Blogs
Exploring ideas in AI, software engineering, and the journey of building products.
Thoughts, tutorials & stories
Is the Old King Dead? The Question of 'Degree' in the AI Era, and Where Top-Tier Consulting Actually Stands
From OpenAI's move into consulting: is the old king really dead? Using the constitutional reforms of the 17th–19th centuries as a mirror to examine the 'degree' problem in enterprise AI transformation — and why the real moat of top-tier consulting was never technical implementation, but cross-industry, cross-organizational, cross-decade strategic calibration.
Imagination Is the First Productive Force of the AI Era
A lower threshold doesn't mean a lower ceiling. An honest reflection from a CS-background engineer watching high schoolers vibe-code their way to shipped products — three things that still matter, and why the truly scarce resource now is imagination itself.
How to Use Ghostty Efficiently: A Power User's Guide
Ghostty is the fastest, most feature-rich native terminal emulator I've used. Here's everything you need to know to get the most out of it — from configuration to splits, Quake mode, and advanced keybindings.
OLYMPUS: Building an Autonomous Career Intelligence System with 4 AI Agents
How I built a multi-agent AI system that automates the entire career pipeline — from job discovery to interview prep — and what it taught me about AI-native architecture
My First Open Source Contribution to Claude Code
How I identified a gap in Claude Code's session management, built a full-screen terminal UI plugin, and submitted it to the official marketplace
The Romance of Naming Machines: Anthropic's Poetic Vocabulary
When you ask Claude Code to write code, it doesn't say 'Processing…' — it says 'Forging…', 'Contemplating…', 'Topsy-turvying…'. A deep dive into Anthropic's 187 spinner verbs, the poetry trilogy, and the beautiful etymology behind every word.
How I Passed the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional
My study strategy, key takeaways, and open-source Obsidian vault that helped me pass the AIP-C01 exam on my first attempt.
My Honest Feedback After Using OpenClaw
A casual, evolving journal of my real experience using OpenClaw — the wins, the fails, and the surprising possibilities
Getting Started with OpenClaw: A Setup Guide
A step-by-step guide to setting up OpenClaw, the open-source automated AI bot that's making waves in Silicon Valley
Knowledge sources that shape my thinking
DeepLearning.AI
Andrew Ng's platform for world-class AI education. Essential courses on deep learning, MLOps, and generative AI.
Ruanyifeng's Blog
Ruanyifeng's weekly tech newsletter covering web development, some knowledge concepts, and the broader tech industry. A treasure trove for Chinese developers.
Anthropic Engineering
Technical deep dives from the team behind Claude — interpretability research, scaling infrastructure, alignment science, and the engineering behind frontier AI models.
Hacker News
Y Combinator's social news site. The front page of the tech industry — startups, engineering deep dives, and the occasional flamewar about tabs vs spaces.