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We write down what we build, break, and figure out.
Engineering, AI, markets, and consulting, one memo at a time. New memos most weeks, from the team and from guest writers on their own domains.
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- Fresh researchThe deploy pipeline formula, and Making our site AI-agent-ready, 50 to 93
- HiringGrowth lead, Sales manager, Software engineer - AI consulting
- Just shippedMarkdown lint, and The Memo build and content quality pipeline
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Chosen by the editors- Guest writers on memo, keyed by the writer's own domain
How memo.d.foundation publishes posts from writers' own blogs as native notes: domain-verified joins, semi-auto review with a human verdict, ICY rewards per post, and takedowns that follow the original.
tieubao, 10 Oct 2026 - Designing Out SNAP Fraud
A taxonomy of SNAP trafficking, theft, and error, and a layered program and software architecture that designs fraud out.
tieubao, 9 Oct 2026 - Five layers to tune before you fork your agent
What makes AI agentic, how to split a deterministic core from an agentic edge, and the five layers you can tune without rebuilding the harness. Real numbers from circle and Hermes.
tieubao, 8 Oct 2026
Activity
Memos published, last 12 monthsDesks
Four places we write fromEngineering
Craftsman knowledge
- 2026-09-18Hide the MacBook notch: the 32-point fix for the macOS 27 menu bar
- 2025-09-05Frontend report August 2025
- 2025-06-30Frontend Report June 2025
- 2025-06-27Forward engineering Jun 2025
AI
Pushing human limits
- 2026-09-18Dispatch #2: handoff pattern: từ ảnh chụp app đến Figma và video demo
- 2026-09-07What the Engelberg report got right about us
- 2026-09-03Claude Code 2.1.259 turned our Read() deny rules into a Bash tripwire
- 2026-09-03The debug loop: make the agent measure the browser before it touches the CSS
Case studies
Client work, documented
- 2025-07-09Modernizing complex financial systems through systematic transition
- 2025-07-07AI-powered consulting sprints for rapid clarity
- 2025-07-01Building a scalable social listening data pipeline
- 2025-03-31AI for fast and fair talent search
Consulting
Field notes from the practice
- 2025-09-08Social proof
- 2025-07-01Attack their cash cow
- 2025-06-22You can poke life
- 2025-06-13Tech transfer framework
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Everything else, newest first- Dispatch #1: UI kit workflow: bốn bước từ setup đến implement
- Record it on your own machine
- DeepSeek Harness, dissected
- What stays valuable when anyone can build anything
- The tells
- CAP breakdown
- How knowledge work organizes itself
- The five stages of learning
- Stagehand breakdown
- Context7 breakdown
- E2b breakdown
- Dify breakdown
- Maybe finance breakdown
- Umami breakdown
- Mem0 & Mem0-Graph breakdown
- Monitoring the ICY Swap backend
- The Coding Agent Team
- Cline breakdown
- Ax framework breakdown
- Crawl4AI breakdown