous AgentsEverything Is a Plugin: DeepSeek Harness Is Open Source — So How Does It Differ from Codex?7,357 chars · 16 min
  17. #259Essays & ReadingRecommending an Old Book: *Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers*5,976 chars · 13 min
  18. #260AI & Autonomous AgentsAfter Tokenmaxing, Who Is Thinking for Whom?7,672 chars · 17 min