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The Demand Curve That Files Itself

Anthropic accidentally shipped Claude Code's source in an npm release. Within hours, 8,100 repositories mirrored it. Developers started rewriting it in Rust. GitHub's DMCA repo absorbed the takedown notice — alongside notices for coding fonts, Unity assets, JetBrains cracks, and Mercedes-Benz source code. Read together, they stop looking like a legal archive and start looking like a shadow demand curve for professional leverage goods.

Field Notes1 min read

Backbone-AMD using RequireJS Boilerplate [GitHub]

Tackling the complexities of heavy JavaScript applications, this post introduces an open-source Backbone-AMD Boilerplate, designed to simplify creating modular Backbone-AMD compliant apps. It invites readers to engage with the project through forking, pulling, and suggesting improvements.

Field Notes2 min read

Do machines understand Humans ?!

Exploring the intriguing question of machine understanding, this post recounts a personal experience with a Mac's White Screen of Death during crucial workshops in Tunisia. It ponders whether machines can communicate on a higher level with humans, beyond random behavior or technical functionality.