Five Thematic Columns
Essays within each column are ordered chronologically, revealing how core technical and philosophical themes evolved over thirteen years.
AI & Autonomous Agents
LLM engineering, agent harness architecture, AI-native programming paradigms, One-Person Company (OPC) playbooks, and token economics.
Systems & Architecture
Distributed systems, OS kernels and schedulers, networking and cryptographic protocols, serverless infrastructure, cloud-native systems, and blockchain internals.
Languages & Craft
Rust, Elixir/Erlang, Python, Dart/Flutter, type systems, compilers, metaprogramming, refactoring, testing, and the craft of software engineering.
Leadership & Career
Engineering leadership, team culture, Silicon Valley & Seattle dispatches, hiring and interviewing, startup postmortems, and engineer growth.
Essays & Reading
The "Remains of the Day" chronicle, marathon journals, history and mathematics reading notes, travel dispatches, and reflections on life.
Four Flagship Multi-Part Series
Complete cross-article arcs preserved for deep, structured study.
The One-Person Company (Season I): From Serverless Foundations to Production Apps
From AWS multi-account security boundaries, Kubernetes vs. Serverless trade-offs, the Operon Rust serverless framework, Chromatin private registry, and Golgi app development to invitation gating and multi-tenant payment orchestration. (WeChat Paid Column · 20% Free Preview)
- #244 · The One-Person Company: Infrastructure (20% Preview)
- #245 · The One-Person Company: Kubernetes' Ideal Blueprint and Real-World Trade-offs (20% Preview)
- #246 · The One-Person Company: Building a Low-Cost Serverless Framework (20% Preview)
- #247 · The One-Person Company: Building a Private Package Registry on Serverless Architecture (20% Preview)
- #248 · The One-Person Company: How to Build Fast Once the Foundation Is Laid? (20% Preview)
- #249 · The One-Person Company: Designing and Implementing Invitation-Based Access Control (20% Preview)
- #250 · The One-Person Company: Technology Is the Foundation, but Revenue Is the Hard Truth (20% Preview)
- #251 · The One-Person Company: Designing and Building the Payment System (20% Preview)
The One-Person Company (Season II): Eight Business Loops from Platform to Tooling
Tackling the eight operational bottlenecks of global solo founders and micro-teams: multi-persona comms & sponsor brokerage, GEO acquisition, DM sales conversion, security & self-healing SRE, Tier-2 support & chargeback defense, unit-economics reconciliation, cross-border tax, and micro-PE exit.
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- Scheduled The One-Person Company: Communication and Business Brokerage (20% Preview on release)
- Scheduled The One-Person Company: Customer Acquisition and GEO (20% Preview on release)
- Scheduled The One-Person Company: Sales and Payment Conversion (20% Preview on release)
- Scheduled The One-Person Company: Security and Self-Healing Operations (20% Preview on release)
- Scheduled The One-Person Company: After-Sales and Chargeback Defense (20% Preview on release)
- Scheduled The One-Person Company: Reconciliation and True Gross Margin (20% Preview on release)
- Scheduled The One-Person Company: Tax and Project Exit (20% Preview on release)
AI Programming Paradigms, Agent Architecture & Engineering Judgment
From first principles, Codex three-tier abstractions, and DeepSeek Harness plugin architecture to LLM evaluation security, human-in-the-loop control boundaries, and independent judgment in the age of tokenmaxing.
- #222 · All for a Dish of Vinegar: Wrapping a Batch of Dumplings in Rust for My WeChat Blog
- #223 · A Dialogue with Gemini on First Principles
- #224 · A Conversation with Gemini on First Principles: Round Two
- #225 · Dialogue with Socrates: The Enclosure Movement Where Sheep Devoured Men
- #226 · The Shifting Role of the Programmer in the Age of AI
- #227 · Redefining Technical Debt in the AI Era: The Threefold Debt from Code to Intent
- #228 · From Craftsman to Guide: Redefining the Programmer's Role in the Age of AI
- #229 · Reinventing Talent Development: A New Path to Growth in the Age of AI
- #230 · The Architecture Philosophy of Codex: Three Layers of Abstraction and the Design Wisdom of Human-AI Collaboration
- #231 · When AI Becomes the Programmer: How Must Programming Languages Evolve?
- #233 · The Education Revolution in the Age of AI: Raising Children to Be Masters of the Machine
- #235 · The Architect's Way of Empowerment: How to Make Teams Smarter
- #239 · The Quality Gatekeepers of LLM Applications: A Systematic Approach from Evaluation Frameworks to Security Guardrails
- #240 · The Security Myth of GenAI Code Generation: When AI Becomes the New Attack Surface
- #241 · When Agents Meet Serverless: The Quiet Revolution in How We Build Software
- #242 · When AI Is More "Skilled" Than You: Where Do You Draw the Line on Control?
- #243 · The Tide of AI Programming and the Engineer's Discipline
- #256 · Taming Expensive Compute: Notes on Building a Machine Learning Training Platform
- #257 · Tubi Meetup: How to Turn AI into an Engineering Team
- #258 · Everything Is a Plugin: DeepSeek Harness Is Open Source — So How Does It Differ from Codex?
- #260 · After Tokenmaxing, Who Is Thinking for Whom?
The Grain of Systems: Kernels, Schedulers, Networking & Cryptographic Protocols
Deep dives into the Linux memory model, CPU microarchitecture, OS processes and O(1) schedulers, WireGuard and the Noise protocol framework, Pingora gateways, and the Robinhood DKIM email vulnerability.
- #062 · Software Performance Tuning: Follow the Data, or the Buzzwords?
- #154 · What I Talk About When I Talk About Scheduling
- #155 · Scheduling Algorithms: Linux O(1)
- #188 · Time Travel in Programs
- #192 · A Practical Look at Bitmaps
- #200 · The Age of Sandboxes
- #206 · WireGuard: The Beauty of Simplicity
- #208 · The Noise Framework: A Blueprint for Building Secure Protocols
- #211 · Encrypting Files Peer-to-Peer with the Noise Protocol?
- #234 · The Linux Kernel Memory Model: Understanding the Rules of a Multicore World
- #237 · The Magic of the CPU: How Processors Work, and Why Every Programmer Should Understand It
- #253 · Abandoning Multi-Environment Entirely: Reshaping the Next-Generation Serverless Architecture with Rust and Pingora
- #254 · More Terrifying Than Forgery: A Phishing Email Signed by Robinhood Itself
- #255 · The Future of Logs: Rectifying Names
Three Source Repositories & Four Creative Eras
Startup Postmortems, Engineering Craft & Journey West (71 essays)
A pivotal transition bidding farewell to the Tukeq startup years, returning to Juniper, and relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area. Focused on foundational engineering craft, Unix and functional paradigms, REST API design, and engineering culture.
Silicon Valley Streaming, Elixir/Erlang & Technical Leadership (82 essays)
Building and scaling Tubi TV engineering teams across San Francisco and Beijing. Deep dives into reactive programming, metaprogramming, TDD, Erlang/OTP state machines, AWS cloud architecture, and cross-border engineering management.
Distributed Systems Grain, Cryptographic Protocols & Type Theory (68 essays)
Relocating to the Pacific Northwest and exploring distributed consensus, OS kernel schedulers, cryptographic protocols (WireGuard / Noise), secure sandboxes (Deno / WebAssembly), the mathematical foundations of type systems, and Git internals.
The Agentic Era, Next-Gen Infrastructure & The One-Person Company (39 essays)
From the frontlines of LLM and agent engineering: deconstructing Codex and DeepSeek Harness architectures, technical debt and human judgment in the age of tokenmaxing, Rust/Pingora serverless foundations, and the 16-part One-Person Company series.