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There’s a ton of folk wisdom on X about how to go viral.

I was recently in Alaska and saw a massive moose, probably the biggest animal I’d ever seen in person.

Source: American Gaming Association annual reports and revenue tracker; data and methodology.

One of the most fascinating things I’ve learned about recently is the engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

In Alaska and saw these giant elk, and wondered, why are they so big?

I’ve been fascinated recently at what the best practices in the new age of engineering look like.

Update (2026-08-20): Anthropic has since published technical details confirming that Claude’s watermark is based on SynthID-Text — a keyed statistical watermark on token selection, exactly as this post hypothesized.

The best person to understand a problem really deeply usually isn’t an engineer, it’s usually someone who’s using the product day in and day out with customers.

In a world where AI writes more and more of the code, is it crazy to still want to be a software engineer?

I’ve been thinking about time lately, especially how much of it is available.

I’ve heard of a lot of teams recently starting to use number of tokens as the key metric by which they measure their engineering team.

I think there’s pretty clearly a divide in AI perception between executives and individual contributors (ICs).

Mamba-3 just dropped yesterday.

I sometimes cringe at sharing my opinions (who cares about my opinions anyways), but I keep these around because back in college a similar “Opinions” section actually started some awesome conversations, so maybe it will in the future too.