Blogs
Exploring ideas in AI, software engineering, and the journey of building products.
Thoughts, tutorials & stories
Taste Is a Form of Subtraction
Starting from that over-quoted Steve Jobs line: the folding iPhone, the return of physical buttons in cars, the four-cylinder C63, and feature bloat in the age of AI. In a mature industry, converging taste isn't mediocrity — and in an era when anyone can pile on endlessly, real taste is knowing what to leave out.
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
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.