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What it is Coderegon Trail is an Oregon Trail-style game for learning how web frameworks and codebases work.

I turned 38 last week.

My friend Paul Atienza came up with the idea to run a half marathon between Asian bakeries in San Francisco, and the rest, as they say, is pastry 🥐 🍞 🥮 Yesterday, 18 of us ran 13.1 miles across San Francisco, visiting 5 Asian bakeries and split pastries at

There’s no shortage of advice on how to vibe-code (or vibe engineer, if you’re actually reading the code outputted by LLMs) better.

Coding with Claude Code makes me feel like a teen who just learned PHP again.

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Have you ever had that feeling when someone labels or gives you a name for a weird thing you think only you do?

GPU in the Arena in the style of Theodore Roosevelt’s famous “Man in the Arena” It is not the critic who counts; not the one who points out how the Large Language Model stumbles, or where its responses could have been better.

What used to be a single Facebook newsfeed is now a multiverse of vertical feeds across many disparate services.

I realized this week that I’ve misunderstood what resilience meant my entire life.