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Skills for Real Engineers: How to Keep Claude Code and AI Tools From Ruining Your Architecture
AI coding tools can produce a lot of code very quickly. The engineer’s job is still to decide what deserves to exist, where it belongs, and when to stop.
The John Ternus Era Begins at Apple
Tim Cook leaves Apple stronger, richer, and more strategically exposed than the company was fifteen years ago. John Ternus now has to decide what comes next.
AI Search Is Quietly Eating the Open Web. Here's the Receipts.
Referrer data from 40 independent sites tells a story nobody in the industry wants to say out loud.
Stop Upgrading: The Case for Boring Hardware
Your three-year-old laptop isn't slow. The industry just needs you to believe it is. Five years of benchmark data, one uncomfortable conclusion, and a shopping list you don't need.
Your Homelab Is a Résumé
Half the sysadmins we interviewed got hired because of a rack in their spare room.
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Right to Repair Is Losing, Quietly
The headlines celebrate every new law. The parts catalogs tell a different story — serialized, throttled, and paired.
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The Smart TV Is the Cheapest Surveillance You'll Ever Buy
You paid $429 for it. Then it started paying someone else back.
| Essay | Topic | Read | Published | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skills for Real Engineers: How to Keep Claude Code and AI Tools From Ruining Your Architecture | AI | 10 min read | 13 DAYS AGO | → |
| The John Ternus Era Begins at Apple | AI | 7 min read | 13 DAYS AGO | → |
| AI Search Is Quietly Eating the Open Web. Here's the Receipts. | AI | 12 min read | 17 DAYS AGO | → |
| Stop Upgrading: The Case for Boring Hardware | Culture of Tech | 12 min read | 17 DAYS AGO | → |
| Your Homelab Is a Résumé | Homelab | 6 min | 18 DAYS AGO | → |
| Right to Repair Is Losing, Quietly | Right to Repair | 8 min | 20 DAYS AGO | → |
| The Smart TV Is the Cheapest Surveillance You'll Ever Buy | Privacy | 9 min | 20 DAYS AGO | → |
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