Engineering craft: code, tools, and the mental models they teach.
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.
I tweeted about an anti-Adobe coalition forming around Figma back in 2023. Now with DHH's Omarchy OS, Framework laptops, and my own Adobe cancellation, the underground is surfacing.
A neon text renderer repository tells the story of its birth on a September night, learning to paint light in terminals through shimmers, pulses, and cyberpunk dreams.
How to debug fear-based mental patterns and upgrade to trust-based architecture. A technical framework for consciousness using programming metaphors.
An exploration of quantum computing's looming impact on our digital world. From sub-nano to universe-scale threats, discover how the quantum future might reshape our reality—and what we can do to prepare.
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.