shit ezra says

i took out a yearly subscription to the information sometime in 2018. i had read a few pieces from the publication, and enjoyed the reporting. it was simultaneously well varied and in-depth. subscribing came with the promise of getting a front row seat to…

When a former colleague, who was almost always against what seemed like knee-jerk tooling suggestions and who constantly advocated for thoughtfulness and long-term planning, left to focus on an AI-centric developer tooling project, his reports were taken…

i published a multipart post on threads earlier today and thought it would make for a good entry on the blog, given its length and what i believe to be something worth being able to point at later. i am taking liberties with my articulation here as i am no

recently, jensen huang referred to openclaw as “the iphone of tokens”. let’s sit with that phrase for a moment and ask what it actually means. 🦗 what is the relationship between a consumer electronics device, an open-source agent framework, and a unit of…

before november of last year, my usage of coding agents was minimal and quite utilitarian. my day to day work didn’t involve me actively writing code and that had been the case for about 3-ish years. there was the occasional need to roll up my sleeves to…

The last time I felt compelled to publish a reflection on my year was in 2015 here.

Over the past few days, my name and reputation, built over years as co-founder and technical leader at Paystack, have been called into question because of information circulating online.

okay guys, it’s time to board an ibom air flight heading to lagos from akwa ibom. these are the various individuals i’m doomed to interact with. person who checks that the name on my boarding pass matches my passport or identification document person who…

it’s 2025 and building for the world has never been easier. when existing global solutions create a gap by excluding africa, resist the urge to build “for africa”. make it global from day one. incumbents ignore the continent for reasons including but not…

i spent time in early 2024 with someone who frequently took notes on their phone using voice dictation. it was quite a thing to observe, as i’d always thought speech to text was shit. the inability to detect nuances in language, the frequent errors in or…

hollow and resonant, an empty barrel amplifies the slightest disturbance into thunderous din, while the full one, dense with substance, absorbs sound. the gunsmiths of yore could identify mis-loaded weapons by ear, and noisy kegs betrayed their vacuity to…

tj holowaychuk is someone i will like to meet one day. when i discovered him in 2013/4, he was active in the nodejs community and was the creator of the express framework, the koa framework, and a host of javascript modules in use by tons of software deve…

yesterday around half past 10pm, i took a break from a rebuild of atlas (more on this in a future post) to have a late dinner and received a dm from a friend who was sharing a humorous tweet that referenced me and my articulation. apparently, the tweet had

should large language models refer to themselves using first person pronouns?

okay so a bit of a preamble that may or may not have anything to do with the rest of the piece. some days ago, i read a tweet from dhh (which i sadly cannot find now) about how he takes out ~20 minutes to write something on his mind, publish it, and move…

around age 11, i discovered that touching myself in certain ways produced really pleasurable sensations. being the curious kid with internet access, i did what came naturally - research. i went online, read articles, found studies, and discovered this thi…